Dorothee Elmiger receives the German Book Prize 2025 for “Die Holländerinnen” (“The Dutch Women”). The German Book Prize is one of the most important literary prizes in Germany.
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Dorothee Elmiger
The winner will read from the award-winning novel in the studio. In the conversation with author Thomas Böhm, all participants are invited to join the discussion.
Statement from the jury: “This novel is an event. A writer recounts her journey into the South American jungle with a theatre group, retracing the path of two Dutch women who disappeared there years earlier. Along the way, the group shares unsettling stories. The deeper they venture into the thicket and mire, the more Elmiger pulls the reader into a vortex of fear. Her novel tells of people who descend into their ‘darkest opposite’. Not only Elmiger’s language is oblique – so is her reference to our present, which is sinking, step by step, into hubris. Her style is at once distant and yet gripping. ‘Die Holländerinnen’ (‘The Dutch Women’) – a fascinating journey into the heart of darkness.”
(IN GERMAN)
Dates
November 2025
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