Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste (in English: Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts) was a
Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...
n literary prize by the
Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste. In 2010, it merged with the
Thomas Mann Prize.
Winners
*1950
Friedrich Georg Jünger (Literaturpreis)
*1951
Günter Eich
*1953
Marieluise Fleißer
*1955
Gerd Gaiser und
Martha Saalfeld
*1957
Alfred Döblin
Bruno Alfred Döblin (; 10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel '' Berlin Alexanderplatz'' (1929). A prolific writer whose œuvre spans more than half a century and a wide variety of ...
*1959
Agnes Miegel
*1960
Otto Flake
*1961
Ilse Aichinger und
Joachim Maass
*1962
Martin Kessel
*1963
Horst Lange
*1964
Heimito von Doderer
*1965
Wolfgang Koeppen
*1966
Werner Kraft
*1967
Franz Tumler
*1968
Elisabeth Schnack
*1969
Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti (; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994; ; ) was a German-language writer, known as a Literary modernism, modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardi Jews, Sephardic Jewish fam ...
*1970
Hans Paeschke and
Rudolf Hartung
*1971
Manès Sperber
*1972
Jean Améry
Jean Améry (31 October 191217 October 1978), born Hans Chaim Maier, was an Austrian-born essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II. His most celebrated work, ''At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Surviv ...
*1973
Reiner Kunze
*1974
Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem (; 5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was an Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of the Kabbalah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew Un ...
*1975
Alfred Andersch
Alfred Hellmuth Andersch (; 4 February 1914 – 21 February 1980) was a German writer, publisher, and radio editor. The son of a conservative East Prussian army officer, he was born in Munich, Germany, and died in Berzona, Ticino, Switzerland. ...
*1976
Hans Wollschläger
*1977
Dolf Sternberger
Dolf Sternberger (originally ''Adolf Sternberger''; 28 July 1907 – 27 July 1989) was a German people, German philosopher and political scientist at the University of Heidelberg.
Biography
Dolf Sternberger was born in Wiesbaden in 1907.
He is ...
*1978
Günther Anders
Günther Anders (; born Günther Siegmund Stern, 12 July 1902 – 17 December 1992) was a German-born philosopher, journalist and critical theorist.
Trained as a philosopher in the phenomenological tradition, he obtained his doctorate under ...
*1980
Jürgen Becker
*1981
Botho Strauß
Botho Strauss (; written as Botho Strauß) (born 2 December 1944) is a German playwright, novelist, and essayist.
Early life
His father was a chemist.
After finishing his secondary education, Strauss studied German, History of the Theatre a ...
*1982
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
*1983
Tankred Dorst
*1984
Rose Ausländer
*1985
Karl Krolow
*1986
Hans Werner Richter
Hans Werner Richter (12 November 1908 – 23 March 1993) was a German writer.
Born the son of a fisherman in Neu Sallenthin on the island of Usedom, Richter worked first in a bookshop in Swinemünde (now Świnoujście in Poland) and later ...
(for the first time Großer Literaturpreis)
*1987
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger (11 November 1929 – 24 November 2022) was a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi. Enzensberger was regarde ...
*1988
Hilde Spiel
*1989
Dieter Kühn
*1990
Martin Walser
*1991
Ilse Aichinger
*1992
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 ...
*1993
Günter de Bruyn
*1994
Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass (; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gda ...
*1995
Walter Helmut Fritz
*1996
Friederike Mayröcker
*1997
Paul Wühr
*1998
Wilhelm Genazino
*1999
Peter Kurzeck
*2000
Anne Duden
*2001
Uwe Timm
*2002
Urs Widmer
*2003
Ror Wolf
*2004
Michael Krüger
*2005
Karl Heinz Bohrer
*2006
Martin Mosebach
*2007
Hans Joachim Schädlich
*2008
Peter Handke
Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrians, Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has ...
(Award renamed to Thomas-Mann-Preis)
External links
Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste
Literary awards of Bavaria
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