Friedrich Nietzsche Prize

Friedrich Nietzsche Prize
Country	Germany
Presented by	Saxony-Anhalt
Reward	€15,000
First awarded	1996
Official website	http://www.nietzsche-gesellschaft.de/nietzsche-preis/ and http://www.sachsen-anhalt.de/index.php?id=pghois633quu

The Friedrich Nietzsche Prize or Friedrich-Nietzsche-Preis is a German literary award named after Friedrich Nietzsche and awarded by the state of Saxony-Anhalt. It was first awarded in 1996 for a German-language essayistic or philosophical work.^[1] The Friedrich Nietzsche Prize is endowed with 15,000 euros. It is awarded by the Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt on the basis of proposals by an international jury.^[2]

The Friedrich Nietzsche Prize is the highest award in Germany, awarded exclusively for philosophical and essayistic achievements.^[3]

Comprehensive list of award winners

1995 Eugenio Trías, Barcelona
1996 Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Berlin
1998 Curt Paul Janz, Basel
2000 Rüdiger Safranski, Berlin
2002 Marie-Luise Haase, Berlin and Michael Kohlenbach, Basel
2004 Durs Grünbein, Berlin
2006 Silvio Vietta, Hildesheim
2009 Ludger Lütkehaus, Freiburg
2012 Andreas Urs Sommer, Heidelberg
2015 Martin Walser, Überlingen

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Philosophy and philosophy-related awards

Avicenna Prize
Barwise Prize
Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
Erasmus Prize (philosophy-related)
Ernst Bloch Prize
Friedrich Nietzsche Prize
Golden Eurydice Award
Hannah Arendt Prize
Hegel Prize
Holberg Prize (philosophy-related)
Jean Nicod Prize
Karl Jaspers Prize
Kluge Prize
Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy
Lakatos Award
Meister Eckhart Prize
Philosophical Book Prize
Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy
Sigmund Freud Prize (philosophy-related)
Sonning Prize (philosophy-related)
Templeton Prize (philosophy-related)
Theodor W. Adorno Award (philosophy-related)
Wolfgang Stegmüller Prize

German literary awards

Friedrich Nietzsche Prize Georg Büchner Prize German Book Prize Goethe Prize Leipzig Book Fair Prize Sigmund Freud Prize Peace Prize of the German Publishers' Association

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