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
* 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