Culture Prize of the German Freemasons
The German Freemasons' Culture Prize is, along with the Lessing Ring and the Humanitarian Prize, one of the awards given by the Grand Lodge of the Old Free and Accepted Masons of Germany . Founded in 1966 as a literary prize , it has been awarded under the name of the Culture Prize since 1980 . It is endowed with 10,000 euros and serves to recognize artistic work that corresponds to the Masonic ideas of tolerance, freedom and brotherhood.
The previous winners of the literature / culture award are:
Erich Kaestner
Reiner Kunze
Fritz Pleitgen
- 1966 Max Tau (also recipient of the Lessing Ring)
- 1968 Erich Kästner (also recipient of the Lessing Ring)
- 1970 Siegfried Lenz (also recipient of the Lessing Ring)
- 1972 Golo Mann (also recipient of the Lessing Ring)
- 1973 Theodor Binder
- 1974 Peter Huchel (also recipient of the Lessing Ring)
- 1976 Helga Einsele
- 1978 Winfried Dotzauer
- 1979 Arnold Dannemann
- 1980 Otto Friedrich Bollnow
- 1981 Johannes Mario Simmel
- 1982 Yehudi Menuhin
- 1982 Eduard Zimmermann
- 1983 Lew Kopelew (also recipient of the Lessing Ring)
- 1986 Karlheinz Böhm
- 1991 Otmar Alt
- 1993 Reiner Kunze (also recipient of the Lessing Ring)
- 1998 Ernst-Jürgen Walberg and Thomas Balzer
- 2001 Arno Surminski (also recipient of the Lessing Ring)
- 2004 Fritz Pleitgen
- 2007 Hans Küng (also recipient of the Lessing Ring)
- 2009 Gidon Kremer
- 2012 Kurt Masur
- 2017 Uwe Tellkamp
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freemasons honor Uwe Tellkamp Sächsische Zeitung , May 11, 2017
- ↑ Hartwig Kloevekorn: Awards Freemasons Wiki, accessed on June 26, 2017
- ↑ Culture Prize of German Freemasons to Hans Küng, 2007
- ↑ Kurt Masur receives culture award from the Freemasons Hannoversche Allgemeine , March 30, 2012
- ↑ Uwe Tellkamp receives the German Freemasons' Culture Prize buchreport, May 10, 2017