Alfred Döblin Prize 2025 Readings in competition
The Alfred Döblin Prize, endowed with 15,000 Euro and donated by Günter Grass, is awarded for a longer prose manuscript in progress.
The jury consists of Ekkehard Knörer, Lara Sielmann and Shirin Sojitrawalla. The nominees for the public reading on 24 May at the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin are Andrea Rea Arežina, Sophia Merwald, Martin Piekar, Lina Schwenk, Janna Steenfatts and Karosh Taha.
The finalists will present their texts to the audience and the experts Leander Berger, Anne Sauer, Jeffrey Trehudic, Isabel Wanger and Laura Weber. In the late afternoon, the jury will announce the recipient of the prize.
The award ceremony will take place the following day, on 25 May, as a matinée at the Akademie der Künste on Pariser Platz. In addition to a reading from the winning manuscript and a discussion with the award winner, Jan Kuhlbrodt, winner in 2023, will give a speech on Döblin.