List of the winners of the National Prize of the GDR III. Art and Literature Class (1949–1959)
This list represents the winners of the GDR National Prize in the III. Class for art and literature from 1949 to 1959. For the other decades and levels see the list of winners of the GDR National Prize .
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Listed by years |
1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 |
year | Names | function | reason | annotation |
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1949 ↑ |
Kurt Barthel | writer | He is honored for his only book of verses so far, "Gedicht vom Menschen" | |
Ernst Busch | Singer, actor | Hanns Eisler's songs based on texts by Kurt Tucholsky , Bert Brecht , Erich Weinert and Erich Mühsam became popular all over the world thanks to his voice. | ||
Herbert Eulenberg | writer | For his novel The Collapse | ||
Wolfgang Langhoff | Director of the German Theater | earned special merits with his staging of the "Optimistic Tragedy" by W. Vishnevsky | ||
Ernst Legal | Director of the German State Opera , actor and director | was for his services in the staging of the play wolves and sheep of Ostrowski awarded | ||
Carl Orff | composer | The opera Die Kluge stands out among his musical creations , for which he was awarded the national prize. | ||
Gustav Seitz | Professor at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin | The national prize was awarded to him for his OdF monument in Weißwasser. | ||
Erich Weinert | poet | He was awarded the national prize for his collection of poems “Calls to the Night”. | ||
Helmut Koch and the Berlin Radio Soloists' Association | have made great contributions to the maintenance of German and Soviet folk songs | |||
1950 ↑ |
Heinz Bongartz | Head of the Dresden Philharmonic | for his successful endeavor to bring the works of music to the working population with the Dresden Philharmonic | |
Paul Rilla | Literary and theater critic, member of the AdK | for his outstanding literary-critical and literary-historical work | ||
Hans Sandig | Head of the youth choir of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in Leipzig | for the creation of the youth choir of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and its rendering of new youth and fighting songs | ||
Eduard von Winterstein | actor | for his life's work | ||
Stephan Hermlin Ernst H. Meyer |
Writer composer, professor at the HUB |
for text and music of the Mansfeld Oratorio | ||
Gustav von Wangenheim , author Hans Rodenberg , director |
Collective of "You are the right one" | for the stage work "You are the right one" | ||
Slatan Dudow , screenwriter and director Robert Baberske , cameraman Harry Hindemith , actor Irene Korb , actress |
Collective "Our daily bread" | for the film " Our daily bread " | ||
Bruno Kleberg , editor Feodor Pappe , commentator Karl Plintzner , cameraman Jopp Huisken , cameraman |
Collective "Always ready" | for the documentary "Always Ready" | ||
Karl Richter Amadeus Webersinke |
Thomas organist lecturer at the State University for Music in Leipzig |
for their organ performances on the occasion of the Bach celebrations in 1950 | ||
Ludwig Justi | Director of the State Museums in Berlin | for his services to the scientific education of the museums of fine arts | ||
1951 ↑ |
Werner Peters | Actor, Berlin-Charlottenburg | In the important film " Der Untertan " based on the novel by Heinrich Mann , Werner Peters played the leading role of Dr. Diederich Heßling convincingly designed. With that he has an essential part in the impressive artistic creation of this film. | |
Andre Asriel | composer | Andre Asriel is one of the most successful young German composers, whose songs "Es lebe der Staatspräsident", "Friendship, Unity, Peace", for which he was awarded in the international cultural competition, "Heute lacht Brandenburg" and many others belong to our whole people and from the democratic ones Youth of Germany and the young people of other peoples were sung with great enthusiasm at the World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace . | ||
Franz Konwitschny | Conductor, Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | As Gewandhauskapellmeister in Leipzig, Franz Konwitschny led this world-famous orchestra to new successes and, as a guest conductor in the People's Republic of Hungary and as an interpreter of classical Russian and contemporary Soviet music, of the great composer Peter Tchaikovsky and the Soviet artist Chrennikow , brought masterpieces of art to the people. | ||
Willi Kleinoschegg | actor | After thorough studies at the Dresden State Theater, Willi Kleinoschegg performed the role of the great Lenin in Pogodin's play “The Kremlin Glockenspiel”. | ||
Jurij Brězan Martin Nowak-Neumann Jurij Winar |
Sorbian artist collective | After the fascist collapse and especially since the founding of the German Democratic Republic, our democratic state organs created the conditions for an unprecedented development of Sorbian folk culture, which the Sorbian artist collective gave visible expression. As a folk writer, Jurij Brezan has impressively shaped the Sorbian people's commitment to the German Democratic Republic with novels, amateur plays and poems, such as the poem "How I found my fatherland", created for the 75th birthday of the President of the German Democratic Republic, Wilhelm Pieck . Martin Nowack-Neumann emerged as a painter and graphic artist with good pictures and illustrations, which, based on national traditions, bring old Sorbian folk tales to life and symbolize the help of the German Democratic Republic for the largely rural Sorbian population. As a composer, musician and music educator, Jurij Winar laid the foundation for the creative renewal of Sorbian folk music. The collective of these three artists deserves the recognition of the entire German people for these achievements. | ||
Peter Huchel | writer | Editor of the magazine " Sinn und Form ". Peter Huchel is a recognized German poet who has enriched the new German poetry with his work, especially through his poetic descriptions of nature and life. | ||
Ernst Wilhelm Fiedler | camera operator | for his outstanding artistic achievements as a cameraman for DEFA, especially in the films " Grube Morgenrot ", " The blue swords ", " The last wages " and " ... and if only one were ... ". | ||
Eduard Claudius | writer | With his new novel “People by our side”, Eduard Claudius successfully described the way in which the artistic creation of problems of democratic construction and the struggle for peace was carried out. | ||
Charly Hähnel Bert Heller Willi Wolfgramm Will Schubert |
Graphic artist collective | Charly Hähnel, the artistic director of DEWAG , Bert Heller as a freelance decorative painter and graphic artist, Willi Wolfgramm as a graphic artist and Will Schubert as an advertising designer have successfully contributed to the success of democratic rallies, celebrations and exhibitions, such as the birthday party for the President of the German Democratic Republic and before contributed to the effective artistic design of the Berlin street scene at the World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace . | ||
1952 ↑ |
Viktor Klemperer | Professor with Chair for Romance Philology at the HUB Director of the Romance Institute at HUB, Director of the Romance Seminar at MLU Halle |
for his academic work in the field of German and Romance philology | |
Erich Arendt | writer | for his poems carried by combative humanism, collected in the volumes Trug die Nacht den Albatros and Bergwindballad | ||
Max Burghardt | General director of the Leipzig City Theaters | for the progressive, ensemble-building work on the development of realistic theater art in the GDR | ||
Karl Kayser | General director of the National Theater Weimar | for the progressive, ensemble-building work on the development of realistic theater art in the GDR | ||
Margarete Kupfer | actress | for their true to life, based on the best traditions of German theater and carried by a real collective spirit | ||
Kurt Palm | Costume designer | for his scientific, artistically excellent costume design at the Berlin state theaters | ||
Wolf Schubert | State curator in Halle | for the preservation, care and restoration of German art monuments, especially the Naumburg and Magdeburg cathedral | ||
Aenne Goldschmidt | Head of the dance group of the State Folk Art Ensemble in Berlin-Karlshorst | for their services to the rediscovery and creative development of German folk dance | ||
Andrew Thorndike | Director | for the excellent documentary " Wilhelm Pieck - The life of our president " and his collaboration on the films about the III. World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace in Berlin 1951 | ||
Maria Langner | Writer | for her book Stahl , in which she artistically designed the structure of the Brandenburg steelworks | ||
1953 ↑ |
Karl Grünberg | writer | for his novel “Brennende Ruhr”, the new edition of which conveys great revolutionary traditions of the German working class to the German people | |
Eberhard Schmidt | composer | for his mass songs known beyond the borders of Germany, especially for the " Thälmannlied " | ||
Heinar Kipphardt | Dramaturge of the Deutsches Theater Berlin | for his play “Shakespeare Urgent Wanted”, which is a valuable contribution to the development of contemporary German satire | ||
Erwin Strittmatter | writer | for his comedy "Katzgraben", which is one of the poetically significant comedies in German dramatic literature of recent years | ||
Eugen Klagemann | camera operator | for artistic and technical achievements with the camera in new German films, in particular “Semmelweis”, “Figaros Hochzeit” and “Secret Files Solvay”. | ||
Paul Dessau | composer | for his contemporary compositions "Funeral March for Helmut Just ", "Symphonic March" and the melodramatic cantata " Lilo Herrmann " | ||
1954 ↑ |
Heinrich Drake | Sculptor, professor at the University of Applied Arts , Berlin | for his excellent stone sculptures, especially the bust of Karl Marx , which represent the German visual arts worthy | |
Fritz Kühn | Master blacksmith | for his services as a blacksmith in the artistic design of large building projects in the German Democratic Republic, especially in Stalinallee | ||
Max Butting | Full member of the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin | for his significant compositional work, especially the symphonic variations, the orchestral ballad and the VI. String quartet , as well as its important part in the development of German musical life | ||
Erwin Geschonneck | actor | for his versatile, high-quality representation on stage and in film | ||
Franz Kutschera | Actor and director, Berlin-Charlottenburg | for his significant achievement as an actor and director in developing realistic German art of representation | ||
Wolfgang Heinz | Director at the Deutsches Theater , Berlin | for his significant directing work in the staging of the plays “ Othello ” and “Ssomow and others”, which represent a further step towards the development of realistic stage art | ||
Hedda Zinner | Writer, Berlin | for her stage work “ Der Teufelskreis ”, which is a valuable contribution to the unity of the German working class and in the struggle for peace | ||
Stephan Hermlin Max Jaap Eberhard Rebling |
Collective "Beethoven-Film" | for the design of the documentary "Ludwig van Beethoven", which brings the personality and musical work of Beethoven closer to our people | ||
Wolfgang Kohlhaase Gerhard Klein |
Collective "Alarm in the circus" | for the design of the film " Alarm im Zirkus ", which broke new ground in the field of youth adventure films, which successfully counteracts the corrosive influences of American gangster films | ||
1955 ↑ |
Alexander Abusch | Writer, Deputy Minister of Culture | for his progressive literary work, especially for his book Schiller, Größe und Tragik eines Deutschen Geniuses | |
Johann Cilenšek | Professor at the University of Music in Weimar , composer | for his violin concerto and his first symphony | ||
Johannes-Ernst Koehler | Professor at the University of Music in Weimar , church music director | for his significant artistic achievements in the field of organ music | ||
Hans Marchwitza | writer | for his book Roheisen , in which the organized force of the working class in building the foundations of socialism in the GDR is artistically designed | ||
Erwin Strittmatter | writer | for his book Tinko , in which life in the country after the land reform was made artistically valuable | ||
Maxim Vallentin | Director of the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin | for his services to the processing of new, progressive and scientific knowledge in the field of the performing arts | ||
1956 ↑ |
Karl von Appen | Chief set designer at the Berliner Ensemble | for his artistic, realistic stage design, with which he made an essential contribution to the development of realistic stage design | |
Fidelio F. Finke | Professor at the University of Music in Leipzig , composer | for his significant compositional work, especially for the III. Orchestral suite and its chamber music | ||
Rudolf Bergander | Painter and graphic artist, director of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts | for his realistic, artistically outstanding achievements in the field of painting and graphics | ||
Ernst Kunstmann | Animated film cameraman | for its excellent, recognized at home and abroad services as trick cameraman, through which he significantly to the artistic success of films of the DEFA has contributed | ||
Kurt Rehm | Chamber singer at the German State Opera Berlin | in recognition of his great artistic achievements in both singing and acting during his ten years as the first lyric baritone at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin | ||
Leo Spies | composer | for his cantata, dedicated to the memory of the Rosenbergs , as the culmination of his previous compositional work, with which he has made a significant contribution to the development of new music | ||
Gerhard Unger | Chamber singer at the German State Opera Berlin | for his services as a chamber singer and first tenor buffo in many years at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin | ||
1957 ↑ |
Irmgard Arnold | Chamber singer at the Komische Oper Berlin | for her excellent performance of the title role in the operas The Little Fox and The Silent Woman, as well as for her convincing and combative interpretation of progressive and contemporary songs | |
Benno Voelkner | writer | for his literary achievements, especially for his book The People of Karvenbruch , in which the life of the farm workers and the importance of their struggle from the turn of the century to 1945 is presented in a convincing way | ||
Heinz Rückert , senior stage director of the opera and the Handel Festival in Halle Horst-Tanu Margraf , general music director at the State Theater of Saxony-Anhalt Rudolf Heinrich , stage designer at the State Theater of Saxony-Anhalt |
Collective of the Handel Festival | for their part in the revival and new artistic design of the Handel operas, which made the humanistic content of Handel's works accessible to the German people | ||
Erich Witte | Chamber singer | for his artistic achievements as a chamber singer at the German State Opera in Berlin , of which he has been an outstanding member since 1945 | ||
Franz Fuehmann | writer | for his poetic work, especially for his war stories, in which he artistically shapes the transformation of young German soldiers into a humanistic worldview in the fascist war | ||
1958 ↑ |
Bruno Apitz | writer | for his excellent Buchenwald novel Nackt unter Wölfen , with which he sets a lasting monument to the resistance fighters against fascism and inspires our youth for the fight against fascism, for peace and socialism | |
Eva Fleischer | Song singer | for their interpretation of German and international classical and progressive songs, in which their commitment to our state and to the construction of socialism is expressed | ||
Lilo Gruber | Ballet master at the German State Opera Berlin | for her excellent ballet productions, especially for Gajaneh in the German State Opera and Die Flamme von Paris in Leipzig, and for her great artistic achievements in major cultural events, with which she expresses her commitment to our state and to the construction of socialism | ||
Gerhard Stolze | Chamber singer at the German State Opera Berlin | for his outstanding artistic achievements during his more than five years with the German State Opera, which made him known as one of the best vocal soloists in Germany | ||
Klaus Wittkugel | Graphic, professor at the University of Applied Arts Berlin | for his excellent graphic works, posters and exhibitions, especially for his exhibition Militarism without a mask | ||
Kurt Barthel , writer Hanns-Anselm Perten , general manager in Rostock |
Collective 40th anniversary and Baltic Sea week | for their contribution to the outstanding artistic and trend-setting design of the festival on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the Baltic Sea Week, which, through the sensible combination of known means of expression with new forms, had a strong and lasting effect in terms of socialist awareness-raising | ||
Sonja Schöner | Chamber singer at the Komische Oper Berlin | for her outstanding artistic achievements during her long membership in the Komische Oper and for her creative collaboration in the development of music theater | ||
1959 ↑ |
Theo Adam | Chamber singer at the German State Opera Berlin | ||
Karl Kayser | General director of the Leipzig City Theater | |||
Bernhard Kretzschmar | Painter and graphic artist | |||
Kurt Schwaen | composer | |||
Ingeborg Wenglor | Chamber singer at the German State Opera Berlin | |||
Manfred Wekwerth Peter Palitzsch |
Collective of the Berliner Ensemble | for the performance The Resistant Rise of Arturo Ui | ||
Werner Fehlig , Head of Dramatic Art at DFF Helmut Sakowski , writer Wilhelm Gröhl , director Fred Reichwald , writer |
Collective television games at the DFF | Appreciation of the television games The risk of Maria Diehl , The hectare hunter , The decision of Lene Mattke | ||
Erich Riedeberger Fred Dittrich Hilda Riedeberger |
Collective sports show at the III. German gymnastics and sports festival 1959 | for their part in the design of the sports show of the III. German gymnastics and sports festival in 1959, with which a new art form of sporty-dance-dramatic movement game was created, which means an excellent creative achievement | ||
Wolfgang Heinz Karl Paryla |
Collective Wallenstein production at the Deutsches Theater |
Prize amounts
year | Prize amount in marks |
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1949 | 225,000 |
1950 | 250,000 |
1951 | 225,000 |
1952 | 250,000 |
1953 | 150,000 |
1954 | 225,000 |
1955 | 150,000 |
1956 | 175,000 |
1957 | 125,000 |
1958 | 175,000 |
1959 | 225,000 |
total | 1,175,000 |
swell
- New Germany of the respective years. The awards were made from 1950 as part of the national holiday celebrations on October 7th. Issues from:
- August 26, 1949, page 3
- October 9, 1950, pages 3 and 4
- October 9, 1951, page 3
- Oct. 7, 1952, page 7
- October 8, 1953, pages 3 and 4
- Oct. 8, 1954, page 6
- Oct. 8, 1955, page 3
- Oct. 7, 1956, page 7
- Oct. 7, 1957, page 4
- Oct. 7, 1958, page 6
- Oct. 4, 1959, page 3
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i The German National Prize Winners 1949. In: Neues Deutschland . ZEFYS, Archives of the Berlin State Library , August 26, 1949, p. 3 , accessed on April 17, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j The winners of the National Prize III. Class. In: New Germany. ZEFYS, Archive of the Berlin State Library, October 9, 1950, p. 4 , accessed on April 17, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h The winners of the German National Prize 1951 - National Prize III. Class. In: New Germany. ZEFYS, Archive of the Berlin State Library, October 9, 1951, p. 3 , accessed on April 17, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Awarding of the National Prize 1952. Winner of the National Prize III. Class. In: New Germany. ZEFYS, Archives of the Berlin State Library, October 7, 1952, p. 7 , accessed on April 17, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Winner of the German National Prize 1953. National Prize III. Class. In: New Germany. ZEFYS, Archives of the Berlin State Library, October 8, 1953, p. 4 , accessed on April 17, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Winner of the German National Prize 1954. III. Class. In: New Germany. ZEFYS, Archives of the Berlin State Library, October 8, 1954, p. 6 , accessed on April 17, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e f winner of the German National Prize 1955. National Prize in the field of art and literature. III. Class. In: New Germany. ZEFYS, Archives of the Berlin State Library, October 7, 1955, p. 7 , accessed on April 17, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Winner of the National Prize 1956. In the field of art and literature. III. Class. In: New Germany. ZEFYS, Archive of the Berlin State Library, October 7, 1956, p. 7 , accessed on April 18, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e Honor roll. Winner of the National Prize 1957. III. Class. In: New Germany. ZEFYS, Archive of the Berlin State Library, October 7, 1957, p. 4 , accessed on April 17, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g winner of the National Prize 1958. In: Berliner Zeitung. ZEFYS, Archives of the Berlin State Library, October 7, 1958, p. 3 , accessed on May 6, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i High awards for the 10th anniversary. National prizes 1959. In the field of art and literature III. Class. In: New Germany. ZEFYS, Archives of the Berlin State Library, October 4, 1959, p. 3 , accessed on April 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Television drama - on the trail of time. In: New Germany. ZEFYS, Archives of the Berlin State Library, October 19, 1959, p. 3 , accessed on May 7, 2014 .
- ↑ Initiators and designers of the festival. In: New Germany. ZEFYS, Archive of the Berlin State Library, October 12, 1959, p. 3 , accessed on May 7, 2014 .