Steffen Mau Nominated for the Bavarian Book Prize 2024
News04.09.2024
Steffen Mau has been nominated for the 2024 Bavarian Book Prize in the non-fiction category for his bestselling book Unity without Equality.
Jury member Cornelius Pollmer said of Mau’s latest book: »Debates about eastern German are often loud, bursting with opinions, and marked by a lack of mutual understanding. Sociologist Steffen Mau will not be able to solve this problem all on his own – but in Unity without Equality, he has delivered an impressively precise and extraordinarily thoughtful account of the causes and peculiarities of the situation in eastern Germany. Books like this make the humanities an invaluable guide for navigating a contemporary world that we can often only stumble through.«
The Bavarian Book Prize is awarded by the Bavarian State Association of the German Book Trade with the support of the Bavarian State Chancellery. It is sponsored by the Bavarian State Chancellery and supported by Bayern 2 as a media partner, the ZEIT publishing group, the Bavarian Savings Bank Foundation and the Association for the Promotion of Reading. There is a prize for fiction and non-fiction, with the winners of each prize receiving €10,000.
This year's jury is made up of Andreas Platthaus (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Marie Schoeß (Bayerischer Rundfunk) and Cornelius Pollmer (Süddeutsche Zeitung). The winner will be announced at a public awards ceremony on 7 November 2024.
For more information on Unity without Equality, please contact the rights manager for your region.
Jury member Cornelius Pollmer said of Mau’s latest book: »Debates about eastern German are often loud, bursting with opinions, and marked by a lack of mutual understanding. Sociologist Steffen Mau will not be able to solve this problem all on his own – but in Unity without Equality, he has delivered an impressively precise and extraordinarily thoughtful account of the causes and peculiarities of the situation in eastern Germany. Books like this make the humanities an invaluable guide for navigating a contemporary world that we can often only stumble through.«
The Bavarian Book Prize is awarded by the Bavarian State Association of the German Book Trade with the support of the Bavarian State Chancellery. It is sponsored by the Bavarian State Chancellery and supported by Bayern 2 as a media partner, the ZEIT publishing group, the Bavarian Savings Bank Foundation and the Association for the Promotion of Reading. There is a prize for fiction and non-fiction, with the winners of each prize receiving €10,000.
This year's jury is made up of Andreas Platthaus (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Marie Schoeß (Bayerischer Rundfunk) and Cornelius Pollmer (Süddeutsche Zeitung). The winner will be announced at a public awards ceremony on 7 November 2024.
For more information on Unity without Equality, please contact the rights manager for your region.