Leonce-und-Lena-Preis is a literary prize of Hesse. The award was founded in 1968, the City of Darmstadt has been awarding the prize since 1979. Leonce and Lena is a play by Georg Büchner. The prize money is €8,000. German-speaking authors who were not older than 35 can take part. Winners 1968 Wolf Wondratschek 1969 Katrine von Hutten 1972 Hanne F. Juritz 1973 Harry Oberländer 1975 Rita Breit 1977 Friederike Roth und Anno F. Leven 1979 Ludwig Fels, Rolf Haufs und Rainer Malkowski 1981 Ulla Hahn, Förderpreis Tina Stroheker 1983 not awarded 1985 Hans-Ulrich Treichel 1987 Jan Koneffke, Sonderpreis "Politisches Gedicht": Richard Wagner 1989 Kurt Drawert 1991 Kerstin Hensel 1993 Kathrin Schmidt 1995 Raoul Schrott 1997 Dieter M. Gräf 1999 Raphael Urweider 2001 Silke Scheuermann, Sabine Scho 2003 Anja Utler 2005 Ron Winkler 2007 Christian Schloyer 2009 Ulrike Almut Sandig 2011 Steffen Popp 2013 Katharina Schultens 2015 David Krause 2017 Andra Schwarz 2019 Yevgeniy Breyger 2021 Katrin Pitz References External links Literary awards of Hesse