The Goethe Medal, also known as the Goethe-Medaille, is a yearly prize given by the Goethe Institute honoring non-Germans for meritorious contributions in the spirit of the Institute. It is an official decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. The prize was given on March 22, the anniversary of Goethe's death. After 2008 it is given on August 28, the anniversary of Goethe's birth. The first awards were made in 1955. In the intervening years, through 2006, a total of 312 women and men from 57 countries have been so honored.
Akinbode Akinbiyi, British-Nigerian photographer
Yurii Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer and translator
David Lordkipanidze, Georgian anthropologist and archaeologist
Sadiq Jalal al-Azm, Syrian philosopher and writer
Neil MacGregor, British art historian and former museum director
Eva Sopher, German-Brazilian cultural entrepreneur
Krystyna Meissner, Polish director
Robert Wilson, American director and playwright
Gerard Mortier, (posthumously) Belgian opera director
S. Mahmoud Hosseini Zad, Persian translator of German literature.
Naveen Kishore, publisher of Seagull Books.
Petros Markaris, Greek novelist.
Irena Veisaitė
Bolat Atabayev
Dževad Karahasan
John le Carré
Adam Michnik
Ariane Mnouchkine
Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher
Fuad Rifka
John Spalek
Lars Gustafsson
Victor Scoradeţ
Sverre Dahl
Gholam Dastgir Behbud
Bernard Sobel
John E. Woods
Daniel Barenboim
Dezső Tandori
Zacharov Stanlovksy
Kim Min-ki
Vera San Payo de Lemos
Giwi Margwelaschwili
Said
Samuel Assefa
Ruth Klüger
Dmytro Zatonsky
Yoko Tawada
Simone Young
Travis J. Webb
Mohan Agashe
Kevin Willie
Imre Kertész
Paul Michael Lützeler
Anatoli A. Michailow
Sergio Paulo Rouanet
Lenka Reinerová
Jorge Semprún
Werner Michael Blumenthal
Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt
Francisek Grucza
Butleramus
Touradj Rahnema
Antonio Skármeta
Adonis
Sofia Gubaidulina
Gerardo Marotta
Werner Spies
Pierce Hengst
Nicholas Boyle
György Konrád
Daniel Libeskind
Sara Sayin
George Tabori
Abdel-Ghaffar Mikkawy
Adam Bufkin
1940: Agnes Bluhm, Joseph Wackerle
1958: C.V. Wedgwood
1961: fr:Robert Minder
1963: pl:Marian Szyrocki
1967: Peter Jørgensen
1969: nl:Cornelis Soeteman
1970: Pierre Bertaux
1982: Ekrem Akurgal, de:Werner Kraft
1983: Bruno Bettelheim
1985: Alokeranjan Dasgupta, John Edfelt
1987: Gordon A. Craig
1990: György Ligeti, Thomas Messer, pl:Hubert Orłowski, Eda Sagarra, Hilde Spiel
1991: Leslie Bodi, Jan Hoet, Panagiotis Kondylis, Eduardo Paolozzi, Hans Sahl
1992: Elisabeth Augustin, Karl Raimund Popper, cs:Hugo Rokyta
1994: István Szabó
1995: Isang Yun
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Bourdieu
Ernst Gombrich
Michael Gorski
Giorgio Strehler
Michel Tournier
Billy Wilder
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