Georg Büchner Prize
げおるく・びゅひなーしょう
A major literary prize awarded to writers in the German-speaking world. An annual award recognizing contributions to contemporary German culture.
- 創設年
- 1923
- 主催
- Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
- カテゴリー
- 文学総合・文芸総合
- 選考方式
- Recommendation
- 受賞対象
- プロ
- 開催頻度
- 年1回
- 賞のステータス
- 活動中
説明
The Georg Büchner Prize (Georg-Büchner-Preis) is one of the most important awards in German-language literature awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (German Academy for Language and Literature). It targets writers who write in German and have made outstanding contributions to shaping contemporary German culture through their oeuvre. Established in 1923, it has been awarded annually as a literature prize since 1951. The prize money was increased to €50,000 starting in 2002. Recipients deliver an award lecture in Darmstadt.
賞品
- 主賞品
- Cash prize (prize money)
- 賞金
- 50,000 EUR
- Award lecture by the recipient (at the ceremony in Darmstadt)
- Attention and prestige domestically and internationally
選考情報
選考プロセス
| 段階 | 審査員 | 通過率 | 発表 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nomination | Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (members and selection committee) | — | Candidate selection through internal screening (detailed public application information is not disclosed) |
| Final selection and decision | Decision by the academy selection committee | — | The recipient is announced via press release, and the award lecture is given at the ceremony in Darmstadt |
選考基準
- Writing in German
- The oeuvre (body of work) has significantly contributed to shaping contemporary German culture
- Evaluation of literary originality and long-term achievements
応募のヒント
推奨
- Continue consistent writing activities in German (emphasis on multi-year achievements)
- Accumulate activities so that cultural contributions through the oeuvre (body of work) are evident
- Value opportunities for public recommendations or evaluations (build relationships with publishers, academic societies, etc.)
注意
- This award is not open for public applications, so do not make unsolicited direct submissions or pitches
- Do not rely solely on short-term popular works (lifetime achievements are emphasized)
- Do not use factually inaccurate appeals or misleading expressions
審査員から
- The core of evaluation is the 'oeuvre throughout one's lifetime (entire body of work)'
- Emphasis on expressiveness and originality in German as well as contributions to contemporary culture
- The award is determined considering both literary merit and cultural impact
関連の賞
- Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis
- Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels
- Friedrich Nietzsche Prize
- German Book Prize
- Goethe Prize
- Heinrich-Böll-Preis
- Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis (Großer Preis des Deutschen Literaturfonds)
- Jean-Paul-Preis
- Thomas Mann Prize
- Schiller Memorial Prize
公式情報
https://www.deutscheakademie.de/en/awards/georg-buechner-preis過去の受賞者
The award recognizes Oswald Egger's body of work since his first publication in 1993. His poems and prose treat language as movement, sound, texture, image, and performance, and they grow out of multilingualism and the landscapes of his South Tyrolean background. They resist quick reading and invite associative interpretation instead.
He is honored for work that expands language itself through poetry and prose.
The award recognizes Lutz Seiler's body of work, which moved from poetry into narrative without losing lyrical precision. The jury especially valued his major prose, including Kruso and Stern 111, together with the clarity and lingering resonance that run through his poems and essays.
He is honored for a body of work that began in poetry and found a singular voice in fiction as well.
Emine Sevgi Özdamar was honored for a body of work spanning plays, short fiction, and novels that connects Turkish and German experience. Her movement between languages and cultures, together with her poetic narration of German-Turkish history, stands at the center of the prize.
The prize recognizes a body of work that bridges languages, cultures, stage writing, and fiction.
クレメンス・J・ゼッツの業績は、従来の散文形式を押し広げる実験的な作品群にある。語りの分節化や視点の転換を用いながら、認識と記憶の揺らぎを文学的に表現し、現代文学に新たな可能性を提示した点が高く評価された。
クレメンス・J・ゼッツの業績は、従来の散文形式を押し広げる実験的な作品群にある。
エルケ・エルブの詩業は、言語と記憶の交差をめぐる深化した探求に特徴があり、実験的でありながら詩の本質に迫る表現を示してきた。翻訳活動を含めた多角的な言語実践と詩の探究の深さが評価されて受賞に至った。
エルケ・エルブの詩業は、言語と記憶の交差をめぐる深化した探求に特徴があり、実験的でありながら詩の本質に迫る表現を示してきた。
An award recognizing Lukas Bärfuss’s literary achievement.
Terézia Mora's 2018 award recognized her body of literary work rather than a single book. Her fiction and stories explore migration, linguistic borders, and estrangement, giving sharp form to unstable lives in contemporary society.
A career recognition for a body of work shaped by border-crossing, solitude, and linguistic tension.
ヤン・ワーグナーの詩作は、身近な自然や日常の細部を繊細に描き出すことを特徴とする。形式への深い洞察と語彙の豊かさ、リズムや音韻への配慮を通じて、伝統的な詩形の刷新と現代詩の新地平を切り開いた点が評価された。
ヤン・ワーグナーの詩作は、身近な自然や日常の細部を繊細に描き出すことを特徴とする。
An award for Marcel Beyer’s overall achievement. His work across poetry, prose, and criticism is recognized, with the focus on the writer as a whole rather than one title.
Recognition directed at the body of work as a whole.
A lifetime-achievement award for Rainald Goetz’s work across novels, theater, and media expression. The honor recognizes a cross-genre career rather than a single title.
Recognition aimed at the writer’s work as a whole rather than one book.
A lifetime achievement award honoring a long career that moved between fiction and essays.
A career award for work across novels and essays.
Walter Kappacher’s fiction is recognized for its quiet intensity, close observation, and long-term contribution to contemporary German-language literature.
A career award for quiet, closely observed fiction.
The prize honored Josef Winkler's body of work as a whole. His books were recognized for their intense prose, Catholic childhood memories, and persistent attention to ritual, death, and rural origins.
An award for the writer's body of work rather than a single title.
The prize honored Martin Mosebach's body of work as a whole. His novels and essays were recognized for their classical storytelling, precise style, and wide-ranging engagement with history and religion.
An award granted to the writer's body of work rather than to a single book.
The prize honored Oskar Pastior's poetry and translation work. It recognized not a single title, but his overall achievement as a poet known for sustained linguistic experimentation.
An award granted to a poet's body of work rather than to one book.
An award that recognizes an author’s overall body of work rather than a single winning title.
The focus is the whole oeuvre, not one book.
An award that recognizes an author’s overall body of work rather than a single winning title.
The focus is the whole oeuvre, not one book.
The prize recognized Wolfgang Hilbig's body of work, especially novels and poetry. His novels and poetry, which reflect the unease of postwar Germany, were recognized.
A career-honoring award for Wolfgang Hilbig's body of work.
The prize recognized Friederike Mayröcker's body of work, especially poetry and prose. Her poetry and prose, combining linguistic experiment with private memory, were honored.
A career-honoring award for Friederike Mayröcker's body of work.
The prize recognized Volker Braun's body of work, especially poetry and drama. His poetry and drama, charged with political and historical critique, were recognized.
A career-honoring award for Volker Braun's body of work.
The prize recognized Arnold Stadler's body of work, especially novels and essays. His novels and essays, which join landscape and introspection, were recognized.
A career-honoring award for Arnold Stadler's body of work.
This lifetime achievement award recognizes Elfriede Jelinek for novels, plays, and social criticism that challenge language and power.
This lifetime achievement award recognizes Elfriede Jelinek for novels, plays, and social criticism that challenge language and power.
The prize recognized Hans Carl Artmann's body of work, especially poetry and experimental literature. His poetry and experimental writing, marked by linguistic play, were recognized.
A career-honoring award for Hans Carl Artmann's body of work.
The prize recognized Durs Grünbein as a leading younger German poet and writer.
He was chosen as one of the defining German poets of his generation.
The prize recognized Adolf Muschg's body of work, especially lifetime achievement. His work as a leading Swiss novelist was recognized.
A career-honoring award for Adolf Muschg's body of work.
The prize recognized Peter Rühmkorf's body of work, especially lifetime achievement. His body of work in poetry and prose, driven by sharp linguistic sensibility, was recognized.
A career-honoring award for Peter Rühmkorf's body of work.
The prize recognized George Tabori's body of work, especially lifetime achievement. His theatre work, weaving memory, Jewish history, and irony, was honored.
A career-honoring award for George Tabori's body of work.
The prize recognized Wolf Biermann's body of work, especially lifetime achievement. His songs and poems as expressions of political resistance were recognized.
A career-honoring award for Wolf Biermann's body of work.
Tankred Dorst (1925-2017) was a German playwright who began with marionette theater and established himself as a leading figure of contemporary German drama with Toller (1966). In collaboration with his wife Ursula Ehler, he wrote over thirty plays. His monumental work Merlin oder das wuste Land (1981), an eight-hour reimagining of Arthurian legend compared to Goethe's Faust, stands as a landmark of German theater. For his lifelong contribution spanning historical drama, myth, and realism, he received the Georg Buchner Prize in 1990.
"People matter more than mechanisms" -- the core of Dorst's dramatic philosophy
The prize recognized Botho Strauß's body of work, especially lifetime achievement. His plays and essays on modern unease were recognized.
A career-honoring award for Botho Strauß's body of work.
The prize recognized Albert Drach's body of work, especially lifetime achievement. His novels, marked by satire and experimentation, were honored.
A career-honoring award for Albert Drach's body of work.
The prize recognized Erich Fried's body of work, especially lifetime achievement. His poetry, shaped by war and exile, was recognized.
A career-honoring award for Erich Fried's body of work.
The prize recognized Friedrich Dürrenmatt's body of work, especially lifetime achievement. His critical spirit across plays and novels was recognized.
A career-honoring award for Friedrich Dürrenmatt's body of work.
Ernst Jandl’s experimental poetry, sound poetry, and visual play with language were recognized as a career-wide achievement. The record concerns a body of work rather than a single book.
What is recognized here is not a single book but the poetry that stretched language itself.
An honor for Wolfdietrich Schnurre's short prose, essays, and overall work rather than a single title.
The honor concerns the writer's body of work itself.
The prize recognized Peter Weiss's body of work, especially plays and novels. His work across drama and long-form prose was honored posthumously.
A career-honoring award for Peter Weiss's body of work.
The prize recognized Martin Walser's body of work, especially major works and achievement. his novels probing social tension were recognized.
A career-honoring award for Martin Walser's body of work.
The prize recognized Christa Wolf's body of work, especially major works and achievement. her work, shaped by memory and self-examination, was recognized.
A career-honoring award for Christa Wolf's body of work.
The prize recognized Ernst Meister's body of work, especially poetry. Posthumously, his compressed and philosophically tense poetry was honored.
A career-honoring award for Ernst Meister's body of work.
The prize recognized Hermann Lenz's body of work, especially major works and achievement. his novels, which interlace personal memory with modern German history, were recognized.
A career-honoring award for Hermann Lenz's body of work.
The prize recognized Reiner Kunze's body of work, especially major poetry and achievement. his concise poems linking politics and everyday life were recognized.
A career-honoring award for Reiner Kunze's body of work.
The prize recognized Heinz Piontek's body of work, especially overall achievement. his contribution to modern German-language literature was recognized.
A career-honoring award for Heinz Piontek's body of work.
A short novel in which a dismissed former goalkeeper wanders a border town in Austria and is gradually swallowed by the gap between language and perception. Its pared-back style conceals violence and alienation.
Behind the flat surface of everyday life, perception slowly slips out of alignment.
A sweeping essay on crowd behavior, obedience, and the workings of power. Moving across myth, history, and psychology, it examines how individuals are transformed inside the mass.
It rereads the relationship between crowds and power on a mythic scale.
Set in New York in 1967, this sprawling novel cycle follows Gesine Cresspahl as she tells her daughter the family history while digging into the memory of postwar Germany. Personal and world history intersect across the flow of a single day.
Day by day, the narrative opens up layers of family memory and history.
An autobiographical prose work that follows the friendship between the narrator and Paul Wittgenstein, framed around two men bedridden in separate wings of a hospital. Its sharp humor brings music, illness, and loneliness into focus.
In the stillness of a hospital, friendship emerges through memory and monologue.
A postwar German novel that follows a clown figure to probe hypocrisy, loneliness, and the conflict between faith, ethics, and society.
A postwar German novel that follows a clown figure to probe hypocrisy, loneliness, and the conflict between faith, ethics, and society.
The 1962 Georg Büchner Prize recognized Wolfgang Koeppen's ability to portray the unease, stagnation, and division of postwar German society with unusual sharpness. Rather than a single title, the award was aimed at a body of novelistic work built across several major books.
It was not one book but a novelistic achievement spread across several major works.
Hans Erich Nossack's prize recognition concerned his larger body of novels and essays in postwar German literature, so the award points to a literary career rather than a single book.
The recognition applies to an author's whole body of work, not one book.
This award should be understood as recognition of Paul Celan's postwar poetry as a whole rather than of a single book. His poems return to memory, fragmentation, and silence, leaving behind compressed language and a disquieting aftereffect.
An award record for a poetic oeuvre rather than a single book.
A reference to Ernst Kreuder's work in novels and prose. It evaluates the full literary career rather than a single title.
The focus is a literary career across novels and prose.
A reference to Gottfried Benn's work across poetry and criticism. It is a broad evaluation of a writer's career rather than one book.
Poetry and criticism together form the basis of the honor.
A reference to Elisabeth Langgasser's literary achievement across poetry and short fiction. It recognizes the career rather than a single work.
It honors a career spanning poetry and short fiction.
Not a standalone book, but a placeholder for the laureate's body of work. No single title could be identified.
It refers to a body of work rather than one title.
A reference to Hermann Heiss's body of work as a composer. It is an evaluation of musical achievement, not a specific book.
The item concerns musical work rather than a book.
A lifetime-achievement entry tied to Anna Seghers' major works. It stands behind works such as The Seventh Cross and Transit.
Her major novels frame the breadth of a literary career.
A reference to a writer's body of work across poetry and prose. It evaluates a lifetime of creation rather than one work.
The focus is the body of poetry and prose work itself.
Not a standalone book, but a placeholder for the laureate's body of work. No single title could be identified.
It refers to a body of work rather than one title.
As a 1932 Georg Büchner Prize recipient, Adolf Bode was recognized for his work as a painter. No book-format work could be confirmed.
The prize honored his painting rather than a book.
Ball auf Schloss Kobolnow is a novel published under the name Henry Benrath. Since its first edition in 1932, it has been treated as one of Albert H. Rausch’s key works.
A novel best known under the Henry Benrath name.
As a 1931 Georg Büchner Prize recipient, Hans Simon was recognized for his work as a composer. No book-format work could be confirmed.
The prize honored his compositions, not a book.
As a 1931 Georg Büchner Prize recipient, Alexander Posch was recognized for his work as a painter. No book-format work could be confirmed.
The prize honored his painting rather than a book.
As a 1930 Georg Büchner Prize recipient, Johannes Lippmann was recognized for his work as a painter. No book-format work could be confirmed.
The prize honored his painting, not a book.
This entry concerns Nikolaus Schwarzkopf’s historical novel Matthias Grünewald. A stable book identifier for the original edition could not be confirmed here.
The award recognized a novel centered on Matthias Grünewald.
As a 1929 Georg Büchner Prize recipient, Adam Antes was recognized for his work as a sculptor. No book-format work could be confirmed.
The prize honored his sculpture rather than a book.
This entry concerns Carl Zuckmayer’s script work for Der blaue Engel. It is primarily a film script, and no standalone book edition was confirmed in this review.
The prize entry centers on his work as a film scriptwriter.
As a 1928 Georg Büchner Prize recipient, Well Habicht was honored for his work as a sculptor. No book-format work could be confirmed.
The prize recognized his sculpture, not a book.
As an early 1928 Georg Büchner Prize recipient, Richard Hoelscher was recognized for his work as a painter. No standalone book edition of the honored work could be confirmed.
What was honored was his work as a painter, not a book.
Johannes Bischoff was honored for his stage career as an opera singer, actor, and director, with the award recognizing his long service to the performing arts rather than any single performance.
His success as a singer and his later work as a director are joined in a single award record.
Kasimir Edschmid was recognized for a literary career that began in Expressionism and expanded into travel writing and criticism, with the award focusing on his body of work rather than a single title.
From his Expressionist beginnings to his postwar criticism, his career reads as a continuous whole.
Wilhelm Petersen was honored for his work as a composer, conductor, and teacher, with the award recognizing his entire musical career rather than one publication or score.
His style, spanning late Romanticism and modernism, lies at the heart of the recognition.
Christian Heinrich Kleukens was recognized for his overall work in printing and book art, with the award focusing on his career as a craftsman and teacher rather than a single title.
The award centers on work rooted in the craft of printing and bookmaking.
Rudolf Koch was honored for his achievements in type design, calligraphy, and print art, with the award recognizing a career in typography rather than a single book.
His work with type and calligraphy is recognized as a contribution to book art as a whole.
Wilhelm Michel was recognized for his broader literary work in criticism and poetry, with the award honoring his career as a critic and writer rather than a single title.
The background to the award lies in his accumulated work on Hölderlin and aesthetics.
Paul Thesing was honored for his work as a painter, draftsman, and satirical illustrator, with the award focusing on a lifelong contribution to the visual arts rather than literature.
His award centers on a career that moved between painting and satirical drawing.
Alfred Bock was recognized as a writer whose realist depictions of bourgeois life earned him honor for his career as a whole, not for a single book.
Realist observation and attention to local life stand at the center of the recognition.
Arnold Mendelssohn was honored for his overall work as a composer and teacher, with the award focusing on his musical career rather than any single publication or score.
The award highlights the composer’s career as a whole, not a single score.
Adam Karrillon was recognized for a lifetime body of work as a writer known for regional color and close observation of people, rather than for a single title.
An award record that recognizes the writer’s career itself, not a single book.