The call for entries for the Walter Tiemann Prize 2020 starts in fall 2019. All details as well as the application form will be made available on this site. Applicants may submit books that have been published not before 2018.
The Walter Tiemann Prize 2018 is awarded to Ludovic Balland (Switzerland) with “American Readers at Home”. Second prizes go to Pierre Pané‑Farré (Germany) with “Soirée Fantastique” as well as Jonas Voegeli & Kerstin Landis (Switzerland) with “The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2016”. We would like to thank all sponsors, the HGB Leipzig as well as the City of Leipzig for their kind support.
Competition entries were submitted from 16 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela.
In January, the five members of the jury — Constanze Hein (award winner 2016 with Jan Blessing, Berlin), Tobias Klauser (Switzerland), Elisabeth Kopf (Austria), Patrick Nebel (Altenburg), and Olaf Unverzart (Munich) — met in Leipzig for two days to evaluate the submitted books.
The Walter Tiemann Prize 2018 goes to Ludovic Balland for “American Readers at Home”. It comes with 5000 euro prize money. Second prizes worth 1500 euro each are presented to Pierre Pané‑Farré (Germany) for “Soirée Fantastique” and Jonas Voegeli & Kerstin Landis (Switzerland) for “The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2016”.
Six titles are honored in the shortlist: Rozebh Asmani & Florian Lamm with “72 Colourmarks”, Ricardo Báez with “CLAP! 10 x 10 Contemporary Latin American Photobooks 2000–2016”, Fabian Bremer & Pascal Storz (“Eric van der Weijde: This Is Not My Book”, “Alexander Kluge: Pluriversum/Pluriverse”), Teresa Döge & Björn Schmidt (“Sensing the Ocean”), and Markus Kleinloh (“13 Robinsonaden”).
On 15 March, the Walter Tiemann Prize 2018 was presented in the Gallery of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. After introductory words by Julia Blume (Chairwoman of the Society for the Promotion of Printmaking and Book Art) and Thomas Locher (President of the Leipzig Academy), Constanze Hein (Jury) delivered the laudation and Thomas Kramer (Publisher Scheidegger & Spiess) gave the acceptance speech. All winning entries were presented in an exhibition.
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