Sibylle Lewitscharoff won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1998 and was honoured with the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013. The writer, who suffered from multiple sclerosis for a long time, died in Berlin on May 13.
Her daring shrewdness will be missed, says the author's friend and fellow writer, Hans-Joachim Schmitz. "She transformed the madness with method, which the painter René Magritte or the Theatre of the Absurd had consistently developed, into the poetry of our time"