The Leipzig-based author Clemens Meyer has been awarded the Lessing Prize 2025 of the Free State of Saxony, endowed with 20,000 euros. With his extensive body of work, he "repeatedly proves his outstanding literary talent and his sovereignty as a bustling artist and free spirit", said the jury, explaining their choice with reference to books such as "Als wir träumten" and "Die Projektoren".
The theater director Georg Genoux from Bautzen and the author Tina Pruschmann, who grew up in Leipzig, each received the 7,500 euro prize.
