René Schickele Prize
The René Schickele Prize is a Franco-German literary prize that was awarded only once, in 1952. The award is named after the Alsatian pacifist author of the interwar period, René Schickele . The judges were Hermann Kesten , Thomas Mann and Alfred Neumann ; was awarded Hans Werner Richter for they fell from God's hand . The prize was donated by the jurors as well as Bruno Walter , Curt Goetz and eight international and nine German publishers.
As part of the award, Ilse Aichinger for The Greater Hope , Franziska Becker for Before the Night Came , Heinrich Böll for Where were you, Adam? , Siegfried Lenz for There were hawks in the air , Luise Rinser for Middle of Life and Heinz Risse for When the Earth quakes .
It was initially planned to award the René Schickele Prize annually. Since the public's reaction was muted despite the important judges, it was only awarded once. Six press articles on the occasion of the award are known.
The German Literature Archive in Marbach is keeping the commemorative publication for the 1952 award.
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- ↑ Becker published only one more time besides this novel: Sonnenwarts. Poems (1917). After 1945 she worked primarily as a translator of the works of Robert Neumann , Arthur Koestler a . a. active from English.