The Annette von Droste Hülshoff Prize will be awarded to Anne Weber in 2024. The literary prize of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), which is endowed with 35,000 euros, is awarded in cooperation with the CfL for outstanding achievements in the field of literature. The author and literary translator Anne Weber, born in 1965, is being honoured because, according to the expert jury, she has dealt with European history in her prose in an unmistakable way and has also broken new ground in terms of form with each of her books. Anne Weber shares the prize's namesake's self-confidence as a woman writer, the intention and ability to reflect on her creative endeavours in relation to her surroundings and to inscribe herself in the text. Both authors have an idiosyncratic, closely observant view of the world, of big history and small stories, as well as the will to artistic construction. Like the Westphalian poet, Anne Weber has a rich arsenal of formal means at her disposal and a special musicality of expression, the expert jury continued.
Welcome Georg Lunemann, Director of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe
Film portrait by Anne Weber
Laudatio Daniela Strigl, literary scholar and literary critic
Award ceremony for Anne Weber, prizewinner
Conversation Anne Weber, prizewinner, with Dr Jörg Albrecht, Artistic Director and Founding Director of Burg Hülshoff - Center for Literature and Dr Barbara Rüschoff-Parzinger, Head of Cultural Affairs of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, moderated by Susan Zare