title: Leonce-und-Lena-Preis
text: # Leonce-und-Lena-Preis
  
  Leonce-und-Lena-Preis is a literary prize of Hesse. The award was founded in 1968, the City of Darmstadt has been awarding the prize since 1979. Leonce and Lena is a play by Georg Büchner. The prize money is €8,000. German-speaking authors who were not older than 35 can take part.
  
  ## Winners
  
  * 1968 Wolf Wondratschek
  * 1969 Katrine von Hutten
  * 1972 Hanne F. Juritz
  * 1973 Harry Oberländer
  * 1975 Rita Breit
  * 1977 Friederike Roth und Anno F. Leven
  * 1979 Ludwig Fels, Rolf Haufs und Rainer Malkowski
  * 1981 Ulla Hahn, Förderpreis Tina Stroheker
  * 1983 not awarded
  * 1985 Hans-Ulrich Treichel
  * 1987 Jan Koneffke, Sonderpreis "Politisches Gedicht": Richard Wagner
  * 1989 Kurt Drawert
  * 1991 Kerstin Hensel
  * 1993 Kathrin Schmidt
  * 1995 Raoul Schrott
  * 1997 Dieter M. Gräf
  * 1999 Raphael Urweider
  * 2001 Silke Scheuermann, Sabine Scho
  * 2003 Anja Utler
  * 2005 Ron Winkler
  * 2007 Christian Schloyer
  * 2009 Ulrike Almut Sandig
  * 2011 Steffen Popp
  * 2013 Katharina Schultens
  * 2015 David Krause
  * 2017 Andra Schwarz
  * 2019 Yevgeniy Breyger
  * 2021 Katrin Pitz
  