Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis is a literary prize of

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...

awarded by the

Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in English German Academy for Language and Literature) was founded on 28 August 1949, on the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. It is seated in Darmstadt, ...

since 1964. Since 2013 the prize winner receives €20,000. The award is donated by the

Merck Group The Merck Group, branded and commonly known as Merck, is a German multinational science and technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, with about 60,000 employees and present in 66 countries. The group includes around 250 companies; the m ...

in memory of the German author and critic

Johann Heinrich Merck Johann Heinrich Merck (11 April 1741 – 27 June 1791), German author and critic, was born at Darmstadt, a few days after the death of his father, a chemist. He studied law at Gießen, and in 1767 was given an appointment in the paymaster's depar ...

(1741–1791).Merck Group: Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis geht an Iris Radisch
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Winners

*1964 Günter Blöcker *1965 ''not awarded'' *1966 Karl Heinz Ruppel *1967 Werner Weber *1968 Georg Hensel *1969 Erich Heller *1970 Joachim Kaiser *1971

Peter Huchel Peter Huchel (April 3, 1903 – April 30, 1981), born Hellmut Huchel, was a German poet and editor. Life Huchel was born in Lichterfelde (now part of Berlin). From 1923 to 1926, Huchel studied literature and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg and ...

*1972 Horst Krüger *1973 H. H. Stuckenschmidt *1974

Joachim Günther Joachim (; ''Yəhōyāqīm'', "he whom Yahweh has set up"; ; ) was, according to Christian tradition, the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Biblical apocryphal ...

*1975

Walter Höllerer Walter Höllerer (19 December 1922 – 20 May 2003) was a German writer, literary critic, and literature academic. He was professor of literary studies at the Technical University of Berlin from 1959 to 1988. Höllerer was a member of the Grou ...

*1976

Peter Rühmkorf Peter Rühmkorf (25 October 1929 – 8 June 2008) was a German writer who significantly influenced German post-war literature. Rühmkorf's literary career started in 1952 in Hamburg with the magazine ''Zwischen den Kriegen'' ("Between the Wars") ...

*1977 François Bondy *1978

Karl Heinz Bohrer Karl Heinz Bohrer (26 September 1932 – 4 August 2021) was a German literary scholar and essayist. He worked as chief editor for literature of the daily ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, FAZ'', and became co-publisher and author of the cultural ...

*1979

Werner Spies Werner Spies (born 1 April 1937 in Tübingen) is a German art historian, journalist and exhibition organizer. From 1997 to 2000, he was a director of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Klaus Albrecht Schröder, director of the Albertina in Vienn ...

*1980

Sebastian Haffner Raimund Pretzel (27 December 1907 – 2 January 1999), better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and historian. As an émigré in Britain during World War II, Haffner argued that accommodation was impossible not on ...

*1981

Hilde Spiel Hilde Spiel (19 October 1911 – 30 November 1990) (pseudonyms: Grace Hanshaw and Jean Lenoir) was an Austrian writer and journalist who received numerous awards and honours. Biography Youth in Vienna Hilde Spiel was born in Vienna in October 19 ...

*1982 Albert von Schirnding *1983

Albrecht Schöne Albrecht Schöne (born 17 July 1925) is a German Germanist. From 1960 to 1990 he was a professor of German philology at the University of Göttingen. Career Schöne was born on 17 July 1925 in Barby an der Elbe. After graduating from secondary sc ...

*1984

Erwin Chargaff Erwin Chargaff (11 August 1905 – 20 June 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, Bucovinian Jew who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi Germany, Nazi era, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University ...

*1985 Sibylle Wirsing *1986 Heinrich Vormweg *1987

Reinhard Baumgart Reinhard is a German, Austrian, Danish, and to a lesser extent Norwegian surname (from Germanic ''ragin'', counsel, and ''hart'', strong), and a spelling variant of Reinhardt. Persons with the given name *Reinhard of Blankenburg (after 1107 – 11 ...

*1988

Ivan Nagel Ivan Nagel (28 June 1931 – 9 April 2012) was a German theater scholar, critic and former theater director of Hungarian origin. Life Ivan Nagel was born in Budapest. He came from a Jewish family who fled their home because of the Second Worl ...

*1989 Lothar Baier *1990 Walter Boehlich *1991 Peter von Matt *1992 *1993 Hans Egon Holthusen *1994 Peter Demetz *1995 Michael Maar *1996 Ulrich Weinzierl *1997 Heinz F. Schafroth *1998 Iso Camartin *1999 Gerhard R. Koch *2000

Silvia Bovenschen Silvia Bovenschen (5 March 1946 in Point bei Waakirchen, Upper Bavaria — 25 October 2017 in Berlin) was a German feminist literary critic, author and essayist. History Bovenschen was the daughter of a public limited company director. She grew ...

*2001 Friedrich Dieckmann *2002 Volker Klotz *2003

Klaus Theweleit Klaus Theweleit (born 7 February 1942) is a German sociologist and writer. Life Theweleit was born in Ebenrode, East Prussia (now Nesterov, Russia), the son of a railway company worker and a Jewish mother. He wrote the following about his fath ...

*2004 Anita Albus *2005 Hans Keilson *2006 Eduard Beaucamp *2007

Günther Rühle Günther Rühle (3 June 1924 – 10 December 2021) was a German theatre critic, book author and theatre manager. He directed the ''feuilleton'' (editorial/entertainment) sections of major newspapers and was regarded as an influential theatre cri ...

*2008 Lothar Müller *2009 Harald Hartung *2010

Karl-Markus Gauß Karl-Markus Gauß (born 14 May 1954, in Salzburg) is an Austrian contemporary writer, essayist and editor.In one single interview, Gauß by joke characterized himself ''to be an independent scholar.'' The interviewer, not being aware of this allusi ...

*2011

Günter de Bruyn Günter de Bruyn (; 1 November 1926 – 4 October 2020) was a German author. Life Günter de Bruyn was born in Berlin in November 1926; his father Carl was a Catholic from Bavaria. Günter served as a Luftwaffenhelfer and soldier in World War I ...

*2012 Heinz Schlaffer *2013 Wolfram Schütte *2014 Carolin Emcke *2015 Gabriele Goettle *2016

Kathrin Passig Kathrin Passig (born 4 June 1970) is a German writer. Life and Works Passig was born in 1970 in Deggendorf, a small town in Lower Bavaria. She is editor and programmer of the blog "Riesenmaschine" which received the Grimme Online Award 2006, a ...

*2017 *2018 *2019 *2020

Iris Radisch Iris Radisch (born 2 July 1959) is a German literature-journalist. Since 1990 she has written for the mass-circulation weekly newspaper, ''Die Zeit''. More recently she has come to wider prominence through her television work. Biography Iris R ...

*2021 Franz Schuh *2022

References

External links

* Literary awards of Hesse {{Germany-lit-award-stub