Kurd Laßwitz Award

The Kurd Laßwitz Award () is a science fiction award from Germany. The award is named after the science fiction author Kurd Laßwitz. Only works originally published in German are eligible for nomination in all categories except for the Foreign Work category.

Wolfgang Jeschke has won the award 19 times in four different categories, while Andreas Eschbach has won the prize 11 times in two different categories. The foreign-language category includes novels, stories, collections and non-fiction. Iain Banks and China Miéville won the foreign-language prize four times. Other authors to win multiple times are Hans Joachim Alpers, Carl Amery, Herbert W. Franke, Ian McDonald, Michael Marrak, and Connie Willis.

Award winners

German-language Novel

This category includes German-language works with a length of at least 100 pages by German-language authors which were published in German on a German-language market professionally for the first time in the award year.

1981: Georg Zauner, Die Enkel der Raketenbauer 1982: Wolfgang Jeschke, The Last Day of Creation 1983: Richard Hey, Im Jahr 95 nach Hiroshima 1984: Thomas R. P. Mielke, Das Sakriversum 1985: Herbert W. Franke, Die Kälte des Weltraums 1986: Herbert W. Franke, Endzeit 1987: Carl Amery, Die Wallfahrer 1988: Gudrun Pausewang, Die Wolke 1989: Norbert Stöbe, New York ist himmlisch 1990: Wolfgang Jeschke, Midas 1991: Carl Amery, Das Geheimnis der Krypta 1992: Christian Mähr, Fatous Staub 1993: Herbert Rosendorfer, Die goldenen Heiligen oder Columbus entdeckt Europa 1994: Thomas Ziegler, Die Stimmen der Nacht 1995: Hans Joachim Alpers, Das zerrissene Land 1996: Hans Joachim Alpers, Die graue Eminenz 1997: Andreas Eschbach, Solarstation 1998: No Award 1999: Andreas Eschbach, Jesus Video 2000: Andreas Eschbach, Kelwitts Stern 2001: Michael Marrak, Lord Gamma 2002: Andreas Eschbach, Quest 2003: Michael Marrak, Imagon 2004: Andreas Eschbach, Der Letzte seiner Art 2005: Frank Schätzing, The Swarm 2006: Wolfgang Jeschke, Das Cusanus-Spiel 2007: Herbert W. Franke, Auf der Spur des Engels 2008: Andreas Eschbach, Ausgebrannt 2009: Dietmar Dath, Die Abschaffung der Arten 2010: Andreas Eschbach, Ein König für Deutschland 2011: , Walpar Tonnraffir und der Zeigefinger Gottes 2012: Andreas Eschbach, Herr aller Dinge 2013: Dietmar Dath, Pulsarnacht 2014: Wolfgang Jeschke, Dschiheads 2015: , Drohnenland 2016: Andreas Brandhorst, Das Schiff 2017: Andreas Brandhorst, Omni 2018: Michael Marrak, Der Kanon mechanischer Seelen 2019: Andreas Eschbach, NSA – Nationales Sicherheits-Amt 2020: Andreas Eschbach, Das größte Abenteuer 2021: Andreas Eschbach, Eines Menschen Flügel 2022: , Nanopark 2023: Aiki Mira, Neongrau – Game Over im Neurosubstrat 2024: Aiki Mira, Neurobiest 2025: Aiki Mira, Proxi 2026: , Lyneham

Foreign Work

This category includes foreign-language fiction and non-fiction which was published as a German translation for the first time in the award year. Until 1997, it was called Foreign Novel.

1984: Brian Aldiss, Helliconia Spring 1985: Philip K. Dick, VALIS 1986: Daniel Keyes, The Minds of Billy Milligan 1987: Jerry Yulsman, Elleander Morning 1988: Christopher Priest, The Glamour 1989: Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead 1990: Lucius Shepard, Life During Wartime 1991: Iain M. Banks, The Bridge 1992: Iain M. Banks, The Wasp Factory 1993: Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons 1994: Connie Willis, Doomsday Book 1995: Ian McDonald, Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone 1996: Stephen Baxter, The Time Ships 1997: Kate Wilhelm, Death Qualified: A Mystery of Chaos 1998: Iain M. Banks, Excession 1999: Ian McDonald, Sacrifice of Fools 2000: Greg Egan, Distress 2001: Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow 2002: Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog 2003: China Miéville, Perdido Street Station 2004: Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky 2005: China Miéville, The Scar 2006: China Miéville, Iron Council 2007: Robert Charles Wilson, Spin 2008: Sergey Lukyanenko, Spectrum 2009: Charles Stross, Glasshouse 2010: John Scalzi, The Android's Dream 2011: China Miéville, The City & the City 2012: Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl 2013: Ted Chiang, Hell Is the Absence of God 2014: Jo Walton, Among Others 2015: Ursula K. Le Guin, Paradises Lost 2016: Neal Stephenson, Seveneves 2017: Cixin Liu, The Three Body Problem 2018: Nnedi Okorafor, The Book of Phoenix 2019: Jasper Fforde, Early Riser 2020: Margaret Atwood, The Testaments 2021: Simon Stålenhag, Tales from the Loop 2022: Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

2023: Becky Chambers, Die Galaxie und das Licht darin (The Galaxy, and the Ground Within) 2024: Ursula K. Le Guin, Immer nach Hause (Always Coming Home) 2025: Becky Chambers, Dex & Helmlimg (Monk & Robot) 2026: Becky Chambers, Und Hoffentlich zu lernen (To Be Taught If Fortunate)

German-language Short Fiction (since 1997)

This category includes German-language works with a length of less than 100 pages by German-language authors which were published in German on a German-language market professionally for the first time in the award year, i.e. it includes short stories and novelettes/novellas combined in one award category. From 1997–2007 it was called German-language Short Story (though it also included novelettes/novellas already). From 1981–1996 this category was split into two separate award categories for Novellette/Novella and Short Story.

1997: Wolfgang Jeschke, Partner fürs Leben 1998: , Blind Date 1999: , Wüstenlack 2000: Wolfgang Jeschke, Die Cusanische Acceleratio 2001: , Troubadoure 2002: Wolfgang Jeschke, Allah akbar And So Smart Our NLWs 2003: Erik Simon, Spiel beendet, sagte der Sumpf 2004: Angela Steinmüller and Karlheinz Steinmüller, Vor der Zeitreise 2005: Wolfgang Jeschke, Das Geschmeide 2006: Rainer Erler, An e-Star is born 2007: , Canea Null 2008: , Der Moloch 2009: Andreas Eschbach, Survival-Training and Heidrun Jänchen, Ein Geschäft wie jedes andere 2010: , Das Klassentreffen der Weserwinzer 2011: , Die Schwelle 2012: , Am Ende der Reise 2013: , Im Käfig 2014: Michael Marrak, Coen Sloterdykes diametral levitierendes Chronoversum 2015: , Boatpeople 2016: Karsten Kruschel, Was geschieht dem Licht am Ende des Tunnels? 2017: , Suicide Rooms 2018: , Das Internet der Dinge 2019: , Confinement 2020: , Koloss aus dem Orbit 2021: Angela Steinmüller and Karlheinz Steinmüller, Marslandschaften 2022: Aiki Mira, Utopie-27 2023: , Die Nachrichtenmacher 2024: , Die End-of-Life-Schaltung 2025: . Wichtig ist nur, was die Leute glauben 2026: , Nano Godt

Radio drama

Although a prize has been awarded for a best work of radio drama since 1987, it is only since 1993 that a winner has been selected by a jury

1993: Eva Maria Mudrich, Sommernachtstraum 1994: not awarded 1995: not awarded 1996: Wolfgang Rindfleisch, Uhrwerk Orange (derivative of Anthony Burgess, 'A Clockwork Orange'). Director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch. Music: Trötsch 1997: Friedrich Bestenreiner, 'Paradise Hospital Inc.'. Director: Thomas Werner 1998: Karlheinz Knuth, Die Tage nebenan – or: Da, wo Cäsar nicht ermordet wurde. Director: Thomas Werner 1999: Heiko Michael Hartmann, MOI. Director: Oliver Sturm 2000: Marina Dietz, Träumen Androiden (derivative of Philip K. Dick, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'). Director: Marina Dietz 2001: not awarded 2002: Walter Adler, Tokio liebt uns nicht mehr (derivative of Ray Loriga, ). Director: Walter Adler 2003: not awarded 2004: not awarded 2005: Norbert Schaeffer, Das letzte Geheimnis (derivative of Bernard Werber, ). Director: Norbert Schaeffer 2006: Matthias Wittekindt, Das Lewskow-Manuscript. Director: Alexander Schuhmacher. Music: Tim Frühwirth, Lömsch Le Mans, Frank Wingold 2007: Matthias Scheliga, Amnesia. Director: Jürgen Dluzniewski 2008: nicht vergeben 2009: Bodo Traber & Tilman Zens, Die Flüsterer, Director: Petra Feldhoff 2010: not awarded 2011: not awarded 2012: Till Müller-Klug, Sprachlabor Babylon, Director: Thomas Wolfertz, Musik: Ekkehard Ehlers 2013: Heinz von Cramer, Unerwartete Ereignisse, Director: Burkhard Schmid 2014: not awarded 2015: Walter Adler, Foxfinder, Director: Walter Adler 2016: Georg Heinzen, Sale, Director: Martin Zylka 2017: not awarded 2018: Bodo Traber, Paradise Revisited, Director: Bodo Traber 2019: Anne Krüger, Supermarkt, Director: Andrea Getto 2020: Gerrit Booms, Unser Leben in den Wäldern (derivative of Marie Darrieussecq, ) 2021: Heinz Sommer, Der zweite Schlaf 2022: Christian Wittmann and Georg Zeitblom, r_crusoe™ 2023: : Die Nacht war bleich, die Lichter blinkten, Director: Lorenz Schuster 2024: no award 2025: no award 2026: no award

Other categories Graphic Artist (1981–1992) Graphic Artwork (since 1993) Translator (1981–1992) Translation (since 1993) Movie (1987–1996) Special Award for Extraordinary Accomplishments 2004: Franz Rottensteiner, on the occasion of the hundredth number of the Quarber Merkur magazine he edited

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