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

Walter Höllerer

Writer and Literary scholar
Born 19/12/1922
Deceased 20/5/2003
Member since 1959

... für seine literarischen Aktivitäten, die er von Berlin aus als Anreger, Vermittler, Herausgeber und Lehrer unermüdlich und originell entwickelt hat.

Jury members
Juryvorsitz: Präsident Peter de Mendelssohn
Vizepräsidenten Karl Krolow, Horst Rüdiger, Dolf Sternberger, Beisitzer Horst Bienek, Walter Helmut Fritz, Rudolf Hagelstange, Geno Hartlaub, Gerhard Storz, Wolfgang Weyrauch