Deutscher Erzählerpreis (1962)

The German narrator price of the star was a literary prize in 1962 awarded by the weekly magazine Stern for " the big entertaining novel that would not despise as an entertainment novel, in the judgment of seven prominent writers, scholars and critics ."

Endowed were as prize money $ 50,000 for first, $ 20,000 for second and $ 10,000 for the third prize winners also included seventeen prizes of 1000 DM The seven-member jury Joachim Kaiser, Erich Kästner, Rudolf Walter Leonhardt, Ludwig Marcuse, Marcel Reich -Ranicki, Karl Ludwig Schneider and Benno von Wiese on. The jury assisted 30 lecturers at the sighting of the approximately two thousand submitted manuscripts.

The festive award ceremony took place in 1963 during the book fair in Frankfurt, Hotel Hessischer Hof and was made by Gerd Bucerius, who was the star since 1949 shareholders and belonged to the founders of the prize money. The jury decided to award no first prize, as none of the submission was qualitatively so clearly superior that the difference in the amount of prize money would appear to be justified. The sum of the prize money was still not reduced, but increased to $ 100,000, and were awarded three second prizes, two third prizes and twenty prizes.

Among the prize and prize drivers included Werner Beumelburg, Daniel Christoff, Karl Franz Franchy, Gisela Frankenberg, Josef Ilmberger, Juliane Kay, Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt Ursula and Sigismund.