Wiesbaden Poetry Prize Orphil

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The Orphil Poetry Prize is a literary prize that has been awarded every two years by the state capital Wiesbaden in cooperation with hr2-kultur since 2012 .

Ilse Konell , the widow of the poet George Konell , who died in 1991 , donated the 10,000 euro prize on the occasion of the 100th birthday of George Konell, who spent many years of his life in Wiesbaden. The award ceremony takes place regularly on June 6th, his birthday, in the Wiesbaden literature house Villa Clementine . Orphil called George Konell the iron rooster on the town halls of France, which for him embodied the song of the singer Orpheus as well as the ideals of the French Revolution . The literary prize will be awarded to “poets who take a stand with their work and who know how to oppose political and stylistic fashions”.

Since 2018, the independent jury has consisted of the freelance critic Beate Tröger, the head of the Hessian Literature Forum, Björn Jager, and the head of the literary department of hr2-kultur Alf Mentzer . It also awards the Orphil Debut Prize, endowed with 2,500 euros .

Award winners

  • Orphil Poetry Prize:
    • 2012: Ursula Krechel , especially for her two volumes Voices from the Hard Core and Suddenly Illuminated Darkness
    • 2014: Karin Kiwus for The Face of the World
    • 2016: Ulrike Draesner for Subsong
    • 2018: Christoph Meckel for his life's work and especially for the band No beginning and no end. Two poems
    • 2020: Marion Poschmann for her previous lyrical work and especially for the band Nimbus

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 2018 | State capital Wiesbaden. Retrieved April 11, 2018 .
  2. Orphil Poetry Prize 2018 on wiesbaden.de, accessed on October 23, 2019