Siegfried Lenz Prize
The Siegfried Lenz Prize is a literary prize that has been awarded every two years in Hamburg by the Siegfried Lenz Foundation since 2014 .
The prize “honors international writers who have achieved recognition with their narrative work and whose creative work is close to the spirit of Siegfried Lenz .” With prize money of 50,000 euros, the Siegfried Lenz Prize counts alongside the Georg Büchner Prize. Prize , the Joseph Breitbach Prize and the Siegfried Unseld Prize, which is also open to scholars, among the most highly endowed literary prizes in Germany. The award was initiated by the German writer Siegfried Lenz (1926–2014) while he was still alive. A jury made up of five members with a six-year term of office appointed by the Foundation decides on the award of the prize.
The first awarding of the Siegfried Lenz Prize took place on November 14, 2014 in Hamburg City Hall. A jury headed by Ulrich Greiner , Christina Weiss , Ulla Hahn (as members of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg ), Rainer Moritz and Günter Berg, chairman of the Siegfried Lenz Foundation , selected the Israeli writer Amos Oz , who was a long-time friend of the awardee, to the first prize winner.
At the last award ceremony in 2020, a jury consisting of Günter Berg, Ulrich Greiner, Rainer Moritz, the bookseller Annegret Schult and Monique Schwitter awarded the Russian writer Lyudmila Ulitzkaja the Siegfried Lenz Prize. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the award ceremony in the Hamburg City Hall by the First Mayor and the Siegfried Lenz Foundation will not take place until March 19, 2021.
Award winners
| year | Award winners | Laudator | Reason for awarding the prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Amos Oz | Frank-Walter Steinmeier | for his literary "amalgamation of contemporary history and individual fate, he combines political analysis with the psychological penetration of his characters" |
| 2016 | Julian Barnes | Neil MacGregor | “... honors Julian Barnes, one of the most outstanding European storytellers and essayists. The ... author knows how to combine elements of modernity and postmodernism in a sophisticated way in his novels. Barnes' work takes up discussions of cultural and literary theory and asks how memory is constituted for the individual and for society. " |
| 2018 | Richard Ford | Verena Lueken | "... Richard Ford shows himself to be a master of observation and the art of description" |
| 2020 | Lyudmila Ulitzkaya | still open | "... Your novels and stories reflect the tragedy of the 20th century, the epoch of tyranny and genocide." |
Web links
- Siegfried Lenz Foundation (official website)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The spring is here . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 11, 2014, No. 158, p. 9.
- ^ Establishment of the Siegfried Lenz Foundation at hoffmann-und-campe.de, June 18, 2014 (accessed on November 14, 2014).
- ↑ Allocation guidelines of the foundation , accessed on December 19, 2017.
- ↑ a b Siegfried Lenz Prize 2020 to Lyudmila Ulitzkaja . In: siegfriedlenz-stiftung.org, June 15, 2020 (accessed June 15, 2020).
- ↑ "The Power of Word and Reason" at ndr.de, November 14, 2014 (accessed on November 14, 2014).
- ↑ Amos Oz receives the first Siegfried Lenz Prize . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 11, 2014, No. 159, p. 17.
- ^ Barnes receives Siegfried Lenz Prize , Focus, accessed on June 29, 2016
- ↑ Julian Barnes receives the Siegfried Lenz Prize , buchmarkt.de, June 29, 2016, accessed on June 29, 2016
- ↑ Richard Ford receives Siegfried Lenz Prize , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on March 1, 2018
- ↑ Verena Lueken: That is life. In: FAZ.net . September 30, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 .