Carl Zuckmayer Medal

The Carl Zuckmayer Medal (German: Carl-Zuckmayer-Medaille) is a literary prize given by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in memory of Carl Zuckmayer. The medal itself was fashioned by state artist Otto Kallenbach [de]. The prize is also given with a 30-liter cask of Nackenheimer wine from the Weingut Gunderloch, a winery valued by Zuckmayer.^[1] The bestowal takes place on 18 January, the anniversary of Zuckmayer's death.^[2]

Staatstheater Mainz on the evening of the award of the Carl Zuckmayer Medal to Udo Lindenberg on 18 January 2007

Winners

Menasse commenting on the Medal before the ceremony (2019)

• 1979: Günther Fleckenstein [de]
• 1980: Werner Hinz
• 1982: Georg Hensel [de]
• 1984: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
• 1985: Ludwig Harig [de]
• 1986: Dolf Sternberger
• 1987: Tankred Dorst
• 1988: Günter Strack
• 1989: Hanns Dieter Hüsch
• 1990: Martin Walser, Adolf Muschg, André Weckmann [de]
• 1991: Albrecht Schöne
• 1992: Hilde Domin
• 1993: Hans Sahl
• 1994: Fred Oberhauser [de]
• 1995: Grete Weil
• 1996: Mario Adorf
• 1997: Katharina Thalbach
• 1998: Harald Weinrich
• 1999: Eva-Maria Hagen for her 1998 letter exchange with Wolf Biermann "Eva und der Wolf"
• 2000: Peter Rühmkorf
• 2001: Mirjam Pressler
• 2002: Herta Müller
• 2003: Monika Maron and Wolf von Lojewski
• 2004: Edgar Reitz
• 2005: Thomas Brussig
• 2006: Armin Mueller-Stahl
• 2007: Udo Lindenberg
• 2008: Bodo Kirchhoff
• 2009: Volker Schlöndorff^[3]
• 2010: Emine Sevgi Özdamar^[4]
• 2011: Hans Werner Kilz [de]
• 2012: Uwe Timm
• 2013 Doris Dörrie
• 2014 Dieter Kühn [de]^[5]
• 2015 Bruno Ganz
• 2016 Sven Regener
• 2017 Joachim Meyerhoff^[6]
• 2018 Yoko Tawada^[7]
• 2019 Robert Menasse^[8]
• 2020 Maren Kroymann^[9]
• 2021 Nora Gomringer^[10][11]
• 2022 Rafik Schami^[12]
• 2023 Nino Haratischwili^[13][14]
• 2024 Matthias Brandt^[15][16]
• 2025 Maria Schrader^[17][18]

See also

• German literature
• List of literary awards
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in literature
• List of years in poetry