The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) promotes with following programmes for authors and artists free artistic development. For a certain period of time their life and work at appointed places is supported.

The Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme is one of the most renowned international programmes offering grants in the fields of visual art, literature, music and film. Each year, some 20 grants are awarded to international artists for approximately a one-year stay in Berlin.

The Künstlerhäuser Worpswede see themselves as a place of international encounter. They aim to promote professional artists in the fields of the fine and visual arts, literature and music by awarding residential grants. They also support the projects of the funded artists and present these to the public.

The Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen awards grants to authors and artists as well as in the field New Media and composition. During the time of six month the awardee lives and works in the artists’ village.

The Künstlerhaus Lukas sees itself as a place for artistic work and for international meeting and encounter for professional artists from the disciplines fine arts, literature, dance and music. The international context focuses on the Baltic littoral states.

For particularly well-qualified German students, post-graduate and post-doctoral scholarships in special-field of literature the DAAD offers a number of scholarships and grants.

The Akademie Schloss Solitude promotes with its scholarship programmes mainly younger, particularly gifted international artists from the disciplines architecture, visual art, performing art, design, literature, music/sound, video/film/new media.

Application forms and further information at http://bewerbung.akademie-solitude.de.

The Artist's House Edenkoben is a place of meeting for writers, authors, translators, visual artists, musicians and for literature and art interested a audience. The Edenkoben scholarship offers to authors and visual artists the possibility to live and to work several months in the artist's house.

The Federal Government Representative for Culture and Media provides artists of the fields of literature, music, visual arts, performing arts and media arts, a 10-week stay at the Castle Genshagen near Berlin. The participants come from Germany, Poland and France and develop a common result of her artistic work.

The programme Border Crossers of the Robert Bosch Foundation supports in cooperation with the Literary Colloquium Berlin authors preparing publications that focus on making Central and Eastern European issues accessible to a wide audience. The genres may range from literary prose, children’s and youth literature and essays through documentary and motion picture scripts and radio shows.

The residence scholarship of the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB) lasts three month and is addressed to young German-speaking authors who have already published their first work. The scholarships are founded by the State Chancellery Berlin, the Cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia and the branch literature of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.

The writer’s workshop prosa offers to young authors who cannot show until now a publication the possibility to meet at the Literary Colloquium Berlin at four weekends in autumn each other and to compare notes with mentors.

The author's scholarship of the Goethe Institute and the Lower Saxony’s Ministry of Science and Culture is directed to authors who are living and working in Lower Saxony or whose application project is related to Lower Saxony. During the four-month stay in Jerusalem the scholarship-holders should write a literary text which deals with the Israeli-Jewish culture.

The Writers in Exile Programme offers authors and journalists living in exile the possibility to find an assured home in Germany for several years. The scholarship holders are housed in apartments of the P.E.N., get health insurance and receive an amount for the payment of her living costs. The scholarship is awarded for one year and can be extended.

The Network of European Literary Institutions Halma organises scholarships for writers, translators and promoters of literature. Each scholarship lasts for two months, and includes a grant holder’s stay in at least two different host countries. Usually grant holders spend one month in the first host country and then travel to a second one.

The Literary Colloquium Berlin awards every year the Alfred Döblin Award for that authors can apply which have at least one self-contained book publication.

The German Youth Literature Award has been awarded annually for outstanding children and young adult books.