On Tuesday, 10 March at 3 pm, Mayor Dagmar Ruscheinsky, Petra Seedorff, 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 and member of the Board of Trustees for the awarding of the literature prize, will announce which outstanding personality will receive the International Stefan Heym Prize of the City of Chemnitz 2026. The prizewinner will be connected digitally.
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 2026 will be awarded on Saturday, 18 April, at a ceremony in the event location 'die fabrik'.
International Stefan Heym Prize of the City of Chemnitz
The International Stefan Heym Prize is a literary prize awarded by the City of Chemnitz since 2008 in memory of Stefan Heym (1913 to 2001), the Chemnitz-born writer, publicist and honorary citizen of the city. It is usually awarded every three years to courageous personalities who are critical of the times and who intervene in social and political debates through their work and stand up for moral values - entirely in the spirit of Stefan Heym's life and work.
The prize is endowed with 20,000 euros and is a prestigious honour in the German-language literary landscape.
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 were the prizewinners in 2020. In 2023, the German writer Jenny Erpenbeck received the International Stefan Heym Prize of the City of Chemnitz.
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