Georg Büchner Prize
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The Georg Büchner Prize is the most important literary prize for German language literature. The award is named after dramatist and writer Georg Büchner, author of Woyzeck and Leonce and Lena. The Geo
Friedrich Dürrenmatt in 1989
Laureate of the year 1989: Botho Strauß
Terézia Mora, Frankfurter Buchmesse 2023
Laureate of the year 2020: Elke Erb
Georg Büchner
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Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig
Georg Büchner Prize
…Prize (German: Georg-Büchner-Preis) is the most important literary prize for German language literature. The award is named after dramatist and writer Georg Büchner, author of Woyzeck and Leonce and Lena. The Georg Büchner Prize is awarded annually for authors "writing in the German language who have notably emerged…
Pencil drawing of Büchner, c. 1835
Büchner in a 1833/34 drawing by his friend Alexis Muston
Gravestone of Georg Büchner on Germaniahügel in Zürich-Oberstrass