List of winners of the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class for art and literature (1980–1989)
This list shows the winners of the National Prize of the GDR in the second class for art and literature from 1980 to 1989. For the other decades and levels see the list of winners of the National Prize of the GDR .
list
| Listed by years |
| 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 |
| year | Award winners | Reason for award | annotation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 ↑ |
Gerhard Bengsch | Author for television in the GDR | For his overall literary work, especially for his contribution to the development of socialist-realistic television drama | |
| Prof. Dr. Ludwig Deiters | General curator and head of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments of the GDR , Berlin | For his outstanding contribution to the internationally recognized monument preservation services of the GDR | ||
| Heiner Carow | Director in the VEB DEFA studio for feature films , Potsdam-Babelsberg | For his contribution to the development of DEFA feature films, which is based on loyalty to the people and mass effectiveness | ||
| Günther Fischer | Composer, Berlin | In recognition of his versatile compositional work and his achievements in the field of entertainment art | ||
| Prof. Dr. Ule Lammert | Vice President of the GDR Building Academy and Director of the Institute for Urban Development and Architecture | For his outstanding contribution to the development of socialist town planning and socialist architecture in the GDR | ||
| Prof. Max Walter Schulz | Writer and director of the Institute for Literature “Johannes R. Becher” , Leipzig, Vice President of the GDR Writers' Association | For his literary work, especially for the ideologically and artistically deepened design of epoch problems of real socialism | ||
| 1981 ↑ |
Collective "Construction of the New Gewandhaus Leipzig" | For the exemplary interaction of architectural design and technical execution in the construction of the " New Gewandhaus Leipzig" | ||
| Peter Kunze | Chief engineer | |||
| Martin Schulze | ||||
| Prof. Dr. Horst Siegel | ||||
| Prof. Dr. Rudolf Skoda | ||||
| Gerhard Wetzel | ||||
| Dr. Helgo Winkler | ||||
| String quartet of the German State Opera Berlin | For his excellent interpretive achievements | |||
| Chamber virtuoso Prof. Alfred Lipka | ||||
| Chamber virtuoso Prof. Egon Morbitzer | ||||
| Chamber musician Bernd Müller (musician) | ||||
| Chamber virtuoso Karl-Heinz Schröter | ||||
| Rudi Kurz | Author and director for television in the GDR | For his exemplary achievements as a writer and director of popular television films and series | ||
| Erik Neutsch | Writer, hall | For his entire literary work, for the socialist-realistic design of revolutionary development processes | ||
| Benno Pludra | Writer, Berlin | For his entire literary works, which set the standard for the development of children's literature and which is one of the great aesthetic achievements of our socialist national literature | ||
| Prof. Gustav Schmahl | Rector of the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music in Leipzig | For his outstanding performance as an interpreter | ||
| Joachim Werzlau | Composer, Berlin | For his extensive compositional work | ||
| 1982 ↑ |
Collective " Puhdys " | For the benchmark achievements in the creation and interpretation of nationally and internationally massively effective rock music of the GDR | ||
| Dieter Birr | ||||
| Dieter Hertrampf | ||||
| Harry Jeske | ||||
| Peter Meyer | ||||
| Klaus Scharfschwerdt | ||||
| Wolfgang Tilgner | ||||
| Horst Beseler | Writer, Schwerin | For his literary oeuvre, which enriches socialist literature with his convincing artistic commitment against fascism and war | ||
| Chamber singer Eberhard Büchner | Opera singer at the German State Opera Berlin | For his outstanding achievements as an opera and concert singer | ||
| Helga Goering | Actress on television in the GDR | For her overall acting work, especially the realistic representation of popular female characters in film and television | ||
| Horst Seemann | Director in the VEB DEFA studio for feature films, Potsdam-Babelsberg | For his exemplary achievements as a director of popular DEFA and television films | ||
| Walter Werner | Writer, Untermaßfeld | For his entire literary work, especially for his lyrical work, which is an enrichment of socialist worldview and nature poetry | ||
| Benito Wogatzki | Writer, Berlin | For his literary work, which makes an important contribution to the enrichment of contemporary socialist art | ||
| Prof. Ruth Zechlin | Composer, professor of composition at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin | In recognition of her compositional work | ||
| 1983 ↑ |
Collective of employees on the documentary television film Konrad Wolf's "Busch singt" | For the six-part television film “ Busch singt ”, with which an exemplary artistic chronicle of the struggles of the working class against imperialism and fascism was created | ||
| Reiner Bredemeyer | ||||
| Erwin Burkert | ||||
| Irene Busch | ||||
| Eberhard Geick | ||||
| Lothar Wedge | ||||
| Peter Voigt | ||||
| Collective of city planners, architects and landscape architects | For the reconstruction and redesign of inner-city ensembles and residential areas in Potsdam | |||
| Günter Andreas | ||||
| Werner Berf | ||||
| Karl-Heinz Birkholz | ||||
| Heinz Kam | ||||
| Karl Kohlschütter | ||||
| Dietrich Schreiner | ||||
| Erich Arendt | Poet and re-poet, Wilhelmshorst | For his entire literary oeuvre as a poet and re-poet | ||
| Eduard Fischer | Theater sculptor, head of the lamination department at the Berliner Ensemble | For his outstanding artistic and creative work as a theater sculptor | ||
| Wieland Forster | Sculptor, Vice President of the Academy of Arts of the GDR | For his significant contribution to the socialist sculpture of the GDR | ||
| Dr. Wolfgang Joho | Writer, Kleinmachnow | For his entire literary oeuvre | ||
| 1984 ↑ |
Collective of building professionals and artists | For his part in the functional, constructive, architectural and artistic design in the reconstruction of the theater on the square of the academy in Berlin | ||
| Horst Jehmlich | ||||
| Klaus Just | ||||
| Wolfgang Pielka | ||||
| Manfred Prasser | ||||
| Goren Weaske | ||||
| Hartmut Wunsch | ||||
| Fritz Duda | Painter and graphic artist, Berlin | For his significant contribution to socialist-realistic painting | ||
| Prof. Joachim Jastram | Sculptor, Kneese | For his significant contribution to socialist-realistic sculpture | ||
| Ralf Kirsten | Director in the VEB DEFA studio for feature films, Potsdam-Babelsberg | For his contribution to the development of DEFA feature films, which is based on loyalty to the people and mass effectiveness | ||
| Thomas Langhoff | Director for television in the GDR | For his exemplary productions, which have a decisive influence on the ideological and artistic profile of socialist theater and television | ||
| Dieter Mann | Director and actor at the Deutsches Theater Berlin | For his outstanding performance at the theater as well as in film, radio and television productions | ||
| Siegfried Matthus | Composer and dramaturge at the Komische Oper Berlin | In recognition and appreciation of his compositional work in the field of the GDR symphony and music theater | ||
| Chamber singer Siegfried Vogel | Opera singer at the German State Opera Berlin | In recognition and appreciation of outstanding achievements as an opera singer | ||
| 1985 ↑ |
Eberhard Binder | Graphic artist, Magdeburg | For his exemplary work as an illustrator and graphic artist | |
| Alexander Lang | Actor and director at the Deutsches Theater Berlin | For his outstanding performance as an actor and director | ||
| Karl Mundstock | Writer, Berlin | For his entire literary work, which makes an important contribution to the socialist-realistic literature of the GDR and to deepening socialist historical awareness | ||
| Collective of building professionals and artists | For the cultural and historical achievement in the reconstruction of the Semperoper | |||
| Hans-Joachim Bauer | ||||
| Gerhard Frank | ||||
| Wolfgang Hansen | ||||
| Dr. Heinrich Magirius | ||||
| Werner Petzold (art historian) | ||||
| Matthias Schulz | ||||
| 1986 ↑ |
Gerhard Bosse | Professor at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music in Leipzig, 1st concertmaster and director of the Bach Orchestra of the Leipzig Gewandhaus | For his outstanding and extensive performances as an interpreter | |
| Roland Graef | Director in the DEFA studio for feature films, Potsdam-Babelsberg | For his benchmarking achievements as a director in the VEB DEFA studio for feature films | ||
| Christian Grashof | Actor at the Deutsches Theater Berlin | For his great performance at the Deutsches Theater as well as in film and television | ||
| Rudolf Grüttner | Commercial artist, professor of graphics at the Berlin Art Academy | For his exemplary contribution to the development of socialist-realistic commercial graphics and poster art | ||
| Herbert Köfer | Actor on television in the GDR | For his acting achievements, with which he has earned the reputation of a popular actor | ||
| Reinhard Lakomy | Composer, Berlin | For his high-quality and creative oeuvre as a composer of popular music, electronic music and exemplary children's revues | ||
| Rolf Reuter | Chief conductor and musical director of the Komische Oper Berlin | For his outstanding achievements as an opera and concert conductor | ||
| Theodor Rosenhauer | Painter and graphic artist, Dresden | For his overall artistic work as a painter and graphic artist | ||
| Collective Bach-Handel-Schütz honor | For important scientific achievements in the development of our cultural heritage and for the contribution to the preparation of the Bach-Handel-Schütz honor of the GDR in 1985 | |||
| Bern Baselt | ||||
| Hans-Joachim Schulze | ||||
| Wolfram Steude | ||||
| Design collective of the Marx-Engels-Forum, Berlin | For the sculptural, artistic and architectural contribution to the design of the Marx-Engels-Forum | |||
| Norbert Blum | ||||
| Arno Fischer | ||||
| Peter Flierl | ||||
| Hans Gutheil | ||||
| Margret Middell | ||||
| Friedrich Nostitz | ||||
| Solweig Steller | ||||
| Werner Stötzer | ||||
| Peter Voigt | ||||
| Collective of actors from the television film "Ernst Thälmann" | For the impressive performance in the television film "Ernst Thälmann", which conveyed a moving political and artistic experience | |||
| Günter Grabbert | ||||
| Janina Hartwig | ||||
| Christine Schorn | ||||
| Peter Sodann | ||||
| Peer-Uwe Teska | ||||
| Arno Wyzniewski | ||||
| Collective of artists from the television film "Ernst Thälmann" | For the excellent film-specific achievements in the television film "Ernst Thälmann", through which a moving political and artistic experience was conveyed | |||
| Dieter Adam | ||||
| Werner Bergemann | ||||
| Peter Krause | ||||
| Lothar Kuhn | ||||
| Jürgen Lenz | ||||
| Karl Ernst Sasse | ||||
| Lothar daily | ||||
| Collective of the Berlin capital building department of the Ministry of Building, VEB Housing Combine Berlin and VEB Autobahnbaukombinat , Transport Construction Company Berlin | For the urban, architectural and artistic design of the Ernst-Thälmann-Park with residential area and monument | |||
| Erhardt Gißke | ||||
| Hartmut Klug | ||||
| Albrecht Schaffrath | ||||
| Eugen Schröter | ||||
| Helmut Stingl | ||||
| 1987 ↑ |
Lieutenant Colonel Siegfried Berthold | Chief dramaturge of the ensemble of the National People's Army "Erich Weinert" | For his significant contribution to the cultural-political and artistic development of the NVA ensemble | |
| Gerhard Holtz-Baumert | Member of the Central Committee of the SED , Vice-President of the Writers' Union of the GDR, Writers, Berlin | For his literary work, especially for the memorable and differentiated portrayal of worker personalities in the book "Die Pucklige Verwandnung" | ||
| Erich Kaufmann | Chief architect at VEB Housing Combine Rostock | For his part in the development of socialist town planning and socialist architecture in the GDR | ||
| Prof. Gerhard Kettner | Graphic artist, lecturer at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts | For his exemplary achievements in developing a socialist-realistic art of drawing | ||
| Otto Mellies | Actor at the Deutsches Theater Berlin | For his great performance at the Deutsches Theater as well as in film and television | ||
| Prof. Peter Rösel | Concert pianist, Dresden | For his outstanding performance as an interpreter | ||
| Gisela Steineckert | President of the Committee for Entertainment Arts of the GDR, writer, Berlin | For their high-quality, multifaceted oeuvre for the development of socialist national literature in the GDR | ||
| Eva Strittmatter | Writer, Dollgow | For her literary work, especially for her effective contribution to popular socialist poetry | ||
| Prof. Lothar Warneke | Director in the VEB DEFA studio for feature films in Potsdam-Babelsberg | For his benchmarking achievements as a director in the DEFA studio for feature films | ||
| Prof. Udo Zimmermann | Professor at the "Carl Maria von Weber" University of Music and director of the Center for Contemporary Music Dresden | In recognition of his compositional work | ||
| Collective of the publishing house Volk und Welt | For excellent editorial and cultural-political achievements in the development of progressive and humanist world literature with special consideration of the multinational Soviet literature and the literature of other socialist countries | |||
| Gerhard Böttcher | ||||
| Jürgen Grüner | ||||
| Jutta Janke | ||||
| Leonhard Kossuth | ||||
| Manfred Küchler | ||||
| Werner Rode | ||||
| Wind Association Berlin | For outstanding achievements in the interpretation of works of humanistic musical heritage and contemporary creativity | |||
| Chamber virtuoso Prof. Bernd Casper | ||||
| Chamber musician Dieter Hähnchen | ||||
| Chamber virtuoso Siegfried Schramm | ||||
| Chamber virtuoso Wolfgang Stahl | ||||
| Chamber virtuoso Dieter Wagner | ||||
| Chamber virtuoso Hermann Wolfframm | ||||
| 1988 ↑ |
Hans-Joachim Kasprzik | Director for television in the GDR | For his exemplary work as a director, which has a decisive influence on the ideological-artistic profile of socialist television production | |
| General Music Director Siegfried Kurz | Composer and conductor at the German State Opera Berlin | for his outstanding services as a conductor in the field of musical theater | ||
| Waltraud Lewin | Writer, Berlin | For her overall literary output, especially for her artistic contribution to deepening socialist historical awareness | ||
| Rosemarie Schuder | Writer, Berlin | For the important literary work The Yellow Spot; Roots and effects of hatred of Jews in German history | ||
| Rudolf Hirsch | ||||
| Collective of the Henschel Verlag Art and Society, Berlin | For excellent editorial work on the development and consolidation of the socialist national culture of the GDR | |||
| Kuno Mittelstädt | ||||
| Antje Richter | ||||
| Hans-Jürgen Schneider | ||||
| Wolfgang Schuch | ||||
| Horst Wandrey | ||||
| Gerhard Weber | ||||
| 1989 ↑ |
Friedrich Bornemann | Director for television in the GDR | For his work as a director, which helped determine the artistic profile of socialist television production | |
| Helga Königsdorf | Research assistant at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , writer, Berlin | For her literary work, especially for her contribution to the literary design of current human problems | ||
| Jan Koplowitz | Writer, Berlin | For his overall literary work | ||
| Nuria Quevedo | Painter and graphic artist, Berlin | For her significant achievements as a painter and graphic artist | ||
| General Music Director Prof. Heinz Rögner | Chief conductor of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | For his excellent performance as a conductor | ||
| Rainer Simon | Director in the VEB DEFA studio for feature films in Potsdam-Babelsberg | For his benchmarking achievements as a director in the VEB DEFA studio for feature films | ||
| Collective of the Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig | For cultural-political and publishing services in the development, editing and distribution of new works of contemporary socialist literature | |||
| Brigitte Böttcher | ||||
| Helga Duty | ||||
| Dr. Eberhard Günther | ||||
| Roswitha Jendryschik | ||||
| Dr. Martin Reso | ||||
| Karin Röntgensch | ||||
| Collective "Urban, architectural and artistic design of the city center of Gera" | For the urban, architectural and artistic design of downtown Gera | |||
| Eberhard Dietzsch | ||||
| Günther Gerhardt | ||||
| Kurt Griebel | ||||
| Günter Kerzig | ||||
| Horst Koppe | ||||
| Dr. Hans-Georg Tiedt | ||||
Prize amounts
| year | Prize amount in marks |
|---|---|
| 1980 | 300,000 |
| 1981 | 350,000 |
| 1982 | 400,000 |
| 1983 | 300,000 |
| 1984 | 400,000 |
| 1985 | 200,000 |
| 1986 | 650,000 |
| 1987 | 600,000 |
| 1988 | 250,000 |
| 1989 | 400,000 |
| total | 3,850,000 |
Individual evidence
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.
Lists of the winners of the National Prize of the GDR
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