Friedrich Hölderlin Prize 2025: Celebrate with the Nobel Prize winners!

Friedrich Hölderlin Prize 2025: Celebrate with the Nobel Prize winners!

In Bad Homburg, literary fans and interested people look forward to the upcoming award of the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize 2025. On Sunday, June 29, 2025, at 5 p.m., the main prize and the conveyor award will be awarded in the unique backdrop of the castle church. As the city of Bad Homburg announced, admission is free and no registration is required. Admission begins at 4:15 p.m. Bad Homburg reports that ...

The tension is great because the jury has decided: award winner of the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize is Christian Lehnert, a poet and theologian born in Dresden in 1969. He can look forward to a doping of 20,000 euros. Lehnert is known for his concise and musical works, which often address metaphysical questions, nature experiences and silence. Most recently, he published the volume of poems "Easy Breath" in the renowned Suhrkamp Verlag. In addition to his literary successes, he also has an impressive academic career, starting with his studies in theology and orientalistics in Leipzig to his current role as head of the liturgical institute in Leipzig. Mittelhessen reports that ...

sponsorship award for talented youngsters

But that's not all! The Friedrich Hölderlin funding award is also awarded. This year the award goes to Necati Öziri, who saw the light of day in Datteln in 1988. The writer and dramaturge has already caused a sensation with his debut novel "Father Mal", who was on the shortlist of the German Book Prize in 2023. Öziri deals with complex topics such as memory and identity in his works, and his plays already have a good stand in the German theater landscape. In the coming winter semester, he will also take over the poetics lecturer at the Rheinmain University of Applied Sciences. German poetry describes the influence of Hölderlins ...

The award ceremony is added by a musical framework: the chamber music ensemble Trio Lézard will accompany the event and thus ensure a special atmosphere. Mayor Alexander Hetjes said that the award ceremony not only celebrates the literary diversity, but also recognizes Friedrich Hölderlin's poetic heritage. This underlines this year's motto "comes there and back the upcoming God", which comes directly from Hölderlin.

supporting program for those interested in literature

The literary highlight is also supplemented by a supporting program. On June 27th and 28th, the young Hölderlin forum will take place in Villa Wertheimber, which also offers all sorts of exciting events. On June 27th at 6:30 p.m. there will be a reading with the well -known author Olga Martynova, followed by a public reading by Christian Lehnert on June 28th at the same time. All events are free and do not require prior registration. The city is pleased to be able to offer such programs in order to pass on the enthusiasm for literature and especially for Hölderlin's work.

Bad Homburg will be the meeting point for everyone who appreciates the contemporary poetry and the literary heir. It can only be hoped that many interested parties will find their way to the castle church to celebrate the appreciation of these two talented writers.