Ernst-Meister-Preis für Lyrik (Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry) is a literary prize of

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. The prize is endowed with €5,000. The Ernst Meister Prize was founded in 1981 in memory of the

Hagen Hagen () is a city in the States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, on the southeastern edge of the Ruhr area, 15 km south of Dortmund, where the rivers Lenne and Volme meet the Ruhr (river), Ruhr. In 2023, the ...

poet and writer Ernst Meister and has been awarded at irregular intervals. Since 2021, the award will be organized every three years by the New Ernst Meister Society for the city of Hagen. The prize honors "the work of authors who express their responsibility for language and poetry in a special way".

Recipients

* 1981 Christoph Meckel * 1986 Oskar Pastior * 1990 Paul Wühr * 1994 Michael Krüger * 2001 Brigitte Oleschinski (main prize, HP), Jochen Winter (HP), Jürgen Wiersch (Allgemeiner Förderpreis, AF), Helwig Brunner (AF), Sabine Scho (AF) * 2003 Lutz Seiler (HP),

Ulf Stolterfoht Ulf Stolterfoht (born 8 June 1963 in Stuttgart) is a German writer. Life and work Ulf Stolterfoht opted out of military service and performed civilian service instead, after which he studied German and Linguistics in Bochum und Tübingen. St ...

(Westfälischer Förderpreis, WF), Hendrik Rost (AF) * 2005 Jan Wagner (HP), Nicolai Kobus (WF), Andreas Münzner (AF) * 2008 Monika Rinck (HP), Ulrike Almut Sandig (AF),

Mirko Bonné Mirko Bonné (born 9 June 1965) is a German writer and translator. Bonné was born in Tegernsee, Bavaria. In 1975 his family moved to Hamburg, where he attended the Hansa Gymnasium. He graduated from the Otto Hahn Gymnasium in Geesthacht in 198 ...

(WF) * 2011 Marion Poschmann (HP), Jan Skudlarek, Münster (WF) Daniela Seel, Berlin (AF) * 2018 Barbara Köhler * 2021 Anja Utler * 2024 Uljana Wolf

References

German literary awards awards established in 1981 1981 establishments in Germany {{Germany-lit-award-stub