Peter Huchel Prize is a literature prize awarded in
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 ...
, Germany. The Peter Huchel Prize for German-language poetry, donated by the state of Baden-Württemberg and
Südwestrundfunk
(; ), shortened to SWR (), is a regional public broadcasting corporation serving the southwest of Germany, specifically the federal states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The corporation has main offices in three cities: Stuttg ...
, has been awarded since 1983 for an outstanding lyric work of the previous year.
The award is endowed with €10,000 and is presented annually on 3 April,
Peter Huchel
Peter Huchel (April 3, 1903 – April 30, 1981), born Hellmut Huchel, was a German poet and editor.
Life
Huchel was born in Lichterfelde (now part of Berlin). From 1923 to 1926, Huchel studied literature and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg and ...
's birthday, in
Staufen im Breisgau
Staufen im Breisgau (High Alemannic: ''Staufe im Brisgau'') is a German town in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district of Baden-Württemberg. It had a population of approximately 8,300 in 2019.
General
The city of Staufen im Breisgau lies in the ...
.
Winners
*1984
Manfred Peter Hein, ''Gegenzeichnung''
*1985
Guntram Vesper, ''Die Inseln im Landmeer und neue Gedichte''
*1986
Michael Krüger Michael Krüger may refer to:
* Michael Krüger (footballer)
Michael Krüger (born 28 May 1954) is a German Association football, football coach and former player.
Playing career
Krüger was born in Scharnebeck. He played for Arminia Hannover ...
, ''Die Dronte''
*1987
Wulf Kirsten
Wulf Kirsten (21 June 1934 – 14 December 2022) was a German poet, novelist, and publisher. He is known for his nature poetry and his essays on the history and culture of Saxony.
The son of a stonemason, Kirsten was born in Klipphausen, Meissen ...
, ''Die Erde bei Meißen''
*1988
Elke Erb
Elke Erb (18 February 1938 – 22 January 2024) was a German author-poet based in Berlin. She also worked as a literary editor and translator.
Biography Family provenance and early years
Elke Erb was born at Scherbach (today part of Rheinbach) ...
, ''Kastanienallee''
*1989
Luise Schmidt, ''Die Finsternis die freie Existenz''
*1990
Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl (; 1 August 1925 – 9 June 2000) was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator. He became known for his experimental lyric, mainly sound poems (''Sprechgedichte'') in the tradition of concrete and visual poetic forms.
Poetry
Inf ...
, ''Idyllen''
*1991
Günter Herburger
Günter Herburger (6 April 1932 – 3 May 2018) was a German writer. He was initially counted among the "New Realists" funded by , became the author of socialist, imaginative utopian worlds since the 1970s and took an outsider position in German- ...
, ''Das brennende Haus''
*1992
Ludwig Greve
Ludwig may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Ludwig (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
* Ludwig (surname), including a list of people
* Ludwig von Koopa, a character in Mario (the game)
Arts and entertai ...
(posthum), ''Sie lacht und andere Gedichte''
*1993
Sarah Kirsch
Sarah Kirsch (; 16 April 1935 – 5 May 2013) was a German poet.
Biography
Sarah Kirsch was originally born Ingrid Bernstein in Limlingerode, Prussian Saxony but had changed her first name to Sarah in order to protest against her father's ...
, ''Erlkönigs Tochter''
*1994
Jürgen Becker, ''Foxtrott im Erfurter Stadion''
*1995
Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein (born 1962) is a German poet and essayist.
Life and career
Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in 1962 and grew up there. He studied Theater Studies in East Berlin, to which he moved in 1985.
Since the Peaceful Revolution nonvio ...
, ''Falten und Fallen''
*1996
Gregor Laschen, ''Jammerbugt-Notate''
*1997
Thomas Kling
Thomas Kling (June 5, 1957 – April 1, 2005) was a German poet.
Life
Thomas Kling was born in Bingen am Rhein, grew up in Hilden and went to school in Düsseldorf. He studied philology in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Vienna and lived in Finland for ...
, ''morsch''
*1998
Brigitte Oleschinski, ''Your Passport is Not Guilty''
*1999
Raoul Schrott
Raoul Schrott (born 17 January 1964) is an Austrian poet, writer, literary critic, translator and broadcast personality.
Schrott was raised in Tunis where his father served as an Austrian sales representative. He attended the universities of No ...
, ''Tropen. Über das Erhabene''
*2000
Adolf Endler
Adolf Endler (20 September 1930 – 2 August 2009) was a lyric poet, essayist and prose author who played a central role in subcultural activities that attacked and challenged an outdated model of socialist realism in the German Democratic Re ...
, ''Der Pudding der Apokalypse''
*2001
Oskar Pastior
Oskar Pastior (; 20 October 1927 – 4 October 2006) was a Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo.
Biography
Born into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Sibiu (Hermannstadt) in the Kingdom of Romania, he ...
, ''Villanella & Pantum''
*2002
Wolfgang Hilbig
Wolfgang Hilbig (31 August 1941 2 June 2007) was a German writer and poet.
Life
Wolfgang Hilbig was born in Meuselwitz, Germany. His grandfather had emigrated from Biłgoraj (Congress Poland, Russian Empire) before the First World War. In 194 ...
, ''Bilder vom Erzählen''
*2003
Rolf Haufs
Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. ...
, ''Ebene der Fluß''
*2004
Hans Thill
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* Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician
** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans
** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi a ...
, ''Kühle Religionen''
*2005
Nicolas Born
Nicolas Born (31 December 1937 in Duisburg – 7 December 1979 in Lüchow-Dannenberg) was a German writer.
Nicolas Born was – together with Rolf Dieter Brinkmann – one of the most important and most innovative German poets of his generatio ...
(posthum), ''Gedichte''
*2006
Uljana Wolf
Uljana Wolf (born 6 April 1979) is a German poet and translator (from English and Polish) known for exploring multilingualism in her work.
Biography
Uljana Wolf was born in East Berlin in 1979. She studied German studies, cultural studies and E ...
, ''kochanie ich habe brot gekauft''
*2007
Oswald Egger
Oswald Egger is a South Tyrolean (Italy) lyricist and writer in the German language. He is the 2024 recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize, which is "considered the most important literary award in the Germanophone language area".
Life and educa ...
, ''Tag und Nacht sind zwei Jahre''
*2008
Ulf Stolterfoht
Ulf Stolterfoht (born 8 June 1963 in Stuttgart) is a German writer.
Life and work
Ulf Stolterfoht opted out of military service and performed civilian service instead, after which he studied German and Linguistics in Bochum und Tübingen. St ...
, ''holzrauch über heslach''
*2009
Gerhard Falkner Gerhard is a name of Germanic origin and may refer to:
Given name
* Gerhard (bishop of Passau) (fl. 932–946), German prelate
* Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1292–1340), German prince, regent of Denmark
* Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–1 ...
, ''Hölderlin Reparatur''
*2010
Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker (20 December 1924 – 4 June 2021) was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, radio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avant-garde poet, and as one of the l ...
, ''dieses Jäckchen (nämlich) des Vogel Greif''
*2011
Marion Poschmann, ''Geistersehen''
*2012
Nora Bossong
Nora Bossong (born 9 January 1982) is a German writer. She lives in Berlin.
Career
Bossong studied literature at the German Institute for Literature, as well as cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature at the Humboldt University ...
, ''Sommer vor den Mauern''
*2013
Monika Rinck
Monika Rinck (born 29 April 1969) is a German writer.
Life and work
After graduating from high school, Monika Rinck studied religious studies, history, and comparative literature in Bochum, Berlin and Yale. She writes poetry, prose and essays, ...
, ''Honigprotokolle''
*2014
Steffen Popp, ''Dickicht mit Reden und Augen''
*2015
Paulus Böhmer, ''Zum Wasser will alles Wasser will weg''
*2016
Barbara Köhler
Barbara Köhler (11 April 1959 – 8 January 2021) was a German poet and translator.
She was born in Burgstädt, East Germany, but was raised in Penig. She studied at the German Institute for Literature, Johannes R. Becher Literature Institute i ...
, ''Istanbul, zusehends''
*2017
Orsolya Kalász, ''Das Eine''
*2018
Farhad Showghi, ''Wolkenflug spielt Zerreißprobe''
*2019
Thilo Krause, ''Was wir reden, wenn es gewittert''
*2020
Henning Ziebritzki, ''Vogelwerk''
*2021
Marcel Beyer
Marcel Beyer (born 23 November 1965) is a German writer.
Life
Marcel Beyer was born in Tailfingen, Württemberg, and grew up in Kiel and Neuss. From 1987 to 1991, he studied German studies, German language and literature, English studies and li ...
, ''Dämonenräumdienst''
*2022
Dinçer Güçyeter, ''Mein Prinz, ich bin das Ghetto''
*2023
Judith Zander
Judith Zander (born 13 November 1980) is a German writer and translator.
Life
Zander studied German and English studies as well as History in Greifswald. Subsequently, she studied creative writing at the German Institute for Literature in Le ...
, ''im ländchen sommer im winter zur see''
*2024
Anja Utler, ''Es beginnt. Trauerrefrain''
*2025
Olga Martynova
Olga Martynova (born in 1962 in Dudinka, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia) is a Russian-German writer. She writes poems in Russian, and prose and essays in German.
Olga Martynova grew up in Leningrad where she studied Russian literature and language and ...
, ''Such nach dem Namen des Windes''
References
External links
Literary awards of Baden-Württemberg
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