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Thüringer Literaturpreis

literary award

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ1595389 ↗
Source-derived summary

Thüringer Literaturpreis is a literary prize of Germany. It is awarded every two years and is endowed with 12,000 euros. The winners are selected by a three-member independent jury.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Thüringer Literaturpreis” is literary award. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Thüringer, Literaturpreis and literary, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current 29-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. For this dossier, Thüringer, Literaturpreis and literary is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1595389. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Thüringer Literaturpreis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.