A total of 244 titles from 130 publishers were in the running / Awards ceremony to be held on 30 May 2022 at the Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss (Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace)
Record number of titles submitted for third time in a row / Miriam Zeh is appointed speaker of the jury
Sponsorship programme brings start-ups, experts and investors together / The application process is now open for start-up founders from both Germany and abroad to present their business models
The Board of Trustees of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the Börsenverein Group stand up for peace and freedom in the Ukraine.
Seven jury members selected / Publishers may submit titles until 25 March 2022 / Call for submissions at www.deutscher-buchpreis.de/anmeldung
Publishers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland submit non-fiction titles / Tania Martini is appointed jury spokesperson / Awards ceremony to be held on 30 May 2022 at the Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss (Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace)
Turnover increase of 3.2 per cent compared to 2020 across central sales channels / Books for children and young adults, fiction and non-fiction all record gains / Physical bookstore business lagging behind due to months of lockdown
Seven jury members selected / Publishers can nominate titles until 19 November 2021 / Call for submissions on anmeldung.deutscher-sachbuchpreis.de
The Zimbabwean author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade today at a ceremony attended by 400 guests at the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt.
Two startups share the CONTENTshift-Accelerator first place and the innovation prize of 10,000 euro / Sponsorship programme for startups to be continued in 2022 / Companies from the industry can sponsor the programme and take up a place on the jury