The Alfred Döblin Prize () is a German

literary award A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award c ...

. Named after

Alfred Döblin Bruno Alfred Döblin (; 10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel '' Berlin Alexanderplatz'' (1929). A prolific writer whose œuvre spans more than half a century and a wide variety of ...

, it was endowed by

Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gda ...

in 1979. The prize is awarded every two years jointly by the

Academy of Arts, Berlin The Academy of Arts () is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany. The academy's predecessor organization was founded in 1696 by Elector F ...

and the Literary Colloquium Berlin for substantial unpublished literary works in progress. The current prize level on offer is 15,000 Euros. It is a requirement of the award that finalists take part in a reading competition: nominees are invited to the Literary Colloquium Berlin where they read out their texts and open them to discussion. Since 2007, selected authors' presentations have been recorded and made available on the German literary portal Literaturport. The prize winner is nominated by the jury directly after the reading; the awards ceremony then takes place traditionally the following day at the

Winners

*1979:

Gerold Späth Gerold Späth (born 16 October 1939 in Rapperswil) is a Switzerland, Swiss author, poet and writer. Life and career Born 1939 in Rapperswil on the Obersee (Zürichsee), ''Obersee'' lakeshore in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, the son ...

*1980: Klaus Hoffer *1981: Gert Hofmann *1983:

Gerhard Roth Gerhard Roth (24 June 1942 – 8 February 2022) was an Austrian writer. Life Roth was born in Graz. The son of a medical practitioner, Roth, too, originally wanted to study medicine himself, but soon turned his attention to literature. Initiall ...

*1985: Stefan Schütz *1987:

Libuše Moníková Libuše Moníková (30 August 1945 in Prague – 12 January 1998 in Berlin) was a Czech writer, publishing in the German language. In 1968, following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, she left to Western Germany. Awards * 1987: Alfred ...

*1989: Einar Schleef,

Edgar Hilsenrath Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018) was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi c ...

*1991:

Peter Kurzeck Peter Kurzeck (10 June 1943 – 25 November 2013) was a German writer. Life Peter Kurzeck was born on 10 June 1943, in Tachau, Reichsgau Sudetenland, Nazi Germany. In 1946, his family moved to Germany and Kurzeck was raised in Staufenberg n ...

, Förderpreis and

Norbert Bleisch Sebastian Bleisch (born 10 June 1957), real name Norbert Bleisch, is a German writer and film director of gay pornographic movies which feature in part underage actors. Life Born in Schwerin in the former East Germany, Norbert Bleisch was the sec ...

*1993:

Reinhard Jirgl Reinhard Jirgl (born 16 January 1953 in East-Berlin) is a German writer. Biography Jirgl was born in Berlin-Friedrichshain. He became a skilled worker for electromechanics. Then he completed a degree in electronics at Humboldt University, Ber ...

, Förderpreis and Andreas Neumeister *1995:

Katja Lange-Müller Katja Lange-Müller (born 13 February 1951) is a German writer living in Berlin. Her works include several short stories and novellas, radio dramas, and dramatic works. The daughter of Inge Lange, an East German party functionary, Katja Lange- ...

, Förderpreis and

Ingo Schulze Ingo Schulze (born 15 December 1962) is a German writer born in Dresden in former East Germany. He studied classical philology at the University of Jena for five years, and, until German reunification, was an assistant director (dramatic arts a ...

*1997: Ingomar von Kieseritzky, Michael Wildenhain *1999:

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 and ...

*2001: Josef Winkler, Förderpreis and Heike Geißler *2003:

Kathrin Groß-Striffler Kathrin or ''Katrin'' or ''Kathryn'' or ''Kathrine'' is a female given name. Persons with the name * Ann-Kathrin Kramer (born 1966), German writer and actress * Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff (born 1960), German athlete in equestrian * Kathryn Adams (18 ...

*2005: Jan Faktor *2007: Michael Kumpfmüller *2009: Eugen Ruge *2011: *2013:

Saša Stanišić Saša Stanišić ( sr-cyr, Саша Станишић; born 7 March 1978) is a Bosnian-German writer. Biography He was born in Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina as the son of a Bosniaks, Bosniak mother and a Serbs, Serb father. In the spring o ...

*2015: Natascha Wodin *2017:

María Cecilia Barbetta María Cecilia Barbetta (born 8 July 1972 in Buenos Aires) is a German-language writer. Since 2011 she is a member of the PEN Centre Germany. In 2008, she won the Aspekte-Literaturpreis. Life Barbetta studied German as a foreign language in h ...

*2019: *2021: Deniz Utlu *2023:

References

External links

* German literary awards 1979 establishments in Germany Awards established in 1979 Günter Grass {{Germany-lit-award-stub