Georg Büchner Prize
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The Georg Büchner Prize is the most important literary prize of Germany
. It was created in 1923 in memory of Georg Büchner
and was only given to artists who came from or were closely tied to Büchner's home of Hesse
. It was given to visual artists, poets, actor
s, and singers.
In 1951, the prize changed to a general literary prize, given yearly by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
. It goes to German language authors, and the annual speech by the recipient takes place in Darmstadt
. Since 2002, the prize has been endowed with 40,000 euro
s.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. It was created in 1923 in memory of Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany...
and was only given to artists who came from or were closely tied to Büchner's home of Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
. It was given to visual artists, poets, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
s, and singers.
In 1951, the prize changed to a general literary prize, given yearly by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung was founded on August 28, 1949—the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe—in Paulskirche in Frankfurt...
. It goes to German language authors, and the annual speech by the recipient takes place in Darmstadt
Darmstadt
Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...
. Since 2002, the prize has been endowed with 40,000 euro
Euro
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s.
Recipients of the literary prize, since 1951
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| 1951 | Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn was a German essayist, novelist, and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early admirer, and later a critic, of the National Socialist revolution... |
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| 1952 | not awarded | ||
| 1953 | Ernst Kreuder | ||
| 1954 | Martin Kessel | ||
| 1955 | Marie Luise Kaschnitz Marie Luise Kaschnitz Marie Luise Kaschnitz was a German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet. She is considered to be one of the leading post-war German poets... |
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| 1956 | Karl Krolow | ||
| 1957 | Erich Kästner Erich Kästner Emil Erich Kästner was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.-Dresden 1899–1919:... |
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| 1958 | Max Frisch Max Frisch Max Rudolf Frisch was a Swiss playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German-language literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity, individuality, responsibility, morality and political... |
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| 1959 | Günter Eich Günter Eich Günter Eich was a German lyricist, dramatist, and author. He was born in Lebus, on the Oder River, and educated in Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris.... |
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| 1960 | Paul Celan Paul Celan Paul Celan was a poet and translator... |
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| 1961 | Hans Erich Nossack | ||
| 1962 | Wolfgang Koeppen Wolfgang Koeppen Wolfgang Arthur Reinhold Koeppen is one of the best known German authors of the post-war period.-Life:Koeppen was born out of wedlock in Greifswald to a seamstress. His father never accepted the fatherhood formally... |
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| 1963 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger Hans Magnus Enzensberger Hans Magnus Enzensberger , is a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He has also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr. He lives in Munich.- Life :... |
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| 1964 | Ingeborg Bachmann Ingeborg Bachmann Ingeborg Bachmann was an Austrian poet and author.-Biography:Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of a headmaster. She studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, and Vienna... |
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| 1965 | Günter Grass Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass is a Nobel Prize-winning German author, poet, playwright, sculptor and artist.He was born in the Free City of Danzig... |
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| 1966 | Wolfgang Hildesheimer Wolfgang Hildesheimer Wolfgang Hildesheimer was a German author who incorporated the Theatre of the Absurd. He originally trained as an artist, before turning to writing.-Biography:... |
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| 1967 | Heinrich Böll Heinrich Böll Heinrich Theodor Böll was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.- Biography :... |
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| 1968 | Golo Mann Golo Mann Golo Mann , born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a popular German historian, essayist and writer. He was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann.-Life:... |
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| 1969 | Helmut Heißenbüttel Helmut Heißenbüttel Helmut Heißenbüttel was a German novelist and poet. Among Heißenbüttel's works are Das Textbuch and Marlowe's Ende . He received the important Georg Büchner Prize in 1969... |
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| 1970 | Thomas Bernhard Thomas Bernhard Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard, whose body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II," is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era.- Life :Thomas Bernhard was... |
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| 1971 | Uwe Johnson Uwe Johnson Uwe Johnson was a German writer, editor, and scholar.- Life :Johnson was born in Kammin in Pomerania . His father was a Swedish-descent peasant from Mecklenburg and his mother was from Pommern... |
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| 1972 | Elias Canetti Elias Canetti Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".-Life:... |
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| 1973 | Peter Handke Peter Handke Peter Handke is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright.-Early life:Handke and his mother lived in the Soviet-occupied Pankow district of Berlin from 1944 to 1948 before resettling in Griffen... |
refunds the prize money in 1999 | |
| 1974 | Hermann Kesten Hermann Kesten Hermann Kesten was a German novelist and dramatist. He was one of the principal literary figures of the New Objectivity movement in 1920's Germany.The literary prize Hermann Kesten Medal has been given in his honor since 1985.... |
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| 1975 | Manès Sperber Manès Sperber Manès Sperber was an Austrian-French novelist, essayist and psychologist. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Jan Heger and N.A. Menlos.... |
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| 1976 | Heinz Piontek | ||
| 1977 | Reiner Kunze Reiner Kunze Reiner Kunze is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. He had to publish his work under... |
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| 1978 | Hermann Lenz Hermann Lenz Hermann Karl Lenz[p] was a German writer of poetry, fiction stories, and novels. A major part of his work includes 10 volumes in a semi-autobiographical novel cycle about the alter-ego figure "Eugen Rapp"[p]. In the 1970s he published the 7-volume Schwäbische Chronik .Lenz had been a German POW in... |
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| 1979 | Ernst Meister | posthumous | |
| 1980 | Christa Wolf Christa Wolf Christa Wolf was a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. She is one of the best-known writers to have emerged from the former East Germany.-Biography:... |
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| 1981 | Martin Walser Martin Walser At first the speech did not cause a great stir. Indeed, the audience present in Church of St. Paul received the speech with applause, though Walser's critic Ignatz Bubis did not applaud, as confirmed by television footage of the event... |
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| 1982 | Peter Weiss Peter Weiss Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.... |
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| 1983 | Wolfdietrich Schnurre Wolfdietrich Schnurre Wolfdietrich Schnurre was a German writer.Schnurre was an important literary figure of post-war West Germany... |
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| 1984 | Ernst Jandl Ernst Jandl Ernst Jandl was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator.- Poetry :Influenced by Dada he started to write experimental poetry, first published in the journal "Neue Wege" in 1952.... |
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| 1985 | Heiner Müller Heiner Müller Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht... |
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| 1986 | Friedrich Dürrenmatt Friedrich Dürrenmatt Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-garde dramas, philosophically deep crime novels, and often macabre satire... |
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| 1987 | Erich Fried Erich Fried Erich Fried , an Austrian poet who settled in England, was known for his political-minded poetry. He was also a broadcaster, translator and essayist.... |
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| 1988 | Albert Drach | ||
| 1989 | Botho Strauß Botho Strauß Botho Strauss is a German playwright, novelist and essayist.-Biography:Botho Strauss's father was a chemist. After finishing his secondary education, Strauss studied German, History of the Theatre and Sociology in Cologne and Munich, but never finished his dissertation on Thomas Mann und das Theater... |
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| 1990 | Tankred Dorst Tankred Dorst Tankred Dorst is a German playwright and storyteller.Tankred Dorst currently lives and works in Munich. His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations are inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works of Ionesco, Giraudoux and Beckett... |
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| 1991 | Wolf Biermann Wolf Biermann Karl Wolf Biermann is a German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident.-Early life:Biermann's father, who worked on the Hamburg docks, was a German Jew and a member of the German Resistance.... |
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| 1992 | George Tabori George Tabori George Tabori was a Hungarian writer and theater director.-Life and career:Tabori was born in Budapest as György Tábori, a son of Kornél and Elsa Tábori. His father died in Auschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul managed to escape the Nazis. His son Peter Tabori and again his son... |
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| 1993 | Peter Rühmkorf Peter Rühmkorf Peter Rühmkorf was a German writer who significantly influenced German post-war literature.... |
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| 1994 | Adolf Muschg Adolf Muschg Adolf Muschg is a Swiss writer and professor of literature. Muschg was a member of the Gruppe Olten.- His life :... |
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| 1995 | Durs Grünbein Durs Grünbein Durs Grünbein is a German poet, living in Berlin since 1985.Grünbein is hailed as the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, and his work has been awarded many major German literary prizes, including the highest, the Georg-Büchner-Preis, which he won in 1995... |
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| 1996 | Sarah Kirsch Sarah Kirsch Sarah Kirsch is a German poet.She was born Ingrid Bernstein in Limlingerode, Prussian Saxony. She changed her first name to Sarah in order to protest against her father's anti-semitism. She studied biology in Halle and literature at the Johannes R. Becher Institute for Literature in Leipzig. In... |
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| 1997 | Hans Carl Artmann | ||
| 1998 | Elfriede Jelinek Elfriede Jelinek Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."-... |
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| 1999 | Arnold Stadler Arnold Stadler Arnold Stadler is a German writer, essayist and translator.He was born April 9, 1954 in Meßkirch in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.- Life :... |
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| 2000 | Volker Braun Volker Braun Volker Braun is a German writer. His works include Provokation für mich -- a collection of poems written between 1959 and 1964 and published in 1965, a play, Die Kipper , and Das ungezwungne Leben Kasts .-Life:Volker Braun, who worked in... |
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| 2001 | Friederike Mayröcker Friederike Mayröcker Friederike Mayröcker is an Austrian poet.- Life :From 1946 to 1969 Mayröcker was an English teacher at several public schools in Vienna. In 1969 she took a release from working as a teacher and in 1977 she retired early.She started writing as a 15 year old... |
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| 2002 | Wolfgang Hilbig Wolfgang Hilbig Wolfgang Hilbig was a German author. He wrote poetry and novels from 1976 to 2002. He was also a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.-References:... |
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| 2003 | Alexander Kluge Alexander Kluge Alexander Kluge is an author and film director.-Early life, education and early career:Kluge was born in Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.... |
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| 2004 | Wilhelm Genazino Wilhelm Genazino Wilhelm Genazino is a German journalist and author.In the 1960s, he studied German, philosophy and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as a journalist until 1965. During this time, he worked, inter alia, for the satirical magazine Pardon and co-edited the... |
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| 2005 | Brigitte Kronauer | ||
| 2006 | Oskar Pastior Oskar Pastior Oskar Pastior was a Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo.... |
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| 2007 | Martin Mosebach Martin Mosebach Martin Mosebach , has published novels, stories, and collections of poems, written scripts for several films, opera libretti, theatre and radio plays.... |
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| 2008 | Josef Winkler Josef Winkler Josef Philip Winkler is a German politician and member of the German Green Party "Bündnis 90/Die Grünen". He has been a member of the Deutscher Bundestag, the German Parliament, since 2002. He is deputy head of the Greens in the German parliament since 2009.- Family :Winkler's mother, Chinnamma,... |
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| 2009 | Walter Kappacher | ||
| 2010 | Reinhard Jirgl | ||
| 2011 | Friedrich Christian Delius |
Recipients 1923-1950
- 1950 Elisabeth LanggässerElisabeth LanggässerElisabeth Langgässer was a German author and teacher. She is known for lyrical poetry and novels...
(1899-1950) - 1948 Hermann HeissHermann HeissHermann Heiss is a German composer. He studied with Josef Matthias Hauer and was also self-taught. Hauer dedicated his book Twelve-Tone Technique to Heiss. He later taught twelve-tone music at Darmstadt and composed electronic music at Cologne....
(1897-1967) - 1947 Anna SeghersAnna SeghersAnna Seghers was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.- Life :...
(1900-1983) - 1946 Fritz Usinger (1895-1982)
- 1945 Hans Schiebelhuth (1895-1944)
- 1933-1944 not given
- 1932 Albert H. Rausch (1882-1949)
- 1930 Nikolaus Schwarzkopf (1884-1962)
- 1929 Carl ZuckmayerCarl ZuckmayerCarl Zuckmayer was a German writer and playwright.-Biography:Born in Nackenheim in Rheinhessen, he was four years old when his family moved to Mainz. With the outbreak of World War I, he finished school with a facilitated "emergency"-Abitur and volunteered for military service...
(1896-1977) - 1927 Kasimir Edschmid (1890-1966)
- 1925 Wilhelm Michel (1877-1942)
- 1924 Alfred Bock (1859-1932)
- 1923 Adam Karrillon (1853-1938)
See also
- German literatureGerman literatureGerman literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there...
- List of literary awards
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in literature
- List of years in poetry
External links
- Georg-Büchner-Preis, official site