List of winners of the National Prize of the GDR 2nd class for art and literature (1970–1979)
This list shows the winners of the National Prize of the GDR in the second class for art and literature from 1970 to 1979. For the other decades and levels see the list of winners of the National Prize of the GDR .
list
| Listed by years |
| 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 |
| year | Award winners | Reason for award | annotation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 ↑ |
Alfred Beier-Red | Caricaturist and press illustrator | for his decades of work in the development of proletarian-socialist caricature | |
| Johann Cilenšek | Rector of the Franz Liszt University Weimar and composer | for his extensive instrumental oeuvre, especially in the field of symphonic music | ||
| Peter Edel | writer | for his novel “ Die Bilder des Zeugen Schattmann ”, which enriches the literature on the anti-fascist resistance struggle with an important work | ||
| Hans-Joachim Kasprzik | Director at the German TV broadcaster | for his exemplary staging work on the film adaptation of the Fallada novels “ Wolf among wolves ”, “ Little man, what now? "And" Everyone dies for himself " | ||
| Arno Mohr | Painter and graphic artist, professor at the Berlin Art School | for his exemplary artistic work, which has significantly influenced the development of realistic graphics and realistic architecture-related visual art | ||
| 1971 ↑ |
Rudolf Asmus | Citizen of the ČSSR , opera singer at the Komische Oper Berlin | in recognition of his artistic achievements as a leading and long-standing member of the Komische Oper Berlin , through which he contributed to the international reputation of this institute as a foster home for socialist-realistic music theater | |
| Heinz Fricke | General music director, conductor at the German State Opera Berlin | for his artistic work as a conductor in operas and concerts | ||
| Günter Görlich | writer | for his literary work in the field of socialist children's and youth literature, in particular for his novel " A little closer to the clouds " | ||
| Manfred Krug | actor | for his popular art of representation in cinema and television films and his contribution to the development of socialist entertainment | ||
| Günther Rücker | Writer and director | for his literary work, especially for his radio plays | ||
| 1972 ↑ |
Chamber singer Ludmila Dvořáková | Opera singer at the German State Opera Berlin | for the exemplary presentation of important specialist roles in major opera productions of the German State Opera Berlin | |
| Martin Flörchinger | Actor at the Berliner Ensemble | for his significant acting performances in the Berliner Ensemble, in film and on television | ||
| Bernhard Heisig | Painter and graphic artist, full member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR | for his significant artistic work in the field of fine arts | ||
| Jutta Hoffmann | Actress at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin | for their exemplary shaping of people on stage, in film and on television, especially in works of contemporary socialist drama | ||
| Armin Mueller-Stahl | actor | for his great acting achievements, especially the portrayal of Kurt Lindow in the television film "The Conspirators" | ||
| Curt Querner | Painter and graphic artist | for his significant artistic work in the field of fine arts | ||
| 1973 ↑ |
Collective of the Department of History of Socialist Literature at the Academy of the Arts of the GDR | for his research and publications on socialist German literature | ||
| Friedrich Albrecht | scientific Assistant | |||
| Irmfried Hiebel | scientific Assistant | |||
| Klaus Kändler | scientific Assistant | |||
| Alfred Klein | Head of department | |||
| Architect's collective for the urban design of the Rostock-Lütten Klein area | for his urban, architectural and artistic design of the residential areas Lütten Klein , Evershagen and Lichtenhagen in the city of Rostock under the conditions of industrial construction | |||
| Peter Baumbach | Main architect in the Rostock housing association | |||
| Erich Kaufmann | Main architect Lütten Klein in the VEB building project planning in Rostock | |||
| Rudolf Lasch | Chief architect of the city of Rostock and head of the urban planning office | |||
| Kurt Tauscher | Technical manager and chief architect at WBK Rostock operation project planning | |||
| Wolfgang Urbanski | Full professor for the function and construction of buildings at the engineering college in Wismar | |||
| Hannelore Bey | Prima ballerina at the Komische Oper Berlin | for her interpretation of important ballet roles, for her significant contribution to the development of stage dance in the GDR and its international reputation | ||
| Max Butting | Composer, full member of the GDR Academy of Arts | for his life's work as a composer and his services to the development of musical culture in the GDR | ||
| Erhard Fischer | Chief director at the German State Opera Berlin | for his productions and his services in training young singers and directors | ||
| Roland Gawlik | Master dancer at the Komische Oper Berlin | for his achievements as a ballet soloist for the Komische Oper | ||
| Wieland Herzfelde | Writer, full member of the GDR Academy of Arts | for his literary work and for his publishing achievements, especially in the publication of German and Soviet socialist literature | ||
| Rolf Ludwig | Actor at the Volksbühne Berlin | for his achievements in depicting people in theater, film and television | ||
| Friedel Reiche-Nowack | Actress at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin | for their performances in theater, film and television | ||
| Herbert Sandberg | Painter and graphic artist | for his artistic life's work and his special services to the development of caricature and press drawings in the GDR | ||
| Horst Sauer | Chief director | for his achievements in the visual arts design of reporting from the Xth World Festival of Youth and Students | ||
| 1974 ↑ |
Collective "Urban and Architectural Design of Prager Strasse Dresden" | for the services in the design of the urban ensemble Prager Straße Dresden | ||
| Ing.Günter Grüner | Head of the social construction department at VEB (B) Baukombinat Dresden, project planning | |||
| Ing.Hans Konrad | Brigade leader "Cityscape" in the office of the city architect, Council of the City of Dresden | |||
| Ing.Gerhard Landgraf | Group leader in VEB (B) Baukombinat Dresden, project planning operation | |||
| Ing.Josef Pietsch | Landscape architect in the Dresden Transport and Civil Engineering Combine | |||
| Kurt Röthig | Brigade leader "new planning" in the office of the city architect, Council of the City of Dresden | |||
| Dr.-Ing. Peter Sniegon | District architect at the Dresden District Council | |||
| Ruth Berghaus-Dessau | Director of the Berliner Ensemble and full member of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR | in recognition of outstanding achievements as a director | ||
| René-Benjamin Besson | Director of the Volksbühne Berlin and full member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR | in recognition and appreciation of his artistic work as a director and theater director | ||
| Franz Fuehmann | Writer, full member of the GDR Academy of Arts | for his versatile and extensive literary oeuvre | ||
| Dr. phil. Peter Hacks | Writer, full member of the GDR Academy of Arts | in recognition of his diverse literary work | ||
| Prof. Wolfgang Mattheuer | Professor of Painting at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig | for his significant contribution to the development of socialist-realistic painting and to the education of young artistic personalities | ||
| Gerd Natschinski | composer | for his compositional work in the field of cheerful musical theater and entertainment | ||
| Prof. Otto Niemeyer-Holstein | Painter and graphic artist, full member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR | for the enrichment of socialist art development through his significant realistic life's work | ||
| Fritz Selbmann | writer | for his overall literary work | ||
| Prof. Werner Tübke | Rector of the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art | for his services in the creative preservation of artistic traditions and in the development of socialist-realistic painting | ||
| Jean Weidt | Ballet master at the Komische Oper Berlin | in recognition of his work for a proletarian-revolutionary dance art and its integration into the contemporary ballet production of the GDR | ||
| 1975 ↑ |
Creator collective of the film "Jacob the Liar" | for his contribution to the artistic design of the film " Jakob the Liar " | ||
| Jurek Becker | writer | |||
| Frank Beyer | Director | |||
| Vlastimil Brodský | Citizen of the ČSSR, actor | |||
| Dipl.-Film-Ok. Gerd Gericke | Dramaturg in the VEB DEFA studio for feature films | |||
| Erwin Geschonneck | Actor, full member of the GDR Academy of Arts | |||
| Günter Marczinkowsky | Cameraman in the VEB DEFA studio for feature films | |||
| Collective for the design of the Karl-Marx-Stadt town hall complex | for the creative solution for the ensemble of the town hall and the Interhotel in Karl-Marx-Stadt | |||
| Ing.Hans -Heinrich Förster | Project manager at VE Housing Combine "Wilhelm Pieck" Karl-Marx-Stadt | |||
| Ing.Konrad Reimann | Project manager at VE Housing Combine "Wilhelm Pieck" Karl-Marx-Stadt | |||
| Dr.-Ing. Vladimir Sergeyevich Rubinov | Citizen of the USSR , research assistant at the Institute for Cultural Buildings Berlin | |||
| Dipl.-Ing; Rudolf Weisser | Chief architect at VE Housing Combine "Wilhelm Pieck" Karl-Marx-Stadt | |||
| Ing. Karl Wienke | Garden architect in the VE housing combine "Wilhelm Pieck" Karl-Marx-Stadt | |||
| Theo Balden | Sculptor, full member of the GDR Academy of Arts | for his services as a sculptor | ||
| Hermann Hähnel | Lecturer for singing at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin | for his achievements as a singer | ||
| Gerhard Holtz-Baumert | writer | for his literary and theoretical work | ||
| Prof. Klaus Wittkugel | Professor of commercial graphics at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art, full member of the GDR Academy of Arts | for his services to the development of exhibition design and poster art | ||
| 1976 ↑ |
Norbert Christian | Actor on television in the GDR | for his overall artistic work | |
| Angelica Domröse | Actress at the Volksbühne Berlin | for their acting performances | ||
| Herbert neighbor | writer | for his literary oeuvre | ||
| Gret Palucca | Full member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR and head of the department for new artistic dance and dance pedagogue at the State Palucca School in Dresden | for their services in training the next generation of dancers | ||
| Ronald Paris | Painter and graphic artist | for his achievements as a painter and graphic artist | ||
| Erika Pelikowsky | Actress at the Berliner Ensemble | for their acting performances | ||
| Hans-Joachim Rotzsch | Director of the St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas Cantor of the City of Leipzig | for his services as director of the St. Thomas Choir | ||
| Hilmar Thate | Full member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR and actor at the Deutsches Theater Berlin | for his acting performances | ||
| Alfred Wellm | writer | for his literary oeuvre | ||
| 1977 ↑ |
Dramaturgy collective for children on television in the GDR | for his contribution to the development of television dramaturgy for children | ||
| Celino white lead | ||||
| Wolfgang Huebner | ||||
| Horst mesh tape | ||||
| Beate Peters-Hanspach | ||||
| Hans-Jürgen Stock | ||||
| Gerhard Bienert | Actor at the Deutsches Theater Berlin | for creating outstanding classical and contemporary roles | ||
| Erich Gerlach | Painter and graphic artist, Dresden | for his oeuvre as a painter and graphic artist | ||
| Inge Keller | Actress at the Deutsches Theater Berlin | in recognition of her diverse achievements as an actress | ||
| Wolfgang Kohlhaase | Author in the VEB DEFA studio for feature films in Potsdam-Babelsberg | in recognition of his achievements for socialist-realistic film art | ||
| Eberhard Panitz | Writer, Berlin | for his literary oeuvre as well as for his television drama | ||
| Heinz Quermann | Editor-in-chief at GDR television | for his many years of service in the development of the entertainment arts and the promotion of young talent in the GDR | ||
| Kurt Schwaen | Composer, Berlin | for his compositional oeuvre | ||
| Werner Stötzer | Sculptor, Berlin | for his significant contribution to the realistic socialist sculpture of the GDR | ||
| Harry Thürk | Writer, Weimar | for his literary oeuvre as well as for his film artistic works and his television drama | ||
| Inge von Wangenheim | Writer, Weimar | for her literary and essayistic oeuvre | ||
| Marianne Wünscher | Actress at the Volksbühne Berlin | in recognition of her varied overall acting performance | ||
| 1978 ↑ |
Annelie Thorndike | for their film "The Old New World", with which they made an important contribution to conveying the Marxist-Leninist worldview | ||
| Andrew Thorndike | ||||
| Collective of directors from the field of dramatic art of television in the GDR | for his creative achievements in developing television drama | |||
| Manfred Mosblech | ||||
| Wolf-Dieter Panse | ||||
| Helmut Schiemann | ||||
| Collective of development dramaturges from the main radio drama department of the GDR radio | for his contribution to the development of contemporary socialist radio play | |||
| Wolfgang Beck | ||||
| Peter Goslicki | ||||
| Jochen Hauser | ||||
| Ruth Hildebrandt | ||||
| Siegfried Pfaff | ||||
| Christa Vetter-Wischnewski | ||||
| Gert Caden | Painter and graphic artist, Dresden | for his services to the realistic design of essential events in the life of the working people | ||
| General Music Director Prof. Martin Flämig | Head of the Dresden Kreuzchor | for his services as director of the Dresden Kreuzchor | ||
| Erich Geister | Chief scenographer of GDR television | for his achievements as chief scene designer for television in the GDR | ||
| Alfred Hirschmeier | Film set designer in the VEB DEFA studio for feature films in Potsdam-Babelsberg | for his achievements in the field of film set design | ||
| Herbert Otto | Writer, Kleinmachnow | for his entire literary work to date | ||
| Prof. Kurt Robbel | Painter and printmaker, Mahlow | for his significant contribution to the realistic shaping of the socialist image of man | ||
| Rosemarie Schuder | Writer, Berlin, member of the main board of the CDU | for her entire literary work to date | ||
| 1979 ↑ |
Collective of filmmakers in the field of children's and youth films in the VEB DEFA studio for feature films, Potsdam-Babelsberg | for his contribution to the development of socialist personalities that have developed on all sides in the national film industry for children and young people | ||
| Werner Beck | ||||
| Gudrun Deubener | ||||
| Christa Kožik | ||||
| Rolf Losansky | ||||
| Günter Mehnert | ||||
| Herrmann Zschoche | ||||
| Collective of directors from the VEB DEFA-Studio for Documentary Films Berlin | for his many years of partisan filmmaking about the construction of socialism in the GDR and its international charisma | |||
| Wolfgang Bartsch | ||||
| Jürgen Böttcher | ||||
| Joachim Hadaschik | ||||
| Dr. Joachim Hellwig | ||||
| Harry Hornig | ||||
| Rolf Schnabel | ||||
| Hans-Peter Minetti | Member of the Central Committee of the SED , director of the drama school in Berlin | for his outstanding performance and his cultural-political work to develop socialist acting | ||
| Dieter Noll | Writer, Berlin | for the socialist-realistic design of revolutionary development processes of real socialism in his novel " Kippenberg " | ||
| Joachim Nowotny | Writer, Leipzig | for his entire literary work for the socialist-realistic design of human fates | ||
| Erich Schlossarek | Writer, Potsdam-Babelsberg | for his exemplary achievements as a writer of popular television films and games | ||
| Prof. Herbert Tucholski | Painter and graphic artist, Berlin | for his significant contribution to the socialist-realistic printmaking and drawing art | ||
Prize amounts
| year | Prize amount in marks |
|---|---|
| 1970 | 250,000 |
| 1971 | 250,000 |
| 1972 | 300,000 |
| 1973 | 550,000 |
| 1974 | 550,000 |
| 1975 | 300,000 |
| 1976 | 450,000 |
| 1977 | 600,000 |
| 1978 | 500,000 |
| 1979 | 350,000 |
| total | 4,100,000 |
Remarks
- ↑ For documentary reasons, the original historical descriptions used by the SED newspaper Neues Deutschland are presented here. However, these can be flawed, tendentious, outdated or politically extreme. If in doubt, corrections and alternative descriptions should be made in the "Comments" column.
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