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
Heinrich Böll
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Heinrich Theodor Böll was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post–World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Georg Büchner Prize
…recipient takes place in Darmstadt. Since 2002, the prize has been endowed with €50,000. Five winners of the Georg Büchner Prize, Günter Grass (1965), Heinrich Böll (1967), Elias Canetti (1972), Peter Handke (1973) and Elfriede Jelinek (1998) have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in subsequent years. The…
Böll in 1981
Book cover Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum