From 2020, a non-fiction book award is to encourage a strengthened social debates. At least that is the hope of the book industry. The readers of popular counselors, however, are not awarded.
It’s hard to believe, but the non-fiction book in Germany very well. Against the Trend of sales last year increased by five and a half percent. So what is a promotional award, where there are already a whole series of non-fiction book prices?
“We want to encourage as book industry debates, which are today more necessary than ever,” said Heinrich Riethmüller from the Foundation book culture and promote reading of the börsenverein of the German book trade, awarded the prize.”
This price, he adds, was a long-cherished desire of the book trade, the want to provide in an unclear market orientation. The popular guides, however, do not belong to the laureates, and a historical biography only if there is a current reference to the events of the present.
First prize-giving ceremony in the summer of 2020
A Jury consisting of academics, book dealers and journalists nominated for the first time from November this year, eight books from the publishers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, proposed titles. Unlike the German book prize, the this year 15. Time is awarded to the best novel of the year distinguishes it from the German book price, no Long – or Shortlist give. Between the announcement of the selected books and the award for a good two months to be. Time enough, therefore, to be able to extensively the contents of the books and discuss them devote. Riethmüller is hoped that the book industry uses this also in order to provide the nominated titles to a stage.
In the Tradition of Alexander von Humboldt
The prize will be awarded in the Tradition of the famous Explorer Alexander Humboldt
The award is for the first time at 16. June 2020 taking place in Berlin’s Humboldt Forum, which is only opened in the autumn of 2019. That such an illustrious location has been found, can actually be considered a Coup referred to. Lavinia Frey from the Foundation of the Humboldt Forum sees the price because even in the Tradition of the namesake of Alexander von Humboldt: a Relevant social issues should be made accessible to a wide audience. The founder of the prize – main sponsor, the Deutsche Bank Foundation is now hope that the place and the occasion to a social event.