page_title: Deidesheim
section_title: Deidesheimer Turmschreiber
hierarchical_section_title: Deidesheim / Culture and sightseeing / Deidesheimer Turmschreiber
caption_attribution_description: Ein Türmchen des ehemaligen Deidesheimer Schlosses, heute symbolische Residenz des Deidesheimer Turmschreibers
context_page_description: Deidesheim is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with some 3,700 inhabitants.
  The town lies in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration and since 1973 it has been the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Deidesheim. The most important industries are tourism and winegrowing. Deidesheim's two biggest folk festivals revolve around wine: the Geißbockversteigerung and the Deidesheimer Weinkerwe.
context_section_description: The Stiftung zur Förderung der Literatur in der Pfalz (“Foundation for Furthering Literature in the Palatinate”), in existence since 1978, invites well known men and women of letters every one to five years so that they can write “with a Palatine bearing” and thereafter publish the fruits of their labour. The Foundation is financed by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (“German Academy for Language and Poetry”), Südwestrundfunk, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the town of Deidesheim. Candidates for the office are selected by the Foundation's members. Because the writers, at least symbolically, reside in a little turret in the Castle Park (Schlosspark) of the former Castle Deidesheim (Schloss Deidesheim) during the term of their creative endeavours, they are called Turmschreiber (“Tower Writers”). The fund for this is endowed with €7,500. The recipient further gets a free stay in Deidesheim for a duration of four weeks and a three-bottle-a-day allowance in wine; furthermore, he or she automatically becomes a vineyard leaseholder in the Prominenten vineyard in the Deidesheimer Paradiesgarten. Following is a list of all the “Tower Writers” thus far, their works, and the year in which each was in Deidesheim:
  Wolfgang Altendorf (1978; “Wie ein Vogel im Paradiesgarten”)
  Rudolf Hagelstange (1980; “Liebesreim auf Deidesheim”)
  Ludwig Harig (1982; “Zum Schauen bestellt”)
  Herbert Heckmann (1987; “Sieben Weinpredigten”)
  Walter Helmut Fritz (1991; “Die Schlüssel sind vertauscht”)
  Manuel Thomas (1992; no publication yet)
  Hans-Martin Gauger (1996; no publication yet)
  André Weckmann (1998; “Der Geist aus der Flasche und die Leichtigkeit der Zuversicht”)
  Emma Guntz (2001; “Ein Jahr Leben”)
  Fanny Morweiser (2003; “Deidesheimer Elegie oder wie man keinen Krimi schreibt”)
  Bernd Kohlhepp (2006; “Der Ring des Piraten”)
caption: Symbolic residence of the Deidesheimer Turmschreiber
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