Heinrich Mann Prize
The Akademie der Künste Heinrich Mann Prize is awarded on an annual basis on the anniversary of the birth of Heinrich Mann on 27th March. This prize for essay writing has a value of 10,000 Euros. The laureate is selected by an independent three-member jury, which normally includes the previous year’s laureate.
Lena Gorelik, this year's laureate, with Kathrin Röggla and Nathalie Mälzer at the award ceremony on March 27, 2024.
Lena Gorelik, this year's laureate, at the award ceremony on March 27, 2024.
György Dalos
György Dalos, last year's laureate, with Kathrin Röggla at the award ceremony on March 28, 2023.
Laureates
2024 Lena Gorelik
2023 György Dalos
2022 Lothar Müller
2021 Kathrin Passig
2020 Eva Horn
2019 Danilo Scholz
2018 Christian Bommarius
2017 Gisela von Wysocki
2016 Gunnar Decker
2015 Adam Zagajewski
2014 Robert Schindel
2013 Robert Menasse
2012 Uwe Kolbe
2011 Marie-Luise Scherer
2010 Michael Maar
2009 Hanns Zischler
2008 Heinz Schlaffer
2007 Karl Heinz Bohrer
2006 Peter von Matt
2005 Ivan Nagel
2004 Claudia Schmölders
2003 Wolfgang Schivelbusch
2002 Götz Aly
2001 Walter Boehlich
2000 Dubravka Ugrešic
1999 Katharina Rutschky
1998 Karl Markus Michel
1997 Michael Rutschky
1996 Julius Posener
1995 Hans Mayer
1994 not awarded
1993 Lothar Baier
1992 not awarded
1991 Peter Gosse, Kito Lorenc
1990 Adolf Endler, Elke Erb
1989 Wulf Kirsten
1988 Fritz Mierau
1987 Luise Rinser
1986 Helga Schubert, Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui
1985 Helga Königsdorf, Bernd Leistner
1984 Heinz Czechowski
1983 Friedrich Dieckmann, Helmut H. Schulz
1982 Christoph Hein, Werner Liersch
1981 Peter Hacks
1980 Volker Braun, Paul Gratzik
1979 Fritz Rudolf Fries
1978 Karl Mickel
1977 Erich Köhler, Joachim Nowotny
1976 Annemarie Auer, Siegfried Pitschmann
1975 Irmtraud Morgner, Eberhard Panitz
1974 Kurt Batt, Gerhard Wolf
1973 Ulrich Plenzdorf, Helga Schütz
1972 Karl-Heinz Jakobs, Fred Wander
1971 Jurek Becker, Erik Neutsch, Herbert Otto
1970 Fritz Selbmann, Jeanne Stern, Kurt Stern, Martin Viertel
1969 Werner Heiduczek, Wolfgang Joho, Alfred Wellm
1968 Herbert Ihering
1967 Hermann Kant, Walter Kaufmann
1966 Peter Weiss
1965 Johannes Bobrowski, Brigitte Reimann
1964 Günter de Bruyn
1963 Christa Wolf
1962 Günter Kunert, Bernhard Seeger
1961 Dieter Noll
1960 Helmut Hauptmann, Annemarie Reinhard
1959 Hans Lorbeer, Heiner Müller, Inge Müller
1958 Hans Grundig, Herbert Jobst, Rosemarie Schuder
1957 Hanns Maaßen, Herbert Nachbar, Margarete Neumann
1956 Rudolf Fischer, Franz Fühmann, Wolfgang Schreyer
1955 not awarded
1954 Gotthold Gloger, Theo Harych
1953 Wolfgang Harich, Stefan Heym, Max Zimmering