Robert Gernhardt Prize

The Robert Gernhardt Prize is a literary prize that has been awarded by the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art and the Hessen Business and Infrastructure Bank since 2009 .

Awarding of the Robert Gernhardt Prize on September 10, 2014 in the Naxoshalle , Frankfurt am Main

history

Robert Gernhardt (2001)

The prize was first awarded in 2009. The award is named after the author, draftsman and painter Robert Gernhardt , who died in Frankfurt am Main in 2006 .

price

The award is intended to enable authors to realize a larger literary project. Applicants must already have published at least two literary works and be related to Hessen .

The prize is awarded annually to two authors, each of whom receives prize money of 12,000 euros. In 2020, three projects (with a total of 36,000 euros) will be funded, as the 2019 prize was only awarded for one project. The prize money is donated by the Hessen Economic and Infrastructure Bank.

jury

The green armadillo , which Robert Gernhardt saw for the first time - here as a bronze sculpture on the Robert Gernhardt Bridge over the Nidda in Frankfurt-Bonames - warmly congratulates all award winners!

A jury made up of the Frankfurt author Eva Demski , the literary scholar Karl-Heinz Götze (professorship for German literature and regional studies at the University of Aix-Marseille ), the Frankfurt literary critic Christoph Schröder and one each will decide on the awarding of the Robert Gernhardt Prize Representatives of the Hessen Economic and Infrastructure Bank, the Hessian Literature Forum in Mousonturm and the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art.

Award winners

As far as the works have been published in the meantime, the bibliographical information of the publication is given here. If this is not already the case, the titles of the projects for which the authors have been awarded are listed.

• 2009
  • Christian Golusda and Elsemarie Maletzke for the lyric book Sturm und Tang . Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-940888-66-2 .
  • Andreas Maier for the novel Das Zimmer . Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42174-1 .
• 2010
  • Peter Kurzck for the novel Vorabend. an autobiographical chronicle. Frankfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86600-079-7 .
  • Andreas Martin Widmann for his novel Die Glückparade . Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-498-03565-5 .
• 2011
  • Thomas Gsella for the poetry book Viecher in Versen . Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-10140-7 .
  • Matthias Göritz for the novel Dreamers and Sinner . Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65282-0 .
• 2012
  • Frank Witzel for his novel project The Invention of the Red Army Fraction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969 . Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-077-2 .
  • Pete Smith for his novel project Endgame . Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-95542-120-5
• 2013
  • Ricarda Junge for her novel The Last Warm Days . Frankfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-002218-9 .
  • Paulus Böhmer for the volume of poetry Zum Wasser wants everything Water wants to go . Ostheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-941126-56-5 .
• 2014
  • Kurt Drawert for his poetry project Understanding and Waste . It was published under the title The Body of My Time . Munich 2016. ISBN 978-3-406-69801-9
  • Ulrike Syha for her novel project Der Korridor
• 2015
  • Gila Lustiger for her novel project Die Entronnenen
  • Annika Scheffel for her novel project Here it is beautiful. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-42794-1 .
• 2016
  • Silke Scheuermann for the poetry project Second Book of Unrest
  • Norbert Zähringer for his novel project Where we were
• 2017
  • Daniela Dröscher for her novel project Everyone who knows me
  • Maike Wetzel for her novel project Elly . Frankfurt 2018, ISBN 978-3-89561-286-2
• 2018
  • Julia Wolf for her novel project Alte Mädchen
  • Florian Wacker for his novel project Dikson
• 2019
  • Nina Bußmann for her novel project Dickicht
• 2020
  • Sven Amtsberg for his novel project Rakete Schmidt
  • Fatma Aydemir for her novel project Dschinns
  • Thomas Hettche for his novel project Im Arvenschatten

Web links

• Homepage
• Robert Gernhardt Prize on LiteraturPort.de (accessed June 9, 2014)
• Robert Gernhardt Prize on Kulturpreise.de

Remarks

1. ↑ Originally the award was donated under the name Robert-Gernhardt-Förderpreis .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Gernhardt Prize 2020 for three novel projects , Wissenschaft.hessen.de, published and accessed on July 3, 2020.
2. ^ Robert Gernhardt Prize 2012: Literature Prize for Pete Smith and Frank Witzel. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. June 5, 2012, Retrieved June 6, 2012.