Handel Prize
The Handel Prize (officially: Handel Prize of the City of Halle, awarded by the Handel House Foundation ) is a music prize awarded in 1959 as the Handel Prize of the Halle district . It has been awarded since 2009 in coordination with the Handel House and the City of Halle (Saale) on the occasion of the annual Handel Festival . After a two-year break, from 1993 to 2008 it traded as the Handel Prize of the City of Halle . Among the award winners were leading cultural workers in Central Germany in the GDR . After "internationalization" and an increase in prize money to 10,000 euros, the prize is now awarded as an honorary prize.
history
The Handel Prize of the Halle District (also: Handel Prize of the Council of the Halle District ) was awarded for the first time in 1959. Musicians, singers and composers were among the winners. In addition, directors and musicologists, sculptors and painters as well as writers were honored. Music organizers and cultural politicians were also honored. Finally, the award was also given to choirs / music groups and other artistically working collectives . In addition to Central German personalities, some Western artists and musicologists were also honored.
The prize was endowed with a cash award. The winners received a bronze medal with a diameter of 10 cm. The medal was designed in 1959 by the sculptor Gerhard Lichtenfeld from the Halle - Burg Giebichenstein University of Applied Sciences . On the front was the Handel profile with an allonge wig and the signatures "G · Friedrich Handel" and "G · L". On the back one found the inscription "Handel price of the council of the district of Halle".
After a two-year break, the Handel Prize of the City of Halle was awarded from 1993 . It was endowed with 20,000 Deutschmarks. Only one winner was awarded each year. The recipients of the award, some of them international, were now without exception artists and musicologists.
The future jewelry designer Silke Plathe created a 4 × 3.5 cm pin made of gold and enamel for the Handel Prize 1994 ff . On the front is a crossed bar from the autograph of the Handel oratorio Messiah ( HWV 56, German: The Messias ), first part, 5th Accompagnato (bass): Thus saith the Lord (German: “So speaks der Herr”) and to see the coat of arms of the city of Halle. The number “900” is on the back.
In 2008, the prize was entrusted to the Handel House Foundation, with the advisory board having the right to make proposals and the board of trustees taking the decision. The award itself is presented by the mayor of the city of Halle as an honorary award ; since 2011 it has been called the Handel Prize of the city of Halle, awarded by the Handel House Foundation . The statutes state that the Handel Prize is awarded to “Individuals and ensembles for outstanding artistic, scientific or cultural-political achievements, insofar as these are related to the care of Handel”.
Award winners
Handel Prize of the Halle District (1959–1990)
- 1959: Philine Fischer , Helmut Koch , Walther Siegmund-Schultze , Johanna Rudolph + orchestra of the Hallesches Theater des Friedens
- 1960: Heinz Beberniß , Willi Lautenschläger, Willi Neubert , Anneliese Pietschmann, Arno Rammelt, Werner Reinowsky, Konrad Sasse , Otto Schutzmeister + workers 'ballet Buna, workers' theater in Leuna, State Symphony Orchestra Halle
- 1961: Albert Gabriel, Julie Harksen, Alfred Hetschko , Horst-Tanu Margraf , Karl Erich Müller , Hans Pischner , Heinz Röttger , Max Schneider , William C. Smith , Percy M. Young + collective of Germanists at the University of Halle (Dietrich Allert, Dieter Heinemann, Günter Hartung, Wolfgang Friedrich), Volkschor Halle
- 1962: Jutta Bartels, Heinz Bräuer, Alan Bush , Horst Förster , Karl Kleinig, Ernst Hermann Meyer , Erich Müller, Wilhelm Schmied , Dieter Streithof, Mária Vermes , Gerhard Voigt , Gerhard Wohlgemuth
- 1963: Bernhard Franke, Kurt Hübenthal , Hans Lorbeer , Werner Rackwitz + collective of the Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle, Ludwig Schuster Quartet (Ludwig Schuster, Georg Hanstedt , Walter Ziegler, Otto Kleist)
- 1964: Wolfgang Hudy, Renate Krahmer, Hans-Martin Nau , Heinz Rückert , Isolde Schubert, Willy Sitte, Werner Steinberg + Collegium instrumentale Halle
- 1965: Oswald Arlt, Fritz Bressau, Rose Maria Kuban, Jens Peter Larsen, Gerhard Lichtenfeld , Gerd Neglik, Gertrud Sasse , Hans Stieber , Martin Wetzel + cabaret "Die Taktlosen"
- 1966: Claus Haake, Hans-Joachim Mrusek + orchestra of the Landestheater Dessau
- 1967: Washa Gwacharija, Richard Paulick , Rosemarie Streithof + collective of the amateur film studio of the Bitterfeld electrochemical combine
- 1968: Siegfried Bimberg , Kurt Böwe , Hermann Kant , Horst Schönemann + workers' theater of the union's clubhouse
- 1969: Werner Heiduczek , Edgar Külow , Gerhard Schober, Hannes H. Wagner + wind orchestra of the local music corps of the MdI Halle, workers symphony orchestra of the club house of the Halle trade unions, choir of the VEB Chemische Werke Buna
- 1970: Erwin Ernst, Waldtraut Lewin + wind orchestra of the Thomas-Müntzer-Schacht Sangerhausen, collective "Monument 25 years of democratic land reform" (Gerhard Berndt, Herbert Gebhardt, Max Kurzawa, Gerhard Lichtenfeld , Dieter Rex )
- 1971: Horst Deichfuß , Rolf Kiy + workers' youth club of the district culture house "Maxim Gorki" Wittenberg, opera ensemble of the State Theater Halle (Wolfgang Kersten, Thomas Sanderling , Wolfgang Nötzold)
- 1972: Edith Brandt , Peter Schreier + men's choir "Vorwärts" of the Mannsfeld combine "Wilhelm Pieck" Hettstedt
- 1973: Olaf Koch , Erik Neutsch + district music corps "Fritz Weineck" of the FDJ district organization Halle, Halle madrigalists
- 1974: Helga Duty, Rosemarie Rataiczyk, Werner Rataiczyk + Worker Youth Singing Club “Friendship” Dessau, dancing couple Peter Boehm and Sonja Dubina-Boehm
- 1975: Joachim Rähmer, Wolfgang Rumpf , Hans Jürgen Wenzel + collective Händel interpreters of the State Theater Halle (Christa Hilpisch, Jürgen Krassmann, Violetta Madjarowa, Hans-Jürgen Wachsmuth)
- 1976: Theo Adam , Käthe Röschke, Gustav Schmahl , Hans-Georg Werner + Arbeiterjugendsingeclub of the FDJ Leuna , Hallesche Philharmonie with Robert-Franz-Singakademie and Stadtsingechor Halle , collective Handel interpreters at the State Theater Halle (Werner Hasselmann, Barbara Hoene, Fred Teschler )
- 1977: Gerd Domhardt , Gerhard Geyer , Richard Stephan + collective of the Handel House, club councilor of the workers' youth club at the theater "Junge Garde", circle of artistic folk creation in the chemical combine Bitterfeld
- 1978: Karl Meyer, Manfred Otte , Werner Süß + Dorfklub Molmerswende , FDJ-Chor Extended Oberschule Schulpforta
- 1979: Bernd Baselt , Hans Pflüger , Hans-Jürgen Steinmann + choir of the Huttenschule Halle, soloist collective of the opera ensemble at the Landestheater Halle (Elisabeth Hinze, Petra-Ines Strate, Jürgen Trekel)
- 1980: Dietrich Sommer, Bernt Wilke, Karin Zauft + collective from the Halle television studio, children's and youth ballet from the Wolfen film factory
- 1981: Hanna John, Christian Kluttig , Irmtraud Ohme , Ursula Sievers, Manfred Jendryschik + Stadtsingechor Halle
- 1982: Werner Peter, Jutta Peters, Heike Plaumann + singing club “Impulse” of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , dance orchestra “Black and White” Halle
- 1983: Karin Gittel, Bernd Leistner, Otto Möhwald , Heinz Sachs + choir of the Hettstedt rolling mill in the Mansfeld combine
- 1984: Walter Danz , Günther Kuhbach, Claus Nowak, Peter Rosen + Harzensemble at the clubhouse of the VEB Eisen- und Hüttenwerke Halle
- 1985: Rüdiger Bernhardt , J. Merrill Knapp , Dietrich Knothe , Hermann Christian Polster , Wolfgang Unger , Hans-Günther Wauer + staging collective “Floridante” (Werner Hintze, Peter Konwitschny , Kathrin Mentzel, Karin Zauft), the design collective “Händelhaus”, common Choir of the Energy Combine and the Halle Housing Combine
- 1986: Andreas Baumann , Wolfgang Hütt , Gerhard Neumann , Anneliese Probst , Edwin Werner , choir of the clubhouse "Marx-Engels" of the VEB Hydrogenation Plant Zeitz
- 1987: Dorothea Köhler , Else Kobe, Ronald Kobe, Johannes Künzel , Eduard Melkus , Siegfried Voß + chamber choir "Madrigal" from the clubhouse of the miners Eisleben
- 1988: Alfred Thomas Müller , Gerhard Neumann , Uwe Pfeiffer, Dietrich Schlegel, Sabine Bauer, Manfred Wippler
- 1989: Rolf Colditz, Horst Irrgang , Annette Markert, Manfred Rätzer + dance ensemble of the VEB Förderanlagen- u. Kranbau Koethen
- 1990: Terence Best, Helmut Brade , Thomas Reuter , Rudolf Stange + Hallesches Consort
Handel Prize of the City of Halle (1993–2008)
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Handel Prize was not awarded for two years.
- 1993: Nicholas McGegan
- 1994: Axel Köhler
- 1995: Winton Dean
- 1996: Howard Arman
- 1997: Emma Kirkby
- 1998: Helmut Gleim
- 1999: Trevor Pinnock
- 2000: Donald James Burrows
- 2001: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- 2002: Jean-Claude Malgoire
- 2003: Marc Minkowski
- 2004: Wolfgang Katschner
- 2005: Stanley John Sadie (posthumous)
- 2006: Klaus Froboese
- 2007: Paul Goodwin
- 2008: Christopher Hogwood
Handel Prize of the City of Halle (since 2009)
(awarded by the Handel House Foundation)
- 2009: Jordi Savall
- 2010: Cecilia Bartoli
- 2011: Wolfgang Ruf
- 2012: Ragna Schirmer
- 2013/14 Magdalena Kožená
- 2015: Philippe Jaroussky
- 2016: Romelia Lichtenstein
- 2017: Vivica Exactly
- 2018: Joyce DiDonato
- 2019: Silke Leopold
- 2020: Valer Sabadus
literature
- Christoph Rink: Chronology of the Handel Prize . In: Announcements of the Friends and Sponsors of the Handel House in Halle eV 1/2012, pp. 20-25.
Web links
- Handel Prize (since 2010) on: halle.de
- Handel Prize winner (since 1993) at: haendelhaus.de