F.-C. Weiskopf Prize

The F.-C. Weiskopf Prize is intended to honour authors, whose works contain a linguistic critical and linguistic reflective emphasis. The value of the prize is 5,000 Euros and has been awarded since 1957 every two or three years on the occasion of the anniversary of the birthday of F. C. Weiskopf on 3rd April. The winner is selected by an independent three-member jury.

Laureates

1957   Ernst Stein 
1958   Stephan Hermlin
1959   Zeitschrift „Sprachpflege“
1960   Victor Klemperer (postum)
1961   Dudenredaktion
1963   Elise Riesel
1964   Rudolf Schaller
1965   Peter Hacks
1967   Johannes Bobrowski (postum)
1968   Annemarie Auer
1969   Georg Möller
1970   Eva Schumann
1972   Georg Maurer (postum)
1974   Wilhelm Schmidt
1975   Thomas Reschke
1977   Eduard Zak
1979   Mitarbeiter des Reclam-Verlages, Leipzig
1981   Ernst Schwarz
1983   Rainer Kirsch
1985   Günter Caspar
1987   Werner Creutziger
1989   Armin Zeißler
1991   Bert Papenfuß, Thomas Rosenlöcher
1997   Detlef Opitz
1999   Elke Erb
2001   Paul Wühr
2004   Thomas Kunst
2007   Richard Anders