Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung

The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in English German Academy for Language and Literature) was founded on 28 August 1949, on the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. It is seated in Darmstadt. It is a society of writers and scholars on matters pertaining to German language and literature in the German sprachraum.

Literary awards

Since 1951 it has awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, the most important literary prize in the German language. Another prize, the Sigmund Freud Prize, was installed in memory of Sigmund Freud in 1964. That same year, the annual Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis was installed for the intermediation of German culture in foreign countries, in memory of Friedrich Gundolf.

Notable members

• Volker Braun
• Carl Dahlhaus
• Adolf Endler
• Péter Esterházy
• Hermann Kasack
• Thomas Kling
• Karl Krolow
• Herta Müller
• Oda Schaefer
• Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt
• Martin Walser

External links

• German Academy for Language and Literature