Lessing Prize from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
The Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg was founded in 1929 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birthday (January 22, 1729) of the poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and was first awarded in 1930. The prize has been awarded every four years since 1977.
As a rule, there is a main prize winner, who receives 10,000 euros as the prize money, and one or more scholarship holders who can receive up to 5,000 euros. Poets, writers or scholars are selected as the main prize winners, who should belong to the German cultural area , whose works and work deserve distinction under the high standards set by the award's namesake . The fellows (S) should in Hamburg be resident or stand on clear way to Hamburg or his spiritual artistic life in relationship . (Quotations according to statutes)
Prize winners, scholarship holders
- 1930: Friedrich Gundolf
- 1933: Award ceremony postponed to 1934
- 1934: Friedrich Griese and Konrad Beste
- 1937: no award ceremony, as Hans Grimm , Hans Franck and Paul Schurek were rejected by the Reich Chamber of Literature
- 1938: Andreas Heusler
- 1940: no award ceremony "because of high war costs"
- 1942: Hermann Claudius
- 1944: Fritz Schumacher
- 1947: Rudolf Alexander Schröder
- 1950: Ernst Robert Curtius
- 1953: Wilhelm Lehmann and Albrecht Goes , Siegfried Lenz (S), Kurt H. Hansen (S)
- 1956: Hans Henny Jahnn , Monika George (S), Hartmut Grund (S), Helmut Heissenbüttel (S), Gerd Oelschlegel (S)
- 1959: Hannah Arendt , Heinz Albers (S), Mattias Braun (S)
- 1962: Werner Haftmann , Carl Guesmer - Sponsorship Award, Peter Hamm (S)
- 1965: Peter Weiss , Peter Bichsel (S)
- 1968: Walter Jens , Hans-Jürgen Fröhlich (S)
- 1971: Max Horkheimer , Walter Kempowski (S)
- 1974: Gustav Heinemann , Gerd Fuchs (S)
- 1977: Jean Améry , Thomas Brasch (S)
- 1981: Rolf Hochhuth , Agnes Heller , Dorothee Sölle (S), Michael Holzer (S)
- 1985: Hartmut von Hentig , Suleyman Avci (S), Vu-An Truong (S), Ralph Große-Kleinmann (S)
- 1989: Alexander Kluge , Norbert Wehr (S)
- 1993: Raymond Klibansky , Yōko Tawada (S)
- 1997: Jan Philipp Reemtsma , Regula Venske (S)
- 2001: Botho Strauss , Peter Kümmel (S)
- 2005: Karl Schlögel , Héctor Wittwer (S)
- 2009: Klaus Harpprecht , Jan Wagner (S)
- 2013: Wolfgang Schivelbusch , Finn-Ole Heinrich (S)
- 2017: Juliane Rebentisch , Nino Haramicwili (S)
Individual evidence
- ↑ shz.de from December 19, 2013 ( Memento from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )