Hanseatic Goethe Prize

The Hanseatic Goethe Prize (German: Hansischer Goethe-Preis) was a German literary and artistic award, given biennially from 1949 to 2005 to a figure of European stature. The prize money was €25,000.^[1] On the occasion of Goethe's 200th birthday, the Freiherr vom Stein Foundation in Hamburg endowed a cultural prize "for important personalities in the intellectual life".^[2] The prize was awarded by the foundation of the Hamburg businessman Alfred Toepfer, Alfred Toepfer Foundation F. V. S..^[3][4]

Recipients

• 1951 Martin Buber^[5]
• 1955 T. S. Eliot^[6]
• 1956 Walter Gropius^[7]
• 1958 Paul Tillich^[8]
• 1961 Benjamin Britten^[9]
• 1967 Salvador de Madariaga^[10]
• 1969 Robert Minder [de] (French Germanist)^[10]
• 1971 Giorgio Strehler^[11]
• 1973 Manès Sperber^[10]
• 1974 Hanns Lilje^[10]
• 1975 Carlo Schmid^[10]
• 1989 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker^[10]
• 1995 Nikolaus Harnoncourt^[12]
• 1997 Harald Weinrich^[13]
• 1999 Ryszard Kapuściński^[14]
• 2001 Pina Bausch^[15]
• 2003 Cees Nooteboom^[16][9]
• 2005 Ariane Mnouchkine (refused, because of Toepfer's activities in and for the Third Reich)^[17]

See also

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