Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize

The Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize (German: Wilhelm-Raabe-Literaturpreis) is a German literary award established in 2000 by the city of Braunschweig and the radio broadcaster Deutschlandradio. It is named after the 18th century writer Wilhelm Raabe and is awarded for an individual work. The prize sum is 30,000 euro, making it one of the most significant German literary awards after the Georg Büchner Prize and the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis.

Recipients

• 2000: Rainald Goetz for Abfall für alle
• 2002: Jochen Missfeldt for Gespiegelter Himmel
• 2004: Ralf Rothmann for Junges Licht
• 2006: Wolf Haas for Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren
• 2008: Katja Lange-Müller for Böse Schafe
• 2010: Andreas Maier for Das Zimmer
• 2011: Sibylle Lewitscharoff for Blumenberg
• 2012: Christian Kracht for Imperium
• 2013: Marion Poschmann for Die Sonnenposition
• 2014: Thomas Hettche for Pfaueninsel
• 2015: Clemens J. Setz for Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre

The award had until 1990 been known as the Wilhelm Raabe Prize.

Previous Recipients

• 1944 Ricarda Huch
• 1947 Fritz von Unruh
• 1948 Werner Bergengruen
• 1949 Ina Seidel
• 1950 Hermann Hesse
• 1954 Max Frisch
• 1957 Friedrich Georg Jünger
• 1960 Gerd Gaiser
• 1963 Hans Erich Nossack
• 1966 Heimito von Doderer
• 1972 Walter Kempowski
• 1975 Uwe Johnson
• 1978 Horst Bienek
• 1981 Hermann Lenz
• 1984 Alois Brandstetter
• 1987 Siegfried Lenz
• 1990 Gerhard Köpf