Reiner Kunze Prize

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The Reiner Kunze Prize of the city of Oelsnitz in the Erzgebirge has been awarded every two years since 2007 together with the Erzgebirgssparkasse . The literature prize recognizes literary achievements in the sense of “poetry as resistance”.

The award of the Reiner Kunze Prize is aimed at artistic achievements at the highest linguistic level. It is an award that promotes literary endeavors where poetry exists as resistance. Not the political directly, but the linguistic dexterity as a broad view of the world in the direct meaning of the word, as it is inherent in Reiner Kunze's works. The award commission primarily focuses on the translators who are often second in line, and whose endeavors are to find the original, worded thought in a new language. The award ceremony takes place in May in Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. instead of. The prize is endowed with 4,000 euros.

Award winners

Petro Rychlo , the 2017 award winner, with Helga von Löwenich, Reiner and Elisabeth Kunze and laudator Hans Dieter Zimmermann in May 2017 in Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.
  • 2007 - Utz Rachowski , German writer
  • 2009 - Thomas Eichhorn, German translator
  • 2011 - Inés Koebel , German translator and author
  • 2013 - Mireille Gansel, French writer and translator
  • 2015 - Uwe Kolbe , German poet and translator
  • 2017 - Petro Rychlo , Ukrainian Germanist, essayist and translator
  • 2019 - Stevan Tontić , Bosnian writer and translator

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Reiner Kunze Prize 2007, Festschrift. (Ed.): Holger Wendland. Self-published by the city of Oelsnitz / Erzgebirge, Sächsischer Schriftstellerverein Chemnitz eV, Sparkasse Erzgebirge. Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. (2007)
  2. Free Press, May 16, 2013
  3. Free Press, May 12, 2015
  4. Free Press, March 28, 2017
  5. Free Press, May 11, 2017
  6. Free Press of January 17, 2019