DSFP 2015 : The Winners

The awarding committee for the German Science Fiction Award (Deutscher Science Fiction Preis, DSFP) is delighted to announce the winners of the DSFP 2015. Eligible for the DSFP 2015 were all science fiction texts that were originally written in the German language and published on paper in 2014 for the first time.

The Awarding Ceremony will be held on Saturday, July 4th, in the course of WetzKon 2, this year's annual convention of the Science Fiction Club Deutschland e.V., held in the Phantastic Library Wetzlar. The winners will be awarded with 1000 euros in each category.

The committee would like to congratulate the winners and the nominees and and would like to thank the editors and publishers as well as their teams for supporting German-language SF. Our special gratitude is submitted to those authors and publishers who supported the committee by providing sample copies.

Category »Best German-Language Short Story«

The DSFP 2015 for best short story goes to

»Knox« by Eva Strasser
published in »Tiefraumphasen«, edited by André Skora, Armin Rößler and Frank Hebben, Begedia Verlag, ISBN 978-3-95777-006-6

Remaining nominees in the order of placements:

»Der Mechaniker« by Thorsten Küper, published in »Bullet«, edited by Sven Klöpping, p.machinery, ISBN 978-3-95765-015-3
»Der Klang der Posaunen« by Arno Behrend, published in »Schuldig in 16 Fällen«, p.machinery, ISBN 978-3-95765-007-8
»Extremophile Morphologie« by Jacob Schmidt, published in »Tiefraumphasen«, edited by André Skora, Armin Rößler and Frank Hebben, Begedia Verlag, ISBN 978-3-95777-006-6
»Terradeforming« by Arno Behrend, published in »Schuldig in 16 Fällen«, p.machinery, ISBN 978-3-95765-007-8
»Revenge« by Diane Dirt, published in »Bullet«, edited by Sven Klöpping, p.machinery, ISBN 978-3-95765-015-3


Category »Best German-Language Novel«

The DSFP 2015 for best novel goes to
»Alpha & Omega: Apokalypse für Anfänger« by Markus Orths, Schöffling, ISBN 978-3-89561-473-6

Remaining nominees in the order of placements:

»Drohnenland« by Tom Hillenbrand, KiWi-Taschenbuch, ISBN 978-3-462-04662-5
»Das Kosmotop« by Andreas Brandhorst, Heyne Verlag, ISBN 978-3-453-31544-0
»Feldeváye: Roman der letzten Künste« by Dietmar Dath, suhrkamp taschenbuch, ISBN 978-3-518-46510-3
»MUC« by Anna Mocikat, Knaur Taschenbuch, ISBN 978-3-426-51540-2
»Kernschatten« by Nils Westerboer, Leander Wissenschaft, ISBN 978-3-9815368-5-0

Husbäke, 9th of May 2015
On behalf of the comittee for the German Science Fiction Award

Ralf Boldt
Chairman