fight against cancer, aged 68. In 2009 a CD-ROM with the title: der ton im wörtersee was published in the German language. Awards He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1983 and the Kassel Literary Prize in 1991. He won the Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis in 1998, and the Rheingau Literatur Preis in 2002. In 2004 he was awarded the Heinrich Heine Prize, and in 2006, the Wilhelm Busch Prize. The state-owned bank Helaba is sponsoring an award named after Gernhardt. See also List of German painters References 1937 births 2006 deaths People from Tallinn Baltic-German people German satirists 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters 21st-century German painters 21st-century German male artists Academics of the University of Warwick Deaths from cancer in Germany Burials at Frankfurt Main Cemetery German male poets 20th-century German poets German cartoonists German draughtsmen German-language poets 20th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers