The Goethe Prize
The English Goethe Society awards one yearly prize for the best undergraduate or post-graduate essay on Goethe or his German-speaking contemporaries, or the reception of any of those writers, written in English or German. The prize is in the amount of £100. Essays that meet the standards of original research will be considered for publication in the Publications of the English Goethe Society.
The closing date is 1 October every year.
Essays should be no more than 5000 words long (including notes but excluding bibliography), and neither published nor under consideration for publication.
Entries should be made by e-mail to the Honorary Secretaries of the Society:
Dr Tobias Heinrich (t.heinrich@kent.ac.uk), Dr Charlotte Lee (cll38@cam.ac.uk), and Professor Charlie Louth (charlie.louth@queens.ox.ac.uk)
The closing date is 1 October every year.
Essays should be no more than 5000 words long (including notes but excluding bibliography), and neither published nor under consideration for publication.
Entries should be made by e-mail to the Honorary Secretaries of the Society:
Dr Tobias Heinrich (t.heinrich@kent.ac.uk), Dr Charlotte Lee (cll38@cam.ac.uk), and Professor Charlie Louth (charlie.louth@queens.ox.ac.uk)
2024
Lina Sens
(Technische Universität Braunschweig) for her essay 'Ideal verfehlt. Das Lusthaus in Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften'
(Technische Universität Braunschweig) for her essay 'Ideal verfehlt. Das Lusthaus in Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften'
2023
Elizabeth Ramsay
(The University of Chicago) for her essay ‘“wie ich euch ein Beispiel gebe”: Goethe's Egmont, theatricality, and myth’
(The University of Chicago) for her essay ‘“wie ich euch ein Beispiel gebe”: Goethe's Egmont, theatricality, and myth’
2018
Amy Ainsworth
(University of Cambridge) for her essay ‘“Das Vorurteil ist gut, zu seiner Zeit: denn es macht glücklich”: The notion of prejudice in Herder, Goethe and Jacobowski.’
(University of Cambridge) for her essay ‘“Das Vorurteil ist gut, zu seiner Zeit: denn es macht glücklich”: The notion of prejudice in Herder, Goethe and Jacobowski.’