Overview
- Krechel received the Georg Büchner Prize from the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung on Saturday in Darmstadt.
- The prize, worth €50,000, has been awarded since 1951 and is funded by the federal government, the state of Hesse and the city of Darmstadt.
- Jurors highlighted her 2008–2018 trilogy—Shanghai fern von wo, Landgericht and Geisterbahn—on expulsions and persecutions of Jews and Sinti, with a focus on women’s authorship.
- Her work centers on flight, exile, violence and feminism, and this year she published Sehr geehrte Frau Ministerin and Vom Herzasthma des Exils.
- Krechel, born in Trier in 1947, previously won the German Book Prize and received the Federal Cross of Merit in 2020.