The Hölty Prize (German: ''Hölty-Preis''), established in 2007, is a lifetime achievement award given every two years to honor a German-language poet. The full name of the prize is the Hölty-Preis für Lyrik der Landeshauptstadt und der Sparkasse Hannover (Hölty Poetry Prize of the State Capital and the Savings Bank of Hanover). With a purse of €20,000, it is one of the most generous literary prizes in

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. The prize is named for

Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (21 December 1748 – 1 September 1776) was a German poet, known especially for his ballads. Hölty was born in the Electorate of Hanover in the village of Mariensee (today part of Neustadt am Rübenberge) where h ...

(1748–1776), a German poet closely associated with the region of

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

Recipients

*2008:

Thomas Rosenlöcher Thomas Rosenlöcher (29 July 1947 – 13 April 2022) was a German writer and poet. References 1947 births 2022 deaths German male writers German male poets Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin Writers from Dresden {{German ...

*2010: Paulus Böhmer *2012: Christian Lehnert *2014:

Silke Scheuermann Silke Scheuermann (born 15 June 1973, in Karlsruhe) is a German poet and novelist. She was educated in Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Paris. She is best known for her debut novel ''Die Stunde zwischen Hund und Wolf'' (The Hour Between Dog and Wolf), wh ...

*2016:

Christoph Meckel Christoph Meckel (12 June 1935 – 29 January 2020) was a German author and graphic artist. He received awards for his works which connect illustrations with the written text, sometimes texts by others. Life Born in Berlin, Meckel spent his yo ...

*2018:

Norbert Hummelt Norbert Hummelt (born 30 December 1962 in Neuss) is a German poet, essayist and translator."No ...

*2020: Marion Poschmann *2022: Ulrich Koch

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holty-Preis German literary awards Poetry awards Awards established in 2007