Frankfurt am Main (Fra) - Tonio Schachinger has won the German Book Prize for his novel “Echtzeitalter” (“Realtimes”) (Rowohlt Verlag). Statement from the jury: “At first glance, Tonio Schachinger’s ‘Echtzeitalter’ is a school story. At second glance, it is much more than that: a social novel that describes its hero Till’s coming-of-age at an elite ...
Frankfurt am Main/Hamburg (ots) - The winner of the German Non-Fiction Prize 2023 is Ewald Frie for his book "Ein Hof und elf Geschwister. Der stille Abschied vom bäuerlichen Leben in Deutschland" ("A Farm and Eleven Siblings. The Quiet Farewell to Rural Life in Germany") (Publishers C.H.Beck). Statement from the ...
Frankfurt am Main (ots) - Kim de l'Horizon has won the German Book Prize 2022 for their novel “Blutbuch” (DuMont). Statement from the jury: “With tremendous creative energy, the non-binary narrator of Kim de l'Horizon ’s novel ‘Blutbuch’ (‘Blood Book’) searches for a language of their own. What narratives exist for a body that eludes conventional ...
Frankfurt am Main/Berlin (ots) - The winner of the German Non-Fiction Prize 2022 is Stephan Malinowski for his book “Die Hohenzollern und die Nazis. Geschichte einer Kollaboration” (“The Hohenzollern and the Nazis. History of a Collaboration”) (Propyläen). Statement from the jury: “Who decides how we read ...
Frankfurt am Main (ots) - Press release of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association The winner of the German Book Prize 2021 is Antje Rávik Strubel for her novel “Blaue Frau” (S. Fischer). Statement from the jury: “With existential force and poetic precision, Antje Rávik Strubel describes a young ...
Frankfurt am Main/Berlin (ots) - The winner of the German Non-Fiction Prize 2021 is Jürgen Kaube for his book “Hegels Welt”(Rowohlt Berlin). Statement from the jury: “In his biography of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jürgen Kaube thoroughly dispenses with the genre of the heroic narrative. Both elegantly ...
Frankfurt am Main (ots) - The winner of the German Book Prize 2020 is Anne Weber for her novel "Annette, ein Heldinnenepos" (Matthes & Seitz Berlin). Statement from the jury: "The power of Anne Weber's story is equal to the power of her heroine: It is breathtaking how fresh the old form of the epic sounds here and ...
Frankfurt am Main (ots) - The winner of the German Book Prize 2019 is Sasa Stanisic for his novel "Herkunft" (Luchterhand). Statement from the jury: "Sasa Stanisic is such a good storyteller that he even distrusts storytelling. Beneath each sentence in this novel the unavailable origins lurk, which simultaneously ...
Frankfurt am Main (ots) - The winner of the German Book Prize 2018 is Inger-Maria Mahlke for her novel "Archipel" (Rowohlt). Statement from the jury: "The archipelago lies at the outermost edge of Europe; the setting is the island of Tenerife, a nucleus of colonial history and of the history of 20th-century European dictatorships. Inger-Maria Mahlke writes about the ...
Frankfurt am Main (ots) - The winner of the German Book Prize 2014 is Lutz Seiler for his novel "Kruso" (Suhrkamp). Statement from the jury: "Lutz Seiler employs lyrical, sensual language with a hint of magic to describe the summer of 1989 on the island of Hiddensee - a "gateway to evanescence". The island was a gathering place for eccentrics, mavericks, freedom seekers, individuals looking to flee the GDR. One can read ...
