Hans Fallada Prize

German literary award

The Hans Fallada Prize is a German literary prize given by the city of Neumünster in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.^[1] Since 1981 it typically awarded every two years to a young author from the German-speaking world. It is named in honor of Hans Fallada, a famous 20th-century German author known for addressing political and social problems of his day in fiction.^[2]

The prize was first awarded in 1981, the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Fallada's A Small Circus (Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben).^[3]

The prize comes with an honorarium of 10,000 euros. In the case that two authors win the award, the prize money is halved.

Award winners

1981: Erich Loest
1983: Ludwig Fels [de]
1985: Sten Nadolny
1988: Ralph Giordano
1990: Jurek Becker
1993: Helga Schubert
1996: Günter Grass
1998: Bernhard Schlink
2000: Thomas Brussig
2002: Birgit Vanderbeke
2004: Wilhelm Genazino
2006: Iris Hanika
2008: Ralf Rothmann
2010: Lukas Bärfuss^[4]
2012: Wolfgang Herrndorf
2014: Jenny Erpenbeck
2016: Jonas Lüscher
2018: Sandra Hoffmann [de]
2020: Saša Stanišić
2022: Arezu Weitholz [de]

References

^ Hans-Fallada-Preis der Stadt Neumünster (in German)
^ Williams, Jenny. More Lives than One: A Biography of Hans Fallada, 1998. ISBN 978-1-870352-38-3
^ Fallada, Hans. Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben. Berlin: Vier Falken Verlag, 1931.
^ "Lukas Bärfuss erhält den Fallada-Preis 2010" (Profile of winner Lukas Bärfuss) Archived 2012-09-05 at archive.today (in German)