Friedrich Stoltze Prize

The Stoltze Prize , also known as the Friedrich Stoltze Prize , is an honorary prize awarded every two years by the Association of Friends of Frankfurt , a registered association for the maintenance of Frankfurt traditions. It bears the name of the Frankfurt journalist , native and dialect poet Friedrich Stoltze (1816–1891).

The Frankfurt jeweler Johannes Lueg donated the award on the occasion of the opening of the Stoltze Museum in 1978, which moved into a new domicile in Frankfurt's old town in 2018 . It is a prize to honor people who have made a special contribution to the care of the cultural heritage in Frankfurt.

The price was based on this bust

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The prize is an eight centimeter high Stoltze figure made of solid silver, placed on a small granite base, which was designed by the sculptor Edwin Hüller . The artist based his work on the bust of the Stoltze Fountain , created in 1891 by Friedrich Schierholz , which has been on the chicken market in Frankfurt's old town since 2017 .

Award winners

The award ceremony, which takes place every two years, was brought forward by one year in 1992 in order to take into account the Friedrich Stoltze anniversary year (175th birthday and 100th anniversary of death). The award itself has been held as part of a festive event since 1991 in the Römer in the Kaisersaal and is carried out either by the Lord Mayor or the Head of Culture. Previous winners were:

1978 Liesel Christ and Richard Klein 1980 Waldemar Kramer and Wolfgang Klötzer 1982 Albert Richard Mohr 1984 Lia Woehr 1986 Günther Vogt 1988 Hilmar Hoffmann 1990 Werner Wirthle 1991 Johann Philipp Freiherr von Bethmann 1994 Mayor ret. D. Hans-Jürgen Moog 1996 Franziska Lenz-Gerharz and Helmut Lenz

1998 Jutta W. Thomasius 2000 Wolfgang Kaus 2002 Robert Gernhardt 2004 Carlo Giersch 2006 Christoph Mäckler 2008 Hans-Otto Schembs 2010 Claus Helmer 2016 Petra Breitkreuz 2018 Hans Traxler

Award ceremony 2002

The 2002 laureate, the writer Gernhardt, stated in the style of Stoltze in his acceptance speech:

Dear Goethe, dear Stoltze, aren't we of the same kind?

Dear Stoltze, dear Goethe, don't we play the same flute?

I am, granted the request, the third party in your league.

Web links

• Website of the Friends of Frankfurt on the Stoltze Prize ( Memento from September 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• The Stoltze Prize in the culture portal of the city of Frankfurt am Main

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1. ↑ The award ceremony was brought forward by one year because of the Stoltze anniversary.
2. ^ Architects - Portal FFM
3. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau of November 5, 2008, page F9
4. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau, updated on November 22, 2016
5. ↑ Press release CDU parliamentary group
6. ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse, updated on November 22, 2016
7. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau, updated on November 22, 2018
8. ↑ Press release City of Frankfurt