Peter-Huchel-Preis is a literature prize awarded in

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, Germany. The Peter Huchel Prize for German-language poetry, donated by the state of Baden-Württemberg and

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, has been awarded since 1983 for an outstanding lyric work of the previous year. The award is endowed with €10,000 and is presented annually on 3 April,

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 ...

's birthday, in Staufen im Breisgau.

Winners

*1984 Manfred Peter Hein, ''Gegenzeichnung'' *1985 Guntram Vesper, ''Die Inseln im Landmeer und neue Gedichte'' *1986 Michael Krüger, ''Die Dronte'' *1987

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 ...

, ''Die Erde bei Meißen'' *1988

Elke Erb Elke Erb (born 18 February 1938) is a German author-poet based in Berlin. She has also worked as a literary editor and translator. Biography Family provenance and early years Elke Erb was born at Rheinbach, Scherbach (today part of Rheinbach) i ...

, ''Kastanienallee'' *1989 Luise Schmidt, ''Die Finsternis die freie Existenz'' *1990

Ernst Jandl Ernst Jandl (; 1 August 1925 – 9 June 2000) was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator. He became known for his experimental lyric, mainly sound poems (''Sprechgedichte'') in the tradition of concrete and visual poetic forms. Poetry Inf ...

, ''Idyllen'' *1991

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 ...

, ''Das brennende Haus'' *1992 Ludwig Greve (posthum), ''Sie lacht und andere Gedichte'' *1993

Sarah Kirsch Sarah Kirsch (; 16 April 1935 – 5 May 2013) was a German poet. Biography Sarah Kirsch was originally born Ingrid Bernstein in Limlingerode, Prussian Saxony but had changed her first name to Sarah in order to protest against her father's an ...

, ''Erlkönigs Tochter'' *1994 Jürgen Becker, ''Foxtrott im Erfurter Stadion'' *1995

Durs Grünbein Durs Grünbein (born 1962) is a German poet and essayist. Life and career Durs Grünbein was born and grew up in Dresden. He studied Theater Studies in East Berlin, to which he moved in 1985. Since the Peaceful Revolution nonviolently toppled ...

, ''Falten und Fallen'' *1996 Gregor Laschen, ''Jammerbugt-Notate'' *1997

Thomas Kling Thomas Kling (June 5, 1957 – April 1, 2005) was a German poet. Life Thomas Kling was born in Bingen am Rhein, grew up in Hilden and went to school in Düsseldorf. He studied philology in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Vienna and lived in Finland for ...

, ''morsch'' *1998 Brigitte Oleschinski, ''Your Passport is Not Guilty'' *1999 Raoul Schrott, ''Tropen. Über das Erhabene'' *2000

Adolf Endler Adolf Endler (20 September 1930 – 2 August 2009) was a lyric poet, essayist and prose author who played a central role in subcultural activities that attacked and challenged an outdated model of socialist realism in the German Democratic Repu ...

, ''Der Pudding der Apokalypse'' *2001

Oskar Pastior Oskar Pastior (; 20 October 1927 – 4 October 2006) was a Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo. Biography Born into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Sibiu (Hermannstadt), he was deported in January 19 ...

, ''Villanella & Pantum'' *2002

Wolfgang Hilbig Wolfgang Hilbig (31 August 1941 2 June 2007) was a German writer and poet. Life Wolfgang Hilbig was born in Meuselwitz, Germany. His grandfather had emigrated from Biłgoraj (Congress Poland, Russian Empire) before the First World War. In 19 ...

, ''Bilder vom Erzählen'' *2003

Rolf Haufs Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic languages, Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' (Rudolph (name), Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The O ...

, ''Ebene der Fluß'' *2004 Hans Thill, ''Kühle Religionen'' *2005

Nicolas Born Nicolas Born (31 December 1937 in Duisburg – 7 December 1979 in Lüchow-Dannenberg) was a German writer. Nicolas Born was – together with Rolf Dieter Brinkmann – one of the most important and most innovative German poets of his generation. ...

(posthum), ''Gedichte'' *2006

Uljana Wolf Uljana Wolf is a German poet and translator (from English and Polish) known for exploring multilingualism in her work. Wolf works in both Berlin and New York. She teaches German at New York University. Uljana Wolf was born in East Berlin in 1979. ...

, ''kochanie ich habe brot gekauft'' *2007 Oswald Egger, ''Tag und Nacht sind zwei Jahre'' *2008

Ulf Stolterfoht Ulf Stolterfoht (born 8 June 1963 in Stuttgart) is a German writer. Life and work Ulf Stolterfoht opted out of military service and performed civilian service instead, after which he studied German and Linguistics in Bochum und Tübingen. Sto ...

, ''holzrauch über heslach'' *2009 Gerhard Falkner, ''Hölderlin Reparatur'' *2010

Friederike Mayröcker Friederike Mayröcker (20 December 1924 – 4 June 2021) was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, audio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avantgarde poet, and as one of the lea ...

, ''dieses Jäckchen (nämlich) des Vogel Greif'' *2011 Marion Poschmann, ''Geistersehen'' *2012 Nora Bossong, ''Sommer vor den Mauern'' *2013

Monika Rinck Monika Rinck (born 29 April 1969 in Zweibrücken) is a German writer. Life and work After graduating from high school, Monika Rinck studied religious studies, history, and comparative literature in Bochum, Berlin and Yale. She writes poetry, pro ...

, ''Honigprotokolle'' *2014

Steffen Popp Steffen Popp (born in Greifswald, 18 July 1978) is a German poet, novelist and literary translator. He has translated Ben Lerner and other American poets. Awards * 2003: Preisträger der Akademie Graz * 2004: Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis * 20 ...

, ''Dickicht mit Reden und Augen'' *2015 Paulus Böhmer, ''Zum Wasser will alles Wasser will weg'' *2016

Barbara Köhler Barbara Köhler (11 April 1959 – 8 January 2021) was a German poet and translator. She was born in Burgstädt, East Germany, but was raised in Penig. She studied at the Johannes R. Becher Literature Institute in Leipzig in 1985. She was ther ...

, ''Istanbul, zusehends'' *2017 Orsolya Kalász, ''Das Eine'' *2018 Farhad Showghi, ''Wolkenflug spielt Zerreißprobe'' *2019 Thilo Krause, ''Was wir reden, wenn es gewittert'' *2020 Henning Ziebritzki, ''Vogelwerk'' *2021

Marcel Beyer Marcel Beyer (born 23 November 1965) is a German writer. Life Marcel Beyer was born in Tailfingen, Württemberg, and grew up in Kiel and Neuss. From 1987 to 1991 he studied German language and literature, English studies and literary studies ...

, ''Dämonenräumdienst'' *2022 Dinçer Güçyeter, ''Mein Prinz, ich bin das Ghetto''

References

External links

Literary awards of Baden-Württemberg {{Germany-lit-award-stub