The Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize (Marie-Luise-Kaschnitz-Preis) is a German literary prize, awarded every two years in the autumn by the Evangelical Academy of Tutzing

Tutzing

Tutzing is a municipality in the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany and is situated on the west bank of the Starnberger See south of Munich...

. It recognizes the lifetime achievements of writers in the German language. The monetary value is €7500.

The prize commemorates Marie Luise Kaschnitz

Marie Luise Kaschnitz

Marie Luise Kaschnitz was a German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet. She is considered to be one of the leading post-war German poets...

, who died in 1974. The first award was announced on 14 October 1984.

Recipients

• 1984 Ilse Aichinger
  Ilse Aichinger
  Ilse Aichinger is an Austrian writer noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.- Life :...
  
  
• 1986 Hanna Johansen
  Hanna Johansen
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• 1988 Fritz Rudolf Fries
  Fritz Rudolf Fries
  -Life:Fritz Rudolf Fries was born in Bilbao, Spain. His mother was a German of Spanish descent, and his father a German businessman who was shot during the Second World War by Italian partisans. In 1942 the family moved to Leipzig, a city which was heavily bombarded at the end of the war...
  
  
• 1990 Paul Nizon
  Paul Nizon
  Paul Nizon is a Swiss art historian and writer.The son of a Russian chemist and a Swiss mother, after leaving school he studied history of art, classical archaeology and German language and literature in the universities of Berne and Munich. He obtained his doctorate in 1957 with a thesis on...
  
  
• 1992 Gerhard Roth
  Gerhard Roth
  Gerhard Roth is an Austrian writer.-Life:The son of a medical practitioner, Roth originally also wanted to study medicine himself, but soon focussed on literature. Initially, he earned his living as a computer programmer; he has been a freelance writer since 1976...
  
  
• 1994 Ruth Klüger
  Ruth Klüger
  Ruth 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...
  
  
• 1996 Erica Pedretti
  Erica Pedretti
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• 1998 Arnold Stadler
  Arnold Stadler
  Arnold Stadler is a German writer, essayist and translator.He was born April 9, 1954 in Meßkirch in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.- Life :...
  
  
• 2000 Wulf Kirsten
• 2002 Robert Menasse
  Robert Menasse
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• 2004 Julia Franck
  Julia Franck
  Julia 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 Pascal Mercier
  Peter Bieri (author)
  Peter Bieri , better known by his pseudonym, Pascal Mercier, is a Swiss writer and philosopher.-Academic background:...
  
  
• 2008 Sibylle Lewitscharoff
• 2010 Mirko Bonné

External links

• Der Marie-Luise-Kaschnitz-Preis — Evangelischen Akademie Tutzing