Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau is a literary prize of
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major historic cities are Dar ...
. The prize, awarded by the City of
Hanau, honors the
Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the ...
, who were both born in Hanau.
The prize is endowed with €10,000 and has been awarded since 1983.
The ceremony takes place in November in memory of the
Göttingen Seven
The Göttingen Seven (german: Göttinger Sieben) were a group of seven liberal professors at University of Göttingen. In 1837, they protested against the annullment of the constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover by its new ruler, King Ernest Augus ...
.
Winners
* 1983
Wolfgang Hilbig
Wolfgang Hilbig (31 August 1941 2 June 2007) was a German writer and poet.
Life
Wolfgang Hilbig was born in Meuselwitz, Germany. His grandfather had emigrated from Biłgoraj (Congress Poland, Russian Empire) before the First World War. In 19 ...
for ''Abwesenheit''
* 1985
Anna Mitgutsch
Anna Mitgutsch (born 2 October 1948) is an Austrian writer and educator. Her name also appears as Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch.
Biography
She was born in Linz and studied German and English literature at the University of Salzburg. Originally a Roman ...
for ''Die Züchtigung''
* 1987 for ''Übungen im Joch''
* 1989
Natascha Wodin for ''Einmal lebt ich''
* 1991
Monika Maron
Monika Maron (born 3 June 1941 in Berlin) is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic.
Biography
She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre ...
for ''Stille Zeile sechs''
* 1993
Harald Weinrich
Harald Weinrich (24 September 1927 – 26 February 2022) was a German classical scholar, scholar of Romance philology and philosopher, known for the breadth of his writings.
Biography
He was emeritus professor of the Collège de France, and hel ...
for Textgrammatik der deutschen Sprache
* 1995
Adolf Endler
Adolf Endler (20 September 1930 – 2 August 2009) was a lyric poet, essayist and prose author who played a central role in subcultural activities that attacked and challenged an outdated model of socialist realism in the German Democratic Repu ...
for ''Tarzan am Prenzlauer Berg''
* 1997
Harry Rowohlt
Harry Rowohlt (27 March 1945 – 15 June 2015) was a German writer and translator. He also played the role of a derelict in the famous German weekly-soap Lindenstraße.
Background
Born Harry Rupp in Hamburg, Rowohlt was the son of publisher ...
(for Translation)
* 1999
Georg Klein for ''Libidissi''
* 2001
Heinz Czechowski
Heinz Czechowski (7 February 1935 – 21 October 2009) was a German poet and dramatist.
At the age of ten, Czechowski survived the highly destructive bombing of his birthplace of Dresden. After training in surveying and graphic design, he studied ...
for ''Die Zeit steht still'' and ''Das offene Geheimnis''
* 2003
Klaus Böldl for ''Die fernen Inseln''
* 2005
Felicitas Hoppe
Felicitas Hoppe (born 22 December 1960) is a German writer. She received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2012.
Biography
Early years
Felicitas Hoppe was born in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, and grew up there. After her Abitur she studied literature, ...
for ''Verbrecher und Versager''
* 2005 for ''Zwischen den Untergängen''
* 2007 for ''Die Erlöser AG''
* 2009 Natascha Wodin for ''Nachtgeschwister''
* 2011 (for Translation)
* 2013
Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr (born 20 March 1954) is an Austrian writer.
Life
Born in Wels, Upper Austria, Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. He worked there as ...
for ''Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes''
* 2015 no award
* 2017
Barbara Zoeke for ''Die Stunde der Spezialisten''
* 2020 for ''Herzklappen von Johnson & Johnson''
References
External links
Literary awards of Hesse
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