Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Preis
The Georg- Christoph- Lichtenberg- prize is awarded every two years by the Darmstadt- Dieburg to alternately for Literature ( since 1987) and visual arts (since 1979). In addition to a certificate of the winner will receive a grant in the amount of 10,000 euros currently, with the case of two candidates also a division of the question. A 14-member jury will make a preliminary selection of works submitted, with no topical limits or a fixation on a literary genre exists.
Named the price is to honor of Ober-Ramstadt physicist and author of the Enlightenment Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ( 1742-1799 ).
Award winner for Visual Arts
Are, inter alia,
- Esteban Fekete (1979),
- Rainer Lind (1986 )
- Barbara Beisinghoff (1988)
- Horst Evers aka Gerd Winter (1994 )
- Matthias Want ( 1996)
- Helga Griffths (1998),
- Klaus Lomnitzer (2005)
- Martin Konietschke (2009)
Prize winners for literature
Are, inter alia,
- Ursula Maier - Teicher (1987 )
- Mechthild Curtius ( 1989)
- Iris Anna Otto ( 1991)
- Susanne Mischke (1996 )
- Rainer Wieczorek (1997)
- Silke Andrea schools Emmer (1999)
- Philip Meinhold (2003)
- Peter Kurzeck (2007)
- Andreas Maier ( 2011)