The Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize is a literary prize in

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named for writer

Wolfgang Weyrauch Wolfgang Weyrauch (15 October 1904 – 7 November 1980) was a German writer, journalist, and actor. He wrote under the pseudonym name Joseph Scherer. Life and work Wolfgang Weyrauch was born Königsberg, Prussia as the son of a surveyor. Afte ...

. Established in 1997, the prize is awarded to young writers for their encouragement and includes a stipend in the amount of €8,000."Preisverleihung"
Literarische März. Retrieved February 9, 2012

Winners

* 1979: Anna Jonas * 1981: Renate Fueß and Tina Stotz-Stroheker * 1983: Wolf-Dieter Eigner, Klaus Hensel,

Barbara Maria Kloos Barbara may refer to: People * Barbara (given name) * Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter * Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer * Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously as ...

and Rainer René Müller * 1985: Hansjörg Schertenleib and Sabine Techel * 1987:

William Totok William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Eng ...

and Michael Wildenhain * 1989: Lioba Happel, Durs Grünbein and Rainer Schedlinski * 1991: Dirk von Petersdorff and Barbara Köhler * 1993: Dieter M. Gräf and Ludwig Steinherr * 1995:

Ulrike Draesner Ulrike Draesner (born 1962 in Munich) is a German author. She was awarded the 2016 Nicolas Born Prize. Life and work The daughter of an architect, Draesner grew up in Munich, Germany. She received a Bavarian State scholarship for the best perform ...

, Thomas Gruber and Christian Lehnert * 1997:

Franzobel Franzobel is the pseudonym of the Austrian writer (Franz) Stefan Griebl. He was born on 1 March 1967 in Vöcklabruck. In 1997 he won the Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize and in 1998, the Kassel Literary Prize, amongst numerous other literary awards. In 2 ...

and Andreas Altmann * 1999: Anja Nioduschewski, Nicolai Kobus, Henning Ahrens * 2001: Mirko Bonné, Maik Lippert,

Hendrik Rost Hendrik may refer to: * Hendrik (given name) * Hans Hendrik, Greenlandic Arctic traveller and interpreter * Hendrik Island, an island in Greenland * Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, a municipality in the Netherlands * A character from ''Dragon Quest XI'' See ...

* 2003:

Marion Poschmann Marion Poschmann (born 15 December 1969 in Essen) is a German author, novelist, and poet. Life Marion Poschmann grew up in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Essen. From 1989 to 1995 she studied German, philosophy, and Slavic studies in Bonn and Berlin. ...

and Nico Bleutge * 2005: Karin Fellner and Hendrik Jackson * 2007:

Nora Bossong Nora Bossong (born 9 January 1982) is a German writer. She lives in Berlin. Career Bossong studied literature at the German Institute for Literature, as well as cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature at the Humboldt University o ...

and Andrea Heuser * 2009: Juliane Liebert and

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 ...

* 2011: Andre Rudolph and Jan Volker Röhnert * 2013:

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. ...

and Tobias Roth * 2015:

Anja Kampmann Anja Kampmann (born 1983) is a German poet and author. Biography Kampmann was born in 1983 in Hamburg. She studied at the University of Hamburg and at the German Institute for Literature () in Leipzig. She also attended the renowned International ...

and

Özlem Özgül Dündar Özlem is a common feminine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Özlem" means ''yearning'' and ''missing''. Given name * Asiye-Özlem Sahin (born 1976), Turkish-German professional boxer * Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu (born 1998), Turkish-German footbal ...

* 2017: Christoph Szalay and Jan Skudlarek * 2019: Charlotte Warsen and Alexandru Bulucz * 2021: Anna Hetzer and Lara Rüter

References

External links

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