Sigmund-Freud-Preis

The »Sigmund-Freud-Preis für wissenschaftliche Prosa« (Prize for Academic Prose) was first awarded by the German Academy for Language and Literature in 1964.
It is granted to scholars who publish in German and contribute decisively to the development of language usage in their fields of study through excellent linguistic style.
The Sigmund Freud Prize is sponsored by the HSE Foundation and is awarded annually at the autumn conference of the German Academy in Darmstadt.
The prize has been endowed with €20,000 since 2013.

Adolf Portmann

Zoologist
Born 27/5/1897
Deceased 28/6/1982

... für die ungewöhnliche Vereinigung strenger Forschung und vorbildlicher Prosa in Büchern, geschrieben aus der Leidenschaft, von der Größe des Lebendigen zu zeugen.

Jury members
Juryvorsitz: Präsident Hanns W. Eppelsheimer
Vizepräsidenten Dolf Sternberger, Gerhart Pohl, Fritz Usinger, Beisitzer Friedrich Bischoff, Richard Gerlach, Karl Krolow, Wilhelm Lehmann, Fritz Martini, Gerhard Storz, W. E. Süskind, Ehrenpräsidenten Kasimir Edschmid, Hermann Kasack