Peter-Härtling-Preis

The Peter Härtling Prize is a competition prize for children 's and youth literature, which was donated by the town of Weinheim, 1984. It is awarded every two years with the support of the publishing Beltz & Gelberg and is endowed with 5,555 euros.

The independent jury, who is also the namesake Peter Härtling, selects an unpublished prose manuscripts for children and young people of 10-15 years of which " is telling, entertaining, poetic and imaginative oriented to the reality of children or adolescents. " Beltz & Gelberg offers at the same time, to publish the book.

Award winners

Jury statement: "divorce and blended families are now normal, normal is that you have to arrange themselves experienced The 15 -year-old Charlotte and tells a seemingly ordinary history: .. Separation of her parents and her first love The ease bribe their narrative -wise beyond all clichés, far -carrying images that the reader must memorize. Gabi Kreslehner describes her extremely vivid and realistic characters with wit, yet nimble and vividly. "

• 2011: Salah Naoura: Matti and Sami

Jury statement: "If all lie - how far will you come with the truth Matti, who gradually sees through the small and big lies of his parents, trying to undo the damage done good again, uses information from the same means and exceeds his parents in an instant ... with laconic and a close look at the German - Finnish soul Salah Naoura tells a surprising summer story full of warmth and wit. fact that Matti and come out his parents from their fibs so without prejudice, is the real miracle of this novel. a strong family just tolerate strong stories. " "

• 2013: Nataly Savina: Love Alice

Jury statement: "Love Alice is a brave and clever choreographed manuscript, the author saves her characters as little as readers The friendship of the girls who yearn for affection and closeness and want to come from the torpor of her loneliness out, is as intense and. . exhilarating described. on the adults but is not reliable, their needs even lead the disaster caused. As the author doing all the protagonists can be plastically with their desires and entanglements, their defiance and their fears, the jury has deeply impressed. "