The Einhard Prize (German: Einhard-Preis) is a literary prize for historical biography. It is awarded by the Einhard-Stiftung, a foundation headquartered in Seligenstadt, Hesse, Germany, a town founded by Einhard, famous as a biographer of Charlemagne. The prize is endowed with €10,000.
Recipients 1999: Otto Pflanze, works about Otto von Bismarck 2001: Brian Boyd, biography of Vladimir Nabokov 2003: Joachim C. Fest, works about Albert Speer 2005: Irène Heidelberger-Leonard, Revolte in der Resignation, a biography of Jean Améry 2007: Eberhard Weis, biography of Maximilian von Montgelas 2009: Margot Friedländer, autobiography Versuche, Dein Leben zu machen 2011: Hugh Barr Nisbet, biography of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 2013: John C. G. Röhl, biography of Wilhelm II, German Emperor 2015: Joachim Radkau, biography of Theodor Heuss 2017: Albrecht Schöne, Der Briefschreiber Goethe 2019: Emmanuelle Loyer, biography of Claude Lévi-Strauss 2022: Jacques Tardi, graphic novel biography of his father, World War II veteran René Tardi 2025: Ulinka Rublack, biography of Albrecht Dürer
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