Culture Prize of the City of Würzburg
The City of Würzburg Culture Prize is an undoped honorary prize awarded annually by the City of Würzburg . It “can be given to a person who is connected to the city of Würzburg through birth, life or work (or an artist group / ensemble or similar) who have had an outstanding effect through their artistic work or who have made a special contribution to the city's cultural life Has."
Award winners
The previous winners are:
- 1965: Friedrich Schnack , writer
- 1966: Emy Roeder , sculptor / painter
- 1967: Eugen Jochum , conductor
- 1968: Fritz Koenig , sculptor
- 1970: Günter Jena , organist / musician
- 1971: Josef Versl , painter
- 1972: Hans skull , architect / master builder
- 1973: Luigi Malipiero , actor / painter
- 1974: Otto Sonnleitner , sculptor
- 1975: Richard Rother , graphic artist / sculptor
- 1976: Heinrich Pleticha , author
- 1977: Wolfgang Lenz , painter
- 1978: Rudolf Köckert , musician
- 1979: Max Hermann von Freeden , museum director
- 1980: Werner Dettelbacher , author
- 1981: Yehuda Amichai , poet
- 1984: Willi Greiner , painter / graphic artist
- 1985: Siegfried Fink , percussionist
- 1986: Siegfried Koesler , cathedral music director
- 1987: Waltraud Meier , singer
- 1988: Bertold Hummel , composer
- 1989: Reinhard Dachlauer , sculptor
- 1990: Lothar C. Forster (1933–1990), sculptor
- 1991: Curd Lessig , painter
- 1992: Dieter Stein , painter
- 1994: Klaus Hinrich Stahmer , musician / composer
- 1996: Joachim Koch , sculptor
- 1998: Hans-Georg Noack , author
- 2000: Norbert Glanzberg , composer
- 2002: Frank Markus Barwasser , cabaret artist
- 2004: Christian Kabitz , church music director
- 2006: Bernd Glemser , pianist
- 2007: Herbert Mehler , sculptor
- 2009: Jürgen Lenssen , building and art advisor for the Diocese of Würzburg
- 2010: Diana Damrau , chamber singer
- 2012: Mathias Repiscus , director and theater manager
- 2014: Angelika Summa , sculptor
- 2015: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht , literary and humanities scholar
- 2017: Klaus Ospald , composer
- 2018: Michael Wollny , pianist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Since 2008, the Peter C. Ruppert Prize for Concrete Art , endowed with € 15,000, has been awarded every three years ; in these years the culture prize is not awarded ( statute on the award of prizes and honors in the field of culture of the city of Würzburg, § 2 (4)).
- ↑ Statute on the award of prizes and honors in the field of culture of the city of Würzburg, § 3 (1)
- ↑ List of the award winners
- ↑ www.antikbayreuth.de: Forster, Lothar Christian .