Georg Büchner Prize

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Georg Büchner Prize

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Prestigious literary award named for Georg Büchner, by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Originally an artist/author prize, changed to its current focus in 1951.

1923 Adam Karillon

1924 Alfred Bock

1925 Wilhelm Michel

1927 Kasimir Edschmid

1929 Carl Zuckmayer

1930 Nikolaus Schwarzkopf

1932 Albert H. Rausch

1933 (no award given, 1933-44)

1945 Hans Schiebelhuth

1946 Fritz Usinger

1947 Anna Seghers

1948 Hermann Heiß

1950 Elisabeth Langgässer

1951 Gottfried Benn

1952 (no award)

1953 Ernst Kreuder

1954 Martin Kessel

1955 Marie Luise Kaschnitz

1956 Karl Krolow

1957 Erich Kästner

1958 Max Frisch

1959 Günter Eich

1960 Paul Celan

1961 Hans Erich Nossack

1962 Wolfgang Koeppen

1963 Hans Magnus Enzensberger

1964 Ingeborg Bachmann

1965 Günter Grass

1966 Wolfgang Hildesheimer

1967 Heinrich Böll

1968 Golo Mann

1969 Helmut Heißenbüttel

1970 Thomas Bernhard

1971 Uwe Johnson

1972 Elias Canetti

1973 Peter Handke

1974 Hermann Kesten

1975 Manès Sperber

1976 Heinz Piontek

1977 Reiner Kunze

1978 Hermann Lenz

1979 Ernst Meister

1980 Christa Wolf

1981 Martin Walser

1982 Peter Weiss

1983 Wolfdietrich Schnurre

1984 Ernst Jandl

1985 Heiner Müller

1986 Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1987 Erich Fried

1988 Albert Drach

1989 Botho Strauß

1990 Tankred Dorst

1991 Wolf Biermann

1992 George Tabori

1993 Peter Rühmkorf

1994 Adolf Muschg

1995 Durs Grünbein

1996 Sarah Kirsch

1997 H.C. Artmann

1998 Elfriede Jelinek

1999 Arnold Stadler

2000 Volker Braun

2001 Friederike Mayröcker

2002 Wolfgang Hilbig

2003 Alexander Kluge

2004 Wilhelm Genazino

2005 Brigitte Kronauer

2006 Oskar Pastior

2007 Martin Mosebach

2008 Josef Winkler

2009 Walter Kappacher

2010 Reinhard Jirgl

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