Uwe Johnson Prize

The Uwe Johnson Prize is a literary prize awarded by the Nordkurier (1994-2016), the Mecklenburg Literature Society , the Berlin law firm Gentz ​​und Partner (since 2012) and the Humanist Association of Germany Berlin-Brandenburg (since 2017). The prize was founded for the first time in 1994. The prize is intended to promote “German-speaking authors whose work contains points of reference to Uwe Johnson's poetics” and whose texts reflect “German past, present and future” .

Award conditions

Authors or their publishers can submit published or unpublished texts - prose or essay writing. Published work must not have appeared earlier than in the last two years before the intended award. A jury decides on the award, which can also include work that has not been submitted in its award decision.

The award was previously associated with prize money of 12,500 euros. The organizers took the coincidence of the 30th birthday of Uwe Johnson's death and 80th birthday as well as the award of the prize for 20 years in 2014 as an opportunity to increase the endowment to 15,000 euros. Since 2005, the main prize has been awarded a sponsorship prize of initially 3000 euros for an outstanding debut in the field of prose or essay writing.

In 2017 the endowments were increased and now amount to 20,000 euros for the main prize and 5000 euros for the sponsorship award.

Award winners

• 1994: Kurt Drawert for his novel Spiegelland. A German monologue
• 1995: Walter Kempowski for his work Das Echolot
• 1997: Marcel Beyer for the novel flying foxes
• 1999: Gert Neumann for the novel stop
• 2001: Jürgen Becker for the novel From the History of Separations
• 2003: Norbert Gstrein for the novel The craft of killing
• 2005: Arno Orzessek for the novel Schattauer's daughter (sponsorship award)
• 2006: Joochen Laabs for the novel Late Journey
• 2007: Emma Braslavsky for the novel Out of the Mind (sponsorship award)
• 2008: Uwe Tellkamp for the novel Der Turm
• 2009: Thomas Pletzinger for his novel Burial of a Dog (sponsorship award)
• 2010: Christa Wolf for her novel City of Angels
• 2011: Judith Zander for her novel Things that we said today (sponsorship award)
• 2012: Christoph Hein for the novel Weiskern's estate
• 2013: Matthias Senkel for the novel Early Birds (sponsorship award)
• 2014: Lutz Seiler for the novel Kruso
• 2015: Mirna Funk for the novel winter closeness (sponsorship award)
• 2016: Jan Koneffke for the novel A Sunday Child
• 2017: Shida Bazyar for the novel It's quiet in Tehran at night (sponsorship award)
• 2018: Ralf Rothmann for the novel The God of that Summer
• 2019: Kenah Cusanit for the novel Babel (sponsorship award)
• 2020: Irina Liebmann for the novel Die Große Hamburger Straße

literature

• Carsten Gansel in connection with Lutz Schumacher and Markus Frank (eds.): Assumptions. Uwe Johnson and contemporary literature. Twenty years of the Uwe Johnson Prize , vbb Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-945256-21-3

Web links

• Website of the Uwe Johnson Prize
• Uwe Johnson Prize on Carsten Gansel's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the Uwe Johnson Prize , accessed on July 21, 2018
2. ↑ Homepage of the Uwe Johnson Prize ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed July 19, 2016 
3. ↑ Homepage Uwe Johnson Prize ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 3, 2014 
4. ↑ www.uwe-johnson-preis.de
5. ↑ Johnson Award 2017 to Shida Bazyar on boersenblatt.net, September 1, 2017, accessed on September 1, 2017
6. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 166 of July 21, 2001, national edition p. 13
7. ^ Lutz Seiler receives Uwe Johnson Prize, buchmarkt.de of July 21, 2014
8. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung No. 168 of July 21, 2018, p. 23
9. ↑ Report on Uwejohnsonpreis.de , accessed October 1, 2019
10. ↑ Irina Liebmann receives the Uwe Johnson Prize , buchmarkt.de, published and accessed on July 20, 2020