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Herrenberg (dpa / lsw) - For outstanding services to the Swabian dialect, cabaret artist Uli Keuler receives the Sebastian Blau Prize from the association "Schwäbische mund.art eV".
The association announced on Thursday in Herrenberg that Keuler will be awarded to an artist who, with his programs, has become an unmistakable trademark of intelligent Swabian humor and a role model for a whole generation of colleagues in his genre for almost five decades.
The award ceremony is planned for October 22nd in Rottenburg am Neckar.
The dialect association awards this prize every four years to personalities for their life's work.
Previous winners are the writer Gerhard Raff (2013) and the author Felix Huby (2017).
The honorary award is undoped, the award winners receive a graphic work of art created for the occasion.
The honorary award is named after the founder and longtime publisher and editor-in-chief of the "Stuttgarter Zeitung" Josef Eberle (1901-1986).
Under the pseudonym Sebastian Blau he became one of the most important dialect poets in German literary history.
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