wbg book prize for the humanities
The wbg-Buchpreis für Geisteswissenschaften (also WISSEN! Sachbuchpreis der wbg für Geisteswissenschaften ) is a German literature award for humanities non-fiction , which was awarded for the first time in 2019. At 40,000 euros, it is the most highly endowed non-fiction book prize in the German-speaking region. It was donated by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (wbg) in Darmstadt . It is funded from the funds of the wbg-Förderverein Wissenverbindungen e. V. and is awarded every two years with the aim of improving the perception of the humanities in society.
The prize is awarded by a five-person jury. Members were in 2019:
- Hubert Wolf (Chairman)
- Sandra Richter ( Marbach Literature Archive )
- Hermann Parzinger ( Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation , Berlin)
- Jürgen Kaube ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung )
- Peter Frey ( ZDF )
Another jury vote resulted from a vote among the 85,000 members of the wbg.
The first prize winner was Thomas Bauer for his book Why there was no Islamic Middle Ages . The shortlist included :
- Wolfram Eilenberger : Time of the Magician (Klett-Cotta)
- Harald Meller and Kai Michel: The Nebra Sky Disc (Propylaeen Verlag)
- Magali Nieradka-Steiner: Exile under palm trees (wbg Theiss)
- Hans-Ulrich Wiemer : Theodoric the Great (CH Beck)
Web links
- A new award for the humanities , website of the WBG
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Bauer receives the ›KNOWLEDGE! Non-fiction book prize of the wbg for the humanities ‹ , blog post of the wbg from June 5, 2019, accessed on June 6, 2019.