The award ceremony took place on November 12, 2024 at the Kulturforum Wiesbaden. Lord Mayor Gert-Uwe Mende presented the award, while Head of Cultural Affairs Dr. Hendrik Schmehl gave a welcoming speech. As part of the event, Martina Hefter presented her work in a performance together with Patrice Lipeb. Katharina Borchardt gave the laudatory speech.

Martina Hefter, born in 1965 in Pfronten in the Allgäu, lives and works as an author, poet and performance artist in Leipzig. She studied contemporary dance in Berlin and literary writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. In addition to her literary work, she is involved in projects that combine language and movement, such as the performance installation "Writing Ghosts" at the Literary Colloquium Berlin in 2015. She has published numerous volumes of poetry, including "In die Wälder gehen, Holz für ein Bett klauen" (2021). She is also the author of several novels, including the current novel "Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es Dir?" (2024). She has been awarded various scholarships and the 2008 Merano Poetry Prize. In 2024, she also received the Grand Prize of the German Literature Fund.

"Martina Hefter writes dance texts, and she dances texts. Liberating!" is the jury's verdict. The jury's statement continued: "Martina Hefter's texts are dance in writing. Many of her characters are dancers or choreographers like herself. Other figures are altered in their movements by age or illness. Their buckling, stalking and tilting often become movements of a peculiar, almost supernatural beauty. The supernatural is also present in the thoroughly honest novel of lies "Hey good morning, how are you?", which swings out into the cosmos from the cramped apartment of the Leipzig couple Juno and Jupiter via a Nigerian chat contact."