Roswitha Prize
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The Roswitha Prize is the oldest German language
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 prize for literature that is given solely to women.

The Roswitha-Medal has been given almost yearly since 1973 by the city of Bad Gandersheim
Bad Gandersheim
Bad Gandersheim is a town in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, located in the district of Northeim. , it had a population 10,572.Bad Gandersheim has many half-timbered houses and is located on the German Framework Road .- Geography :...

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In 1998 it received its modern designation along with an endowment of €5,500. It is named for Roswitha of Gandersheim
Hrosvit
Hrotsvitha , also known as Hroswitha, Hrotsvit, Hrosvit, and Roswitha, was a 10th-century German secular canoness of the Benedictine Order, as well as a dramatist and poet who lived and worked in Gandersheim, in modern-day Lower Saxony...

, a 10th century Benedictine
Benedictine
Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy. The most notable of these is Monte Cassino, the first monastery founded by Benedict...

 nun who is considered the first female German playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

 and author.

List of Recipients

1973 Marie-Luise Kaschnitz
1974 Hilde Domin
Hilde Domin
Hilde Domin , whose real name was Hilde Palm , was a German lyric poet and writer. She was amongst the most important German-language poets of her time.-Biography:...

1975 Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger is an Austrian writer noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.- Life :...

1976 Elisabeth Borchers
1977 Dagmar Nick
1978 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."-...

1979 Luise Rinser
Luise Rinser
Luise Rinser was a German writer.-Early life and education:...

1980 Rose Ausländer
Rose Ausländer
Rose Ausländer , maiden name Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer, was a Jewish German- and English language poet. She was born in Bucovina, and lived in U.S.A, Romania, and Germany....

1981 Hilde Spiel
1982 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...

1983 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...

1984 Greta Schoon
1985 Irmtraud Morgner
Irmtraud Morgner
Irmtraud Morgner, , was a German writer, best known for works of magical realism concerned predominantly with the role of gender in East German society.-Life:...

1986 Ulla Hahn
Ulla Hahn
Ulla Hahn is a German poet and novelist.- Poetry collections :* Herz über Kopf , ISBN 3-421-06073-8* Spielende , ISBN 3-421-06155-6* Unerhörte Nähe , ISBN 3-421-06310-9...

1987 Irina Korschunow
Irina Korschunow
Irina Korschunow is a German writer, primarily of children's book and Young Adult literature. She is also a translator.- Career :...

1988 Gerlind Reinshagen
1989 Helga M. Novak
Helga M. Novak
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1990 Herta Müller
Herta Müller
Herta Müller is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime which she experienced herself...

1991 No Award
1992 Helga Königsdorf
1993 Christa Reinig
1994 Monika Maron
Monika Maron
Monika Maron is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic. She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre and spent time as a directing assistant and as a journalist. In the late 1970s, she began...

1995 Libuse Monikova
Libuše Moníková
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1996 Gisela von Wysocki
1997 No Award
1998 Carola Stern
1999 Birgit Vanderbeke
Birgit Vanderbeke
Birgit Vanderbeke is a German writer.Vanderbeke grew up in Frankfurt am Main after her family moved to the western part of Germany in 1961. She studied Law, Germanic and Romanic languages...

2000 Silvia Bovenschen
2001 Erika Fuchs
Erika Fuchs
Erika Fuchs, née Petri , was a German translator.Born into a well to do large family, Fuchs spent most of her childhood and youth in Belgard in Pomerania, where in 1921 she was the first girl to be admitted to the boys' Gymnasium - she passed her Abitur exam there in 1926...

2002 Katja Lange-Müller
Katja Lange-Müller
Katja Lange-Müller is a German writer living in Berlin. Her works include several short stories and novellas, radio dramas, and dramatic works....

2003 Antje Rávic Strubel
Antje Rávic Strubel
Antje Rávic Strubel is a German writer. She was born in 1974 in Potsdam.-Life:After leaving school, Antje Strubel Rávic first worked as a bookseller in Potsdam, and then studied in literature, psychology and American studies in New York. In New York she worked as a lighting assistant in a...

2004 Angelika Klüssendorf
2005 Julia Franck
Julia Franck
Julia Franck is a German writer.In 1978 Julia Franck and her family moved to West Berlin and later to Schleswig-Holstein. She studied German Literature and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spent some time in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala...

2006 Ruth Klüger
Ruth Klüger
Ruth Klüger is Professor Emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine. She was born in Vienna and, after the Nazi annexation of Austria, she was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp together with her mother at the age of 11; her father had tried to flee abroad, but was...

2007 Felicitas Hoppe
Felicitas Hoppe
Felicitas Hoppe is a German writer.-Early Years:Felicitas Hoppe was born in Hamelin and grew up there. After her Abitur she studied literature, rhetorics and theology: from 1982 to 1984 at the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen, from 1984 to 1986 at the University of Oregon and from 1987 to...

2008 Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke is a multiple award-winning German author of children's fiction. She was born on 10 December 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkworld trilogy, with the English translation of the third book, Inkdeath, released on 6 October 2008. Many of her...

2009 No Award
2010 Anna Katharina Hahn
2011 Olga Martynova
Olga Martynova
Olga Martynova is a Russian-German writer. She writes poems in Russian, prose and essays in German....


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