The Sigmund Freud Prize or Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose (German Sigmund Freud-Preis für wissenschaftliche Prosa) is a German literary award named after Sigmund Freud and awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. It was first awarded in 1964.
The Sigmund Freud Prize and philosophy
In 1967, the Sigmund Freud Prize was awarded for the first time to a philosopher, Hannah Arendt. To date, ten of its recipients were philosophers writing in the German language, among them Hannah Arendt (1967), Ernst Bloch (1975), Jürgen Habermas (1976), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1979), Hans Blumenberg (1980), Odo Marquard (1984), Günther Anders (1992), Kurt Flasch (2000), Klaus Heinrich (2002), and most recently, Peter Sloterdijk (2005).
2015 Peter Eisenberg, linguist
2014 Jürgen Osterhammel, historian
2013 Angelika Neuwirth, Arabist
2012 Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, lawyer
2011 Arnold Esch, historian
2010 Luca Giuliani, archeologist
2009 Julia Voss, art historian and journalist
2008 Michael Hagner, physician and historian of science
2007 Josef H. Reichholf, evolutionary biologist
2006 Johannes Fried, historian
2005 Peter Sloterdijk, philosopher
2004 Karl Schlögel, historian
2003 Walter Burkert, classicist
2002 Klaus Heinrich, philosopher
2001 Horst Bredekamp, art historian
2000 Kurt Flasch, philosopher
1999 Reinhart Koselleck, historian
1998 Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, psychologist
1997 Paul Parin, ethno-psychologist
1996 Peter Wapnewski, scholar of German language and literature
1995 Gustav Seibt, historian
1994 Peter Gülke, musicologist
1993 Norbert Miller, literary scholar
1992 Günther Anders, philosopher
1991 Werner Hofmann, art historian
1990 Walther Killy, literary scholar
1989 Ralf Dahrendorf, political scientist
1988 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, physicist and philosopher
1987 Gerhard Ebeling, theologian
1986 Hartmut von Hentig, education studies
1985 Hermann Heimpel, historian
1984 Odo Marquard, philosopher
1983 Peter Graf Kielmansegg, political scientist
1982 Arno Borst, historian
1981 Kurt von Fritz, linguist (ancient languages)
1980 Hans Blumenberg, philosopher
1979 Hans-Georg Gadamer, philosopher
1978 Siegfried Melchinger, theatrical historian
1977 Harald Weinrich, classicist
1976 Jürgen Habermas, philosopher
1975 Ernst Bloch, philosopher
1974 Günter Busch, art historian
1973 Karl Rahner, theologian
1972 Erik Wolf, jurist (lawyer)
1971 Werner Kraft, literary historian
1970 Werner Heisenberg, physicist
1969 Bruno Snell, linguist (ancient languages)
1968 Karl Barth, Theologian
1967 Hannah Arendt, philosopher
1966 Emil Staiger, scholar of German language and literature
1965 Adolf Portmann, zoologist
1964 Hugo Friedrich, classicist
