He has made a name for himself as a writer, columnist, musician, author of radio plays and with comics. Max Goldt is now being honored for his work. He is not the only recipient of this year's German Language Culture Prize.
Baden-Baden (dpa/lsw) - Writer and musician Max Goldt ("Katz und Goldt") is to be honored today at the Kurhaus in Baden-Baden with the Jacob Grimm Prize for German Language. "Max Goldt is a master of small forms, a strict stylist, but at the same time open to very free poetic forms," the jury found, according to the Eberhard Schöck Foundation. In addition, Goldt, who was born in 1958, is "a powerful critic of sloppy language that reveals sloppy thinking." The prize is endowed with 30,000 euros and is part of the German Language Culture Prize, which the foundation has been awarding since 2001 for special services to the German language.
This year, the initiative prize for the German language, which is endowed with 5,000 euros, goes to the "Platt in de Pleeg" project from the Lännerzentrum för Nedderdüütsch in Bremen. Older people in care facilities are addressed in their native Low German language in order to promote trust, appreciation and well-being and to create closeness.
The editors of the magazine "Germanoslavica", which is published by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, are honored with the non-endowed Institutional Prize for the German Language. The "Germanoslavica" deals with research on Slavic-Germanic and especially on German-Czech relations.
