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The Kleist Prize is an annual German literature prize. The prize was first awarded in 1912, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist. The Kleist Prize was the most important literary award of the Weimar Republic, but was discontinued in 1933.

In 1985 the prize was awarded for the first time in over fifty years. Between 1994 and 2000 it was awarded biennially. A monetary sum of €20,000 accompanies the award.

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The Kleist Prize is an annual German literature prize. The prize was first awarded in 1912, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the death of...

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Heinrich von Kleist

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Marquise of O. Kleist died by suicide together with a close female friend who was terminally ill. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature...

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Kleist

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Kleist, or von Kleist, is a surname. von Kleist: August von Kleist (1818–1890), Prussian Major General Christian von Kleist (1901–after 1933), German...

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Kleist family

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The House of Kleist is the name of an old and distinguished Prussian noble family, originating in Pomerania, whose members obtained many important military...

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Bertolt Brecht

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November it was announced that Brecht had been awarded the prestigious Kleist Prize (intended for unestablished writers and probably Germany's most significant...

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Yoko Tawada

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for Literature, the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Goethe Medal, the Kleist Prize, and a National Book Award. Tawada was born in Nakano, Tokyo. Her father...

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Daniel Kehlmann

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Max Reinhardt

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century. For example, Reinhardt's 1917 stage premiere of Reinhard Sorge's Kleist Prize-winning stage play Der Bettler almost single-handedly gave birth to Expressionism...

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The Metamorphosis

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List of literary awards

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(Aspekte Literature Prize) – for the best debut novel written in German Kleist Prize – (first awarded in 1912) Kumar Suvarna Chandrak Narmad Suvarna Chandrak...

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Franz Kafka

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Dostoyevsky, Gustav Flaubert, Nikolai Gogol, Franz Grillparzer, and Heinrich von Kleist to be his "true blood brothers". Besides these, he took an interest in Czech...

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Anna Seghers

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issues. She received numerous awards and in 1967 was nominated for the Nobel Prize by the GDR. She died and was buried in Berlin in 1983. She is believed to...

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Alexander Kluge

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Italian Literature Prize Isola d'Elba (1967), and almost every major German-language literary prize, including the Heinrich von Kleist Prize (1985), the Heinrich-Böll-Preis...

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Stefan Zweig

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(Originally published in the volume titled: Der Kampf mit dem Dämon. Hölderlin – Kleist – Nietzsche) Decisive Moments in History, 1927 (Original title: Sternstunden...

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Wilhelm Grimm

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Jenny Erpenbeck

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writer and opera director, recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Born in East Berlin, Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher...

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Carl Zuckmayer

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recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Kleist Prize, Medal of the city of Göttingen, the Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature, and the Ring...

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Hermann Hesse

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authenticity, self-knowledge, and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Hermann Karl Hesse was born on 2 July 1877 in the Black Forest...

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Ernst Barlach

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also met Bernhard and Marga Böhmer for the first time. He received the Kleist Prize for drama in 1924 for his Die Sündflut (The Flood), in which he projects...

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Erich Maria Remarque

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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