Wilhelm Raabe Prize
The Wilhelm Raabe Prize was a literary prize that was created in 1933, at the beginning of the National Socialist era, as a people's prize for German poetry to strengthen German-national literature. From 1933 to 1990 the city of Braunschweig awarded the prize in memory of Wilhelm Raabe . The prize has been awarded to a writer every three years since 1954 (previously annually) and was endowed with 5,000 DM (since 1978 10,000 DM).
In 2000, the city of Braunschweig, in cooperation with DeutschlandRadio, donated a new award as the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize .
Award winners
The award has been renamed several times.
People's Prize for German Poetry / Raabe Prize
- 1932 Ernst Wiechert for Jürgen Doskocil's maid
- 1933 Gustav Frenssen for Meino the Boaster
- 1934 Karl Friedrich Kurz for Tyra, the fairy tale island
- 1935 Anton Dörfler for The Thousand Year Jug
People's Prize for German Poetry / Raabe Prize and Poet Prize of the City of Braunschweig
- 1936 Hans Künkel for the fate and love of Niklas von Cues
- 1937 Heinrich Eckmann for Der Stein im Acker
- 1938 Ottfried Graf von Finckenstein for The Mother
People's Prize of the German communities and community associations for German poetry
(new term for the double price)
- 1939 Joseph Georg Oberkofler for Der Bannwald , Friedrich Griese for Die Wagenburg
- 1940 Ulrich Sander for Mann vom See , Hans Venatier for Vogt Barthold
- 1941 Berchtold Gierer (d. I. Walter Scheidt ) for Gender at the Lake , Karl Götz for The Great Homecoming
People's price of the German communities
- 1942 Werner Jansen for Die Insel Heldentum , Kurt Kluge for Die Zaubergeige
- 1943 Kleo Pleyer for Volk im Feld , Ell Wendt for The Proud Nymphe
Wilhelm Raabe Prize of the City of Braunschweig
endowed with 30,000 euros in prize money
- 1944 Ricarda Huch for the complete works
The prize was not awarded in 1945 and 1946.
- 1947 Fritz von Unruh for the complete works
- 1948 Werner Bergengruen for the complete works
- 1949 Ina Seidel for the complete works
- 1950 Hermann Hesse for the complete works
- 1954 Max Frisch for Stiller
- 1957 Friedrich Georg Jünger for The Two Sisters
- 1960 Gerd Gaiser for soccer ball
- 1963 Hans Erich Nossack
- 1966 Heimito von Doderer for The Slunj Waterfalls
- 1969 not awarded
- 1972 Walter Kempowski for Tadellöser & Wolff
- 1975 Uwe Johnson for anniversaries
- 1978 Horst Bienek for Die Erste Polka , Septemberlicht
- 1981 Hermann Lenz for The Inner District
- 1984 Alois Brandstetter for honoring the elderly
- 1987 Siegfried Lenz for the parade ground and the complete works
- 1990 Gerhard Köpf for Eulensehen
literature
- Horst Denkler : The Wilhelm Raabe Prize - A German Story. Radio essay. In: Hubert Winkels (Ed.): Rainald Goetz meets Wilhelm Raabe: the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize, its history and topicality. Wallstein Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3892444897 , pp. 20–46 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- General information about the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize with the Raabe Prize winners before the new conception (1944–1990) on the website of the Braunschweig Literature Center
Individual evidence
- ^ Hanna Leitgeb: The excellent author - municipal literary prizes and cultural policy in Germany, 1926–1971 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-11-014402-6 , pp. 105ff.