Thomas Mann Prize

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Presentation of the Thomas Mann Prize 2019 to Claudio Magris (center), with Jan Lindenau , Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (left), and Academy President Winfried Nerdinger
Certificate of the 2017 award for Brigitte Kronauer

The Thomas Mann Prize of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts is a literary prize that was awarded for the first time in 2010. It emerged from the Thomas Mann Prize of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (1975–2008) and the Great Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (1986–2008).

story

In 1975 the Hanseatic City of Lübeck donated a literary prize on the 100th birthday of Thomas Mann , which honored personalities "who have distinguished themselves through their literary work in the spirit of humanity that shaped the work of Thomas Mann". The Thomas Mann Prize was awarded every three years and was endowed with 10,000 euros. Between 1975 and 2008 the prize was awarded twelve times, most recently on October 18, 2008 to Daniel Kehlmann ( Ich und Kaminski ; Die Vermessung der Welt ) .

In 2008 the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts decided to rename its Great Literature Prize to the Thomas Mann Literature Prize . The German Thomas Mann Society in Lübeck then protested in an open letter against the naming of the Bavarian prize. This would damage the author's reputation and lead to irritation, as Mann had been expelled from Munich 75 years earlier. In autumn 2008, an author of the culture magazine Unser Lübeck, with the support of the editorial team, suggested donating a joint prize.

In 2009, the German Thomas Mann Society and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts finally agreed to jointly award the prize in the future. Under the new name of the Thomas Mann Prize of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , the joint literature prize has been awarded annually since 2010, alternately in Lübeck and Munich. The prize is awarded for the life's work of an author or for outstanding services in the field of literary communication and is endowed with 25,000 euros (as of 2021). The jury consists of three representatives each from Lübeck and Munich as well as a jointly named jury chairman.

The first recipient of the new award was the writer Christa Wolf . She was awarded the prize on October 24, 2010 in the Lübeck Theater .

Award winners

Pictures from the Thomas Mann Prize 2019

  • Academy President Winfried Nerdinger

  • Jan Lindenau, BM from Lübeck

  • Claudio Magris

  • Michael Krüger - laudation

See also

Web links

Commons : Thomas Mann Prize  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Mann (1875–1955) ( Memento from March 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Schleswig-Holstein state government, accessed on December 20, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b see Daniel Kehlmann honored with the Thomas Mann Prize ( memento from October 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) at ndr.de, October 18, 2008.
  3. ^ Martin Klingel: Thomas Mann Prize - Our Lübeck to Prof. Dieter Borchmeyer, Munich ( Memento from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Our Lübeck from October 25, 2008, accessed on December 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: "City War" about Thomas Mann ended at br-online, July 31, 2009. )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.br-online.de
  5. ^ Lübeck and Munich: Joint Thomas Mann Prize , press release of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck of July 30, 2009.
  6. ↑ Christa Wolf receives the Thomas Mann Prize at hl-live.de, July 5, 2010.
  7. ↑ Mircea Cartarescu receives Thomas Mann Prize 2018