Town clerk of Bergen

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Anja Kampmann (2019)
Clemens Meyer, at his inaugural address (2018)
Handover of keys 2016
City clerk's house
45 name badges on the house (until city clerk 2019)

Stadtschreiber von Bergen (title of Stadtschreiber in Bergen-Enkheim) is a literary prize for German-speaking authors that was awarded from 1974 to 1976 - before the incorporation to Frankfurt - by the former city of Bergen-Enkheim ( a district of Frankfurt am Main since 1977 ) and has since been awarded by the Bergen-Enkheim cultural association on behalf of the City of Frankfurt am Main. The award "is considered the most prestigious city ​​writer prize in German-speaking countries."

The award was established by Franz Joseph Schneider , a citizen of Bergen-Enkheim and author of Gruppe 47 . This created the first of a series of Stadtschreiber prizes (e.g. Mainz , Dresden ). However, this literary award has remained unique because no obligations are imposed on the distinguished writer. It includes a cash prize of 20,000 euros (as of 2020/2021) and one year of free living in the town clerk's house in Bergen-Enkheim, "An der Oberpforte" 4. A jury of nine each year decides on the award of the prize .

The award ceremony takes place every year on the Friday evening before the first Tuesday in September as part of the “Berger Markt” festival. The key handover, celebratory, inaugural and farewell speeches take place in the marquee in front of hundreds of visitors.

In 2009, the Kulturgesellschaft Bergen-Enkheim set up a town scribe archive on its premises in order to permanently document the works and work of the award winners. In addition to primary and secondary literature, the catalog contains an extensive collection of articles, autographs, phonograms and documents from the first to the current town clerk.

Award winners

Prize winners and (keynote speaker):

jury

  • Renate Müller-Friese, chairwoman as (current) mayor
  • the current city clerk, specialist juror
  • Marcel Beyer , specialist juror
  • Helmut Böttiger , specialist juror
  • Peter Weber , specialist juror
  • Charlotte Brombach, citizen juror
  • Anna Doepfner, citizen juror
  • Adrienne Schneider, citizen juror
  • Ulrich Sonnenschein, citizen juror

literature

  • Manfred Rüger: Literature and the public using the example of the "town clerks of Bergen". Master's thesis on the master’s main examination in the department of German studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 1981.
  • Wolfgang Mistereck, Adrienne Schneider (Ed.): Zeltreden. Speeches for the awarding of the literary prize “Stadtschreiber von Bergen” 1974–1998. Wallstein, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-89244-322-X .
  • Adrienne Schneider (Ed.): Tent speeches: 40 years city clerk of Bergen. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-86539-706-5 .
  • Margot Wiesner (arr.): “The most beautiful prize”. 40 years city clerk in Bergen-Enkheim. Books, pictures and documents from the Stadtschreiberarchiv. Exhibition… ; Bergen-Enkheim Cultural Society, Frankfurt am Main 2014.
  • Hans-Joachim Müller: "All these literary pipes": ... about the town clerk of Bergen-Enkheim. In: Die Weltwoche , 34, August 27, 1975.
  • Gerd Lobin: The fruits of the fig tree. The town clerk of Bergen: An idea grows into a partnership. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 15, 1983.
  • Horst Bingel: Town clerk or: The employed poets. In: feder, 02 (1989), pp. 42-43.
  • Marcus M. Hotze: 25 years city clerk award. Encounter with a literary place. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse , June 12, 1998.
  • Arnold Rühle: "You all read books here now": 25 years of Bergen-Enkheim city clerk. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 34, 23 August 1998, p. 25.
  • Claudia Schülke: Handing over the keys: 25 years as the city clerk in Bergen-Enkheim. In: Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel , 69, August 28, 1998, pp. 1–2.
  • Katharina Deschka-Hoeck: Observed by a thousand patrons. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , 34, August 24, 2003, S. Kultur R 3.
  • Andreas Haupt: Frankfurt, your town clerks. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse, August 28, 2013, p. 12.

Web links

Commons : City clerk of Bergen  - collection of pictures
Commons : Berger Stadtschreiberfest  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Guidelines for the literature prize "Stadtschreiber von Bergen" from August 3, 2013 (PDF). Retrieved on Feb 24, 2020.
  2. ↑ dpa message, quoted from Frankfurter Rundschau (69th Volume, no. 141) of 21 June, 2013, S. 34
  3. ↑ fnp of June 8, 2018