Chamisso Prize/Hellerau
Since 2019, the Chamisso Prize/Hellerau has been awarded in Dresden to honor authors who formulate literary responses to the challenges of our pluralistic and globalized world based on their personal experience of a change of language or culture.
The MitteleuropaZentrum, which, together with the Saxon Academy of Arts, already supervised the Chamisso Poetry Lectureship of the Robert Bosch Foundation from 2000-2011, has supported the foundation of the new prize from the very beginning and has taken over the prize secretariat of the Chamisso Prize/Hellerau for 2019.
Sponsors
The prize is sponsored by the Beck Foundation (Munich), EFW, GebäudeEnsemble Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, Kulturforum Tiberius, Sächsische Aufbaubank and 'Weltoffenes Dresden' e.V., among others.
Jury
The jury consists of: Dr. Maike Albath (literary critic, Deutschlandfunk Kultur), Dr. Meike Feßmann (literary critic), Axel Helbig (editor, journal for literature and art OSTRAGEHEGE), Hauke Hückstädt (director, Literaturhaus Frankfurt am Main) and Jagoda Marinić (writer, playwright and journalist).
Winners of the prize
The prize for 2019 went to the writer Jaroslav Rudiš for his literary work to date. His most recent novel was "Winterbergs letzte Reise" (2019).
In an interview with mdr on February 3, 2020, he spoke with Andreas Berger about the upcoming award ceremony and his latest novel.
The Chamisso Prize/Hellerau 2018 was awarded to the author María Cecilia Barbetta for her novel "Nachtleuchten", among others.
Dates
- February 5, 2020, Hellerau: Awarding of the Chamisso Prize/Hellerau 2019 to
Jaroslav Rudiš
- 23 May 2019, 18:00, SLUB : Public lecture by Dr. Wiebke Sievers (Vienna): "Writing about flight: the summer of migration 2015 in Austrian literature".
- May 24, 2019, 17:00, Hellerau: Awarding of the Chamisso Prize/Hellerau 2018 to María Cecilia Barbetta.
Begrüßung durch Dr. Wilhelm Zörgiebel © Sabine Mai
Eröffnungsvortrag von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Walter Schmitz © Sabine Mai
Podium © Sabine Mai
Blick ins Publikum © Sabine Mai
Übergabe der Preisurkunde an María Cecilia Barbetta, die Preisträgerin 2018 © Sabine Mai
María Cecilia Barbetta bei der Dankesrede © Sabine Mai
Die Preisträgerin 2018, María Cecilia Barbetta © Sabine Mai
María Cecilia Barbetta © Sabine Mai
María Cecilia Barbetta © Sabine Mai
The opening speech by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Walter Schmitz on the 2018 award ceremony can be found under Online Publications of the MeZ.
Continue to the "Migration Literature Unit" at the MitteleuropaZentrum.
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