Hermann Hesse Medal from the city of Calw
The Hermann Hesse Medal of the City of Calw has been awarded since 1964.
To honor people who have expressed their solidarity with the city in a special way, the city of Calw - Hermann Hesse's birth town - donated the Hermann Hesse Medal in accordance with the statutes of July 21, 1966. The statutes say: "The award of the Hermann Hesse Medal requires outstanding merits or creative work in the civic, social or scientific field or a particularly expressed bond with the city of Calw."
List of the bearers of the Hermann Hesse Medal of the city of Calw
- 1964 Kurt Georg Kiesinger , was Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg from 1958 to 1966
- Ninon Hesse , was the third wife of Hermann Hesse as well as a writer and art historian
- Wilhelm Hoffmann , was a librarian and president of the German Schiller Society .
- 1967 Otto Göhner, was mayor of Calw from 1919 to 1946.
- 1971 Heinrich Perrot , entrepreneur in Calw-Heumaden - owner of the tower clock factory Perrot - in which Hermann Hesse completed a mechanic internship. Today, the city of Calw, in cooperation with the Perrot family, organizes Hesse readings in the factory's locksmith's workshop during the summer months.
- 1973 Reinhold Pfau , was a bookbinder from Stuttgart and Hermann Hesse collector, who bequeathed his collection of 3,067 volumes (including many Hesse settings ) to the German Literature Archive in Marbach as the Hesse collection (Reinhold Pfau) .
- 1974 Kenji Takahashi , Japanese Hermann Hesse researcher, who received the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 1957 for his work Hesse kenkyu to sono yakugyo .
- 1977 Bernhard Zeller , was a German literary historian and archivist. He headed the German Literature Archive in Marbach from 1956 to 1985. He created this institution together with Wilhelm Hoffmann .
- Walter Staudenmeyer , as the city archivist of Calw, laid the foundation for the Hermann Hesse Museum .
- 1981 Gunter Böhmer , was a German painter, draftsman and book illustrator. He was a friend of Hermann Hesse and had frequent visits from him in Montagnola .
- 1984 Friedrich Bran , is head of the International Hesse Colloquia in Calw.
- 1988 Volker Michels , is editor at Suhrkamp Verlag Hesse and author of extensive secondary literature on Hermann Hesse.
- 1990 Martin Pfeifer is the author of the Hesse commentary on all works .
- Klaus Hirte is a chamber singer and interpreter of Hesse settings.
- 1991 Karl-Heinz Lehmann, was Lord Mayor of Calw from 1965 to 1991.
- 1993 Adelbert Moll , former director of the vocational school for the automotive industry (BFC) in Calw.
- 1997 Renate Bran was responsible for the International Hesse Colloquium in Calw for many years.
- 2000 Ursula Apel , Hermann Hesse researcher: Hermann Hesse - people and key figures in his life .
- 2002 Siegfried Unseld , was head of the Suhrkamp Verlag, which publishes Hermann Hesse's writings.
- Ralph Freedman , from Princeton University in the USA, is a Hesse biographer and founding member of the International Hermann Hesse Society, which was founded in 2002 .
- 2003 Werner Spec , was Lord Mayor of Calw from 1999 to 2003.
- 2007 Jürgen Teufel, as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kreissparkasse Calw and Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw, honored for services to the memory of Hermann Hesse ( Calwer Hermann Hesse Foundation , Calwer Hermann Hesse Prize , Hermann Hesse Archive).
- 2016 Udo Lindenberg for the distribution of Hesse's works
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.calw.de/servlet/PB/show/1167555/SatzungHesseMedaille.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.calw.de/servlet/PB/menu/1155303_pcontent_11/navigate114534277/6609.ht ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.hessekolloquium.de/media/pdf/liste-der-kolloquien-themen-und-autoren.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.suhrkamp.de/autoren/autor.cfm?id=3705
- ↑ http://www.bfc-calw.de/calw/bfcteamcalw/index_20081020124726.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.hermann-hesse.de/aktuelles/mehr.php?id=90&tag=218monat=November&jahr=2003
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( memento of the original from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.swr.de/landesschau-aktuell/bw/karlsruhe/calw-hermann-hesse-medaille-fuer-udo-lindenberg/-/id=1572/did=17878872/nid=1572/1tuhxaf/index .html
