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Anna Seghers Prize 2026
6/6/2026, 7 PM

Award Ceremony

Award ceremony with the winners Sonja M. Schultz and Daniela Catrileo and the jurors Alexander Graeff and Andrea Garcés

Anna Seghers wearing a scarf (photo booth picture)
Anna Seghers (photo booth picture)
© Akademie der Künste

The 2026 Anna Seghers Prize, worth 12,500 euros each, has been awarded to Sonja M. Schultz and Daniela Catrileo. 

The prize is awarded to one author from the German-speaking world and one from Latin America, the cultural region of Anna Seghers’ exile. Like Anna Seghers herself, the recipients should be driven by a desire to use the power of art to contribute to a fairer, more humane society. This year, Alexander Graeff and Andrea Garcès were responsible for selecting the two prize winners.

Anna Seghers Foundation

In her will, the writer Anna Seghers stipulated that the royalties from her works should be used to support young artists from the GDR and Latin American countries. From 1986 to 1994, the East German Akademie der Künste, and later the writer’s children – Pierre and Ruth Radvanyi – awarded annual grants. In 1995, the Anna Seghers Foundation was established, which has since awarded the Anna Seghers Prize.

Anna Seghers Museum

The Anna Seghers Museum of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin-Adlershof offers interested visitors a chance to view the writer’s flat preserved in its original condition; it houses, among other things, her estate library of around 10,000 volumes as well as many personal mementoes.