Goethe Prize

Goethe Prize
Awarded for	Achievement worthy of honour in memory of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Date	1927 (1927)
Location	Frankfurt am Main
Country	Germany
Reward(s)	€50,000, certificate written on parchment
Website	goethe-preis

The Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (German: Goethe-Preis der Stadt Frankfurt am Main) is an award for achievement "worthy of honour in memory of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" made by the city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was usually an annual award until 1955, and thereafter has been triennial.^[1] Following a decision of municipal authorities in 1952, the "Award of the Goethe Prize" only takes place every three years. Many recipients are authors, but persons working in several other creative and scientific fields have been honoured. The prize money is €50,000.^[2]

Recipients

• 1927 – Stefan George, Germany^[3]
• 1928 – Albert Schweitzer, France^[4]
• 1929 – Leopold Ziegler [de], Germany
• 1930 – Sigmund Freud, Austria
• 1931 – Ricarda Huch, Germany
• 1932 – Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany
• 1933 – Hermann Stehr, Germany
• 1934 – Hans Pfitzner, Germany
• 1935 – Hermann Stegemann [de], Germany
• 1936 – Georg Kolbe, Germany
• 1937 – Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, Germany
• 1938 – Hans Carossa, Germany
• 1939 – Carl Bosch, Germany
• 1940 – Agnes Miegel, Germany
• 1941 – Wilhelm Schäfer, Germany
• 1942 – Richard Kuhn, Germany
• 1945 – Max Planck, Germany
• 1946 – Hermann Hesse, Germany
• 1947 – Karl Jaspers, Germany
• 1948 – Fritz von Unruh, Germany
• 1949 – Thomas Mann, Germany
• 1952 – Carl Zuckmayer, Germany
• 1954 – Theodor Brugsch, Germany
• 1955 – Annette Kolb, Germany
• 1958 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Germany
• 1960 – Ernst Beutler, Germany
• 1961 – Walter Gropius, Germany
• 1964 – Benno Reifenberg [de], Germany
• 1967 – Carlo Schmid, Germany
• 1970 – György Lukács, Hungary
• 1973 – Arno Schmidt, Germany
• 1976 – Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
• 1979 – Raymond Aron, France
• 1982 – Ernst Jünger, Germany
• 1985 – Golo Mann, Germany
• 1988 – Peter Stein, Germany
• 1991 – Wislawa Szymborska, Poland
• 1994 – Ernst Gombrich, United Kingdom
• 1997 – Hans Zender, Germany
• 1999 – Siegfried Lenz, Germany
• 2002 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany
• 2005 – Amos Oz, Israel
• 2008 – Pina Bausch, Germany^[5]
• 2011 – Adunis, Syria
• 2014 – Peter von Matt, Switzerland^[6]
• 2017 – Ariane Mnouchkine, France^[7]
• 2020 – Dževad Karahasan, Bosnia and Herzegovina^[8]
• 2023 – Barbara Honigmann, Germany^[9][10]

See also

• German literature
• List of literary awards
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in literature
• List of years in poetry
• Hanseatic Goethe Prize

References

1. "Goethepreis der Stadt Frankfurt am Main". Online-Ausgabe des Handbuchs der Kulturpreise (in German). 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
2. "Goethe Prize". Kulturportal Frankfurt. 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
3. Göpfert, Claus-Jürgen (30 August 2017). "Goethe-Preis nicht demontieren". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 14 October 2018.
4. Balke, Florian (23 April 2008). "'In der Anziehungskraft Goethescher Sonne'". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 14 October 2018.
5. Hierholzer, Michael (28 August 2008). "Das Tanztheater und die echten Gefühle". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 14 October 2018.
6. "Germanist Peter von Matt erhält Goethe-Preis der Stadt Frankfurt". Frankfurter Neue Presse (Press release) (in German). dpa. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
7. Göpfert, Claus-Jürgen (30 August 2017). "Kritik an Goethe-Preisverleihung". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 14 October 2018.
8. "Frankfurter Goethepreis an bosnischen Schriftsteller Karahasan". hessenschau.de (in German). Frankfurt: Hessischer Rundfunk. 7 May 2020. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
9. "Erzählerin jüdischer Schicksale: Schriftstellerin Barbara Honigmann mit Frankfurter Goethepreis ausgezeichnet". hessenschau.de (in German). 28 August 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
10. "Akademiemitglied Barbara Honigmann erhält Goethepreis 2023 : Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur". Mainz (in German). 11 May 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.

External links

• Official website (in German)