Anita Traninger Receives the Leibniz Prize 2023 from the German Research Foundation

Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin is one of ten scholars honored with the most important research award in Germany / Winners of the award also receive 2.5 million euros toward their research. Anita Traninger, professor of Romance languages and literatures with a focus on rhetoric at Freie Universität Berlin, has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2023 by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The DFG in Bonn announced on Thursday, December 8, 2022, that she had been chosen by the selection committee from among 131 nominees. The DFG's Leibniz Prize is considered the most important research award in Germany. Each award comes with 2.5 million euros to be used by the recipient to pursue their research. The award ceremony will take place at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities on March 15, 2023. The DFG highlighted that Anita Traninger is internationally acclaimed for her research in the field of early modern Romance studies.