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The Schubart-Literaturpreis is a Germany

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donated by the city of Aalen since 1956 in honor of the 18th-century poet

Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (24 March 1739 – 10 October 1791), was a German poet, organist, composer, and journalist. He was repeatedly punished for his social-critical writing and spent ten years in severe conditions in jail. Life Bor ...

. It is one of the oldest literary awards of

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. The main prize, which is 15,000 euros as of 2015 (: €20,000), is presented every two years on Schubart's birthday to German-language writers whose literary or journalistic achievement "is in the tradition of the liberal and enlightened thought of Daniel Schubart." A runner-up prize (called ''Förderpreis'') of 5,000 euros (: €7,000) has also presented since 2011.

Past winners

* 1956: Hugo Theurer, Eduard ThomUnless otherwise indicated, this list is sourced from City of Aalen
Schubart-Literaturpreis winners
. Retrieved 14 October 2012. * 1958: ''no award'' * 1960: Paul Wanner, Ernst Häußinger, Bernhard Hildebrand * 1962: ''no award'' * 1964: Heinz Rainer Reinhardt, Konrad Winkler, Wilhelm Koch, Kurt Hermann Seidel * 1966: ''no award'' * 1968:

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, Hartmann Ulmschneider * 1970: ''no award'' * 1972: Peter Lahnstein, Josef W. Janker * 1974:

Peter Härtling Peter Härtling (; 13 November 1933 – 10 July 2017) was a German writer, poet, publisher and journalist. He received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his major contribution to German literature. Biography Härtling wa ...

, Ernst R. Hauschka, Rolf Hellmut Foerster Uwe Timm-2008-11-15

* 1976: Dieter Narr, Margarete Hannsmann * 1978:

Richard Schmid Richard Schmid (October 5, 1934—April 18, 2021) was an American realist artist. Early career Richard Schmid's maternal grandfather, Julian Oates, was an architectural sculptor. Richard's initial studies in landscape painting, figure drawing, ...

Horst Brandstätter Horst Brandstätter (June 27, 1933 – June 3, 2015) was the owner of the German company Brandstätter Group. The company was founded by Andreas Brandstätter in 1876. At the age of 19, Horst Brandstätter followed in his father's footsteps by joi ...

, Georg Holzwarth * 1980: Reinhard Siegert, Werner Dürrson, Roland Lang * 1982: Otto Borst, Hartmut Müller, Peter Spranger * 1984: Gerhard Storz,

Walther Dürr Walther Dürr (27 April 1932 – 6 January 2018) was a German musicologist. He is especially known for his research of the work of Franz Schubert. From 1965 to 1997 Dürr was editor of the '' Neue Schubert-Ausgabe'', with particular responsibility ...

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* 1986:

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, Hartmut Geerken * 1989:

Eveline Hasler Eveline Hasler (born 22 March 1933) is a Swiss writer. Born in Glarus, she studied Psychology and History at the University of Fribourg and worked as a teacher in St. Gallen. She has written novels (for adults) and children's books which have bee ...

, Dieter Schlesak, Jürgen Walter * 1991: Hermann Glaser, Karlheinz Bauer, Helmut Pfisterer * 1993:

Thomas Rosenlöcher Thomas Rosenlöcher (29 July 1947 – 13 April 2022) was a German writer and poet. References 1947 births 2022 deaths German male writers German male poets Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin Writers from Dresden {{German ...

, Henrike Leonhardt, Axel Kuhn * 1995:

Ralph Giordano Ralph Giordano (23 March 1923 – 10 December 2014) was a German writer and publicist. Life and career Giordano was born to a Sicilian father and a German Jewish mother in Hamburg. He attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums from 1933 to ...

, Hermann Baumhauer * 1997:

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* 1999: Gabriele Goettle,

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* 2001:

Robert Gernhardt Robert Gernhardt (13 December 1937 – 30 June 2006) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and poet. Life Robert Gernhardt was born the son of a judge and a chemist in Tallinn, where his family was part of the Baltic German minority. I ...

Hartmut Schick Hartmut Schick (born 16 October 1960) is a German musicologist and since 2001 professor at the Institute for Musicology of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Life Born in Herrenberg, Schick grew up mainly in Schwäbisch Hall, and from ...

* 2003:

Uwe Timm Uwe Timm (; born 30 March 1940 in Hamburg) is a German writer. Life and work Uwe Timm was born in the year 1940 in Hamburg. Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. His brother, 16 years his senior, was a soldier in the Waffen SS and died i ...

* 2005:

Henryk M. Broder Henryk Marcin Broder (born 20 August 1946, self-designation Henryk Modest Broder) is a Polish-born German journalist, author, and TV personality. Broder is known for polemics, columns, and comments in written and audiovisual media. Starting as ...

* 2007: Friedrich Christian Delius * 2009: Peter Schneider * 2011: Hans Christoph Buch, Förderpreis:

Timo Brunke Timo Brunke (born March 11, 1972) is a German slam poet. He won the 2011 Schubart-Literaturpreis. Life Timo Brunke was born in Stuttgart, West Germany. During his school days he participated in literary cabaret and developed since the late 19 ...

, Sonderpreis: Bernd Jürgen Warneken * 2013:

Jenny Erpenbeck Jenny Erpenbeck (born 12 March 1967) is a German writer and opera director, recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Life Born in East Berlin, Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and th ...

, Förderpreis: Patricia Görg * 2015:

Katja Petrowskaja Katja Petrowskaja (russian: link=no, Екатерина Мироновна Петровськая, uk, Катерина Миронівна Петровська; born 3 February 1970) is a Kiev born German prose writer and journalist. Biogra ...

, Förderpreis: Karen Köhler * 2017:

Saša Stanišić Saša Stanišić ( sr-cyr, Саша Станишић; born 7 March 1978) is a Bosnian-German writer. He was born in Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina as the son of a Bosniak mother and a Serbian father. In the spring of 1992, he fled alongside ...

, Förderpreis: Isabelle Lehn * 2019:

Daniel Kehlmann Daniel Kehlmann (; born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.Tyll'', Förderpreis:

Nora Krug Nora Krug (born 1977) is a German–American author and illustrator. Her graphic novel ''Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home'' won the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, 2019 Schubart-Literaturpreis, and 2019 ...

for ''Heimat: Ein deutsches Familienalbum'' * 2021:

Monika Helfer Monika Helfer (born 18 October 1947, in Au) is an Austrian writer. She was invested with the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2016. She was the recipient of the Solothurner Literaturpreis in 2020, and the Schubart-Literaturpreis in 20 ...

for ''Die Bagage'', Förderpreis: Verena Güntner for ''Power''

References

External links

* German literary awards {{Germany-lit-award-stub