


2006: Wolfgang Jeschke, Das Cusanus-Spiel.2004: Andreas Eschbach, Der Letzte seiner Art.1996: Hans Joachim Alpers, Die graue Eminenz.1995: Hans Joachim Alpers, Das zerrissene Land.1994: Thomas Ziegler, Die Stimmen der Nacht.1993: Herbert Rosendorfer, Die goldenen Heiligen oder Columbus entdeckt Europa.1991: Carl Amery, Das Geheimnis der Krypta.1989: Norbert Stöbe, New York ist himmlisch.1983: Richard Hey, Im Jahr 95 nach Hiroshima.1982: Wolfgang Jeschke, The Last Day of Creation.1981: Georg Zauner, Die Enkel der Raketenbauer.This category includes German-language works with a length of at least 100 pages by German-language authors which were published in German on a German-language market professionally for the first time in the award year. Franke, Ian McDonald, Michael Marrak, and Connie Willis. Other authors to win multiple times are Hans Joachim Alpers, Carl Amery, Herbert W. Iain Banks and China Miéville won the foreign-language prize four times. The foreign-language category includes novels, stories, collections and non-fiction. Wolfgang Jeschke has won the award 19 times in four different categories, while Andreas Eschbach has won the prize 11 times in two different categories.

Eligible for nomination in all categories except for the Foreign Work category are only works published in German originally. The award is named after the science fiction author Kurd Laßwitz. The Kurd Laßwitz Award (German: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis) is a science fiction award from Germany. Awarding of the Kurd Laßwitz Preis at Elstercon 2008
