Alex Wedding Prize

TheAlex Wedding Prize is a German literary prize awarded to authors of works for children and young people. It is named after children's author Grete Weiskopf-Bernheim (1905-1966), who wrote under the pen name "Alex Wedding".[1]

From 1968 to 1990 it was awarded by the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic, and since then by its successor, the Academy of Arts, Berlin. An independent three-member jury awarded the prize, valued at €5,000, on Wedding's birthday, 11 May.[2]

Winners
  • 1968: Willi Meinck
  • 1969: Karl Neumann
  • 1970: Kurt David
  • 1971: Joachim Nowotny
  • 1972: Götz R. Richter
  • 1973: Herbert Friedrich
  • 1974: Edith Bergner
  • 1975: Horst Beseler
  • 1976: Fred Rodrian
  • 1977: Peter Brock
  • 1978: Gotthold Gloger
  • 1979: Hans Weber
  • 1980: Hildegard & Siegfried Schumacher
  • 1981: Klaus Beuchler
  • 1982: Hannes Hüttner
  • 1983: Peter Abraham
  • 1984: Lilo Hardel
  • 1985: Werner Lindemann
  • 1986: Gunter Preuß
  • 1987: Wolf Spillner
  • 1988: Werner Heiduczek
  • 1989: Maria Seidemann
  • 1990: Walther Petri
  • 1991: Anne Geelhaar & Christa Kozik
  • 1992: Peter Hacks
  • 1998: Klaus Kordon
  • 2000: Benno Pludra
  • 2003: F. K. Waechter
  • 2008: Karla Schneider

References
  1. "The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme". un.org. 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  2. "Alex Wedding Prize". Akademie der Künste. 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.


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