The Geschwister-Scholl-Preis is a

literary prize A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ...

which is awarded annually by the

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

n chapter of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and the city of

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

. Every year, a book is honoured, which "shows intellectual independence and supports civil freedom, moral, intellectual and aesthetic courage and that gives an important impulse to the present awareness of responsibility". The prize is named in memory and honor of

Sophie Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess o ...

and

Hans Scholl Hans Fritz Scholl (; 22 September 1918 – 22 February 1943) was, along with Alexander Schmorell, one of the two founding members of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. The principal author of the resistance movement's ...

, who are collectively referred to as the

Geschwister Scholl Hans and Sophie Scholl, often referred to in German as (the Scholl siblings), were a brother and sister who were members of the White Rose, a student group in Munich that was active in the non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany, espe ...

("Scholl siblings"). It is endowed with 10,000 euros and is presented at a ceremony at the

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

Prize Winners

* 1980: Rolf Hochhuth: ''Eine Liebe in Deutschland'' * 1981:

Reiner Kunze Reiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact ...

: ''Auf eigene Hoffnung'' * 1982:

Franz Fühmann Franz Fühmann (15 January 1922 – 8 July 1984) was a German writer who lived and worked in East Germany. He wrote in a variety of formats, including short stories, essays, screenplays and children's books. Influenced by Nazism in his youth ...

: ''Der Sturz des Engels'' * 1983: Walter Dirks: ''War ich ein linker Spinner?'' * 1984:

Anna Rosmus Anna Rosmus, also known as Anja Rosmus-Wenninger, is a German author and researcher born in 1960 in Passau, Bavaria. Early life and research As a 16-year-old, Rosmus started developing an interest in contemporary history, especially that of the ...

: ''Widerstand und Verfolgung'' * 1985:

Jürgen Habermas Jürgen Habermas (, ; ; born 18 June 1929) is a German social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere. Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas's wor ...

: ''Die neue Unübersichtlichkeit'' * 1986:

Cordelia Edvardson Cordelia Maria Edvardson (née Langgässer; 1 January 1929 – 29 October 2012) was a German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor. She was the Jerusalem correspondent for ''Svenska Dagbladet'', a Swedish daily newspaper, from 19 ...

: ''Gebranntes Kind sucht das Feuer'' * 1987:

Christa Wolf Christa Wolf (; née Ihlenfeld; 18 March 1929 – 1 December 2011) was a German novelist and essayist.
Barbara Gard ...

: ''Störfall'' * 1988:

Grete Weil Grete Weil (18 July 1906 – 14 May 1999) was a German writer.Monacensia Literaturarchiv und Bibliothek.Grete Weil" ''Literaturportal Bayern''. Biography She was born Margarete Elisabeth Dispeker, the daughter of a prominent lawyer in Munich. She ...

: ''Der Brautpreis'' * 1989: Helmuth James Graf von Moltke: ''Briefe an Freya 1939–1945'' (posthumously) * 1990:

Lea Rosh Rosh in 1990 Lea Rosh (; born Edith Renate Ursula Rosh on 1 October 1936) is a German television journalist, publicist, entrepreneur and political activist. Rosh was the first female journalist to manage a public broadcasting service in Germany a ...

/ Eberhard Jäckel: ''Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland'' * 1991:

Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt (born 2 May 1928) is a French writer and translator of German origin. Biography Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt was born in Reinbek near Hamburg, into a Jewish family of magistrates converted to Protestantism. His fat ...

: ''Die Absonderung'' * 1992:

Barbara Distel Barbara may refer to: People * Barbara (given name) * Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter * Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer * Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously as ...

/ Wolfgang Benz (Publ.): Dachau Booklet No. 7 ''Solidarität und Widerstand'' * 1993:

Wolfgang Sofsky Wolfgang Sofsky (born 1952) is a German sociologist and former professor of sociology at University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ...

: ''Die Ordnung des Terrors - Das Konzentrationslager'' * 1994: Heribert Prantl: ''Deutschland leicht entflammbar - Ermittlungen gegen die Bonner Politik'' * 1995: Victor Klemperer: ''Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten. Tagebücher 1933–1945'' (posthumously) * 1996: Hans Deichmann: ''Gegenstände'' * 1997: Ernst Klee: ''Auschwitz, die NS-Medizin und ihre Opfer'' * 1998:

Saul Friedländer Saul Friedländer (; born October 11, 1932) is a Czech-Jewish-born historian and a professor emeritus of history at UCLA. Biography Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a family of German-speaking Jews. He was raised in France and lived thro ...

: ''Das Dritte Reich und die Juden'' * 1999:

Peter Gay Peter Joachim Gay (né Fröhlich; June 20, 1923 – May 12, 2015) was a German-American historian, educator, and author. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Sch ...

: ''Meine deutsche Frage'' (first published as ''My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin'', 1998, his autobiography) * 2000:

Helene Holzman Helene Holzman (30 August 1891 in Jena – 25 August 1968) was a German painter and writer. She spent time in a concentration camp. She posthumously won the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis for the memoir ''Dies Kind Soll Leben'' (This Child Must Li ...

: ''Dies Kind soll leben'' (posthumously) * 2001:

Arno Gruen Arno Gruen (May 26, 1923 – October 20, 2015) was a Swiss-German psychologist and psychoanalyst. Biography Gruen was born in Berlin in 1923, and emigrated to the United States as a child in 1936 when his parents, James and Rosa Gruen, fled Germ ...

: ''Der Fremde in uns'' * 2002: Raul Hilberg: ''Die Quellen des Holocaust'' * 2003: Mark Roseman: ''In einem unbewachten Augenblick. Eine Frau überlebt im Untergrund'' * 2004:

Soazig Aaron Soazig Aaron (born 1949, Rennes) is a French author. Biography After studying history, Soazig Aaron worked for a few years in a bookshop in Paris. Today, she lives in Rennes in Brittany. Her first novel, ''Le Non de Klara'', appeared in 2002. ...

: ''Klaras NEIN'' * 2005:

Necla Kelek Necla Kelek (pronounced ; born December 31, 1957) is a Turkish-born German feminist and social scientist, holding a doctorate in this field, originally from Turkey. She gave lectures on migration sociology at the ''Evangelische Fachhochschule fü ...

: ''Die fremde Braut'' * 2006:

Mihail Sebastian Mihail Sebastian (; born Iosif Mendel Hechter; October 18, 1907 – May 29, 1945) was a Romanian playwright, essayist, journalist and novelist. Life Sebastian was born to a Jewish family in Brăila, the son of Mendel and Clara Hechter. After c ...

: ''Voller Entsetzen, aber nicht verzweifelt'' (posthumously) * 2007: Anna Politkovskaya: ''Russisches Tagebuch'' (posthumously) * 2008:

David Grossman David Grossman ( he, דויד גרוסמן; born January 25, 1954) is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature. Biography David Grossman was born i ...

: ''Die Kraft zur Korrektur. Über Politik und Literatur'' * 2009:

Roberto Saviano Roberto Saviano (; born 22 September 1979) is an Italian writer, essayist, journalist, and screenwriter. In his writings, including articles and his book '' Gomorrah'', he uses literature and investigative reporting to tell of the economic reali ...

: ''Das Gegenteil von Tod'' * 2010: Joachim Gauck: ''Winter im Sommer – Frühling im Herbst: Erinnerungen.'' * 2011:

Liao Yiwu Liao may refer to: Chinese history * Liao (Zhou dynasty state) (蓼), two states in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn period in the 8th and 7th centuries BC * Liao of Wu (吳王僚) (died 515 BC), king of Wu during ancient China's Spring a ...

: ''Für ein Lied und hundert Lieder. Ein Zeugenbericht aus chinesischen Gefängnissen.'' (engl.: ''For a song and one hundred songs : a poet's journey through a Chinese prison.'') * 2012: Andreas Huckele v/o Jürgen Dehmers: ''Wie laut soll ich denn noch schreien? Die Odenwaldschule und der sexuelle Missbrauch.'' * 2013:

Otto Dov Kulka Otto Dov Kulka (''Ôttô Dov Qûlqā''; 16 January 1933 in Nový Hrozenkov, Czechoslovakia – 29 January 2021 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli historian, professor emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His primary areas of specialization w ...

: ''Landschaften der Metropole des Todes. Auschwitz und die Grenzen der Erinnerung und der Vorstellungskraft.'' (engl.: ''Landscapes of the metropolis of death : reflections on memory and imagination.'') * 2014: Glenn Greenwald: '' No Place to Hide'' * 2015: Achille Mbembe: ''Critique de la raison nègre'' * 2016: Garance Le Caisne: ''Opération César'' * 2017: Hisham Matar: ''

The Return The Return may refer to: Print media * ''Nostoi'' or ''Returns'', a lost poem in ancient Greek, thought to have been completed in the sixth or seventh century BC *The Return, a 1987 children book by Sonia Levitin * ''The Return'' (de la Mare n ...

'' * 2018:

Götz Aly Götz Haydar Aly (; born 3 May 1947) is a German journalist, historian and political scientist. Life and career Aly was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg. He is a patrilineal descendant of a Mixed Turkish-Kurdish convert to Christianity name ...

: ''Europa gegen die Juden. 1880–1945'' * 2019:

Ahmet Altan Ahmet Hüsrev Altan (born 2 March 1950) is a Turkish journalist and author. A working journalist for more than twenty years, he has served in all stages of the profession, from being a night shift reporter to editor in chief in various newspaper ...

: ''Ich werde die Welt nie wiedersehen. Texte aus dem Gefängnis'' * 2020:

Dina Nayeri Dina Nayeri (born December 20, 1979) is an Iranian-American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She wrote the novels ''A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea'' (2014) and ''Refuge'' (2017) and the creative nonfiction books: ''The Ungrateful Refugee' ...

: ''Der undankbare Flüchtling'' * 2022: Andrey Kurkov: ''Tagebuch einer Invasion''

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