The Uwe Johnson Prize is an annual German literary award. The award is named after the writer
Uwe Johnson (1934–1984) and was first awarded in 1994.
It is awarded for "outstanding literary works in which there are links to the poetics of Uwe Johnson".
Alternating the main prize for a work and the Förderpreis (promotional prize) for the best debut is awarded by the
Mecklenburg Literature Society
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, the
Nordkurier
''Nordkurier'' is a German language newspaper published in Neubrandenburg, Germany. The paper is the continuation of '' Freie Erde'' which was published in the German Democratic Republic.
History and profile
''Nordkurier'' was first published o ...
(1994–2016), the Berlin law firm Gentz und Partner (since 2012) and the
Humanistischer Verband Deutschlands (since 2017).
The prize is endowed with €20,000 (Förderpreis: €5,000).
Recipients
* 1994:
Kurt Drawert ''Spiegelland. Ein deutscher Monolog''
* 1995:
Walter Kempowski for ''Das Echolot''
* 1997:
Marcel Beyer for ''Flughunde''
* 1999:
Gert Neumann
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for ''Anschlag''
* 2003:
Norbert Gstrein
Norbert Gstrein (born 1961) is an Austrian writer. He was born in Mils in Tyrol, the son of the hotelier and ski school director Norbert Gstrein (1931–1988) and Maria Gstrein, née Thurner (born 1935). He grews up with his five siblings in an ...
for ''Das Handwerk des Tötens''
* 2005:
Arno Orzessek
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Source and route
The river originates on Monte Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a so ...
for ''Schattauers Tochter'' (Förderpreis)
* 2006: for ''Späte Reise''
* 2007:
Emma Braslavsky
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* Emma (given name)
Film
* ''Emma'' (1932 film), a comedy-drama film by Clarence Brown
* ''Emma'' (1996 theatrical film), a film starring Gwyneth Paltrow
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for ''Aus dem Sinn'' (Förderpreis)
* 2008:
Uwe Tellkamp
Uwe Tellkamp (; born 28 October 1968 in Dresden, East Germany) is a German writer and physician. He practised medicine until 2004. Before the fall of communism, he was enlisted in the National People's Army as a tank commander and imprisoned whe ...
for ''Der Turm''
* 2009:
Thomas Pletzinger
Thomas Pletzinger (born 1975 in Münster) is a German writer and translator. He is best known for his debut novel ''Bestattung eines Hundes'', which was published in 2008 to wide acclaim. It has been translated into English as ''Funeral for a Dog ...
for ''Bestattung eines Hundes'' (Förderpreis)
* 2010:
Christa Wolf for ''Stadt der Engel''
* 2011:
Judith Zander
Judith Zander (born 13 November 1980 in Anklam, Germany) is a German writer and translator.
Life
Zander studied German and English studies as well as History in Greifswald. Subsequently, she studied creative writing at the German Institute fo ...
for ''Dinge, die wir heute sagten'' (Förderpreis)
* 2012:
Christoph Hein for ''Weiskerns Nachlass''
* 2013:
Matthias Senkel for ''Frühe Vögel'' (Förderpreis)
* 2014:
Lutz Seiler for ''Kruso''
* 2015:
Mirna Funk
Mirna Funk (born 1981 in Berlin) is a German journalist, author and individualist feminist.
Life
Funk studied philosophy and history at Humboldt University of Berlin. She is currently working as a freelance journalist for works such as ''Der F ...
for ''Winternähe'' (Förderpreis)
* 2016: for ''Ein Sonntagskind''
* 2017:
Shida Bazyar Shida may refer to:
*Shida (artist) (born 1990), Australian artist
* Shida, Taipei, a neighborhood of Taipei, Taiwan (師大)
**The neighborhood's night market, Shida Night Market
*China University of Petroleum (Huadong), China (石大)
* Shida Dis ...
for ''Nachts ist es leise in Teheran'' (Förderpreis)
* 2018:
Ralf Rothmann for ''Der Gott jenes Sommers''
* 2019:
Kenah Cusanit for ''Babel'' (Förderpreis)
* 2020:
Irina Liebmann for ''Die Große Hamburger Straße''
* 2021:
Benjamin Quaderer
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for ''Für immer die Alpen'' (Förderpreis)
* 2022:
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 the ...
for ''Kairos''
References
External links
* {{official, https://www.uwejohnsonpreis.de/
German literary awards
Awards established in 1994