Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Preis

The Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Preis is an arts prize of Hesse. It is awarded biannually for literature (since 1987) and the visual arts (since 1979) on a rotating basis by the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg. The winner receives a certificate as well as a donation of 10,000 euros, though it is possible for the prize money to be split evenly between two winners. A committee of fourteen jurors evaluates qualified submissions; all themes or literary genres are accepted.

The prize is named after Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, the Enlightenment physics professor and writer who was born in Ober-Ramstadt.

Past Recipients (visual arts)

 * Esteban Fekete (1979)
 * Ernst Schonnefeld (1980)
 * Leo Leonhard (1982)
 * Bruno Müller-Linow (1984)
 * Rainer Lind (1986)
 * Barbara Breisinghoff (1988)
 * Arno Jung (1990)
 * Detlef Kraft (1992)
 * Horst Evers alias Gerd Winter (1994)
 * Matthias Will (1996)
 * Helga Griffths (1998)
 * Andrea Neumann (2001)
 * Klaus Lomnitzer (2005)
 * Martin Konietschke (2009)
 * Kurt Wilhelm Hoffmann (2013)
 * Joachim Kuhlmann (2018)

Past Recipients (literature)

 * Ursula Teicher-Maier (1987)
 * Mechthild Curtius (1989)
 * Iris Anna Otto (1991)
 * Susanne Eva Mischke (1995)
 * Rainer Wieczorek (1997)
 * Silke Andrea Schuemmer (1999)
 * Philip Meinhold (2003)
 * Peter Kurzeck (2007)
 * Andreas Maier (2011)
 * Silke Scheuermann (2017)