Joseph-Breitbach-Preis (Joseph Breitbach Prize) is a literary prize awarded by the
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur
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Mainz (Academy of Sciences and Literature of
Mainz
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) in
Germany
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and the Joseph Breitbach Foundation. Established in 1998, the prize is worth 50,000
euro
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s and is awarded annually in
Koblenz
Koblenz ( , , ; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz'') is a German city on the banks of the Rhine (Middle Rhine) and the Moselle, a multinational tributary.
Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman military p ...
, birthplace of writer
Joseph Breitbach (1903–1980), for whom the prize is named.
Winners
* 1998:
Hans Boesch,
Friedhelm Kemp,
Brigitte Kronauer
* 1999:
Reinhard Jirgl,
Wolf Lepenies,
Rainer Malkowski
* 2000:
Ilse Aichinger,
W. G. Sebald,
Markus Werner
* 2001:
Thomas Hürlimann,
Ingo Schulze,
* 2002:
Elazar Benyoëtz,
Erika Burkart,
Robert Menasse
* 2003:
Christoph Meckel,
Herta Müller
Herta Müller (; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf (; ), Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Si ...
,
Harald Weinrich
Harald Weinrich (24 September 1927 – 26 February 2022) was a German classical scholar, scholar of Romance philology and philosopher, known for the breadth of his writings.
Biography
He was emeritus professor of the Collège de France, and he ...
* 2004:
Raoul Schrott
* 2005:
Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt
* 2006:
Wulf Kirsten
* 2007:
Friedrich Christian Delius
* 2008:
Marcel Beyer
* 2009:
Ursula Krechel
* 2010:
Michael Krüger
* 2011:
Hans Joachim Schädlich
* 2012:
Kurt Flasch
* 2013:
Jenny Erpenbeck
* 2014:
Navid Kermani
* 2015:
Thomas Lehr
* 2016:
Reiner Stach
* 2017:
Dea Loher
* 2018:
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 ...
* 2019:
Thomas Hettche
* 2020:
Nora Bossong
* 2021:
* 2022:
Natascha Wodin
* 2023:
Marion Poschmann
* 2024:
Anne Weber
* 2025:
Frank Witzel"Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2025 geht an Schriftsteller Frank Witzel"
wdr.de, 8 May 2025 (in German). Retrieved 8 May 2025.
References
External links
*
Joseph-Breitbach-Preis
on Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz website
German literary awards
German-language literary awards
Awards established in 1998
Koblenz
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