Jury

Born in 1966, Andreas Platthaus has been an editor in the feuilleton of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper since 1997, where he is responsible for literature and literary life. Since 1998, he has published several books, most recently Auf den Palisaden (On the Palisades) in 2020 with diary entries from his time as a fellow at the Thomas Mann House in California and the biography Lyonel Feininger - Porträt eines Lebens (Lyonel Feininger - Portrait of a Life) in 2021. In 2017 he was appointed Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et lettres by the French Republic, and in 2018 he received the Hessian Culture Prize. He lives in Leipzig and Frankfurt on Main.

Born in Dresden in 1960, is a writer and Professor of Verse arts at Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. After studying German in Jena, she fled to West Germany in 1989 and studied philosophy and sociology in Darmstadt. Her first book came out in 1996.

The central theme of her literary work is the German history of violence, both National Socialism and the GDR dictatorship. Since 2005, she has published the Verschwiegene Bibliothek (Secretive Library), a ten-volume edition of authors and texts that were not allowed to be published in the GDR together with Joachim Walther.

Geipel has received several awards for her works, but also for her social commitment, such as the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (German Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon) in 2011, the Lessing Prize for Criticism in 2020 and the Marieluise Fleißer Prize in 2021.

Born in Rostock in 1980; spent a high school year in the USA in 1996/97; finished High School in 1999; studied German Studies and Philosophy at the University of Rostock, under the tutelage of Helmut Lethen and Moritz Baßler, among others.

Following positions in the fiction editorial department at Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (Munich) and at the literary agency Graf & Graf (Berlin), she has served as Program Director of the Literaturhaus Rostock since 2016.

Born in Eisenstadt (Austria) in 1937, vocational baccalaureat diploma at the Business Academy in Villach, perennial stays abroad in Spain, Italy, since 1984 author and freelance journalist in Germany (Frankfurt on Main, Lünen, Bonn, Leipzig). Author of stories, essays, fairy tales, poetry, radio plays, features and non-fictional books, amongst others:

• Reserviert für zwei (Reserved for two) - Short stories
• Der Tag wird Legende (The day becomes legend) - Lyric
• Der Teufel und das Paradies - Umbrische Legenden (The Devil and Paradise - Umbrian Legends) - Fairy tales and legends
• Wege aus der Drogensucht (Ways out of drug addiction) - Reports
• Leben lohnt doch (Live's worth living after all) - Exit biographies
  

Jobst Welge was born in Braunschweig in 1969 and has been a professor of Romance literature at the University of Leipzig since 2018. In his research and publications, he focuses in particular on Spanish and Portuguese-language literatures, but as a comparatist he also addresses overarching issues of contemporary literature and novel theory (Genealogical Fictions. Cultural Periphery and Historical Change in the Modern Novel, 2015).