Hanns Eisler Prize

The Hanns Eisler Prize was a German music prize named after the composer Hanns Eisler . It was donated by Radio DDR - with the advisory participation of the Music Section of the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin (East) and the Association of German Composers and Musicologists of the GDR (VDK) - and on the occasion of his 70th birthday on 6 July 1968 for the first time in the ballroom of the old town hall in Leipzig . The Hanns Eisler Prize was endowed with 10,000 marks and was one of the most renowned music prizes in the German Democratic Republic.

Statute

The statute stated: “The Hanns Eisler Prize is awarded for new compositions and musicological work that make excellent contributions to the socialist musical culture of the GDR.” One or more composers (in the “Composition” category) and musicologists ( from 1971 in the category “scientific work”). The prize-winning pieces were then premiered in a special concert.

The first winners in 1968 included Peter Dorn , Gerhard Rosenfeld and Ruth Zechlin . The composers Reinhard Pfundt , Gerhard Rosenfeld and Udo Zimmermann received two awards each . In 1990 and 1991 the prize was awarded by the German broadcaster Kultur , most recently to Klaus Martin Kopitz and Hans Tutschku . Since 1993, the Hanns Eisler Prize for composition and interpretation of contemporary music has been awarded to young performers and composers by the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin .

Prize Winner (1968–1991)

Awarded by Radio DDR II :

• 1968: Peter Dorn , Gerhard Rosenfeld and Ruth Zechlin
• 1969: Siegfried Matthus and Wolfgang Strauss
• 1970: Gerhard Rosenfeld
• 1971: Jürgen Elsner and Inge Lammel
• 1972: Gerhard Tittel , Peter Wicke and Udo Zimmermann
• 1973: Friedrich Goldmann , Rainer Kunad , Hans-Joachim Schulze and Udo Zimmermann
• 1974: no award
• 1975: Frank-Volker Eichhorn , Winfried Höntsch and Friedrich Schenker
• 1976: Willy Focke
• 1977: Manfred Schubert and Manfred Weiss
• 1978: Paul-Heinz Dittrich and Thomas Böttger (Acknowledgments: Joachim Gruner and Bert Poulheim )
• 1979: Manfred Grabs , Peter Herrmann , Bert Poulheim and Gisela Steineckert
• 1980: Wilfried Krätzschmar , Günter Neubert and H. Johannes Wallmann
• 1981: Thomas Ehricht , Bernd Franke and Heinz Weitzendorf
• 1982: Gerd Domhardt and Thomas Hertel
• 1983: Rainer Böhm , Reiner Dennewitz and Hans-Peter Jannoch
• 1984: Ralf Hoyer , Burkhard Meier , Reinhard Pfundt and Kurt Dietmar Richter
• 1985: Günter Mayer (acknowledgments: Reinhard Wolschina and Helmut Zapf )
• 1986: Gottfried Glöckner , Fritz Hennenberg and Reinhard Pfundt
• 1987: Walter Thomas Heyn and Helmut Zapf
• 1988: Reinhard Wolschina and Olav Kröger (recognition: Siegfried Witzmann )
• 1989: Johannes Schlecht , Steffen Schleiermacher and Frank Schneider (Acknowledgments: Lutz Glandien and Hartmut Wallborn )

Awarded by the Deutschlandsender Kultur :

• 1990: Christian Münch , Helmut Oehring and Annette Schlünz
• 1991: Klaus Martin Kopitz , David Citron and Hans Tutschku

literature

• Erika Tschernig (Ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-320-01132-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Hennenberg : Hanns Eisler . VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-323-00016-1 , p. 8.
2. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 174.
3. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 183.
4. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 190.
5. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 200.
6. ↑ Musik und Gesellschaft 29 (1979), p. 506.
7. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 210.
8. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 219.
9. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 239.
10. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 250.
11. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 264.
12. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 280.
13. ↑ Gruner, Joachim. In: Axel Schniederjürgen (Ed.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook. 5th edition, Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 155.
14. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 296.
15. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 308.
16. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 322.
17. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 336.
18. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 349.
19. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 368.
20. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 386.
21. ^ ^{A b} Peter Hollfelder: International Chronological Lexicon of Piano Music . Noetzel, Wiesbaden 1999, Supplement 2005, ISBN 3-7959-0855-8 , p. 236.
22. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 401.
23. ↑ Erika Tschernig (ed.): Our culture. GDR time table 1945–1987. Berlin 1989, p. 436.
24. ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 150 (1989), p. 61.
25. ↑ Das Orchester 39 (1991), p. 339.