Promotion of Political Literature and Literary-Political Events (Literature Foundation)
Funding for German-speaking authors of unpublished narrative works with political relevance as well as for major literary events (festival, literary series, symposium) with a discernible political focus. Two-stage procedure (funding request, followed by approval/rejection).
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Grant criteria
Funding objective
Support and promotion of political literature and literary-political events through financial grants to individuals for unpublished works and events with a political focus.
Eligible to apply
- Individuals
Funding requirements
- Literary work in the German language
- Unpublished narrative work (no online or print publication)
- Content with political relevance (analyses of power, domination, or society, or utopia/dystopia)
- Planning of a major literary-political event (festival, series, symposium, etc.)
Documents required for application
- Name, address, email, date of birth
- Exposé (max. 2 standard pages, incl. calculation)
- Sample reading (max. 20 standard pages of 1800 characters each)
Description
The Literature Foundation awards nationwide financial grants to strengthen politically relevant narrative texts and to realize larger literary-political events. Funding is provided to German-speaking authors with previously unpublished narrative works that engage thematically with analyses of power, domination, or society, as well as utopian and dystopian concepts. The Foundation also supports the conception and implementation of festivals, literary series, or symposia with a clearly identifiable political orientation. The program is exclusively aimed at natural persons who can demonstrate their literary activity in the German language and wish to realize a project within the literary-political field of tension.
The two-stage selection process begins with a funding inquiry, in which the literary preliminary work is outlined by means of an exposé (maximum two standard pages) and a reading sample (up to twenty standard pages of 1,800 characters each). Supplementary information on name, address, email, and date of birth forms the formal basis. After review, a notification of approval or rejection is communicated promptly; in the case of a positive decision, the scope and modalities of the funding amount are determined individually. Project rejections allow for a renewed application with new, original manuscripts or event concepts. Ongoing submissions are possible at any time, so that literary-political impulses are continuously supported and brought into public discussion.
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