Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung 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, since 1971 in the Glückert House at the Darmstadt Artists' Colony. It is a society of writers and scholars on matters pertaining to German language and literature in the Deutsche sprachraum, or Germanosphere.
Conferences
Literary awards
- Since 1951 it has awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, the most important literary prize in the German language.
- The Sigmund Freud Prize, was instituted in memory of Sigmund Freud in 1964.
- That same year, the annual Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis was instituted for the promotion of German culture in foreign countries, in memory of Friedrich Gundolf.
- Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis
- Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung
Notable members
Source:- Ilse Aichinger
- Hannah Arendt
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- Lukas Bärfuss
- Jurek Becker
- Gottfried Benn
- Thomas Bernhard
- Heinrich Böll
- Nicolas Born
- Pierre Boulez
- Volker Braun
- Joseph Breitbach
- Alfred Brendel
- Carl Dahlhaus
- Heimito von Doderer
- Tankred Dorst
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Adolf Endler
- Péter Esterházy
- Max Frisch
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Lars Gustafsson
- Jürgen Habermas
- Hans Werner Henze
- Theodor Heuss
- Ernst Jandl
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Walter Jens
- Uwe Johnson
- Erich Kästner
- Hermann Kasack
- Hermann Kesten
- Thomas Kling
- Karl Krolow
- Elisabeth Langgässer
- Hermann Lenz
- Siegfried Lenz
- Golo Mann
- Robert Menasse
- Terézia Mora
- Herta Müller
- Adolf Muschg
- Christoph Ransmayr
- Jan Philipp Reemtsma
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Wolfgang Rihm
- Oda Schaefer
- Wolfdietrich Schnurre
- Saša Stanišić
- Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt
- Martin Walser
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- Christa Wolf
- Adam Zagajewski
- Carl Zuckmayer