Bushel price

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The bushel price (own notation: Scheffel Prize ) is awarded annually by the Literary Society of Karlsruhe awarded, originally at the top of a high school -Jahrganges ( Primus Omnium ,) currently (proposed usually by the teaching staff) to the respective best German-graduates of high schools in Baden-Württemberg , Rhineland-Palatinate , North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland . It is named after Joseph Victor von Scheffel .

history

The award was first presented in 1928 by the predecessor of the Literary Society, the Scheffelbund . The aim was to recognize outstanding “creditable achievements” in German at the Abitur . In 2006 the prize was awarded 680 times at various high schools. The winners receive free membership and book prizes for five years. A Scheffel medal was awarded for special anniversaries (e.g. Scheffel's 100th anniversary of death in 1986).

Well-known award winners (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.kulturpreise.de/web/preise_info.php?cPath=6_90&preisd_id=5070&kpsid=cffee19d20137019698ad8224ac41f15
  2. Susanne Faschon. In: Donnersberger Literaturtage. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
  3. Reinhard Paul Becker in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors , accessed on February 16, 2016.
  4. Hans Maier : Bad Years, Good Years. A life 1931 ff., 1. + 2. Ed., Munich 2011, p. 61.
  5. a b c d e f Well-known award winners In: Literary Society - Scheffelbund