Leonce-und-Lena-Preis
# 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
