The Heimito von Doderer-Literaturpreis (Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize, short also: Heimito von Doderer Prize) was established in 1996 to commemorate the 100th birthday of
Heimito von Doderer
Franz Carl Heimito, Ritter von Doderer; known as Heimito von Doderer (5 September 1896 23 December 1966) was an Austrian writer. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
Family
Heimito von Doderer was born in Weidlinga ...
.
It was created as a memorial to "one of the most important writers of the 20th century", and to honor a single work or life work of a contemporary writer who excels in "language of high sensitivity and originality in the tradition of Doderer.
The award ceremony took place in 1996 in Vienna, in 1997 in Berlin, from 1998 the prize has been awarded in Cologne.
"Narrative strong debuts" are awarded the Hauptpreis (main prize), an addition a Förderpreis (funding price) has been awarded regularly, a Sonderpreis (special award) irregularly. The Main prize was 15,000 Euros (20,000 Euros in 2006), the Förderpreis 6,000 Euros (5,000 Euros).
The Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize was last awarded in 2010.
Recipients
Hauptpreis
* 1996
Ror Wolf
Ror Wolf (born Richard Georg Wolf; 29 June 1932 – 17 February 2020) was a German writer, poet, and artist who also published under the pseudonym Raoul Tranchirer. He wrote audio plays, novels, and poems and made collages.
Life
Richard Georg ...
* 1997
Peter Waterhouse
* 1998
Urs Widmer
Urs Widmer (21 May 1938 – 2 April 2014) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, an essayist, and a short story writer.
Biography
Widmer was born in Basel in 1938, and for many years lived in Zurich. Widmer studied German, French, and history at the u ...
* 1999
Martin Mosebach
Martin Mosebach (born 31 July 1951, in Frankfurt am Main) is a German writer.
Biography
He has published novels, stories, and collections of poems, written scripts for several films, opera libretti, theatre and radio plays. His first major non- ...
* 2000
Walter Kempowski
Walter Kempowski (; 29 April 1929 – 5 October 2007) was a German writer. Kempowski was known for his series of novels called ''German Chronicle'' ("Deutsche Chronik") and the monumental ''Echolot'' ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical repo ...
* 2001
Galsan Tschinag
Galsan Tschinag (, mn, Чинаагийн Галсан, translit=Qinaagiin Galsan, , , born Irgit Şınıkay oğlu Çuruk-Uvaa ( tyv, Иргит Шыныкай оглу Чурук-Уваа, ), 26 December 1944 in Bayan-Ölgii Province, Mongolia) ...
* 2002
Gerhard Polt
* 2004
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, r ...
and
Anne Weber
* 2006
Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann (; born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.[Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck (born 12 March 1967) is a German writer and opera director, recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Life
Born in East Berlin, Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and th ...]
* 2010
Anna Katharina Hahn
Anna Katharina Hahn is a German author.
Life and works
Anna Katharina Hahn was born in Ruit (Ostfildern), a small town short distance to the south-east of Stuttgart.
She attended secondary school in nearby Stuttgart. Hahn won her first li ...
and
Heinrich Steinfest
Förderpreis
* 1996
Stephan Wackwitz
* 1997
Thomas Meinecke
Thomas may refer to:
People
* List of people with given name Thomas
* Thomas (name)
* Thomas (surname)
* Saint Thomas (disambiguation)
* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
* Thomas the A ...
* 1998
Kathrin Schmidt
Kathrin Schmidt (born 12 March 1958 in Gotha, Bezirk Erfurt), is a German writer. She is known both for her poetry and prose.
Life and work
Kathrin Schmidt grew up in Gotha and from 1964 in Waltershausen. After graduating from high school, sh ...
* 1999
Werner Fritsch Werner may refer to:
People
* Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name
Fictional characters
* Werner (comics), a German comic book character
* Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Rai ...
* 2000
Doron Rabinovici
Doron Rabinovici is an Israeli-Austrian writer, historian and essayist. He was born in Tel Aviv in 1961, and moved to Vienna in 1964.
Overview
His first book, ''Papirnik'' (Suhrkamp, 1994), was a collection of short stories, most of them set in ...
* 2002
Marica Bodrožić
Marica Bodrožić (born 1973) is a German writer of Croatian descent. She was born in in Cista Provo, Croatia in the former Yugoslavia. She moved to Germany as a child and currently lives in Berlin.
Bodrožić writes primarily in the German lan ...
* 2006
Kerstin Młynkec
Kerstin is a female German and Swedish given name; it is the Scandinavian version of Christina.
Notable persons with this name include:
*Kerstin Alm (born 1949), Finnish politician from the Åland Islands
* Kerstin Anderson (born 1994), American ...
* 2008
Saša Stanišić
Saša Stanišić ( sr-cyr, Саша Станишић; born 7 March 1978) is a Bosnian-German writer. He was born in Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina as the son of a Bosniak mother and a Serbian father. In the spring of 1992, he fled alongside ...
Sonderpreis
* 1998
Franz Josef Czernin
Franz Josef Czernin (born 7 January 1952, Vienna) is an Austrian writer. He is a member of the Bohemian noble Czernin family.
Awards and honors
* 1993: Stadtschreiber von Graz
* 1997: Literaturpreis der Stadt Wien
* 1998: Anton-Wildgans-Pr ...
(for literary essays)
* 2001
Erika Fuchs
Erika Fuchs, née Petri (7 December 1906 in Rostock – 22 April 2005 in Munich), was a German translator. She is largely known in Germany due to her translations of American Disney comics, especially Carl Barks' stories about Duckburg and its i ...
(for development of the German language)
* 2008
Reiner Stach
Reiner Stach (born 1951) is a German author, biographer of Franz Kafka, publisher, and publicist. Stach lives and works as a freelancer in Berlin.
Early life and education
Stach was born in Rochlitz, Saxony. He studied philosophy, literature, a ...
(for the biography: ''Kafka: Die Jahre der Erkenntnis'' (''Kafka: The Years of Realization'')
References
External links
* {{official, http://www.doderer-literaturpreis.de/
International literary awards
Literary awards honoring writers
Awards established in 1996