{"id":1377,"date":"2026-03-31T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gwz-berlin.de\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1377"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:05:38","slug":"walter-benjamin-foerderpreis-fuer-junge-forschende-fuer-daniel-goenitzer-und-melanie-konrad","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.gwz-berlin.de\/en\/news\/walter-benjamin-foerderpreis-fuer-junge-forschende-fuer-daniel-goenitzer-und-melanie-konrad\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Benjamin Prize for Early Career Researchers awarded to Daniel G\u00f6nitzer und Melanie Konrad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of a total of seventeen submissions for the Walter Benjamin Prize for Early Career Researchers, the selection committee has chosen the project \u201cBenjamins Tiere. Figurationen des Animalischen\u201d (Benjamin\u2019s Animals. Figurations of Animality) by Daniel G\u00f6nitzer and Melanie Konrad (Vienna).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 4,500 Euro award, jointly funded by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/walterbenjamin.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Walter Benjamin Society<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/adk.de\/archiv-der-kuenste\/abteilungen-fachbereiche\/walter-benjamin-archiv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Walter Benjamin Archiv<\/a>\u00a0and the Leibniz-Zentrum f\u00fcr Literatur- und Kulturforschung, is designed to enable Early Career Researchers to organize a two-day workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the planned workshop, the award winners would like to discuss the role of animals and animality as epistemological and poetological figures of thought in Benjamin\u2019s work. In Benjamin\u2019s texts, animals appear as projections of the uncanny, the comical, and the fragile. 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