Büchner Prize

Büchner Prize, in full Georg Büchner Prize, German Georg-Büchner Preis, prestigious German prize established in 1923 by the government of Volksstaat Hessen (state of Hesse, now in Hessen Land [state]) to honour native son Georg Büchner, a noted dramatist. From its inception to 1950 the prize was awarded to a range of Hessian visual artists, writers, poets, actors, and singers. (It was not presented during the period of 1933–44, because of Nazi censorship.) A 1951 agreement between Hessen and the German Academy for Language and Literature reconceived the Büchner Prize as a purely literary honour. Conferred annually by the German ...(100 of 129 words)