The Ernst Reuter Prize (''Ernst-Reuter-Preis'') is a German national prize for audio plays (''Hörspiel'') and radio documentation about the divided Germany, named after
Ernst Reuter
Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter (29 July 1889 – 29 September 1953) was the mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953, during the time of the Cold War.
Biography
Early years
Reuter was born in Apenrade (Aabenraa), Province of Schleswig-Holstein ...
. It was awarded from 1959 to 1991 by the
Bundesministerium für innerdeutsche Beziehungen for audio plays and radio documentation, doted 10,000
DM dotiert.
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Zur Nicht-Preisvergabe 1979 und den Stiftern des Preises Der Spiegel
''Der Spiegel'' (, lit. ''"The Mirror"'') is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 695,100 copies, it was the largest such publication in Europe in 2011. It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner ...
Nr. 53/1979 vom 31. Dezember 1979 It was awarded to productions that dealt with relations of people from the two German nations ("Verhältnis der Menschen in den beiden deutschen Staaten zueinander").
Selected recipients
*
Wolfgang Menge
Wolfgang Menge (10 April 1924 – 17 October 2012) was a German television writer and journalist.
Life
Menge worked as television writer and journalist in Germany. He was married and had three sons.Ingeborg Drewitz
Ingeborg Drewitz (born Ingeborg Neubert; 10 January 1923 – 26 November 1986) was a German writer and academic.
Life and career
Drewitz was born in Berlin. She graduated in 1941 from the Königin-Luise-Schule in Berlin-Friedenau, and took ...
* 1966
* 1971
* 1978
Thomas Brasch
Thomas Brasch (19 February 1945 – 3 November 2001) was a German author, poet and film director.
Life
Born in Westow, Yorkshire, England, Thomas Brasch was the son of German Jewish Communist émigré parents. In 1947, the family returned to Eas ...
* 1979 no award
* 1982
Tilo Medek
Tilo Medek, originally Müller-Medek (22 January 1940 – 3 February 2006), was a German classical composer, musicologist and music publisher. He grew up in East Germany, but was inspired by the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He composed radio plays and ...
, Dorothea Medek
* 1989
Helga M. Novak
* 1990
Peter Gotthardt
* 1991
Jens Sparschuh (1990 according to some sources)
References
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German literary awards
Radio awards
Awards established in 1959
Awards disestablished in 1991
1959 establishments in Germany
1991 disestablishments in Germany