The Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize (''Marie Luise Kaschnitz-Preis'') is a German literary prize, awarded approximately every two years by the

Tutzing Tutzing is a municipality in the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany, on the west bank of the Starnberger See. Just 40 km south-west of Munich and with good views of the Alps, the town was traditionally a favorite vacation spot for th ...

Protestant Academy

Evangelische Akademie Tutzing The ' (Protestant Academy of Tutzing) is an education and conference center in Tutzing, Bavaria, run by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. It was founded in 1947. The main building is Schloss Tutzing on Lake Starnberg. The academy awards ...

. It recognizes the lifetime achievements of writers in the German language. The monetary value is €7,500. The prize commemorates

Marie Luise Kaschnitz Marie Luise Kaschnitz (born Marie Luise von Holzing-Berslett; 31 January 1901 – 10 October 1974) was a German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet. She is considered to be one of the leading post-war German poets. She was born in Ka ...

, who died in 1974. The first award was announced on 14 October 1984.

Recipients

* 1984

Ilse Aichinger Ilse Aichinger (1 November 1921 – 11 November 2016) was an Austrian writer known for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.

* 1986 Hanna Johansen * 1988

Fritz Rudolf Fries Fritz Rudolf Fries (19 May 1935 – 17 December 2014) was a German writer and translator. Life Fritz Rudolf Fries was born in Bilbao, Spain. His mother was a German of Spanish descent, and his father a German businessman who was shot during the Se ...

* 1990

Paul Nizon Paul Nizon (born 19 December 1929 in Bern) is a Swiss art historian and writer. Biography The son of a Russian chemist and a Swiss mother, after leaving school he studied history of art, classical archaeology and German language and literature ...

* 1992 Gerhard Roth * 1994

Ruth Klüger Ruth Klüger (30 October 1931 – 5 October 2020) was Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the bestseller ''weiter leben: Eine Jugend'' about her childhood in ...

* 1996

Erica Pedretti Erica Pedretti (; 25 February 1930 – 14 July 2022)Arnold Stadler Arnold Stadler (born 1954) is a German writer, essayist and translator. Life He was born on 9 April 1954 in Meßkirch in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Stadler grew up on a farm in Rast, a small village adjoini ...

* 2000

Wulf Kirsten Wulf Kirsten (21 June 1934 – 14 December 2022) was a German poet, novelist, and publisher. He is known for his nature poetry and his essays on the history and culture of Saxony. The son of a stonemason, Kirsten was born in Klipphausen, Meisse ...

* 2002

Robert Menasse Robert Menasse (born 21 June 1954) is an Austrian writer. Biography Menasse was born in Vienna. As an undergraduate, he studied German studies, philosophy and political science in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina. In 1980 he completed his PhD thesi ...

* 2004

Julia Franck Julia Franck (born 1970, in East Berlin) is a German writer. Life Julia Franck, a twin, is the daughter of the actress Anna Katharina Franck and of the television producer Jürgen Sehmisch. In 1978 the family moved to West Berlin where they s ...

* 2006 Pascal Mercier * 2008

Sibylle Lewitscharoff Sibylle Lewitscharoff (born 16 April 1954) is a German author. Among her novels are ''Pong'' (1998), ''Apostoloff'' (2009) and ''Blumenberg'' (2011). She has received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013. E ...

* 2010

Mirko Bonné Mirko Bonné (born 9 June 1965) is a German writer and translator. Bonné was born in Tegernsee, Bavaria. In 1975 his family moved to Hamburg, where he attended the Hansa Gymnasium. He graduated from the Otto Hahn Gymnasium in Geesthacht in 198 ...

* 2012 * 2015

Lutz Seiler Lutz Seiler (born 8 June 1963 in Gera, Thuringia) is a German poet and novelist. Life and work Lutz Seiler grew up in the Langenberg district of Gera, Thuringia (former East Germany). After training as a skilled building construction worker, h ...

* 2017

Michael Köhlmeier Michael Köhlmeier (born 15 October 1949 in Hard, Austria)

* 2019

Angelika Klüssendorf Angelika Klüssendorf (born 1958) is a German writer. She was born in Ahrensburg and raised in Leipzig, both in the German Democratic Republic (former East Germany). In 1985, she fled to West Germany where she has lived ever since. She has writt ...

* 2021

References

External links

* {{official, https://www.ev-akademie-tutzing.de/preise-auszeichnungen/marie-luise-kaschnitz-preis/ Literary awards of Bavaria Kaschnitz Awards established in 1984 1984 establishments in Germany