German author Ursula Krechel awarded ?50,000 Büchner Prize 2025

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2025-11-02

Darmstadt, Germany (dpa) - German writer and poet Ursula Krechel has been awarded the Georg Büchner Prize 2025 at a ceremony in the State Theatre in the western city of Darmstadt. Krechel, 77, is best known for her dpocumentary novels including "Geisterbahn" (Ghost train) and "Das Landgericht" (The district court). In her work, she opposes the devastations of German history and the hardening of the present with the power of her literature, the ju......

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