Helene Richter
Foundation

Helene Richter Foundation

Funded by emeritus Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Franz Karl Stanzel from 2007 to 2018 to honor the memory of the English scholar Helene Richter, who died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. The prize was awarded for a dissertation, habilitation thesis, or a comparably high-level scientific monograph in German or English by a young scholar distinguished by the intensity of the research, clarity of structure and argumentation, significance of the results, close textual analysis, and fluent linguistic presentation. Studies related to Shakespeare or Romanticism, Helene Richter’s central areas of publication, were particularly welcome, but works on other areas of English literature could also be considered.