Caroline-Schlegel-Preis

The Caroline-Schlegel-Preis is a literary award of the city of Jena in Germany, given for outstanding work in the genres of essay and feuilleton in German.

: House of the Romantics, the former residence of the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte) opening as a museum for literary culture.

[1] The award is named for the notable German freethinker Caroline Schlegel (1763–1809), a member of the Jena Romantics and daughter of Göttingen professor and theologist Johann David Michaelis.

[2] The award is selected by an independent jury for an essay that achieves the experimental spirit of early Romanticism in the 21st century and shows both a high level of style and significant literary merit.

Past jurors include author Gisela Kraft and scholars from Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

A green three-story house on a cobblestone street, typical of medieval German towns
The Romantikerhaus in Jena, now a literary museum honoring the Jena Romantics