[2][3] It was awarded for the first time from 1913 to 1922, among others to Annette Kolb, Leonhard Frank, Carl Sternheim and Alfred Döblin.
[2] Walter Kaufmann, Christa Wolf and Helga Schütz [de], for example, received the prize from the GDR district of Potsdam.
[2] The award winners included Lutz Seiler, Moritz von Uslar [de], Christoph Ransmayr and Josef Bierbichler.
[4] The aim is to support authors of artistic literature every two years who work in Brandenburg and who have already achieved their first literary success.
[4] The award is intended to enable talented contemporary authors with their first successful publications to devote themselves to writing for two years.