Every winner of the Georg Büchner Prize from 1951 to 1999
The top 3 according to 165 votes from people: Gottfried Benn · Erich Kästner · Ernst Kreuder. (Updated Mar 15, 2026.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Deutsch). See the original
Top 48
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1
Gottfried Benn
Georg Büchner Prize 1951.
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2
Erich Kästner
Georg Büchner Prize 1957.
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3
Ernst Kreuder
Georg Büchner Prize 1953.
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4
Karl Krolow
Georg Büchner Prize 1956.
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5
Martin Kessel
Georg Büchner Prize 1954.
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6
Paul Celan
Georg Büchner Prize 1960.
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7
Hans Erich Nossack
Georg Büchner Prize 1961.
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8
Reiner Kunze
Georg Büchner Prize 1977.
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9
Günter Eich
Georg Büchner Prize 1959.
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10
Uwe Johnson
Georg Büchner Prize 1971.
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11
Heiner Müller
Georg Büchner Prize 1985.
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12
Elias Canetti
Georg Büchner Prize 1972.
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13
Martin Walser
Georg Büchner Prize 1981.
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14
H. C. Artmann
Georg Büchner Prize 1997.
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15
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Georg Büchner Prize 1955.
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16
Helmut Heißenbüttel
Georg Büchner Prize 1969.
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17
Peter Handke
Georg Büchner Prize 1973.
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18
Botho Strauß
Georg Büchner Prize 1989.
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19
Tankred Dorst
Georg Büchner Prize 1990.
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20
George Tabori
Georg Büchner Prize 1992.
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21
Durs Grünbein
Georg Büchner Prize 1995.
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22
Ingeborg Bachmann
Georg Büchner Prize 1964.
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23
Günter Grass
Georg Büchner Prize 1965.
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24
Ernst Meister
Georg Büchner Prize 1979.
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25
Ernst Jandl
Georg Büchner Prize 1984.
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26
Golo Mann
Georg Büchner Prize 1968.
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27
Hermann Kesten
Georg Büchner Prize 1974.
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28
Peter Weiss
Georg Büchner Prize 1982.
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29
Adolf Muschg
Georg Büchner Prize 1994.
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30
Max Frisch
Georg Büchner Prize 1958.
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31
Wolfgang Koeppen
Georg Büchner Prize 1962.
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32
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Georg Büchner Prize 1966.
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33
Heinrich Böll
Georg Büchner Prize 1967.
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34
Thomas Bernhard
Georg Büchner Prize 1970.
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35
Wolfdietrich Schnurre
Georg Büchner Prize 1983.
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36
Hermann Lenz
Georg Büchner Prize 1978.
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37
Peter Rühmkorf
Georg Büchner Prize 1993.
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38
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Georg Büchner Prize 1963.
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39
Manès Sperber
Georg Büchner Prize 1975.
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40
Heinz Piontek
Georg Büchner Prize 1976.
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41
Albert Drach
Georg Büchner Prize 1988.
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42
Wolf Biermann
Georg Büchner Prize 1991.
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43
Elfriede Jelinek
Georg Büchner Prize 1998.
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44
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Georg Büchner Prize 1986.
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45
Christa Wolf
Georg Büchner Prize 1980.
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46
Erich Fried
Georg Büchner Prize 1987.
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47
Sarah Kirsch
Georg Büchner Prize 1996.
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48
Arnold Stadler
Georg Büchner Prize 1999.
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Comments (1)
Celan 1960 und Bachmann 1964 – zwei Jahre, an die man sich erinnert. Schön, dass auch Kaschnitz so früh dabei war.