The Toucan Prize (german: Tukan-Preis) is a literary prize given by the city of

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

to the best new publication by a Munich author. It has been awarded since 1965 and is endowed with 6,000 Euros.

Recipients

*1965 Paul Mommertz,

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, Roland Ziersch, Alfons Freiherr von Czibulka, Horst Lange, Otto Freiherr von Taube *1966 Rudolf Schmitt-Sulzthal, Eugen Skasa-Weiß, Isabella Nadolny, Gunter Groll, Carola von Crailsheim, Curt Hohoff *1967

Karl Ude Karl Kurt Friedrich Ude (14 January 1906 – 1 April 1997) was a German journalist and writer. Life Born in Düsseldorf, Ude came from a family of white-collar workers. He originally studied , but also philosophy, German studies, theatre stud ...

, Oliver Hassencamp, Nina Keller *1969 Anton Sailer,

Wilhelm Lukas Kristl Wilhelm may refer to: People and fictional characters * William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm" * Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Other uses * Mount ...

Christa Reinig Christa Reinig (6 August 1926, Berlin – 30 September 2008, Munich) was a German poet, fiction and non-fiction writer, and dramatist. She began her career in the Soviet occupation zone which became East Berlin, was banned there, after publish ...

, Günter Spang,

Heinrich Fischer Heinrich "Heini" Fischer (born 12 January 1950) is a Swiss rower who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1 ...

Tankred Dorst Tankred Dorst (19 December 1925 – 1 June 2017) was a German playwright and storyteller. Dorst lived and worked in Munich. His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations were inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works of Ionesco ...

*1971 ,

Angelika Mechtel Angelika may refer to: * Angelika (given name) * Angelika Film Center, theater chain See also * Pieris angelika, butterfly * Angelica (disambiguation) * Angelique (disambiguation) Angelique or Angélique may refer to: * Angélique (given ...

Heinz Piontek Heinz Piontek (15 November 1925 – 26 October 2003) was a German writer. He was born in Upper Silesia. In 1976, he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung for his literary oeuvre with the words "ei ...

Martin Gregor-Dellin Martin Gregor-Dellin (real name Martin Gustav Schmidt) was a German writer noted for his scholarship on the composer Richard Wagner. He was born in 1926 in Naumburg (Saale The Saale (), also known as the Saxon Saale (german: Sächsische Saale) ...

Rolf Flügel Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. ...

*1973 Marianne Langewiesche, Wolfgang Petzet, Kuno Raeber *1975

Wolfgang Bächler Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The name is a combination of the Old High German words ''wolf'', meaning "wolf", and ''gang'', meaning "path", "journey", "travel". Besides the regula ...

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, Heinz Coubier,

Armin Eichholz Armin Eichholz (born 21 May 1964) is a retired competition rower from West Germany. He won two Olympic medals in the coxed eight event: a gold in 1988 and a bronze in 1992, and in 1991 he won a world title in the coxed fours. References Exte ...

, Herbert Günther, Helmut Walbert *1977 Ernst Günther Bleisch,

Karl Hoche Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austria ...

, Ursula Knöller,

Irina Korschunow Irina Korschunow (31 December 1925 – 31 December 2013) was a German writer. Her oeuvre comprises short stories, novels theatrical works and film scripts. Born in Stendal, she started her career as a journalist and writer for children's books an ...

Herbert Rosendorfer file:Herbert Rosendorfer.jpg, Herbert Rosendorfer, 2009 Herbert Rosendorfer (19 February 1934, in Bolzano – 20 September 2012, in Eppan an der Weinstraße, Eppan, South Tyrol) was a German jurist, writer, historian, and composer. Biography Herber ...

, Herbert Schlüter *1979 Carl Amery,

Janosch Janosch (, born as Horst Eckert on 11 March 1931) is a German children's author and illustrator. Biography Janosch was born as Horst Eckert in what was then Hindenburg (now Zabrze, Poland) in Upper Silesia to a family of mixed German and Poli ...

Kurt Seeberger Kurt is a male given name of Germanic or Turkish origin. ''Kurt'' or ''Curt'' originated as short forms of the Germanic Conrad, depending on geographical usage, with meanings including counselor or advisor. In Turkish, Kurt means "Wolf" and i ...

*1981 Hermann Stahl, Carl Borro Schwerla, Franz Freisleder,

Dagmar Nick Dagmar may refer to: People * Dagmar (given name), a feminine Scandinavian and German given name * Berthe Dagmar (1884–1934), French film actress * Dagmar (actress) (1921–2001), main stage name of American actress Virginia Ruth Egnor * Dagma ...

, Jörg Krichbaum, Barbara Bronnen *1983 Michael Krüger, Rudolf Riedler, Barbara König, Carla Maria Heim,

Jörg Graser Jörg Graser (born 30 December 1951) is a German film director and screenwriter. His film '' Abraham's Gold'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Filmography * ''Trokadero'' (dir. Klaus Emmerich, 198 ...

Grete Weil Grete Weil (18 July 1906 – 14 May 1999) was a German writer.Monacensia Literaturarchiv und Bibliothek.Grete Weil" ''Literaturportal Bayern''. Biography She was born Margarete Elisabeth Dispeker, the daughter of a prominent lawyer in Munich. She ...

*1985 Walter Kolbenhoff, Hans F. Nöhbauer *1987 Uwe Dick, Eberhard Horst,

Michael Wachsmann Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...

*1989

Herbert Achternbusch Herbert Achternbusch ( Schild; 23 November 1938 – 10 January 2022) was a German film director, writer and painter. He began as a writer of avant-garde prose, such as the novel ''Die Alexanderschlacht'', before turning to low-budget films. He h ...

, Barbara Maria Kloos, Fred Hepp *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 ...

*1992 Uwe Dick *1993

Helmut Krausser Helmut Krausser (11 July 1964) is a German author, poet, playwright, composer and professional chess player who was born in Esslingen. Biography Krausser lives in Munich and Berlin. He married Beatrice Renauer in 1991. In 1993 he received the ...

*1994

Maxim Biller Maxim Biller (born 25 August 1960 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a German writer and columnist. Born in Prague to Russian Jewish parents, he emigrated with his parents and sister to Germany in 1970, when he was ten years old. After living for a lo ...

*1995

Christine Scherrmann Christine may refer to: People * Christine (name), a female given name Film * ''Christine'' (1958 film), based on Schnitzler's play ''Liebelei'' * ''Christine'' (1983 film), based on King's novel of the same name * ''Christine'' (1987 fil ...

Hans Pleschinski Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi a ...

*1996 Ernst Augustin *1997

Klaus Böldl Klaus Böldl (born 21 February 1964) is a German philologist who specializes in Old Norse studies. Böldl was born in Passau and studied Nordic philology, German philology and comparative literature at the universities of Munich and Lund Univers ...

*1998 Günter Ohnemus, ''Der Tiger auf deiner Schulter'' *1999 Susanne Röckel, ''Chinesisches Alphabet – Ein Jahr in Shanghai'' *2000

Hassouna Mosbahi Hassouna Mosbahi ( ar, حسونة المصباحي) (born 1950 in Dhehibat, Kairouan) is a Tunisian author, literary critic and freelance journalist. Biography Hassouna Mosbahi was born in 1950 in the village of Dhehibat in the governorate of ...

, ''Rückkehr nach Tarschisch'' with the translator Regina Karachouli *2001

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 ...

, ''Rot'' *2002

, ''Bildnis eines Unsichtbaren'' *2003 Simon Werle, ''Der Schnee der Jahre'' *2004

Thomas Meinecke Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...

, ''Musik'' *2005 Thomas Palzer, ''Ruin'' *2006 Friedrich Ani, ''Idylle der Hyänen'' *2008

Fridolin Schley Fridolin Schley (born 29 October 1976) is a German writer. In 2007 he won the Toucan Prize for his novel ''Wildes schönes Tier'', and in 2021 again for ''Die Verteidigung''. Life Fridolin Schley was born in Munich on 29 October 1976. He went ...

, ''Wildes schönes Tier'' *2009 Robert Hültner, ''Inspektor Kajetan kehrt zurück'' *2010 Christopher Hipkiss, ''Leinwand'' * 2011 Steven Uhly, ''Adams Fuge'' * 2012 Marc Deckert, ''Die Kometenjäger'' * 2013 Dagmar Leupold, ''Unter der Hand'' * 2014 Nina Jäckle, ''Der lange Atem'' * 2015 Lilian Loke, ''Gold in den Straßen'' * 2016 Björn Bicker, ''Was glaubt ihr denn. Urban Prayers'' * 2017

Jonas Lüscher Jonas Lüscher (born 22 October 1976 in Schlieren) is a Swiss-German writer and essayist. Early life Lüscher grew up in Bern where he later trained between 1994 and 1998 at the Muristalden Evangelical Teacher Training School (''Evangelische Le ...

, ''Kraft'' * 2018 Susanne Röckel, ''Der Vogelgott'' * 2019 Herbert Kapfer, ''1919. Fiktion'' * 2020 Markus Ostermair, ''Der Sandler'' * 2021

, ''Die Verteidigung''

References

External links

* Culture in Munich German literary awards {{Lit-award-stub