Kurd Laßwitz Award

Awarding of the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preises at Elstercon 2008

The Kurd Laßwitz Award (German: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis) is possibly the best-known science fiction award from Germany. The award is named after the science fiction author Kurd Laßwitz.

Wolfgang Jeschke has won the award 11 times in four different categories while Andreas Eschbach has won the prize for novel seven times. The foreign-language category includes novels, stories, collections and non-fiction. Iain Banks and China Miéville won the foreign-language prize four times.[1] Other authors to win multiple times are Hans Joachim Alpers, Carl Amery, Herbert W. Franke, Ian McDonald, Michael Marrak, and Connie Willis.

Award Winners

German Novel

Foreign Fiction

German Short Story (since 1997)

(1981–1996 as Novellette/Novella and Short Story)

  • 1997: Wolfgang Jeschke, Partner fürs Leben
  • 1998: Malte S. Sembten, Blind Date
  • 1999: Marcus Hammerschmitt, Wüstenlack
  • 2000: Wolfgang Jeschke, Die Cusanische Acceleratio
  • 2001: Marcus Hammerschmitt, Troubadoure
  • 2002: Wolfgang Jeschke, Allah akbar And So Smart Our NLWs
  • 2003: Erik Simon, Spiel beendet, sagte der Sumpf
  • 2004: Angela Steinmüller and Karlheinz Steinmüller, Vor der Zeitreise
  • 2005: Wolfgang Jeschke, Das Geschmeide
  • 2006: Rainer Erler, An e-Star is born
  • 2007: Marcus Hammerschmitt, Canea Null
  • 2008: Michael K. Iwoleit, Der Moloch
  • 2009: Andreas Eschbach, Survival-Training and Heidrun Jänchen, Ein Geschäft wie jedes andere
  • 2010: Ernst-Eberhard Manski, Das Klassentreffen der Weserwinzer
  • 2011: Michael K. Iwoleit, Die Schwelle
  • 2012: Frank W. Haubold, Am Ende der Reise
  • 2013: Klaus N. Frick, Im Käfig
  • 2014: Michael Marrak, Coen Sloterdykes diametral levitierendes Chronoversum
  • 2015: Fabian Tomaschek, Boatpeople
  • 2016: Karsten Kruschel, Was geschieht dem Licht am Ende des Tunnels?

Further categories

  • Artist
  • Translator
  • Movie (1987–1996)
  • Radio Drama
  • Special Award

See also

References


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