Kurt-Tucholsky-Preis is a literary prize of
Germany
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. The prize amount is currently €5,000.
The prize, for "committed and succinct literary works" was first awarded in 1995, and thereafter annually till 1997, since when it has been awarded every two years. It is targeted on short form works including
Essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal a ...
s,
Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming ...
,
Song
A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetit ...
,
Treatise
A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject, generally longer and treating it in greater depth than an essay, and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject and its conclusions." Tre ...
s and
Pamphlets. Texts should "verify reality, disclose backgrounds and help the reader towards a critical evaluation".
The prize was originally awarded by the to mark the sixtieth anniversary of
Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky (; 9 January 1890 – 21 December 1935) was a German journalist, satirist, and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser (after the historical figure), Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel.
Tucholsky was on ...
's death. Since 2003 the Kurt-Tucholsky-Gesellschaft (Kurt Tucholsky Society) has been awarding the prize. The Foundation remains closely involved with the administration of the prize, but after the copyright on Tucholsky's writings lapsed it was no longer able to fund the prize.
Recipients
* 1995:
Konstantin Wecker
Konstantin Alexander Wecker (born 1 June 1947, Munich) is a German singer-songwriter; he also works as a composer, author, and actor.
Life and work
Classically educated at the Wilhelmsgymnasium, Wecker got one of his first jobs as a songwriter a ...
* 1996:
Heribert Prantl
Heribert Prantl (born 30 July 1953 in Nittenau, Bavaria, Germany) is a German author, journalist and jurist (former judge, prosecutor and lawyer).
At the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' he was head of the department of domestic policy from 1995 to 2017, ...
* 1997:
Kurt Marti
* 1999:
Daniela Dahn
Daniela Dahn (born 9 October 1949, in Berlin) is a German writer, journalist and essayist. Since the reunification of Germany in 1990, Dahn has been an outspoken critic of the reunification process.Rado PribićThe trouble with German unificatio ...
* 2001:
* 2003:
* 2005:
Erich Kuby
* 2007: and
* 2009:
Volker Weidermann
* 2011:
Deniz Yücel
Deniz Yücel (; born 10 September 1973) is a German-Turkish journalist and publisher. He has been a contributor to several German publications, most notably ''Die Tageszeitung'' and ''Die Welt''.
Espionage accusations and imprisonment
The Tur ...
* 2013:
* 2015:
* 2017:
* 2019:
Margarete Stokowski
Margarete Stokowski (born April 14, 1986 in Zabrze, Poland) is a Polish-German writer and essayist. She is best known for her weekly essays for the magazine Spiegel Online where she writes about the current state of feminism in Germany. The numbe ...
Recipient 2019
Website Kurt Tucholsky-Gesellschaft. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
* 2021:
Notes
References
External links
German literary awards
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