Marek Nekula becomes this year’s winner of the Artist Prize of the Czech-German Understanding
The Czech and German linguist (born in 1965) Marek Nekula works in academia in Germany.
"Professor and leading Czech studies expert in Regensburg has published several works dealing with the history of Czech and German culture and literature, for instance focused on Kafka, German language in multi-lingual urban centres in Central and Eastern Europe as well as about Jews living among the Czechs and Germans,“ is how the jury explained its decision to reward Nekula.
The award is given each year by the Adalbert Stifter Society, Munich; Foundation Brücke/Most, Dresden; Collegium Bohemicum, Ústí nad Labem; Prague Literary House of Authors of the German Language, Prague; The International Cultural Association Pro Arte Vivendi, Berlin and the Union For Good Czech-German Relations. The award ceremony will take place on 1 November 2011 at 5pm in Ústí nad Labem at the Emperor’s Hall of the newly reconstructed museum. Laudatio on Marek Nekula will be delivered by Prof. Steffen Höhne.
Marek Nekula has also written two prose works, one of them called Otec (Father).
