Leonce-und-Lena-Preis

Leonce-und-Lena-Preis is a literary prize of Hesse. The award was founded in 1968, the City of Darmstadt has been awarding the prize since 1979. Leonce and Lena is a play by Georg Büchner. The prize money is €8,000. German-speaking authors who were not older than 35 can take part.

Winners

 * 1968 Wolf Wondratschek
 * 1969 Katrine von Hutten
 * 1972 Hanne F. Juritz
 * 1973 Harry Oberländer
 * 1975 Rita Breit
 * 1977 Friederike Roth und Anno F. Leven
 * 1979 Ludwig Fels, Rolf Haufs und Rainer Malkowski
 * 1981 Ulla Hahn, Förderpreis Tina Stroheker
 * 1983 not awarded
 * 1985 Hans-Ulrich Treichel
 * 1987 Jan Koneffke, Sonderpreis "Politisches Gedicht": Richard Wagner
 * 1989 Kurt Drawert
 * 1991 Kerstin Hensel
 * 1993 Kathrin Schmidt
 * 1995 Raoul Schrott
 * 1997 Dieter M. Gräf
 * 1999 Raphael Urweider
 * 2001 Silke Scheuermann, Sabine Scho
 * 2003 Anja Utler
 * 2005 Ron Winkler
 * 2007 Christian Schloyer
 * 2009 Ulrike Almut Sandig
 * 2011 Steffen Popp
 * 2013 Katharina Schultens
 * 2015 David Krause
 * 2017 Andra Schwarz
 * 2019 Yevgeniy Breyger
 * 2021 Katrin Pitz