Wolfgang Weyrauch sponsorship award
The Wolfgang-Weyrauch-Förderpreis is a literary prize for the promotion of young talent in the field of German-language poetry , which is awarded every two years by the city of Darmstadt at the poetry competition Literary March . It is named after the German writer Wolfgang Weyrauch .
The award is the “little brother” of the Leonce and Lena Prize and was called “ Working Scholarships ” until 1997 before it was named .
Prize money
The cultural and political sponsorship award is endowed with 8,000 euros.
Award criteria
Every second year, the city of Darmstadt awards the Leonce and Lena Prize and the Wolfgang Weyrauch sponsorship awards totaling EUR 8,000 each for German-language poetry. In 2019 the Literary March took place for the 21st time.
Award winners
- 1979: Anna Jonas
- 1981: Renate Fueß and Tina Stotz-Stroheker
- 1983: Wolf-Dieter Eigner , Klaus Hensel , Barbara Maria Kloos and Rainer René Mueller
- 1985: Hansjörg Schertenleib and Sabine Techel
- 1987: William Totok and Michael Wildenhain
- 1989: Lioba Happel , Durs Grünbein and Rainer Schedlinski
- 1991: Dirk von Petersdorff and Barbara Köhler
- 1993: Dieter M. Gräf and Ludwig Steinherr
- 1995: Ulrike Draesner , Thomas Gruber and Christian Lehnert
- 1997: Franzobel and Andreas Altmann
- 1999: Anja Nioduschewski , Nicolai Kobus , Henning Ahrens
- 2001: Mirko Bonné , Maik Lippert , Hendrik Rost
- 2003: Marion Poschmann and Nico Bleutge
- 2005: Karin Fellner and Hendrik Jackson
- 2007: Nora Bossong and Andrea Heuser
- 2009: Juliane Liebert and Judith Zander
- 2011: Andre Rudolph and Jan Volker Röhnert
- 2013: Uljana Wolf and Tobias Roth
- 2015: Anja Kampmann and Özlem Özgül Dündar
- 2017: Jan Skudlarek and Christoph Szalay
- 2019: Alexandru Bulucz and Charlotte Warsen
Web links
- Official homepage: www.literarischer-maerz.de