The nominees for the 2015 Deutscher Science Fiction Preis have been announced.

Best German-language Short Story

• Der Klang der Posaunen by Arno Behrend, from Schuldig in 16 Fällen
• Terradeforming by Arno Behrend, from Schuldig in 16 Fällen
• Revenge by Diane Dirt, from Bullet, edited by Sven Klöpping
• Der Mechaniker by Thorsten Küper, from Bullet, edited by Sven Klöpping
• Extremophile Morphologie by Jakob Schmidt, from Tiefraumphasen, edited by André Skora, Armin Rößler and Frank Hebben, (Begedia Verlag)
• Knox by Eva Strasser, from Tiefraumphasen, edited by André Skora, Armin Rößler and Frank Hebben, (Begedia Verlag)

Best German-language Novel

• Das Kosmotop by Andreas Brandhorst, (Heyne Verlag)
• Feldeváye: Roman der letzten Künste by Dietmar Dath, (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch)
• Drohnenland by Tom Hillenbrand, (KiWi-Taschenbuch)
• MUC by Anna Mocikat, (Knaur Taschenbuch)
• Alpha & Omega: Apokalypse für Anfänger by Markus Orths, (Schöffling)
• Kernschatten by Nils Westerboer, (Leander Wissenschaft)

The juried award for the best short story and best novel written in German language is sponsored by the SFCD, Germany´s largest science-fiction club. Each winner will receive €1000. The awards ceremony will take place at WetzKon in July.

Nina Horvath provides unofficial traslations of the titles in her coverage at Europa SF.