Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau is a literary prize of

Hesse Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major hist ...

. The prize, awarded by the City of

Hanau Hanau () is a city in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is 25 km east of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main and part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Its railway Hanau Hauptbahnhof, station is a ma ...

, honors the

Brothers Grimm The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm (1786–1859), were Germans, German academics who together collected and published folklore. The brothers are among the best-known storytellers of Oral tradit ...

, who were both born in Hanau. The prize is endowed with €10,000 and has been awarded since 1983. The ceremony takes place in November in memory of the

Göttingen Seven The Göttingen Seven () were a group of seven liberal professors at University of Göttingen. In 1837, they protested against the annulment of the constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover by its new ruler, King Ernest Augustus, and refused to swe ...

Winners

* 1983

Wolfgang Hilbig Wolfgang Hilbig (31 August 1941 2 June 2007) was a German writer and poet. Life Wolfgang Hilbig was born in Meuselwitz, Germany. His grandfather had emigrated from Biłgoraj (Congress Poland, Russian Empire) before the First World War. In 194 ...

for ''Abwesenheit'' * 1985

Anna Mitgutsch Anna Mitgutsch (born 2 October 1948) is an Austrian writer and educator. Her name also appears as Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch. Biography She was born in Linz and studied German and English literature at the University of Salzburg. Originally a Roman ...

for ''Die Züchtigung'' * 1987 for ''Übungen im Joch'' * 1989 Natascha Wodin for ''Einmal lebt ich'' * 1991

Monika Maron Monika Maron (born 3 June 1941 in Berlin) is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic. Biography She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre ...

for ''Stille Zeile sechs'' * 1993

Harald Weinrich Harald Weinrich (24 September 1927 – 26 February 2022) was a German classical scholar, scholar of Romance philology and philosopher, known for the breadth of his writings. Biography He was emeritus professor of the Collège de France, and he ...

for Textgrammatik der deutschen Sprache * 1995

Adolf Endler Adolf Endler (20 September 1930 – 2 August 2009) was a lyric poet, essayist and prose author who played a central role in subcultural activities that attacked and challenged an outdated model of socialist realism in the German Democratic Re ...

for ''Tarzan am Prenzlauer Berg'' * 1997

Harry Rowohlt Harry Rowohlt (27 March 1945 – 15 June 2015) was a German writer and translator. He also played the role of a derelict in the famous German weekly-soap Lindenstraße. Background Born Harry Rupp in Hamburg, Rowohlt was the son of publisher E ...

(for Translation) * 1999 Georg Klein for ''Libidissi'' * 2001

Heinz Czechowski Heinz Czechowski (7 February 1935 – 21 October 2009) was a German poet and dramatist. At the age of ten, Czechowski survived the highly destructive bombing of his birthplace of Dresden. After training in surveying and graphic design, he studied ...

for ''Die Zeit steht still'' and ''Das offene Geheimnis'' * 2003

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 Ludwig Maximilian Univer ...

for ''Die fernen Inseln'' * 2005

Felicitas Hoppe Felicitas Hoppe (born 22 December 1960) is a German writer. She received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2012. Biography Early years Felicitas Hoppe was born in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, and grew up there. After her Abitur she studied literature, ...

for ''Verbrecher und Versager'' * 2005 for ''Zwischen den Untergängen'' * 2007 for ''Die Erlöser AG'' * 2009 Natascha Wodin for ''Nachtgeschwister'' * 2011 (for Translation) * 2013

Christoph Ransmayr Christoph Ransmayr (; born 20 March 1954) is an Austrian writer. Life Born in Wels, Upper Austria, Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. He worked there as ...

for ''Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes'' * 2015 no award * 2017 Barbara Zoeke for ''Die Stunde der Spezialisten'' * 2020 for ''Herzklappen von Johnson & Johnson'' * 2023 for ''Divân mit Schonbezug''

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