The Heinrich Mann Prize (German: Heinrich-Mann-Preis) is an essay prize that has been awarded since 1953, first by the East German Academy of Arts, then by the Academy of Arts, Berlin. The prize, which comes with a €8,000 purse, is given annually on 27 March, Heinrich Mann's day of birth. The laureate is selected by an independent three-member jury which usually includes the previous year's laureate.
1953: Stefan Heym, Wolfgang Harich, Max Zimmering
1954: Gotthold Gloger, Theo Harych
1955: -
1956: Franz Fühmann, Rudolf Fischer, Wolfgang Schreyer
1957: Hanns Maaßen, Herbert Nachbar, Margarete Neumann
1958: Hans Grundig, Herbert Jobst, Rosemarie Schuder
1959: Heiner Müller, Hans Lorbeer, Inge Müller
1960: Helmut Hauptmann, Annemarie Reinhard
1961: Dieter Noll
1962: Günter Kunert, Bernhard Seeger
1963: Christa Wolf
1964: Günter de Bruyn
1965: Johannes Bobrowski, Brigitte Reimann
1966: Peter Weiss
1967: Hermann Kant, Walter Kaufmann
1968: Herbert Ihering
1969: Werner Heiduczek, Wolfgang Joho, Alfred Wellm
1970: Fritz Selbmann, Jeanne Stern, Kurt Stern, Martin Viertel
1971: Jurek Becker, Erik Neutsch, Herbert Otto
1972: Karl-Heinz Jakobs, Fred Wander
1973: Ulrich Plenzdorf, Helga Schütz
1974: Kurt Batt, Gerhard Wolf
1975: Irmtraud Morgner, Eberhard Panitz
1976: Annemarie Auer, Siegfried Pitschmann
1977: Erich Köhler, Joachim Nowotny
1978: Karl Mickel
1979: Fritz Rudolf Fries
1980: Volker Braun, Paul Gratzik
1981: Peter Hacks
1982: Christoph Hein, Werner Liersch
1983: Friedrich Dieckmann, Helmut H. Schulz
1984: Heinz Czechowski
1985: Helga Königsdorf, Bernd Leistner
1986: Helga Schubert, Heidi Urban de Jauregui
1987: Luise Rinser
1988: Fritz Mierau
1989: Wulf Kirsten
1990: Adolf Endler, Elke Erb
1991: Peter Gosse, Kito Lorenc
1992: -
1993/94 Lothar Baier
1995: Hans Mayer
1996: Julius Posener
1997: Michael Rutschky
1998: Karl Markus Michel
1999: Katharina Rutschky
2000: Dubravka Ugrešić
2001: Walter Boehlich
2002: Götz Aly
2003: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
2004: Claudia Schmölders
2005: Ivan Nagel
2006: Peter von Matt
2007: Karl Heinz Bohrer
2008: Heinz Schlaffer
2009: Hanns Zischler
2010: Michael Maar
2011: Marie-Luise Scherer
2012: Uwe Kolbe
2013: Robert Menasse
2014: Robert Schindel
2015: Adam Zagajewski
2016: Gunnar Decker
2017: Gisela von Wysocki
German literature
List of literary awards
List of poetry awards
List of years in literature
List of years in poetry
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