Georg Büchner Prize
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox award The Georg Büchner Prize (Template:Langx) is the most important literary prize for German language literature. The award is named after dramatist and writer Georg Büchner, author of Woyzeck and Leonce and Lena. The Georg Büchner Prize is awarded annually for authors "writing in the German language who have notably emerged through their oeuvre as essential contributors to the shaping of contemporary German cultural life".[1]
History
The Georg Büchner Prize 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.[2] It was first awarded in 1923. Among the early recipients were mostly visual artists, poets, actors, and singers.[3]
In 1951, the prize changed to a general literary prize, awarded annually 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 €50,000.
The Georg Büchner Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature
Five winners of the Georg Büchner Prize, Günter Grass (1965), Heinrich Böll (1967), Elias Canetti (1972), Peter Handke (1973) and Elfriede Jelinek (1998) have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in subsequent years. The Georg Büchner Prize is frequently seen as an indicator for potential future Nobel Prize winners writing in the German language. Most recently, however, the Swedish Academy in Stockholm preceded the German Academy for Language and Literature in awarding a prolific writer from the German sprachraum. Herta Müller received the Nobel Prize in Literature but has not yet been awarded the Georg Büchner Prize.[4]
Recipients of the literary prize, since 1951
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| 1951 | Gottfried Benn | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
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| 1953 | Ernst Kreuder | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1954 | Martin Kessel | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1955 | Marie Luise Kaschnitz | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1956 | Karl Krolow | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1957 | Erich Kästner | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1958 | Max Frisch | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1959 | Günter Eich | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1960 | Paul Celan | Script error: No such module "flag". / Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1961 | Hans Erich Nossack | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1962 | Wolfgang Koeppen | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1963 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1964 | Ingeborg Bachmann | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1965 | Günter Grass | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1966 | Wolfgang Hildesheimer | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1967 | Heinrich Böll | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1968 | Golo Mann | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1969 | Helmut Heißenbüttel | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1970 | Thomas Bernhard | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1971 | Uwe Johnson | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1972 | Elias Canetti | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1973 | Peter Handke | Script error: No such module "flag". | refunded the prize money in 1999 as a sign of protest against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia |
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| 1974 | Hermann Kesten | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1975 | Manès Sperber | Script error: No such module "flag". / Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1976 | Heinz Piontek | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1977 | Reiner Kunze | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1978 | Hermann Lenz | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1979 | Ernst Meister | Script error: No such module "flag". | posthumous | |
| 1980 | Christa Wolf | Template:GDR | ||
| 1981 | Martin Walser | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1982 | Peter Weiss | Script error: No such module "flag". | posthumous | |
| 1983 | Wolfdietrich Schnurre | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1984 | Ernst Jandl | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1985 | Heiner Müller | Template:GDR | ||
| 1986 | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1987 | Erich Fried | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1988 | Albert Drach | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1989 | Botho Strauß | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1990 | Tankred Dorst | Template:GER | ||
| 1991 | Wolf Biermann | Template:GER | ||
| 1992 | George Tabori | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1993 | Peter Rühmkorf | Template:GER | ||
| 1994 | Adolf Muschg | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1995 | Durs Grünbein | Template:GER | ||
| 1996 | Sarah Kirsch | Template:GER | ||
| 1997 | Hans Carl Artmann | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1998 | Elfriede Jelinek | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 1999 | Arnold Stadler | Template:GER | ||
| 2000 | Volker Braun | Template:GER | ||
| 2001 | Friederike Mayröcker | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 2002 | Wolfgang Hilbig | Template:GER | ||
| 2003 | Alexander Kluge | Template:GER | ||
| 2004 | Wilhelm Genazino | Template:GER | ||
| 2005 | Brigitte Kronauer | Template:GER | ||
| 2006 | Oskar Pastior | Template:GER / Script error: No such module "flag". | posthumous | |
| 2007 | Martin Mosebach | Template:GER | ||
| 2008 | Josef Winkler | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 2009 | Walter Kappacher | Script error: No such module "flag". | ||
| 2010 | Reinhard Jirgl | Template:GER | ||
| 2011 | Friedrich Christian Delius | Template:GER | ||
| 2012 | Felicitas Hoppe | Template:GER | ||
| 2013 | Sibylle Lewitscharoff | Template:GER | [5] | |
| 2014 | Jürgen Becker | Template:GER | ||
| 2015 | Rainald Goetz | Template:GER | [6] | |
| 2016 | Marcel Beyer | Template:GER | [7] | |
| 2017 | Jan Wagner | Template:GER | [8] | |
| 2018 | Terézia Mora | Script error: No such module "flag". | [9] | |
| 2019 | Lukas Bärfuss | Script error: No such module "flag". | [10] | |
| 2020 | Elke Erb | Template:GER | [11] | |
| 2021 | Clemens J. Setz | Script error: No such module "flag". | [12] | |
| 2022 | Emine Sevgi Özdamar | Template:GER / Script error: No such module "flag". | [13] | |
| 2023 | Lutz Seiler | Template:GER | [14] | |
| 2024 | Oswald Egger | Script error: No such module "flag". | [15] |
Recipients 1923–50
- 1923 Adam Karrillon (1853–1938) and Arnold Mendelssohn (1855–1933)
- 1924 Alfred Bock (1859–1932) and Template:Ill (1882–1954)
- 1925 Wilhelm Michel (1877–1942) and Rudolf Koch (1876–1934)
- 1926 Template:Ill (1880–1954) and Wilhelm Petersen (1890–1957)
- 1927 Kasimir Edschmid (1890–1966) and Template:Ill (1890–1957)
- 1928 Richard Hoelscher (1867–1943) and Template:Ill (1884–1966)
- 1929 Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977) and Adam Antes (1891–1984)
- 1930 Template:Ill (1884–1962) and Template:Ill (1858–1935)
- 1931 Alexander Posch (1890–1950) and Template:Ill (1897–1982)
- 1932 Template:Ill (1882–1949) and Template:Ill (1904–1970)
- 1933–44 not given
- 1945 Hans Schiebelhuth (1895–1944)
- 1946 Fritz Usinger (1895–1982)
- 1947 Anna Seghers (1900–1983)
- 1948 Hermann Heiss (1897–1967)
- 1949 Template:Ill (1895–1984)
- 1950 Elisabeth Langgässer (1899–1950)
See also
Notes
External links
- Template:Official Template:In lang
- 100 Jahre Georg-Büchner-Preis: Interview with Prof Dr. Christian Klein of the University of Wuppertal in 2023
Template:Georg Büchner Prize Template:German literary awards
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