Georg Büchner Prize Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Georg Büchner Prize
Portrait of Georg Büchner, pencil drawing by the Darmstadt theater painter Philipp August Joseph Hoffmann
Presented by	Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Location	Darmstadt
Country	Germany
Reward	€50,000
First awarded	1923

The Georg Büchner Prize (German: Georg-Büchner-Preis) is the most important literary prize for German language literature. The award is named after dramatist and writer Georg Büchner, author of Woyzeck and Leonce and Lena. The Georg Büchner Prize is awarded annually for authors "writing in the German language who have notably emerged through their oeuvre as essential contributors to the shaping of contemporary German cultural life".

History
The Georg Büchner Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature
Recipients of the literary prize, since 1951
Recipients 1923–50
See also

History

The Georg Büchner Prize was created in 1923 in memory of Georg Büchner and was only given to artists who came from or were closely tied to Büchner's home of Hesse. It was first awarded in 1923. Among the early recipients were mostly visual artists, poets, actors, and singers.

In 1951, the prize changed to a general literary prize, awarded annually by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. It goes to German language authors, and the annual speech by the recipient takes place in Darmstadt. Since 2002, the prize has been endowed with €50,000.

The Georg Büchner Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature

Five winners of the Georg Büchner Prize, Günter Grass (1965), Heinrich Böll (1967), Elias Canetti (1972), Peter Handke (1973) and Elfriede Jelinek (1998) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in subsequent years. The Georg Büchner Prize is frequently seen as an indicator for potential future Nobel Prize winners writing in the German language. Most recently, however, the Swedish Academy in Stockholm preceded the German Academy for Language and Literature in awarding a prolific writer from the German sprachraum. Herta Müller received the Nobel Prize in Literature but has not yet been awarded the Georg Büchner Prize.

Recipients of the literary prize, since 1951

Laureate of the year 1989: Botho Strauß

Laureate of the year 2020: Elke Erb

Year	Name	Nationality	Notes
1951	Gottfried Benn	West Germany
1952	not given
1953	Ernst Kreuder	West Germany
1954	Martin Kessel	West Germany
1955	Marie Luise Kaschnitz	West Germany
1956	Karl Krolow	West Germany
1957	Erich Kästner	West Germany
1958	Max Frisch	Switzerland
1959	Günter Eich	West Germany
1960	Paul Celan	France / Romania
1961	Hans Erich Nossack	West Germany
1962	Wolfgang Koeppen	West Germany
1963	Hans Magnus Enzensberger	West Germany
1964	Ingeborg Bachmann	Austria
1965	Günter Grass	West Germany
1966	Wolfgang Hildesheimer	West Germany
1967	Heinrich Böll	West Germany
1968	Golo Mann	West Germany
1969	Helmut Heißenbüttel	West Germany
1970	Thomas Bernhard	Austria
1971	Uwe Johnson	West Germany
1972	Elias Canetti	Bulgaria
1973	Peter Handke	Austria	refunded the prize money in 1999 as a sign of protest against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
1974	Hermann Kesten	West Germany
1975	Manès Sperber	Austria / France
1976	Heinz Piontek	West Germany
1977	Reiner Kunze	West Germany
1978	Hermann Lenz	West Germany
1979	Ernst Meister	West Germany	posthumous
1980	Christa Wolf	East Germany
1981	Martin Walser	West Germany
1982	Peter Weiss	Sweden	posthumous
1983	Wolfdietrich Schnurre	West Germany
1984	Ernst Jandl	Austria
1985	Heiner Müller	East Germany
1986	Friedrich Dürrenmatt	Switzerland
1987	Erich Fried	Austria
1988	Albert Drach	Austria
1989	Botho Strauß	West Germany
1990	Tankred Dorst	Germany
1991	Wolf Biermann	Germany
1992	George Tabori	Hungary
1993	Peter Rühmkorf	Germany
1994	Adolf Muschg	Switzerland
1995	Durs Grünbein	Germany
1996	Sarah Kirsch	Germany
1997	Hans Carl Artmann	Austria
1998	Elfriede Jelinek	Austria
1999	Arnold Stadler	Germany
2000	Volker Braun	Germany
2001	Friederike Mayröcker	Austria
2002	Wolfgang Hilbig	Germany
2003	Alexander Kluge	Germany
2004	Wilhelm Genazino	Germany
2005	Brigitte Kronauer	Germany
2006	Oskar Pastior	Germany / Romania	posthumous
2007	Martin Mosebach	Germany
2008	Josef Winkler	Austria
2009	Walter Kappacher	Austria
2010	Reinhard Jirgl	Germany
2011	Friedrich Christian Delius	Germany
2012	Felicitas Hoppe	Germany
2013	Sibylle Lewitscharoff	Germany
2014	Jürgen Becker	Germany
2015	Rainald Goetz	Germany
2016	Marcel Beyer	Germany
2017	Jan Wagner	Germany
2018	Terézia Mora	Hungary
2019	Lukas Bärfuss	Switzerland
2020	Elke Erb	Germany
2021	Clemens J. Setz	Austria
2022	Emine Sevgi Özdamar	Germany / Turkey
2023	Lutz Seiler	Germany

Recipients 1923–50

1923 Adam Karrillon (1853–1938) and Arnold Mendelssohn (1855–1933)
1924 Alfred Bock (1859–1932) and Paul Thesing [de] (1882–1954)
1925 Wilhelm Michel (1877–1942) and Rudolf Koch (1876–1934)
1926 Christian Heinrich Kleukens [de] (1880–1954) and Wilhelm Petersen (1890–1957)
1927 Kasimir Edschmid (1890–1966) and Johannes Bischoff [de] (1890–1957)
1928 Richard Hoelscher (1867–1943) and Well Habicht [de] (1884–1966)
1929 Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977) and Adam Antes (1891–1984)
1930 Nikolaus Schwarzkopf [de] (1884–1962) and Johannes Lippmann [de] (1858–1935)
1931 Alexander Posch (1890–1950) and Hans Simon [de] (1897–1982)
1932 Albert H. Rausch [de] (1882–1949) and Adolf Bode [de] (1904–1970)
1933–44 not given
1945 Hans Schiebelhuth (1895–1944)
1946 Fritz Usinger (1895–1982)
1947 Anna Seghers (1900–83)
1948 Hermann Heiss (1897–1967)
1949 Carl Gunschmann [de] (1895–1984)
1950 Elisabeth Langgässer (1899–1950)

Georg Büchner Prize facts for kids

Contents

History

The Georg Büchner Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature

Recipients of the literary prize, since 1951

Recipients 1923–50

See also