Culture Prize of the City of Basel
The Culture Prize of the City of Basel is awarded every year to a person, a group or an institution that has made a special contribution to cultural life in Basel . The Basel government determines the winner on the recommendation of an expert jury. The prize is endowed with 20,000 francs.
The prize was awarded for the first time in 1948, at that time still under the name "Art Prize of the City of Basel". The award first took place at irregular intervals, since 1999 annually. The renaming took place in 1995 "to give expression to the comprehensive claim of the award ceremony (honor for services to the cultural life of Basel)."
Award winners
- 1948: Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini , painter
- 1951: Siegfried Lang , poet
- 1952: Albert Moeschinger , composer
- 1955: Alexander Zschokke , sculptor
- 1958: Niklaus Stoecklin , painter
- 1961: Carl Jacob Burckhardt , diplomat, essayist and historian
- 1964: Conrad Beck , composer
- 1968: Walter Bodmer , painter and sculptor
- 1970: John Friedrich Vuilleumier , writer
- 1972: Paul Sacher , pioneer of modernism, new discoverer of early music and musical educator
- 1974: Meret Oppenheim , artist and poet
- 1976: Rolf Hochhuth , writer
- 1978: Klaus Huber , composer, head of the composition class at the Musikhochschule Freiburg i.Br.
- 1980: Jean Tinguely , sculptor
- 1982: Rainer Brambach and Hans Werthmüller , poets
- 1984: Rudolf Kelterborn , director of the Basel Music Academy, composer, conductor and author
- 1986: Irène Zurkinden , painter
- 1987: Theater " Spilkischte "
- 1988: August Kern , film pioneer
- 1989: Heinz Holliger , musician, conductor and composer
- 1990: Rémy Zaugg , art theorist and artist
- 1991: Heinz Spoerli , ballet director
- 1992: Christian Vogt , photographer
- 1993: Jürg Wyttenbach , composer, pianist and conductor
- 1995: Werner Düggelin , theater maker
- 1997: Armin Hofmann , poster artist and graphic designer
- 1999: Urs Engeler , publisher and Werner X. Uehlinger , music mediator
- 2000: Peter Herzog-Wyss and Ruth Herzog-Wyss , collectors of historical photographs
- 2001: Fredy Heller , head of " Theater im Teufelhof "
- 2002: Klaus Littmann , cultural mediator
- 2003: Stadtkino Basel
- 2004: Peter Bläuer , founder and head of LISTE, the Young Art Fair
- 2005: Cathy Sharp , dancer, company director and choreographer
- 2006: Diego and Gilli Stampa from Galerie Stampa
- 2007: Urs Blindenbacher , Artistic Director " Jazz Festival Basel "
- 2008: Uwe Heinrich , head of «junges theater basel», theater pedagogue and dramaturge
- 2009: Sibylle Ott , filmmaker and cultural mediator, artistic director of the Basel «wildwuchs» festival for disabled and non-disabled people
- 2010: Susanne Würmli-Kollhopp , choir director at the Music Academy of the City of Basel and cultural mediator
- 2011: Matthyas Jenny , owner of "Das kleine Literaturhaus Basel", author, publisher and bookseller
- 2012: Fritz Hauser , musician
- 2013: Alain Claude Sulzer , writer
- 2014: Silvia Bächli , visual artist
- 2015: Fabia Zindel, designer
- 2016: Ulrich Blumenbach , literary translator
- 2017: Carena Schlewitt , Artistic Director of Kaserne Basel
- 2018: Radio X
- 2019: Roger Diener , architect
Literature Prize of the City of Basel
Between 1983 and 1996, parallel to the art prize, a «Literature Prize of the City of Basel» was awarded to a person or institution on the Basel literary scene. As with the art prize, the prize money was 20,000 francs.
Prize winners were:
- 1984: Christoph Geiser
- 1986: Hansjörg Schneider
- 1987: Adelheid Duvanel
- 1988: Jürg Federspiel
- 1989: Urs Widmer
- 1990: Guido Bachmann
- 1992: Dieter Forte
- 1993: Lenos Verlag
- 1996: Werner Lutz
Basel Art Prize
Since 2013, the Basel Art Prize has been awarded sporadically to older artists by the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt for many years of high-quality work.
Prize winners:
- 2013: Miriam Cahn
- 2016: Eric Hattan
Individual evidence
- ^ Price tenders from the Canton of Basel-Stadt
- ^ Basel-Stadt Government Council, media release of January 12, 1996
- ↑ According to the list of award winners since 1948 on the website of the Canton of Basel-Stadt
- ^ Image of the first award ceremony on January 8, 1949
- ↑ List according to the chronicle of the Basler Stadtbuch ( memento of the original dated August 30, 2009 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.