Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis is a literary prize of

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It was established by the

Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in English German Academy for Language and Literature) was founded on 28 August 1949, on the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. It is seated in Darmstadt, ...

in 1964 to promote German culture outwith Germany. The award is named after the Germanist Friedrich Gundolf. The award is endowed with €15,000.

Award winners

*1964 Robert Minder *1965

Frederick Norman Frederick Henry Norman (23 January 1839 – 6 October 1916) was an English merchant banker and a director of the merchant bank Brown, Shipley & Co. He was also a first-class cricketer, appearing for Kent, Cambridge University, Cambridge Tow ...

*1966 Victor Lange *1967 Eudo C. Mason *1968

Oskar Seidlin Oskar Seidlin (February 17, 1911 – December 11, 1984) was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who fled first to Switzerland and then to the U.S. He taught German language and literature as a professor at Smith College, Middlebury College, O ...

*1969

Eduard Goldstücker Eduard Model Accessories is a Czech manufacturer of plastic models and finescale model accessories. Formed in 1989 in the city of Most, Eduard began in a rented cellar as a manufacturer of photoetched brass model components. Following the succ ...

*1970 Erik Lunding *1971 Zoran Konstantinovi *1972 Ladislao Mittner *1973 Gustav Korlén *1974 Herman Meyer *1975 Elizabeth M. Wilkinson *1976 Marian Szyrocki *1977 Franz H. Mautner *1978 Claude David *1979 Zdenko Skreb *1980

Lev Kopelev Lev Zalmanovich (Zinovyevich) Kopelev (russian: Лев Залма́нович (Зино́вьевич) Ко́пелев, German: Lew Sinowjewitsch Kopelew, 9 April 1912, Kyiv – 18 June 1997, Cologne) was a Soviet author and dissident. Early ...

*1981

Leonard Forster Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English masculine given name and a surname. The given name and surname originate from the Old High German ''Leonhard'' containing the prefix ''levon'' ("lion") from the Greek Λέων ("lion") through the Latin '' ...

*1982 Tomio Tezuka *1983 Jean Fourquet *1984 Stuart Atkins *1985

Mazzino Montinari Mazzino Montinari (4 April 1928 – 24 November 1986) was an Italian scholar of Germanistics. A native of Lucca, he became regarded as one of the most distinguished researchers on Friedrich Nietzsche, and harshly criticized the edition of '' The ...

*1986 Siegbert S. Prawer *1987 Viktor Žmegač *1988 Feng Zhi *1989 Leslie Bodi *1990 Konstantin Asadowski *1991

Giorgio Strehler Giorgio Strehler (; ; 14 August 1921 – 25 December 1997) was an actor, Italian opera and theatre director. Biography Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste; His father, Bruno Strehler, was a native of Trieste with family roots in Vienna and died ...

*1992 Emil Skala *1993

Patrice Chéreau Patrice Chéreau (; 2 November 1944 – 7 October 2013) was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer. In France he is best known for his work for the theatre, internationally for his films '' La Reine Margot'' and ...

*1994

Helen Wolff Helen Wolff (27 July 1906 – 28 March 1994) was an American editor and publisher. Early life and education Helen Mosel was born to a German father and a Hungarian/Austrian mother in Macedonia, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1906. The famil ...

*1995

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe ( , ; 6 March 1940 – 28 January 2007) was a French philosopher. He was also a literary critic and translator. Lacoue-Labarthe published several influential works with his friend Jean-Luc Nancy. Lacoue-Labarthe wa ...

*1996 Volkmar Sander *1997

Imre Kertész Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was ...

*1998 Shulamit Volkov *1999 Thomas von Vegesack *2000

Ryszard Krynicki Ryszard Krynicki (Polish: ; born 28 June 1943) is a Polish poet and translator, member of the Polish "New Wave" Movement. He is regarded as one of the most prominent post-war contemporary Polish poets. In 2015, he was awarded the Zbigniew Herber ...

*2001 Fuad Rifka *2002

Massimo Cacciari Massimo Cacciari (; born 5 June 1944) is an Italian philosopher, politician and public intellectual. Biography Born in Venice, Cacciari graduated in philosophy from the University of Padua (1967), where he also received his doctorate, writing a ...

*2003 Per Øhrgaard *2004 Isidor Levin *2005 László F. Földényi *2006

Kim Kwang-Kyu Kim Kwang-kyu (born January 7, 1941) is a South Korean poet and translator."김광규 " biographical PDF available at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# Life Kim was born in Seoul and studied German language and literature at Seoul Nationa ...

*2007 Nora Iuga *2008 Jurko Prochasko *2009

Nicholas Boyle Nicholas Boyle FBA (born 18 June 1946) is an English literary critic. He is the emeritus Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He has written widely on German literature, i ...

*2010 Şara Sayın *2011

Feliu Formosa Feliu Formosa Torres (born 10 September 1934 in Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish dramatist, poet and translator from Catalonia. He has served as dean of Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. He translated dramatic works by Bertolt Brecht, ...

*2012 Bernard Lortholary *2013

Mati Sirkel Mati Sirkel (born 12 October 1949) is an Estonian translator and writer. Career He was born in Paide. In 1972 he graduated from Tartu State University with a degrees in literary theory and German philology. From 1972 until 1975, he worked as a ...

*2014 Drinka Gojković *2015

Neil MacGregor Robert Neil MacGregor (born 16 June 1946) is a British art historian and former museum director. He was editor of the ''The Burlington Magazine, Burlington Magazine'' from 1981 to 1987, then Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 ...

*2016 Hubert Orłowski *2017 László Márton *2018

Miguel Sáenz Miguel Sáenz Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz (Larache, Spanish Morocco, 1932) is a Spanish translator. Biography Born in colonial Morocco, he was son of a military officer. He studied German philology at the Complutense University of Madrid. He special ...

*2019 Paul Michael Lützeler *2020 Tatiana Baskakova *2021 Khalid Al-Maaly *2022 Alison Lewis

References

External links

* German literary awards Awards established in 1964 1964 establishments in Germany {{Germany-lit-award-stub