Architecture Prize of the German Democratic Republic

The Architecture Prize of the German Democratic Republic was an architecture prize that was founded in 1976 by the GDR Council of Ministers .

Procurement guidelines

The prize could be awarded up to five times each year and was endowed with 5,000 or 25,000 marks. The prize was mainly intended to be given to individuals, but collectives could also receive it. Foreign architects were also allowed to receive the award.

Award winners

1976-1979

1976: Ewald Henn
1977: Fritz Dieter , Iris Grund
1979: Gerhard Landgraf collective for the Prohlis development area in Dresden
1979: Johannes Gitschel project collective for the redesign of the southern edge of Leipziger Strasse in Berlin

1980-1989

1980: awarded as a collective prize a. a. to Horst Jahresling

1981:

1982:

1983:

1984: Karl-Heinz Barth for the reconstruction of the Stadtbad Karl-Marx-Stadt

1985: Jens Ebert collective for the design of the 1976-85 house for the miners and energy workers in Hoyerswerda

1986: Collective Wulf Brandstädter for the design for the 1984–86 development of the southern inner city of Halle (Saale) .

1987: Karl-Heinz Barth for the Schöneck holiday home

1988: Karlheinz Effenberger (graphic designer)

1989: Bernd Grönwald was proposed

Missing date

Wolf-Rüdiger Eisentraut

Individual evidence

^ Biographical handbook of the Soviet occupation zone / GDR: Henn, Ewald. Enzyklopädie der DDR, p. 12565 (cf. DDR-Biogr. HB, p. 301) 1996 KGSaur Verlag
↑ Petra Lohmann: Urban architect in socialism: Iris Dullin-Grund . In: Mary Pepchinski, Christina Budde, Wolfgang Voigt, Peter Cachola Schmal (eds.): Frau Architekt. For more than 100 years: women in the architectural profession. Wasmuth, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8030-0829-9 , pp. 197-201, here p. 1998.
↑ p. 50 in the 1997 Horst Jahresling catalog
↑ According to the biographical information (p. 15) in: Festival brochure Weimar Prize 1997 - speeches on the award of the Weimar Prize on October 3, 1997 to Horst Jahresling. Published by the Stadtkulturdirektion der Stadt Weimar, Weimar 1997, 24 pages, format> A5, without ISBN
↑ DNB 953709604
↑ Frank Betker: "Insight into Necessity": Municipal town planning in the GDR . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-515-08734-6 . P. 325, footnote 165.
^ Proposal by the GDR Building Academy to award the "GDR Architecture Prize" to Bernd Grönwald on Construction Workers' Day (June 25, 1989)

[1] Biographical handbook of the Soviet occupation zone / GDR: Henn, Ewald. Enzyklopädie der DDR, p. 12565 (cf. DDR-Biogr. HB, p. 301) 1996 KGSaur Verlag

[2] Petra Lohmann: Urban architect in socialism: Iris Dullin-Grund . In: Mary Pepchinski, Christina Budde, Wolfgang Voigt, Peter Cachola Schmal (eds.): Frau Architekt. For more than 100 years: women in the architectural profession. Wasmuth, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8030-0829-9 , pp. 197-201, here p. 1998.

[3] . 50 in the 1997 Horst Jahresling catalog

[4] According to the biographical information (p. 15) in: Festival brochure Weimar Prize 1997 - speeches on the award of the Weimar Prize on October 3, 1997 to Horst Jahresling. Published by the Stadtkulturdirektion der Stadt Weimar, Weimar 1997, 24 pages, format> A5, without ISBN

[5] DNB 953709604

[6] Frank Betker: "Insight into Necessity": Municipal town planning in the GDR . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-515-08734-6 . P. 325, footnote 165.

[7] Proposal by the GDR Building Academy to award the "GDR Architecture Prize" to Bernd Grönwald on Construction Workers' Day (June 25, 1989)