Roswitha Prize
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The Roswitha Prize is the oldest German language
prize for literature that is given solely to women.
The Roswitha-Medal has been given almost yearly since 1973 by the city of Bad Gandersheim
.
In 1998 it received its modern designation along with an endowment of €5,500. It is named for Roswitha of Gandersheim
, a 10th century Benedictine
nun who is considered the first female German playwright
and author.
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
prize for literature that is given solely to women.
The Roswitha-Medal has been given almost yearly since 1973 by the city of Bad Gandersheim
Bad Gandersheim
Bad Gandersheim is a town in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, located in the district of Northeim. , it had a population 10,572.Bad Gandersheim has many half-timbered houses and is located on the German Framework Road .- Geography :...
.
In 1998 it received its modern designation along with an endowment of €5,500. It is named for Roswitha of Gandersheim
Hrosvit
Hrotsvitha , also known as Hroswitha, Hrotsvit, Hrosvit, and Roswitha, was a 10th-century German secular canoness of the Benedictine Order, as well as a dramatist and poet who lived and worked in Gandersheim, in modern-day Lower Saxony...
, a 10th century Benedictine
Benedictine
Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy. The most notable of these is Monte Cassino, the first monastery founded by Benedict...
nun who is considered the first female German playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
and author.
List of Recipients
- 1973 Marie-Luise Kaschnitz
- 1974 Hilde DominHilde DominHilde Domin , whose real name was Hilde Palm , was a German lyric poet and writer. She was amongst the most important German-language poets of her time.-Biography:...
- 1975 Ilse AichingerIlse AichingerIlse Aichinger is an Austrian writer noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.- Life :...
- 1976 Elisabeth Borchers
- 1977 Dagmar Nick
- 1978 Elfriede JelinekElfriede JelinekElfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."-...
- 1979 Luise RinserLuise RinserLuise Rinser was a German writer.-Early life and education:...
- 1980 Rose AusländerRose AusländerRose Ausländer , maiden name Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer, was a Jewish German- and English language poet. She was born in Bucovina, and lived in U.S.A, Romania, and Germany....
- 1981 Hilde Spiel
- 1982 Friederike MayröckerFriederike MayröckerFriederike Mayröcker is an Austrian poet.- Life :From 1946 to 1969 Mayröcker was an English teacher at several public schools in Vienna. In 1969 she took a release from working as a teacher and in 1977 she retired early.She started writing as a 15 year old...
- 1983 Sarah KirschSarah KirschSarah Kirsch is a German poet.She was born Ingrid Bernstein in Limlingerode, Prussian Saxony. She changed her first name to Sarah in order to protest against her father's anti-semitism. She studied biology in Halle and literature at the Johannes R. Becher Institute for Literature in Leipzig. In...
- 1984 Greta Schoon
- 1985 Irmtraud MorgnerIrmtraud MorgnerIrmtraud Morgner, , was a German writer, best known for works of magical realism concerned predominantly with the role of gender in East German society.-Life:...
- 1986 Ulla HahnUlla HahnUlla Hahn is a German poet and novelist.- Poetry collections :* Herz über Kopf , ISBN 3-421-06073-8* Spielende , ISBN 3-421-06155-6* Unerhörte Nähe , ISBN 3-421-06310-9...
- 1987 Irina KorschunowIrina KorschunowIrina Korschunow is a German writer, primarily of children's book and Young Adult literature. She is also a translator.- Career :...
- 1988 Gerlind Reinshagen
- 1989 Helga M. NovakHelga M. NovakHelga M. Novak is a German German-Icelandic writer.Novak was born in Berlin. She grew up in East Germany, studied journalism and philosophy at the University of Leipzig....
- 1990 Herta MüllerHerta MüllerHerta Müller is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime which she experienced herself...
- 1991 No Award
- 1992 Helga Königsdorf
- 1993 Christa Reinig
- 1994 Monika MaronMonika MaronMonika Maron is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic. She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre and spent time as a directing assistant and as a journalist. In the late 1970s, she began...
- 1995 Libuse MonikovaLibuše MoníkováLibuše Moníková was a Czech writer, publishing in German language. In 1968, following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, she left to Western Germany.- References :...
- 1996 Gisela von Wysocki
- 1997 No Award
- 1998 Carola Stern
- 1999 Birgit VanderbekeBirgit VanderbekeBirgit Vanderbeke is a German writer.Vanderbeke grew up in Frankfurt am Main after her family moved to the western part of Germany in 1961. She studied Law, Germanic and Romanic languages...
- 2000 Silvia Bovenschen
- 2001 Erika FuchsErika FuchsErika Fuchs, née Petri , was a German translator.Born into a well to do large family, Fuchs spent most of her childhood and youth in Belgard in Pomerania, where in 1921 she was the first girl to be admitted to the boys' Gymnasium - she passed her Abitur exam there in 1926...
- 2002 Katja Lange-MüllerKatja Lange-MüllerKatja Lange-Müller is a German writer living in Berlin. Her works include several short stories and novellas, radio dramas, and dramatic works....
- 2003 Antje Rávic StrubelAntje Rávic StrubelAntje Rávic Strubel is a German writer. She was born in 1974 in Potsdam.-Life:After leaving school, Antje Strubel Rávic first worked as a bookseller in Potsdam, and then studied in literature, psychology and American studies in New York. In New York she worked as a lighting assistant in a...
- 2004 Angelika Klüssendorf
- 2005 Julia FranckJulia FranckJulia Franck is a German writer.In 1978 Julia Franck and her family moved to West Berlin and later to Schleswig-Holstein. She studied German Literature and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spent some time in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala...
- 2006 Ruth KlügerRuth KlügerRuth Klüger is Professor Emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine. She was born in Vienna and, after the Nazi annexation of Austria, she was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp together with her mother at the age of 11; her father had tried to flee abroad, but was...
- 2007 Felicitas HoppeFelicitas HoppeFelicitas Hoppe is a German writer.-Early Years:Felicitas Hoppe was born in Hamelin and grew up there. After her Abitur she studied literature, rhetorics and theology: from 1982 to 1984 at the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen, from 1984 to 1986 at the University of Oregon and from 1987 to...
- 2008 Cornelia FunkeCornelia FunkeCornelia Funke is a multiple award-winning German author of children's fiction. She was born on 10 December 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkworld trilogy, with the English translation of the third book, Inkdeath, released on 6 October 2008. Many of her...
- 2009 No Award
- 2010 Anna Katharina Hahn
- 2011 Olga MartynovaOlga MartynovaOlga Martynova is a Russian-German writer. She writes poems in Russian, prose and essays in German....
See also
- German literatureGerman literatureGerman literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there...
- List of literary awards
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in literature
- List of years in poetry