Marieluise-Fleißer-Preis

Marieluise-Fleißer-Preis is a German biennial literary prize, given by the town of Ingolstadt, Bavaria, on behalf of the Marieluise-Fleißer-Gesellschaft, in memory of the writer Marieluise Fleißer who was born in Ingolstadt. It is awarded to a German-language author who writes, as Fleißer did, about the conflict of unfulfilled claims to happiness and everyday life ("Konflikt zwischen unerfüllten Glücksansprüchen und dem alltäglichen Leben". The prize money is €10,000.

Recipients

 * 1981 Irmgard Keun
 * 1986 Uwe Dick
 * 1989 Herta Müller
 * 1992 Thomas Hürlimann
 * 1995 Robert Schneider
 * 1998 Gert Heidenreich
 * 2001 Petra Morsbach
 * 2003 Harald Grill
 * 2005 Kerstin Specht
 * 2007 Franz Xaver Kroetz
 * 2009 Dea Loher
 * 2011 Sibylle Lewitscharoff
 * 2013 Rainald Goetz
 * 2015 Ulrich Peltzer
 * 2017 Christoph Ransmayr
 * 2019 Iris Wolff
 * 2021 Ines Geipel