The Wilhelm Busch Prize is an biennial poetry award for 10,000 €, for humorous and satirical verse, administered by the Schaumburger Landschaft, named after Wilhelm Busch. An additional award by the organization is the Hans Huckebein Prize, former Wilhelm-Busch-Förderpreis.
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| Year | 1st Prize | Title | 2nd Prize | Title | 3rd Prize | Title | 4th Prize | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Volker Henning | "Mäusehochzeit" | Dieter Brandl | "Das Match" | |||||
| 2017 | Dieter Brandl | "Die Beratung" | Werner Schwuchow | "Der Schlaf" | |||||
| 2015 | Roland Kielmann | "Sterben, erben, Spaß verderben" | Volker Henning, Reiner Koch, Arno Meiser | "Betriebsweihnachtsfeier", "Bart", "Stundentakt" | |||||
| 2013 | Volker Henning, Dieter Brandl | "Die Buchlesung", "Die Cuvée" | |||||||
| 2011 | Barbara Bürger | "Gruß aus der Gerüchteküche" | Antje Mesdag | "Der Popel" | Fritz Hans Rückel | "Tortengeflüster" | |||
| 2008 | Christian Maintz | Christian Mahnke | |||||||
| 2007 | Gerhard Seyfried | "Proofreading" | Bruno Wendt | "Growth" | Lena Krochmann | "Snowball fight" | |||
| 2006 | Dirk Nachtigall | "The spotted hyena" | Helmut Opitz | "Flashlights" | |||||
| 2005 | Rune Becker | "The reading" | Christian Maintz | "For the love lives of animals: Today the Boar" | Peter Düker | "Separation of luck, Is it you?" | |||
| 2004 | Alex Dreppec | "My biology teacher and his lichen" | Bernd Penners | "How it really was, back in Mariapfarr Lungau ..." | Peter Düker | "Whenever I go to sleep and other" | Dieter Schweimler | "The Züngelmann" | |
| 2003 | Bettina Hoffmann-Günster | "At sea, roses, the salts" | Ody (Gregor Köhne) | "Bolero " | Jörg-Martin Willnauer | "The Gordian Bart and others " | Dietrich Hucke | "Warning to a horn player who breaks out in Africa" | |
| 2002 | Christian Maintz | "An experience of Goethe and The Frog Pond" | Ody (Gregor Köhne) | "Bullfighting and Luise" | Maik Altenburg | "Sales talk " | |||
| 2001 | Ody (Gregor Köhne) | "The Yorkie trilogy" | Manfred Brinkmann | "Ode to the solid foundation of Liedertafel" | Jürgen Lux | "The midlife crisis " | Reiner Koch | "Art Enjoyment" | |
| 2000 | Jörg Borgerding | "Jesus and I - or how I nearly saved the world and had breakfast with Robert G. " | Klaus Schafmeister | "Lyricist nightmare " | Josef Kuhn | "O mutatio temporum, including image-Care " | Melitta Kessaris | "Unsuccessful Love's Labors" | |
| 1999 | Jürgen Lux | "The zero-diet" | Gisela Walitzek-Platten | "Rogue Strings " | Inge Methfessel | " In addition to line (or: Why we are not descended from Neanderthals) " | Marlies Kalbhenn | "Helene 1999" | |
| 1998 | Hermann Leibbrand | "On to the Caribbean! " | Karsten Kretschmann | "Insurance agent" | Fritz-Hans Rückel | "The successful soul therapy" | Klaus Schafmeister | "second attempt!" | |
| 1997 | Alfred Paul Schubert | "Jan Bliefnich, prevented the Vicar" | Friedhelm Kändler | "Chapter: The Scream (from: Kröhlmann)" | Günter Nehm | "letter to his old friend Balduin" | Michael Schalich | "The pious Helene" |