Mecklenburg Culture Prize
The Mecklenburg Culture Prize was founded in 1964 as the culture prize of the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft by the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft in Ratzeburg and awarded until 1996.
A total of 24 writers, historians, musicians and folklorists were honored with the Mecklenburg Culture Prize. According to the award guidelines of the Landsmannschaft Mecklenburg, the cultural award was awarded to personalities "who have promoted Mecklenburg cultural work through intellectual and creative achievements or exemplary activities." The Mecklenburg Culture Prize was the highest distinction that the Landsmannschaft Mecklenburg had to award.
The honor took place for the first time in 1964 by handing over the honorary certificate to the writer Friedrich Griese , later initially annually, and finally every two years. In addition to the culture award, the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft also awarded the Fritz Reuter Medal, donated in 1960 on the occasion of Fritz Reuter's 150th birthday, as a further award for services to Mecklenburg culture and the Low German language . The first recipients were Friedrich Griese and the Reuter reciter Ernst Hameister .
The Mecklenburg Culture Prize should not be confused with the Culture Prize of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, founded by the state in 1994 .
Winner of the Mecklenburg Culture Prize
| 1964 | Friedrich Griese , † June 1, 1975 |
| 1968 | Gustav Heinrich Piehler , † July 18, 1973 |
| 1971 | Friedrich Siems , † August 30, 1971 |
| 1972 | Walter Lehmbecker , † January 5, 1980 |
| 1973 | Georg Tessin , † October 18, 1985 |
| 1974 | Gerhard Böhmer , † December 4, 1978 |
| 1975 | Carl Friedrich Maaß , † August 27, 1981 |
| 1977 | Otto Witte , † March 26, 1997 |
| 1978 | Gerd Lüpke , † October 3, 2002 |
| 1979 | Helmut de Voss , † August 23, 2000 |
| 1980 | Friedrich Wilhelm Giebel , † January 24, 1988 |
| 1981 | Hans Erdmann , † February 15, 1986 |
| 1982 | Gertrud Bergmann , † July 15, 1985 |
| 1983 | Friedrich-Franz Pingel , † November 10, 1994 |
| 1984 | Walter Kempowski , † October 5, 2007 |
| 1985 | Heiner Kracht , † January 1, 1989 |
| Otthinrich Müller-Ramelsloh , † January 21, 1991 | |
| 1986 | Martin Wolter , † October 17, 1995 |
| 1987 | Eva Bartoschek-Rechlin , Berchtesgaden-Schönau |
| 1989 | Friedrich Hans Schaefer , † December 1, 1998 |
| 1991 | Christa Cordshagen , † March 27, 2008 |
| 1993 | Jürgen Gundlach , † December 3, 2014 |
| 1995 | Werner Timm , † April 22, 1999 |
| 1996 | Christian Madaus , † March 7, 2015 |
Web links
- Literature on the Mecklenburg Culture Prize in the State Bibliography MV
- Literature on winners of the Mecklenburg Culture Prize in the state bibliography MV