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.

Historian
Born 20/5/1946
In luzider Prosa beantwortet er praktisch, theoretisch und ideologiekritisch die Frage, wie nach dem Zivilisationsbruch des Nationalsozialismus der Geschichtszusammenhang neu zu denken ist.
Jury members
Ingo Schulze, Rita Franceschini, Olga Martynova, Lothar Müller, Lukas Bärfuss, Daniel Göske, Felicitas Hoppe, Joachim Kalka, Daniela Strigl, Michael Walter