Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis

The »Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis für literarische Kritik und Essay« (Prize for Literary Criticism and Essay Writing) has been awarded by the German Academy for Language and Literature since 1964, financed by the Darmstadt-based Merck pharmaceutical company.
It is awarded annually at the autumn conference of the German Academy in Darmstadt. The Johann Heinrich Merck Prize has been endowed with €20,000 since 2013.

Awardees

Helmut Böttiger

Author and Literary critic
Born 8/9/1956

Mit stupenden Kenntnissen begegnet er sowohl dem einzelnen Buch wie dem Gesamtwerk von Autorinnen und Autoren und verortet sie im Kontext literarischer und politischer Strömungen.

Jury members
Ingo Schulze, Rita Franceschini, Olga Martynova, Lothar Müller, Lukas Bärfuss, Daniel Göske, Felicitas Hoppe, Joachim Kalka, Daniela Strigl, Michael Walter