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.

Peter von Matt

Literary scholar
Born 20/5/1937
Member since 1992

Der Kritik wird so die Würde der Philologie und dieser die Eleganz der geschliffenen Rede zurückgegeben.

Jury members
Juryvorsitz: Präsident Herbert Heckmann
Vizepräsidenten Günter de Bruyn, Hartmut von Hentig, Ivan Nagel, Beisitzer Walter Helmut Fritz, Oskar Pastior, Lea Ritter-Santini, Peter Wapnewski, Hans Wollschläger