Mely Kiyak, © Svenja Trierscheid
Heinrich Mann Prize 2025 to Mely Kiyak
Award Ceremony
The Heinrich Mann Prize 2025 goes to the essayist Mely Kiyak. From the jury’s statement: “Mely Kiyak has become an important intellectual voice in German society. She is dedicated to self-knowledge, political diagnosis and social and institutional criticism. She interweaves precise analyses with radical introspection and an extremely rare sense of absurdly beautiful comedy expressed in political statements.”
Welcome: Manos Tsangaris, President of the Akademie der Künste
Laudation: Jan Böhmermann
Reading: Mehmet Yilmaz
Music: Nevzat Akpınar and Haydar Kutluer