The Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis was endowed in 1936 in honour of the writer and

dialectal A dialect is a variety of language spoken by a particular group of people. This may include dominant and standardized varieties as well as vernacular, unwritten, or non-standardized varieties, such as those used in developing countries or iso ...

poet Johann Peter Hebel. The prize is since 1974 awarded every two years (before every year) to writers, translators, essayists, media representatives or scientists from the German district

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

, who write in the Alemannic dialect or are connected with Hebel. The ceremony of the €10,000 prize takes place in

Hausen im Wiesental Hausen im Wiesental (, ) is a village in the Lörrach (district), Lörrach district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is famous for the dialectal poet Johann Peter Hebel who lived in Hausen for many years. The eminent expressionism, expressionis ...

, which is also home to the "Hebelfest" every 10 May. The municipality of Hausen also award every year the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Gedenkplakette to personalities from the Ober Rhein region.

Winners

* 1936 Hermann Burte * 1937 Alfred Huggenberger * 1938 Eduard Reinacher * 1939 Hermann Eris Busse * 1940 Benno Rüttenauer * 1941 Emil Strauß * 1942 Wilhelm Weigand * 1943 Jakob Schaffner * 1946 Anton Fendrich * 1947 Franz Schneller * 1948 Traugott Meyer * 1949 Wilhelm Hausenstein * 1950 Wilhelm Altwegg * 1951

Albert Schweitzer Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer (; 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German and French polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. As a Lutheran minister, ...

* 1952

Max Picard Max Picard (5 June 1888 in Schopfheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Baden, German Empire, Germany – 3 October 1965 in Sorengo, Switzerland) was a Swiss people, Swiss writer and philosopher, important as one of the few thinkers writing from a deeply ...

* 1953 Reinhold Zumtobel * 1954 Otto Flake * 1955 Wilhelm Zentner * 1956 Lina Kromer * 1957 Emanuel Stickelberger * 1958 Friedrich-Alfred Schmid-Noer * 1959 Carl Jacob Burckhardt * 1960

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher known for contributions to Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a range of topics including metaphysics, art ...

* 1961 Albin Fringeli * 1962 Richard Nutzinger * 1963 Robert Minder * 1964 Adalbert Bächtold * 1965 Adalbert Welte * 1966 Eberhard Meckel * 1967 Josef Lefftz * 1968 Hermann Schneider * 1969 Gertrud Fussenegger * 1970 Marie Luise Kaschnitz * 1971 Lucien Sittler * 1972 Kurt Marti * 1973 Joseph Hermann Kopf * 1974 Gerhard Jung * 1976 André Weckmann * 1978 Erika Burkart * 1980

Elias Canetti Elias Canetti (; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994; ; ) was a German-language writer, known as a Literary modernism, modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardi Jews, Sephardic Jewish fam ...

* 1982 Maria Menz * 1984 Claude Vigée * 1986 Peter Bichsel * 1988 Michael Köhlmeier * 1990 Manfred Bosch * 1992 Adrien Finck * 1994 Peter von Matt * 1996 Kundeyt Surdum * 1998 Lotte Paepcke * 2000 Emma Guntz * 2002 Markus Werner * 2004 Maria Beig * 2006 Martin Stadler * 2008

Arno Geiger Arno Geiger (born 22 July 1968) is an Austrian novelist. Geiger grew up in the village of Wolfurt near Bregenz. He studied German studies, ancient history and comparative literature at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. He has worked as ...

* 2010 Arnold Stadler * 2012 Karl-Heinz Ott * 2014 Franz Hohler * 2016 Lukas Bärfuss * 2018 Christoph Meckel * 2020 Sibylle Berg * 2022 Monika Helfer * 2024

References

External links

* Literary awards of Baden-Württemberg {{Germany-lit-award-stub