# Every winner of the Georg Büchner Prize from 1951 to 1999

The Georg Büchner Prize has been awarded as a literary prize since 1951 by the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt. From Gottfried Benn, the first winner in 1951, through Max Frisch, Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann and Heinrich Böll to the end of the century: all the laureates in order.

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## Top 48

1. **Gottfried Benn** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1951.
2. **Erich Kästner** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — Georg Büchner Prize 1957.
3. **Ernst Kreuder** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1953.
4. **Karl Krolow** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1956.
5. **Martin Kessel** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1954.
6. **Paul Celan** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1960.
7. **Hans Erich Nossack** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1961.
8. **Reiner Kunze** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1977.
9. **Günter Eich** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1959.
10. **Uwe Johnson** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1971.
11. **Heiner Müller** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1985.
12. **Elias Canetti** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1972.
13. **Martin Walser** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1981.
14. **H. C. Artmann** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1997.
15. **Marie Luise Kaschnitz** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1955.
16. **Helmut Heißenbüttel** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1969.
17. **Peter Handke** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1973.
18. **Botho Strauß** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1989.
19. **Tankred Dorst** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1990.
20. **George Tabori** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1992.
21. **Durs Grünbein** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1995.
22. **Ingeborg Bachmann** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1964.
23. **Günter Grass** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1965.
24. **Ernst Meister** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1979.
25. **Ernst Jandl** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1984.
26. **Golo Mann** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1968.
27. **Hermann Kesten** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1974.
28. **Peter Weiss** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1982.
29. **Adolf Muschg** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1994.
30. **Max Frisch** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1958.
31. **Wolfgang Koeppen** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1962.
32. **Wolfgang Hildesheimer** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1966.
33. **Heinrich Böll** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1967.
34. **Thomas Bernhard** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1970.
35. **Wolfdietrich Schnurre** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1983.
36. **Hermann Lenz** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1978.
37. **Peter Rühmkorf** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1993.
38. **Hans Magnus Enzensberger** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1963.
39. **Manès Sperber** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1975.
40. **Heinz Piontek** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1976.
41. **Albert Drach** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1988.
42. **Wolf Biermann** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1991.
43. **Elfriede Jelinek** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Georg Büchner Prize 1998.
44. **Friedrich Dürrenmatt** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Georg Büchner Prize 1986.
45. **Christa Wolf** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1980.
46. **Erich Fried** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1987.
47. **Sarah Kirsch** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1996.
48. **Arnold Stadler** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Georg Büchner Prize 1999.

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