Competitions and Awards

Together with various partners, we organize competitions and award prizes. The aim is to make special achievements in the field of books even better known and to promote networking within the industry and beyond.

We are happy to provide you with information and materials for your reporting, arrange interviews and accredit you for our events.

The Börsenblatt Young Excellence Award honours creative people in the book industry who have already achieved outstanding things in and for the book industry at a young age - whether in a bookshop, publishing house, service company or as a freelancer.

Our trade magazine Börsenblatt presents the award together with the companies of the Börsenverein group: Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Frankfurter Buchmesse, Mediacampus Frankfurt and MVB.

Further information

• www.young-excellence-award.de

With the Alfred Kerr Prize for Literary Criticism, the jury honours literary criticism in the German-language media. The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, is awarded by the Stiftung Buchkultur und Leseförderung des Börsenvereins des Deutschen Buchhandels together with our trade magazine Börsenblatt and sponsored by the Klett-Stiftung.

Since 1977, the award has commemorated the writer, theatre critic and publicist Alfred Kerr (1867 to 1948), who saw criticism as an art form in its own right.

Six experts decide who receives the prize each year:

• Thorsten Ahrend (programme director and managing director of Literaturhaus Leipzig)
• Lilly Ludwig (sales manager at Schöffling & Co.)
• Alexandra Pontzen (literary scholar at the University of Duisburg-Essen)
• Klaus Reichert (Honorary President of the Academy for Language and Literature)
• Michael Roesler-Graichen (former editor of Börsenblatt)
• Klaus Schöffling (former publisher)

Further information

• www.alfred-kerr-preis.de