!!!Grillparzer-Preis

Grillparzer-Preis, 1) Literature award, established in 1872 by a 
women's committee on the occasion of Grillparzer's 80%%sup th/%  
birthday. After Grillparzer's death K.  Froehlich entrusted the 
endowment funds to the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna; they 
administered the assets and awarded the prize intermittently every 
3%%sup rd/%  year until 1971 on January 15 (Grillparzer's birthday) 
for "the comparatively (sic) best dramatic work in German language 
which has been performed in the course of the past 3 years on a 
renowned stage and has not yet been awarded a prize by another party".

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Prize winners: A. Wilbrandt (1875, 1890), E. Wildenbruch (1884), L. 
Anzengruber (1887), G. Hauptmann (1896, 1899, 1905), O. E. 
Hartleben (1902), A. Schnitzler (1908), K. Schoenherr (1911, 1917, 
1920), F. Unruh (1923), F. Werfel (1926), M. Mell (1929, 1941), J. 
Wenter (1935) F. T. Csokor (1938), R. Holzer (1947, 1950), R. 
Bayr (1953), F. Hochwaelder (1956), R. Billinger (1962), V. Braun 
(1965), F. Duerrenmatt (1968), T. Bernhard (1971).

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2) Franz Grillparzer Prize, culture and literature prize, primarily 
for outstanding achievements in humanities in Austria, donated by 
A. C. Toepfer; courtesy of a foundation in Hamburg, Germany, 
awarded by the University of Vienna; prize winners: P. Handke (1991), 
H. Lebert (1992), A. Drach (1993).


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