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