The German Music Authors' Prize (German: Deutscher Musikautorenpreis) is a German music prize that has been awarded since 2009 by German collective rights association GEMA. It is awarded to composers and lyricists for their outstanding achievements. Under the motto "Authors honor authors" (Autoren ehren Autoren), the winners are chosen by an independent jury of composers, lyricists and producers from all genres. Amongst the ten categories awarded, only the Young Talents category comes with a monetary prize of 10,000 Euro.
The ceremony took place on 28 May 2009 in Berlin, at the "axica" conference center.
Composition Film music: Martin Böttcher
Composition Pop/Rock: Peter Fox
Lyrics Pop/Rock: Judith Holofernes
Composition Independent: Niels Frevert
Lyrics Hip-Hop: Die Fantastischen Vier
Composition Music Theatre: Detlev Glanert
Composition Symphonic: Manfred Trojahn
Most Successful Work of the Year: Annette Humpe
Young Talent Award: Kai-Uwe Kolkhorst
Lifetime achievement: Peter Thomas
The ceremony took place on 22 April 2010 in Berlin, at the "axica" conference center.
Composition Dance: Alex Christensen
Lyrics Schlager: Joachim Horn-Bernges
Composition Pop/Rock: David Jost, Dave Roth, Pat Benzner
Lyrics Pop/Rock: Jan Delay
Composition Jazz: Nils Wogram
Composition Instrumental music: Rebecca Saunders
Composition Experimental music: Carola Bauckholt
Most Successful Work of the Year: Silbermond
Young Talent Award: Johannes Kreidler
Lifetime achievement: Michael Kunze
The ceremony took place on 14 April 2011 in Berlin, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Composition Instrumental music: York Höller
Composition Opera/Song: Aribert Reimann
Composition Film music: Ulrich Reuter
Composition Pop: Annette Humpe, Adel Tawil, Florian Fischer, Sebastian Kirchner (Ich + Ich)
Composition Rock: Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs (Scorpions)
Lyrics Singer-songwriter/song: Reinhard Mey
Lyrics Schlager/Volkstümliche Musik: Jutta Staudenmayer
Most Successful Work of the Year: Der Graf, Henning Verlage (Unheilig)
Young Talent Award: Alin Coen
Lifetime achievement: Hans Werner Henze
The ceremony took place on 24 May 2012 in Berlin, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Composition Film music: Ralf Wengenmayr
Lyrics Children's song: Gerhard Schöne
Composition Jazz: Tied & Tickled Trio (Markus Acher, Micha Acher, Johannes Enders)
Composition Experimental music: Georg Katzer
Composition Religious music: Dieter Schnebel
Lyrics Pop: Danny Dziuk
Composition Rock: Cäthe (Catharina Sieland)
Young Talent Award: Sarah Nemtsov
Most Successful Work of the Year: Dieter Bohlen
Lifetime achievement: James Last
The ceremony took place on 25 April 2013 in Berlin, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Composition Rock/Pop: Die Toten Hosen
Composition Film music: Annette Focks
Lyrics Pop: Stefan Stoppok
Lyrics Hip-Hop: Deichkind
Composition Symphonic: Jörg Widmann
Composition Art song: Rainer Rubbert
Composition Dance/Elektro: Yann Peifer & Manuel Reuter
Young Talent Award: Torsten Goods & Jan Miserre
Most Successful Work of the Year: Die Toten Hosen – Tage wie diese
Lifetime achievement: Klaus Huber
The ceremony took place on 8 May 2014 in Berlin, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Composition Jazz: Efrat Alony
Composition Film music: Martin Todsharow
Composition Elektro: Robot Koch
Composition Solo concert: Isabel Mundry
Lyrics Vernacular: Kasalla
Composition Contemporary choir music: Charlotte Seither
Lyrics Pop/Rock: Bosse
Young Talent Award: Marko Nikodijević
Most Successful Work of the Year: Sportfreunde Stiller – Applaus, Applaus
Lifetime achievement: Udo Jürgens
The ceremony took place on 21 May 2015 in Berlin, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Composition Pop: Tobias Kuhn
Composition Hip-Hop: Farhot
Composition Music Theatre: Helmut Oehring
Composition Orchestra: Adriana Hölszky
Composition Audiovisual media: Fabian Römer
Lyrics Pop/Rock: Wolfgang Niedecken
Lyrics Schlager: Heike Fransecky
Young Talent Award: Sea + Air (Daniel Benjamin, Eleni Zafiriadou)
Most Successful Work of the Year: Mark Forster, Sido, Ralf Christian Mayer, Daniel Nitt und Philipp Steinke – Au revoir
Lifetime achievement: Helmut Lachenmann
The ceremony took place on 12 May 2016 in Berlin, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Composition Pop/Rock: Sonja Glass
Composition Jazz/Crossover: Tini Thomsen
Lyrics Hip-Hop: Marten Laciny (Marteria/Marsimoto)
Composition Ensemble Music: Enno Poppe
Composition Music with voice: Samir Odeh-Tamimi
Composition Audiovisual media: Florian Tessloff
Lyrics Singer-songwriter: Sven Regener (Element of Crime)
Young Talent award: Jagoda Szmytka
Most Successful Work of the Year: Andreas Bourani, Simon Müller-Lerch, Paul Neumann, Marek Pompetzki, Cecil Remmler, Paul Würdig – Astronaut
Lifetime achievement: Martin Böttcher
