Swabian Literature Prize

The Swabian Literature Prize is an award annually since 2005 Literature Prize of the Bavarian region of Swabia for authors who live in the Swabian-Alemannic cultural area or biographically rooted there.

The jury will select the winners from the texts sent by the applicants on the annual topic to the “District Homeland Maintenance” department of the Swabian District. In addition to three cash prizes, a special prize for authors up to the age of 25 is also awarded, which is linked to an invitation to a literature course at the Swabian Art Summer in the Schwabenakademie Irsee, which together with the VS Regional Group Swabia awards the " Irseer Pegasus " annually at Irsee Monastery . After the competition, the best texts will appear in an anthology at the Wißner publishing house .

Events and award winners

year	Annual theme	1st Prize	2nd prize	3rd prize	Special Price
2005	"War and peace"	Hartmut Spoon	Almut Baumgarten	Peter Dempf	Rebecca Anna Fritzsche
2006	"Harmony and Disharmony"	Inka Kleinke-Bialy	Albrecht Verron	Alice Muller	Max Häusler
2007	"Country Life"	Anke Laufer	Jörg Adam	Nicole Schilling	Thilo Bienia
2008	"City Life"	Robert Blunder	Jörg Adam	Jochen Kittner	Mona Chaib
2009	"On road"	Peter Suska-Zerbes	Martin von Arndt	Anke Laufer	Ute Michaela Hanel
2010	"In the mountains"	Richard Mayr	Hannes Ulbrich	Christine Thiemt	Silvia Overath
2011	"Flow"	Uta Fuchs-Prestele	Gerhard Dick	Cornelia Koepsell	Nadja Spiegel
2012	"Immigrated"	Tomo Mirko Pavlovic	Bodo Rudolf	Silvia Berger	Ágnes Czingulszki
2013	"Colours"	Ágnes Czingulszki	Erika Augustin	Florian Wacker	Larissa Hieber
2014	"Eat"	Simone Hirth	Claudia Haug	Albrecht Gralle	Larissa Hieber
2015	"At night"	Michael Lichtwarck-Aschoff	Florian Wacker	Matthias Kehle	Linda Achberger
2016	"Childhood"	Julia Kersebaum	Michael Lichtwarck-Aschoff	Philipp Brotz	Lars-André Amann
2017	"Play"	Eleonora Hummel	Michaela Hanel	Jos Schneider	Marie Saverino
2018	"Beauty"	Joyce Shintani	David Jokschat	Jörg Lenuweit	Leah Braekau
2019	"Metamorphoses"	Ruth Johanna Benrath	Joachim Off	Erik Wunderlich	Maya Baumann

See also

• List of German literature prizes
• Swabian Poet Prize , Wuerttemberg National Socialist Literature Prize, awarded from 1935 to 1942

Web links

• Publications on the Swabian Literature Prize in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature Prize District Swabia , Wißner-Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prizes & Funding: Swabian Literature Prize. Literature portal Bavaria
2. ↑ Awarding of the Swabian Literature Prize 2018: Subject "Beauty". District of Swabia, November 28, 2018.
3. ↑ Swabian Literature Prize 2019: "Metamorphoses" District of Swabia, November 27, 2019.