The Johann-Friedrich-von-Cotta-Literatur- und Übersetzerpreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart is a literary prize awarded in
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
, Germany, awarded every three years to writers and translators. The prize is endowed with €20,000.
Winners
*2005
**Writer:
Petra Morsbach
Petra Morsbach (born 1 June 1956) is a German author.
Life and career
Morsbach was born in Zürich, but grew up in Germany. She studied at Munich University and Leningrad Theater Academy.
Morsbach's first novel, ''Plötzlich ist es Abend'' (' ...
**Translator:
Michael Walter
*2008
**Writer:
Egon Schwarz
**Translator:
Hartmut Köhler
*2011
**Writer:
Günter Herburger
Günter Herburger (April 6, 1932 – May 3, 2018) was a German writer. He was initially counted among the "New Realists" funded by , became the author of socialist, imaginative utopian worlds since the 1970s and took an outsider position in German ...
**Translator:
Claudia Ott
* 2014
** Writer:
Ulrike Edschmid
** Translator:
Joachim Kalka
* 2017
** Writer:
Peter Stamm
Peter Stamm (born 18 January 1963 in Münsterlingen) is a Swiss writer. His prize-winning books have been translated into more than thirty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the ...
** Translator:
Petra Strien
* 2020
** Writer:
Thomas Stangl
Thomas Stangl (21 December 1854 in Aufhausen – 4 August 1921 in Würzburg) was a German classical scholar and text critic. He is found referenced most often for his edition of scholia to Cicero's speeches (''Ciceronis orationum scholiastae ...
** Translator:
Claudia Steinitz
Literaturpreis der Stadt Stuttgart
From 1978 to 2002 this prize was known as City of Stuttgart Literary Prize.
*1978
**Writer:
Werner Dürrson 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 ...
**Writer:
Roland Lang
Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the ...
**Translator:
Fritz Vogelgsang Fritz Vogelgsang (1 March 1930 in Stuttgart – 22 October 2009 in Chiva de Morella) was a German translator, essayist and editor.
He translated into German the work of various important Spanish-language writers: Rafael Alberti, Ramón del V ...
*1980
**Writer:
Irmela Brender
**Writer:
Margarete Hannsmann
Margarete Dorothea Hannsmann (née Wurster; February 10, 1921 – March 29, 2007) was a German writer, best remembered for her numerous volumes of poetry, prose, travelogues, and radio plays. She was awarded the Schubart-Literaturpreis on 1976, t ...
**Translator:
Otto Bayer
Otto Bayer (4 November 1902 – 1 August 1982) was a German industrial chemist at IG Farben who was head of the research group that in 1937 discovered the polyaddition for the synthesis of polyurethanes out of poly-isocyanate and polyol.
Bay ...
*1982
**Writer:
Friederike Roth
Friederike Roth (born 6 April 1948) is a German writer. She is especially active as a playwright.
Roth was born in Sindelfingen. She won the City of Stuttgart Literary Prize in 1982 and the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
The Festival of German-Langua ...
**Writer:
Franz Mechsner
**Translator:
Ragni Maria Seidl-Gschwend
*1984
**Writer:
Otto Jägersberg
**Writer:
Jochen Kelter
**Translator: Hans Hermann
*1986
**Writer:
Walter Helmut Fritz
Walter may refer to:
People
* Walter (name), both a surname and a given name
* Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968)
* Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...
**Writer:
Christoph Lippelt
**Translator:
Elke Weh
*1988
**Writer:
Ludwig Greve
**Writer:
Hanns-Josef Ortheil
Hanns-Josef Ortheil (born 5 November 1951, in Cologne) is a German author, scholar of German literature, and pianist.
He has written many autobiographical and historical novels, some of which have been translated into 11 languages, according to Wor ...
**Translator:
Maria Csollán
*1990
**Writer:
Zsuzsanna Gahse
**Writer:
Johannes Poethen
**Translator:
Rosemarie Tietze
*1992
**Writer:
Tina Stroheker
**Writer:
Rolf Vollmann
**Translator:
Helga Pfetsch
*1994
**Writer:
Albrecht Goes
Albrecht Goes (22 March 1908 – 23 February 2000) was a German writer and Protestant theologian.
Life
Albrecht Goes was born in 1908 in the Protestant rectory in Langenbeutingen. He spent his childhood there, but his mother died in 1911 and in 1 ...
**Writer:
Reinhard Gröper
**Translator:
Barbara Henninges
*1996
**Writer:
Maria Beig
**Translator:
Willi Zurbrüggen
*1998
**Writer:
Hermann Kinder
Hermann Kinder (18 May or 18 June 1944 – 27 August 2021) was a German writer.
Biography
Kinder was born on 18 May or 18 June 1944 in Toruń and spent his childhood in Ulm, Nuremberg, and Münster. He earned a degree in art history from the Un ...
**Translator:
Hildegard Grosche
*2000
**Writer:
Peter O. Chotjewitz
**Translator:
Nikolaus Stingl
*2002
**Writer:
Jürgen Lodemann
**Translator:
Ralph Dutli
External links
Webseite der Stadt Stuttgart zum Johann Friedrich von Cotta-Preis
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Translation awards
Literary awards of Baden-Württemberg
Stuttgart