"Like hardly any other voice in German-language poetry, Daniela Danz succeeds in creating resonance spaces in her poems that relate the past and present to each other," says the jury, consisting of Carolin Callies, poet and literary mediator, Beate Tröger, freelance literary critic and Björn Jager, director of the Hessisches Literaturforum im Mousonturm.

Daniela Danz was born in Eisenach in 1976 and lives in Kranichfeld. She studied art history and German literature in Tübingen, Prague, Berlin, Leipzig and Halle and wrote her doctoral thesis on hospital church construction in the Weimar Republic. She has been a freelance author and art historian since 2002. From 2013 to 2020, she managed the Schillerhaus in Rudolstadt, and since 2021 she has been project manager of the national competition "Acting Democratically". She has also been Vice President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz since 2021. In 2021, she received the first "Günter Kunert Literature Prize for Poetry" and in 2020 the "Literature Prize of the A and A Cultural Foundation" for her literary work. In 2019, she was awarded the "German Prize for Nature Writing" for an excerpt from the manuscript of "Wildniß". In addition to "Wildniß" (2020), she has also published the novels "Lange Fluchten" (2016) and "Türmer" (2006) as well as the poetry collections "V" (2014) and "Pontus" (2009).
Award ceremony

Ronya Othmann received the Orphil Debut Prize, endowed with 2,500 euros, for her lyrical debut work "die verbrechen". According to the jury, the poems in the volume are "echo chambers that do not release us as readers so quickly" and can be read as an "endless song about the destruction of space".

Ronya Othmann was born in Munich in 1993 and lives in Leipzig. She has received the MDR Literature Prize, the Caroline Schlegel Prize for Essay Writing, the Gertrud Kolmar Prize and the Audience Award of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition, among others. Her debut novel "Die Sommer" was published in 2020, for which she was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize.

The poetry prize was awarded by Head of Cultural Affairs Axel Imholz on June 2 at the Literaturhaus Villa Clementine. The "Orphil" poetry prizes are sponsored by Ilse Konell, widow of the poet George Konell, who died in 1991 and spent many years of his life in Wiesbaden. The event is organized by the Wiesbaden Cultural Office.