Hessian Cultural Prize

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The Hessian Cultural Prize (German: Hessischer Kulturpreis) is an annual German culture prize awarded by the Government of Hesse. The prize was established in 1982. With a trophy of 60,000 German marks, now 45,000 Euro, it is currently the highest endowed culture prize in Germany.

Recipients

1982 – Eugen Kogon (political scientist); Thomas Michael Mayer (chairman, Georg Büchner Association)

1983 – Karl Krolow (lyricist); Hans-Jürgen von Bose (composer); Ror Wolf (author)

1984 – Bernard Schultze (painter); Albert Mangelsdorff (jazz trombonist)

1985 – Michael Gielen (conductor and composer); Ludwig Denecke and Heinz Rölleke (German philologists)

1986 – Karl Dedecius (translator); D. E. Sattler (Hölderlin scholar)

1987 – Volker Schlöndorff (film director); E. R. Nele (sculptor); Ev Grüger (painter)

1988 – Gabriele Wohmann (author)

1989 – Adolf Dresen (film director); Judith Rosenbauer (actor)

1990 – Horst Krüger (novelist); Egbert Strolka (Tänzer und Ballettmeister)

1991 – Horst Antes (painter und sculptor); Helmut Burmeister (museum director); Gerd J. Grein (museum director)

1992 – Eilke Brigitte Helm (physician); Marcel Ophüls (documentary director); Ensemble Modern

1993 – Hans-Albert Walter (philologist); F. K. Waechter (author); Heiner Goebbels (composer)

1994 – Lucius Burckhardt and Annemarie Burckhardt (sociologists); Peter Urban (translator); Adelheid Hoffmann and Hans-Jürgen „Slu“ Slusallek (galerists)

1995 – Margret Stuffmann (museum director); William Forsythe (choreographer); Karlheinz Braun (publicist)

1996 – Klaus Reichert (anglicist); Klappmaul Theater (youth theater company); Walter Boehlich (author and translator)

1997 – Odo Marquard (philosopher); Anna Viebrock (scenic designer); Ute Gerhard (sociologist, gender studies)

1998 – Wolf Singer (neuroscientist); Thomas Bayrle (painter); Mischka Popp and Thomas Bergmann (director)

1999 – Jürgen Habermas (philosopher); Marcel Reich-Ranicki (literary critic); Siegfried Unseld (publisher)

2000 – Barbara Klemm (photographer); Helga Fanderl (film director); José Luis Encarnação (information scientist)

2001 – Gottfried Kiesow (historic preservator); Paul Posenenske, Berthold Penkhues and Christoph Mäckler (architects)

2002 – Tabea Zimmermann (violist); Hans Zender (composer and conductor); Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt

2003 – Florian Illies (publicist); Nicolaus Schafhausen (curator); Til Schweiger (actor)

2004 – Andrea Breth (film director); Jürgen Holtz (actor); Klaus Völker (dramaturge)

2005 – no award

2006 – Christine Schäfer (soprano); Christoph Prégardien (tenor); Lothar Zagrosek (conductor)

2007 – René Block (galerist); Klaus Gallwitz and Klaus Herding (arts historians)

2008 – Wolfgang Diefenbach (orchestra director); Albrecht Beutelspacher (mathematician); Kindertheaterbürooo Kassel (Stefan Becker, Günter Staniewski)

2009 – Salomon Korn (Jewish community leader); Karl Lehmann (Cardinal); Peter Steinacker (former Protestant church leader); Navid Kermani (author, Islam scholar) rejected: Fuat Sezgin (Islam scholar)

2010 – Rebecca Horn (visual artist)

2011 – Dieter Rams (designer); F. C. Gundlach (photographer); Gunter Rambow (visual artist)

2012 – Hilmar Hoffmann (former president of the Goethe-Institut)

2013 – Wolf D. Prix (architect)

2014 – Peter Härtling (author)

2015 – Artistic directors of documenta I–XIII

2016 – Andreas Scholl (countertenor) and Tamar Halperin (harpsichordist and pianist)

References

Hessian Cultural Prize Wikipedia

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