International Stefan Heym Prize of the City of Chemnitz 2023
Invitation to the press conference: 18 January, 3.30 pm, Stefan Heym Forum, TIETZ
On Wednesday, 18 January at 3.30 pm, Lord Mayor Sven Schulze, Dr Ulrike Uhlig, Chair of the Board of the International Stefan Heym Society e. V., and Prof. Dr Bernadette Malinowski, Chair of Modern German and Comparative Literature at Chemnitz University of Technology, will announce this year's winner of the International Stefan Heym Prize.
Representatives of the media are cordially invited to the press conference at the Stefan Heym Forum, TIETZ, Moritzstraße 20.
The International Stefan Heym Prize of the City of Chemnitz 2023 will be awarded at a ceremony on Saturday, 1 April 2023.
International Stefan Heym Prize of the City of Chemnitz
The International Stefan Heym Prize of the City of Chemnitz is awarded in memory of the life, work and achievements of Stefan Heym, son and honorary citizen of the City of Chemnitz. The International Stefan Heym Prize is intended to honour contemporary and courageous personalities who, like Stefan Heym, have made outstanding and lasting achievements as writers and publicists. It is endowed with 20,000 euros.
The prize was first awarded to Amos Oz in 2008. Bora Ćosić received the award in 2011. On the occasion of Stefan Heym's 100th birthday, the prize was awarded to Christoph Hein in 2013. In 2017, the Polish writer and journalist Joanna Bator received the International Stefan Heym Prize of the City of Chemnitz. The Croatian writer and journalist Slavenka Drakulić and the Swedish author and journalist Richard Swartz are the winners of the International Stefan Heym Prize 2020.
The Board of Trustees, which decides on the awarding of the prize, includes the Lord Mayor of the City of Chemnitz, the President of the P.E.N. Centre Germany, the President of the Goethe-Institut, the Director of C. Bertelsmann Verlag, the Chairman of the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM) - German Section, the Chairwoman of the International Stefan Heym Society e. V, two councillors from the City of Chemnitz Cultural Committee and Prof Dr Bernadette Malinowski, holder of the Chair of Modern German and Comparative Literature at Chemnitz University of Technology.