Georg Büchner Prize

The Georg Büchner Prize, also called Büchner Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German language area. It was in 1923, at the time of the Weimar Republic, the Parliament of the People's State of Hesse donated in memory of the writer Georg Büchner and only awarded to artists who came from Georg Büchner home Hesse or were mentally connected with Hesse. He had been awarded on the initiative of Julius driver ( DDP) by the then People's State of Hesse for visual artists and poets, outstanding performer, actor and singer. Between 1933 and 1944, the Georg Büchner Prize was replaced by a culture prize of the city of Darmstadt.

In 1951 the conversion of the price in a general literary prize, which is awarded annually by the German Academy for Language and Literature. The award goes to authors who have distinguished themselves through their work to the German literature. The ceremony and the subsequent speech of the award winner will be held in Darmstadt. The doping, which in 1951 still amounted to DM 3,000 was raised over the years regularly and was from 2003 to 2010 40,000, in 2011 50,000 EUR. The prize money share the city of Darmstadt, Hesse, and the covenants, and the German Academy for Language and Literature. The Büchner Prize is the most prestigious and since 2011 in addition to the Joseph Breitbach Prize of the highest prize awarded annually Literature Prize for German -speaking authors.

Award winners

Winner of the literature prize

Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1986

Elfriede Jelinek, 1998

Josef Winkler, 2008

C. F. Delius, 2011

Felicitas Hoppe, 2012

Sybille Lewitscharoff, 2013