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, linguist2014 Jürgen Osterhammel, historian2013 Angelika Neuwirth, Arabist2012 Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, lawyer2011 Arnold Esch, historian2010 Luca Giuliani, archeologist2009 Julia Voss, art historian and journalist2008 Michael Hagner, physician and historian of science2007 Josef H. Reichholf, evolutionary biologist2006 Johannes Fried, historian2005 Peter Sloterdijk, philosopher2004 Karl Schlögel, historian2003 Walter Burkert, classicist2002 Klaus Heinrich, philosopher2001 Horst Bredekamp, art historian2000 Kurt Flasch, philosopher1999 Reinhart Koselleck, historian1998 Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, psychologist1997 Paul Parin, ethno-psychologist1996 Peter Wapnewski, scholar of German language and literature1995 Gustav Seibt, historian1994 Peter Gülke, musicologist1993 Norbert Miller, literary scholar1992 Günther Anders, philosopher1991 Werner Hofmann, art historian1990 Walther Killy, literary scholar1989 Ralf Dahrendorf, political scientist1988 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, physicist and philosopher1987 Gerhard Ebeling, theologian1986 Hartmut von Hentig, education studies1985 Hermann Heimpel, historian1984 Odo Marquard, philosopher1983 Peter Graf Kielmansegg, political scientist1982 Arno Borst, historian1981 Kurt von Fritz, linguist (ancient languages)1980 Hans Blumenberg, philosopher1979 Hans-Georg Gadamer, philosopher1978 Siegfried Melchinger, theatrical historian1977 Harald Weinrich, classicist1976 Jürgen Habermas, philosopher1975 Ernst Bloch, philosopher1974 Günter Busch, art historian1973 Karl Rahner, theologian1972 Erik Wolf, jurist (lawyer)1971 Werner Kraft, literary historian1970 Werner Heisenberg, physicist1969 Bruno Snell, linguist (ancient languages)1968 Karl Barth, Theologian1967 Hannah Arendt, philosopher1966 Emil Staiger, scholar of German language and literature1965 Adolf Portmann, zoologist1964 Hugo Friedrich, classicist
