Candide Preis

The price Candide is a German literary award, which was established by the Literary Club Minden e V. in 2004 and was awarded until the award ceremony 2011 in the East Westphalian city of Minden.

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Background

The award was instituted in 2004 as the sole carrier e from the Literary Association v. Minden. It is named after Voltaire's novel Candide. In the prologue to the second edition of this novel mentions Voltaire that the fictional author died in Minden at the Battle of Minden 1759. She was the first decisive defeat of the Kingdom of France against Great Britain. In this controversy, France lost its supremacy in the world to England. Voltaire led the ignominious defeat of the French at the Battle of Minden back to the depraved morals of the French. Your corresponded to the real risk of bankruptcy of the once so glorious kingdom. Obviously, Voltaire has recognized its geopolitical importance, two years after the battle. The novel Candide speaks powerfully of the sunken French culture.

This " adventure novel full of wit against the backdrop of a world full of injustice and terror ( is ) at the same time a philosophical debate ," the Literary Club Minden explains the connection with the name of the award. Gilles Deleuze have seen in this work, which was put on the Index in 1762 the replacement of the theological by the human understanding of the world.

Political debate about the award in 2011

In 2011, the prize money of the book binding machine manufacturer Kolbus should be donated from Rahden. After Peter Handke has been selected as a prize winner, the Kolbus pulled due to Handke's stance on Serbia back the prize money, fearing an impact on internal business. Critics accuse Handke before a trivialization of the Serbian war crimes. The prize was awarded Handke therefore as an ideal award. The ceremonial handover of the price did not take place because Handke refused under these circumstances to Minden to come.

The jury of the Literary Association Minden were at this time in addition to the chairman Gerd Voswinkel the Chairman of the Literary Association Minden Michael Scholz, the author Katja Lange -Müller, the literary critic Richard Kämmerlings and Franziska Augstein, the daughter of former Mirror editor Rudolf Augstein and feature writer of the South German newspaper. The chairman of the jury Gerhard Vohswinkel occurred after the rejection of the prize by Kolbus from the Literary Association Minden.

Laureate Candide Price

  • 2011 Peter Handke
  • 2010 January Factor
  • 2009 Volker Braun and Olivia Rosenthal
  • 2008 Martin Kluger and Mathias ENARD
  • 2007 André Kubiczek
  • 2006 Karl -Heinz Ott
  • 2005 Daniel Quinn
  • 2004 Andreas Maier

History of the award

Town clerk of Minden

The Candide Price emerged from the original e by the Literary Club and the city of Minden Minden V. launched in 1995 Writers Fellowship. The city, however, moved in 2004 back from financing the town clerk apartment and the annual town-clerk days.

Minden town clerk Fellows

  • 2003 Roland Koch
  • 2002 Burkhard spiders
  • 2001 Harald Gröhler
  • 2000 Andreas Mand
  • 1999 Christine Scherrmann
  • 1998 Hansjörg Schertenleib
  • 1997 Katja Lange -Müller
  • 1996 Gert Loschütz
  • 1995 Franz Hodjak

The Candide Price

The prize money in the amount of 7,500 euros was provided to 2006 patrons. Since the award in 2007, the prize money has been doubled to 15,000 euros. This was made possible by funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

2008, the Candide Prize in a joint German - French literary prize has been converted, the awarded on the German side of the Literary Club Minden along with the Genshagen Foundation with the support of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media. The French partner was the Villa Gillet in Lyon; the price was also funded by the French Ministry of Culture ( Ministère de la culture et de la communication ). There have each been awarded a German and a French author or a writer. The doping was divided among the winners.

Since 2010, the Candide Prize was awarded again as a purely German literary prize and only by the Literary Association Minden. Excellent was a German author, or an author.

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