Herder Prize

The Herder Prize was a cultural prize from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS. It was awarded between 1963 and 2006.

The forerunner of the Herder Prize was the Johann Gottfried von Herder Prize awarded from 1935 by the Alfred Toepfers Foundation FVS .

The Herder Prize, named after Johann Gottfried Herder , honors up to seven personalities from Eastern and Southeastern Europe who have made an exemplary contribution to the preservation and enhancement of European cultural heritage. The creative achievement in the field of arts and humanities was essential. The prize was awarded at the University of Vienna .

Each individual prize was endowed with 15,000 euros. Associated with him was a scholarship that enabled a young talent proposed by the award winner to spend a year studying at a university in Vienna.

The Herder Prize was last awarded in 2006.

Award winners (selection)

• 1964: Jan Kott (1914–2001), theater critic (Poland), Lucijan Marija Škerjanc (1900–1973), composer (Slovenia), Oto Bihalji-Merin (1904–1993), art historian (Yugoslavia)
• 1965: László Németh (1901–1975), writer (Hungary), Tudor Arghezi (1880–1967), poet (Romania)
• 1966: Ján Cikker (1911–1989), composer (Slovakia)
• 1967: Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994), composer (Poland), Mihai Pop (1907–2000), ethnologist (Romania), Vladimír Kompánek (1927–2011), sculptor (Slovakia)
• 1968: Lajos Vayer (1913–2001), art historian (Hungary), Constantin Daicoviciu , (1898–1973) ancient historian, provincial Roman archaeologist (Romania), Roman Ingarden (1893–1970), philosopher (Poland), Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981 ), Writers (Yugoslavia), Ludvík Kunz , Anastasios Orlandos (1887–1979), architect, building researcher and archaeologist (Greece)
• 1969: Pancho Vladigerov (1899–1978), composer, pianist (Bulgaria)
• 1970: Gyula Illyés (1902–1983), writer (Hungary), Tseko Torbov , philosopher (Bulgaria), Zoltan Franjo , poet (Romania)
• 1971: Zaharia Stancu (1902–1974), writer (Romania)
• 1972: Gyula Ortutay (1910–1978), ethnographer (Hungary), Virgil Vătăşianu (1902–1993), art historian (Romania), Atanas Dalchev (1904–1978), poet (Bulgaria)
• 1973: Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998), poet (Poland)
• 1975: Nichita Stănescu (1933–1983), poet (Romania), Gábor Preisich (1909–1998), architect (Hungary)
• 1976: Dezső Keresztury (1904–1996), writer (Hungary), Marin Goleminov (1908–2000), composer (Bulgaria)
• 1977: Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020), composer (Poland), Eugen Barbu (1924–1993), journalist (Romania)
• 1978: Béla Gunda (1911–1994), ethnographer (Hungary)
• 1979: Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000), composer (Hungary)
• 1980: Emil Condurachi , historian (Romania), Manusos Manusakas (1904–2003), Byzantinist and Neo-Greekist (Greece)
• 1981: Sándor Csoóri (1930–2016), writer (Hungary), Vjenceslav Richter (1917–2002), architect and artist (Yugoslavia)
• 1982: Imre Varga (1923–2019), sculptor (Hungary), Ana Blandiana (* 1942), poet (Romania)
• 1983: György Konrád (1933–2019), writer (Hungary), Adrian Marino (1921–2005), writer (Romania), Władysław Bartoszewski (1922–2015), historian (Poland), Jozef Jankovič , sculptor (Slovakia), Stoimen Stoilov , Artist (Bulgaria)
• 1984: Constantin Lucaci (1923–2014), sculptor (Romania), Krzysztof Meyer (* 1943), composer (Poland)
• 1985: Adrian Marino (1921-2005), writer (Romania)
• 1986: Tekla Dömötör (1914–1987), ethnographer (Hungary), Anatol Vieru (1926–1998), composer (Romania)
• 1987: József Ujfalussy (1920–2010), musicologist (Hungary)
• 1988: Zoe Dumitrescu Bușulenga , literary historian (Romania), Constantin Noica (1909–1987), philosopher (Romania), György Györffy (1917–2000), historian (Hungary), Donka Petkanova , literary scholar (Bulgaria), Christos Kapralos (1909– 1993), sculptor (Greece)
• 1989: Nikos Pentzikes (1908–1993) Greek painter & writer
• 1990: András Vizkelety (* 1931), literary scholar (Hungary), Dejan Medaković (1922–2008), art historian (Serbia)
• 1991: Marin Sorescu (1936–1996), poet (Romania), Stoimen Stoilov , artist (Bulgaria)
• 1992: Zmaga Kumer , (Slovenia)
• 1993: Elena Várossová (1926-2010), philosopher (Slovakia)
• 1994: Sándor Kányádi (1929–2018), poet (Hungary), Zigmas Zinkevičius (1925–2018), historian (Lithuania)
• 1995: Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), poet (Poland), Jaan Undusk (* 1958), writer (Estonia), Mirko Kovač (1938–2013), writer (Yugoslavia), Milčo Lalkov (1944–2000), historian ( Bulgaria)
• 1996: Karel Hubáček (1924–2011), architect (Czech Republic), Konstantin Iliev , dramaturge (Bulgaria), Pēteris Vasks (* 1946), composer (Latvia)
• 1997: Ferenc Glatz (* 1941), historian (Hungary), Bogdan Bogdanović (1922–2010), architect (Serbia), Jaan Kross (1920–2007), writer (Estonia)
• 1998: Imre Bak (* 1939), painter (Hungary), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930–2011), poet (Lithuania), Andrei Corbea Hoişie , philologist (Romania)
• 1999: István Fried (* 1934), literary scholar (Hungary), Mircea Dinescu (* 1950), poet (Romania), Swetlana Alexijewitsch (* 1948), journalist (Belarus)
• 2000: Imre Kertész (1929–2016), writer (Hungary), Milan Kundera (* 1929), writer (Czech Republic), Arvo Pärt (* 1935), composer (Estonia)
• 2001: János Böhönyey (1925–2019), architect (Hungary), Jurij Andruchowytsch (* 1960), writer (Ukraine), Janez Bernik (1933–2016), painter (Slovenia), Marek Kopelent (* 1932), composer (Czech Republic )
• 2002: Péter Esterházy (1950–2016), writer (Hungary), Radost Ivanova (Bulgaria)
• 2003: Károly Manherz (* 1942), linguist (Hungary), Ana Maria Zahariade , architect (Romania), Drago Jančar (* 1948), writer (Slovenia), Wassil Gjuselew (* 1936), historian (Bulgaria), Ales Rasanau ( * 1947), poet and translator (Belarus)
• 2004: Éva Pócs (* 1936), ethnographer (Hungary), Theodore Antoniou (1935–2018), composer (Greece)
• 2005: Károly Klimó (* 1936), painter (Hungary), Hanna Krall (* 1935), journalist (Poland), Primož Kuret , historian (Slovenia), Jiří Kuthan , art historian (Czech Republic), Andrei Marga (* 1946), philosopher (Romania), Eimuntas Nekrošius (1952–2018), theater director (Lithuania), Krešimir Nemec , literary critic (Croatia)
• 2006: Włodzimierz Borodziej (* 1956), historian (Poland), Nicos Hadzinikolau , art historian (Greece), Gabriela Kilianova , ethnologist (Slovakia), Ene Mihkelson (1944–2017), writer (Estonia), Vojteh Ravnikar (1943–2010) , Architect (Slovenia)

Web links

• Toepfer Foundation website
• Prices of the Töpfer Foundation until 2006 ( Memento from March 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• List of Herder Prize winners. Internet portal of the Austrian libraries abroad

Remarks

1. ↑ Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Albania, Macedonia, Greece