List of the winners of the National Prize of the GDR III. Art and Literature Class (1960–1969)

This list represents the winners of the GDR National Prize in the III. Class for art and literature in the years 1960 to 1969. For the other decades and levels, see the list of winners of the GDR National Prize .

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Listed by years

1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

year	Award winners		Reason for award	annotation
1960 ↑	Collective television series Weimar Pitaval		For their outstanding contribution to the creation of new scenic television documentaries, the majority of which convey deep, varied and convincing insights into the roots of imperialism, militarism and fascism in Germany to the broadest audience from all strata of the people through their form and content
	Friedrich Karl Kaul	Lawyer and writer
	Walter Jupé	Actor and author
	Wolfgang Luderer	Director
	Chamber singer Gerhard Frei	Bassist at the German State Opera Berlin	For his extraordinary achievements in realistically portraying key roles in operas, especially as Stelina in Krútňava , as Prince Chowanski in Chowanschtschina , as Caspar in Freischütz , as the Snail Herod in Armen Konrad and as a soloist in the performances of the Mansfeld Oratorio
	Hanns Nocker	Opera singer tenor at the Komische Oper Berlin	For his outstanding achievements in Othello and Hoffmann's stories , with which he gave convincing examples of the artistic unity of the singing and acting human design for music theater
	Rudolf Heinrich	Set designer and head of equipment at the Komische Oper, Berlin	For his imaginative design of the set for Othello and for his entire set design work at the Komische Oper, with which he played an essential part in the development of realistic music theater
	Eleanor Vesco	1st ballet soloist at the German State Opera Berlin	For her outstanding artistic achievements as a solo dancer in the ballet of the German State Opera, in particular for the dance design of the title roles in Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Gajaneh, the returnee's wife in New Odyssey and Odette in Swan Lake
	Claus Schulz	1st ballet soloist at the German State Opera Berlin	For his particularly outstanding creative achievements as a solo dancer of the German State Opera, in particular for the dance design of the poor in Gajaneh, the crier in New Odyssey and the fool in Swan Lake as well as for his successful appearance at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Bucharest, Warsaw and Moscow
	John Paul Thilman	Composer, full professor at the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Hochschule für Musik in Dresden	For his extensive compositions, which in their popular musical language are exemplary for the new musical creation in the GDR, especially for his 4th symphony and his works for amateur symphony orchestras
	Max Seydewitz	General Director of the State Museums in Dresden	For his excellent work in the management of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , which brought the treasures of humanistic world art closer to the working people in an exemplary manner
	Werner Eggerath	State Secretary for Church Affairs	For his entire literary works, in particular for his new book Wassereinbruch, which represents an essential contribution to the socialist awareness of our people
	Harald Hauser	writer	For his artistic creation of burning national and international problems, especially for his dramatic work Weißes Blut, in its stage, radio and television version
	Collective to promote and support workers 'and peasants' theaters		for their share in the exemplary support of popular creativity in the field of dramatic art, especially in the rehearsal of the contemporary play Der Weg zum Wir in the SDAG Wismut's workers' theater and in the Schiller performances in the Friedrich Schiller workers' and farmers' theater in Bauerbach by members of Annaberger and Meininger Theaters that were groundbreaking for the development of workers 'and peasants' theater in the GDR
	Werner Wenzel	actor
	Mario Turra	actor
	Alexander Reuter	Director of the Meininger Theater
1961 ↑	Rudolf Asmus	Bass-baritone at the Komische Oper Berlin	For his significant artistic achievements at the Komische Oper Berlin, which are exemplary for the unity of singing and acting
	Hannes Fischer	Director and acting director at the Dresden State Theater	For his special achievements as director and drama director of the Dresden State Theater, through which he gave the repertoire of the Dresden theater a new and progressive content
	Collective of the children's television of the German television station		for their part in the artistic creation of the children's television of the DFF, which has a great influence on the upbringing of our children	The program Our Sandman , whose theme was composed by Richter, and various puppet figures, for which the Fülfe couple was responsible, were honored
	Heinz Fülfe	Puppeteer
	Ingeburg Fülfe	Puppeteer
	Wolfgang Richter	musical director and music editor for children's television in the GDR
	Hans Pischner	Harpsichordist and Deputy Minister for Culture	For his excellent interpretation of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach , Georg Friedrich Handel and other masters of the 17th and 18th centuries as harpsichordists
	Herbert Kegel	artistic director of the Leipzig Radio Choir , chief conductor of the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra	For his significant achievements as general music director at the State Broadcasting Committee, in particular for maintaining socialist vocal symphonies in the GDR
	Gerd Natschinski	Composer, chief conductor of the Berliner Rundfunk entertainment orchestra	For his significant artistic achievements in the development of popular dance and light music in the GDR
	Albert Kapr	Professor of typeface and book design as well as rector at the University of Graphic and Book Art Leipzig .	For his significant achievements in the field of book design, which has contributed significantly to increasing the international reputation of book art in the GDR
	Wilhelm Rudolph	Freelance painter, wood cutter and graphic artist, Dresden	For his life's work with special appreciation for his realistic portrait painting
	Walther Victor	Writer, Weimar	For his great services in popularizing classical German literature, especially for his popular reading books and writings for young people
	Collective of the cabaret Die Distel		for their part in shaping the thistle into a popular, political-satirical cabaret as an effective weapon in the fight for peace and socialism against militarism and war
	Erich Brehm	first head of thistle, author
	Ellen Tiedtke	Ensemble member
	Gustav Müller	Founding member of Distel, moderator of Da laughs the bear
	Gerhard E. Shepherd	Ensemble member
	Helmut Schneller	author
	Ingrid Ohlenschläger	Ensemble member
	Rudolf von Hradezky-Hilberg
1962 ↑	Reinhold Lingner	Professor of garden design at the HUB, landscape and garden architect	for his pioneering work to create a socialist garden culture and for the scientifically based landscape diagnosis of the GDR
	Hans Nadler	Head of the Institute for Monument Preservation in Dresden	For his artistically and scientifically significant monument preservation work, especially for the exemplary regeneration of historic city centers and the restoration of cultural monuments destroyed by the war, especially in Bautzen, Görlitz and Dresden
	Walter Womacka	Painter, Berlin	For his realistic painterly work, especially for the design of the glass window in the Sachsenhausen memorial	what is meant is the triptych in the Hall of Nations
	Wolfgang Joho	Writer, editor-in-chief of the magazine neue deutsche literatur , Kleinmachnow	For his novels, in which contemporary themes are designed with folk storytelling
	Maximilian Scheer	freelance travel journalist, Berlin	For his entire oeuvre, especially his masterful reports, which are written with thorough knowledge and passionate support for democracy and socialism
	Collective Gewandhaus Quartet Leipzig		for her participation in the masterful interpretation of classical chamber music as well as in promoting the new music creation of the GDR
	Gerhard Bosse	Primarius, concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra
	Karl Suske	second violinist
	Dietmar Hallmann	viola
	Friedemann heirs	violoncello
	Werner Enders	Tenor at the Komische Oper Berlin	For his vocal and dramatic achievements as a character tenor at the Komische Oper in Berlin
	Hanne-Lore Kuhse	Soprano at the Leipzig Opera House	for her outstanding achievements as an opera and concert singer, especially in the design of Wagner roles, with which she achieved great success at home and abroad
	Hermann Lüddecke	Choir director at the Komische Oper Berlin	for his share in the artistic successes of the Komische Oper through the training and management of the collective of choir soloists
1963 ↑	Karl Erich Müller	Freelance painter and graphic artist, Halle	for his panel paintings, his graphic cycles and book illustrations, which are significant achievements of our socialist-realistic visual arts
	Kurt Zimmermann	Freelance book illustrator, mainly Soviet children's and youth literature, Berlin	For his combative, graphic sheets and his trend-setting achievements in socialist-realistic illustrations and book design
	Fritz Maenicke	Restorer and sculptor, Magdeburg	For his internationally recognized achievements in the restoration of medieval sculptures, especially at Magdeburg and Naumburg Cathedral
	Horst Drinda	Actor, Berlin	For his realistic interpretation of important roles in classic and contemporary works, especially Grigori Gaj in the play Mein Freund, with which he created a convincing example of the representation of the socialist image of man
	Gisela May	Actress and Diseuse, Berlin	For her great acting performances on stage in film, radio and television and her interpretation of political chansons and poems
	Chamber singer Christa-Maria Ziese	Soprano at the Leipzig Opera	For the realistic interpretation of opera characters, especially in works by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss; it is characterized by an excellent combination of high vocal skills and artistic expression
	Carl Riha	Opera director at the Karl-Marx-Stadt opera house	for his outstanding realistic staging of classical and contemporary musical works
	Bernhard Seeger	freelance writer, Potsdam	for his literary work, especially for the novel "Herbstrauch" and a series of radio plays that are artistic testimonies to the socialist transformation process in the country	the novel was significantly influenced by Scholokhov's " new territory under the plow "
1964 ↑	Hans Baltzer	Illustrator, Berlin	for his folk illustrations in books for young people and for his posters, with which he exemplifies aesthetic education, especially of young people	later illustrator of the first edition of the primer
	Gerhard Geyer	Freelance sculptor and graphic artist, Halle	for his portraits of workers and the portraits of outstanding personalities of the workers' movement, who are exemplary in the portrait art of socialist realism
	Bert Heller	freelance painter, Berlin	for his painterly and graphic work as well as his wall designs, book illustrations and stage sets
	Erika Pelikowsky-Heinz	Theater actress at the Deutsches Theater Berlin	for her acting achievements on stage, on radio and television, with which she sets standards for the level of our socialist acting
	Martin Ritzmann	Tenor at the German State Opera Berlin	for the realistic interpretation of opera characters, which is characterized by a deep intellectual and musical penetration of the roles
	Horst Schönemann	Director and chief stage director at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin	for his directorial work on new works of contemporary socialist drama, his development of new forms of socialist community work at the theater and his active participation in popular artistic creation
	Collective of the DEFA feature film For eyes only		for the artistic design of a topic of particular topicality in the film
	Harry Thürk	Author, Weimar
	János Veiczi	Director and co-author, Berlin
	Collective fool's gold		for the play "Katzengold", created and staged in exemplary community work, in which new ethical problems of work and the face of socialist people take on artistic form
	Horst Salomon	Author, Gera
	Wolfgang Pintzka	Director, Gera
	Harald Jopt	Actor, Gera
	Bert Brunn	Actor, Gera
	Jurij Brezan	Sorbian writer, Bautzen	for the contribution he has made to the development of Sorbian and German socialist literature with his previous literary work, in particular with the Felix Hanusch trilogy
	Erik Neutsch	Writer and journalist, Halle	for his novel Spur der Steine , in which he opens up new literary territory and shapes the process of spiritual and moral maturation into conscious socialist people	the film was canceled shortly after its premiere and disappeared in the archive
	Erwin Strittmatter	Writer, Dollgow	for his novel "Ole Bienkopp", in which he uses poetic power to create problems and contradictions in the development of socialist agriculture in our republic
	Max Walter Schulz	Writer, Holzhausen	for his work “We are not dust in the wind”, with which he has created a socialist educational novel, drawing on the humanistic traditions of German literature
	Christa Wolf	Writer, Kleinmachnow	for her literary work, in particular for the Moscow novella and for the story The Divided Heaven , in which deep personal decisions are made on the national question of the fate of the German people	The filming of “The Divided Sky” was banned several times in the GDR
	Günter Kochan	Composer, Berlin	for his symphonic and chamber music works of the last few years, in which he has successfully endeavored to make a clear socialist-realistic statement in instrumental music
	Egon Morbitzer	Soloist, first violinist of string quartets, 1st concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Berlin	for his convincing interpretation of works from classical and contemporary violin literature
	Wilhelm Weismann	Composer and musicologist, Leipzig	for his compositional work, which represents an essential enrichment of contemporary vocal and instrumental music in various genres
1965 ↑	Willi Neubert	Painter, Thale	for his significant work as a painter, especially for “steelworkers” and “chess players” as well as for the mural on the new print shop of freedom in Halle
	René-Benjamin Besson	Chief director at the Deutsches Theater Berlin	for his important productions at the Deutsches Theater , in particular “The Dutch Bride” by Strittmatter , The Peace by Aristophanes / Hacks , Tartüff by Moliére The beautiful Helena von Offenbach / Hacks Der Drache by Jewgenij Schwarz
	Gerhard Bienert	Actor, Berlin	for decades of significant acting	Bienert lived in West Berlin
	Chamber singer Ludmila Dvořáková	Soprano at the German State Opera Berlin	for her impressive interpretations as an opera singer, especially as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier , as Elisabeth in Don Carlos and as Isolde in Tristan und Isolde
	Chamber singer Hans Kraemer	Bass at the Leipzig Opera	for his achievements as an opera and concert singer, especially in the roles of Kutusow in Krieg und Frieden , Ochs von Lerchenau in “Der Rosenkavalier” and Pogner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
	Jean Kurt Forest	Composer and musician, Stahnsdorf	for his operatic work, with which he influenced and significantly enriched the development of socialist musical theater
	Helmut Sakowski	Writer, Neustrelitz	for his dramatic work for stage and television, especially for his shaping of interesting conflicts in the socialist change of people in the countryside
	Augusta Wieghardt-Lazar	Writer, Dresden	for her literary oeuvre, especially for her memorable children's books, in which she illustrates the cruelty of exploitation, oppression and racism and inspires young readers for the socialist social order
	Annerose Schmidt	Concert pianist, Leipzig	for her impressive achievements as a concert pianist, with whom she achieved great success at home and abroad
1966 ↑	Rolf Kleinert	Chief conductor of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra	for his services to the promotion of contemporary music creation and his many years of successful work as an orchestra conductor
	Hans Dieter Mäde	General manager of the Karl-Marx-Stadt theater	for his productions at the municipal theaters of Karl-Marx-Stadt, characterized by artistic quality and partisan penetration, especially for Hamlet by Shakespeare , Das Krankenzimmer by Aljoschin , Don Carlos von Schiller and Krach in Chioggia by Goldoni
	Benno Pludra	Writer, Berlin	for his artistically excellent books for children and young people, in which he poetically and sensitively tells of the love for the socialist homeland, of the respect for people and their work
	Hilmar Thate	Actor at the Berliner Ensemble	for his great achievements as an actor, especially as Givola in Arturo Ui , as Jan Capet in Days of Commune and Aufidius in Coriolan
	Group of employees of the children's theater of the GDR		for their share in the exemplary achievements in the field of children's theater with which they helped shape the development of socialist theater for young people
	Ilse Rodenberg	Director of the Theater of Friendship , Berlin
	Hans-Dieter Schmidt	Director of the Young World Theater , Leipzig
	Rolf Büttner	Director of the Young Generation Theater , Dresden
	Otto Kähler	Head of equipment at the theater of friendship, Berlin
1967 ↑	Collective of the television documentary Fighters and Winners		for his part in the artistically, journalistically and scientifically outstandingly designed television series about the struggle of the German working class up to their final victory in the GDR
	Wolfgang Boettner	Author at the DEFA studio for feature films
	Bruno Kleberg	Director at DEFA -Studio for feature films
	Rolf Sperling	Cameraman at the DEFA studio for feature films
	Collective of the television game Patience of the Bold		for his part in the television game Patience of the Bold, created with artistic persuasiveness, which provides an example of our contemporary drama with the shaping of human problems in the socialist forward development
	Benito Wogatzki	Author at the DEFA studio for feature films
	Lothar Bellag	Director at DEFA -Studio for feature films
	Wolf Kaiser	Actor at the DEFA studio for feature films
	a collective of artistic directors of the song and choir movement of the youth		for his continuous work in the song and choir movement of young people in achieving high artistic achievements
	Manfred Grüttner	Potsdam University of Education
	Fritz Höft	Berlin
	Manfred Rost	Berlin
	Theo Balden	Sculptor and graphic artist, Berlin	for his artistic oeuvre, which is supported by convincing partisan and socialist-realistic statements
	Fritz Bennewitz	Acting director at the German National Theater in Weimar	for his achievements as drama director and director at the German National Theater Weimar, for the expressive interpretation of works of classical heritage and socialist realism
	Martin Flörchinger	Actor, Berlin	for his great achievements as a character actor, as an impressive interpreter of figures of socialist drama
	Götz Friedrich	Director at the Komische Oper Berlin	for his work as an opera director and his scientific work for a realistic music theater
	Chamber singer Sigrid Kehl	Singer at the Leipzig Opera House	for her artistic achievements, with which she has made a significant contribution to the national and international reputation of the Leipzig Opera
	Chamber singer Peter Schreier	Singer at the German State Opera Berlin	for his high artistic achievements as a Mozart interpreter and as an opera, oratorio, concert and lieder singer of international renown
	Chamber singer Reiner Süß	Singer at the German State Opera Berlin	for his masterful interpretations, which combine convincing performance with high musicality, especially in the role of Puntila
	Joachim Werzlau	freelance composer, Berlin	for his continuous, extensive songwriting and his longstanding services to the development of the singing movement
1968 ↑	Collective Ulbrich Quartet of the Staatskapelle Dresden		for his share in the masterful interpretation of musical works, especially the music of the GDR, as well as for his representative work abroad
	Rudolf Ulbrich	1st violin
	Wolfgang Bülow	2nd violin
	Joachim Zindler	viola
	Clemens Dillner	violoncello
	Lilo and Gerhard Hardel	Writer, Strausberg	for their thematically valuable and excellently designed children's and youth books, with special appreciation of the biographical stories about important personalities of the German labor movement
	Rudolf Bohm	Author at DFF, Berlin	for his television films about the fighters of the National Committee Free Germany, which are of great effect for the education of socialist internationalism and patriotism
	Chamber singer Annelies Burmeister	Singer at the German State Opera Berlin	for her artistic achievements as an opera singer, especially in the design of large roles with which she has made a significant contribution to the international success of the German State Opera
	Gustav Schmahl	Concertmaster at the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra	for his significant achievements as violin soloist and first concertmaster with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and for his services to the maintenance of socialist music creation
	Peterpaul Weiss	Commercial artist, artistic director of the Museum for German History Berlin	for his significant services to the development of commercial graphics, especially for his excellent design of political posters and important political-historical exhibitions
1969 ↑	Collective evening greeting of the children's television of the State Committee for Television at the Council of Ministers of the GDR		for his part in the lively organization of the evening greeting on children's television, which provides valuable help in the upbringing and education of our young generation
	Gerhard Behrendt	Director and puppet maker
	Wolfgang Richter	composer
	Heinz Schröder	Puppeteer
	Friedgard Short	Puppeteer
	Harald Serowski	Trick scene creator
	Heinz Fülfe	Puppeteer
	a group of translators of Soviet literature		for their translations from Russian, which play a major role in the widespread dissemination of political and fictional literature from the Soviet Union in our republic
	Otto Braun	Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED
	Günter Jäniche
	Erich Müller
	Maria Rikwin
	Georg Schwarz
	Collective Handel research and care		for his share in the important achievements in the field of Handel research and care
	Walther Siegmund-Schultze	Professor with chair and deputy director of the German and Art Studies section at the MLU Halle
	Johanna Rudolph	Art scholar
	Christa Gottschalk	Actress at the Leipzig City Theaters	for her artistically convincing and memorable interpretation of major roles in classical and socialist drama
	Kurt Masur	General Music Director, Chief Conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic	for his many years of high achievements as a conductor in the socialist musical life of the GDR and his services to the promotion of popular artistic creation
	Alfred Muller	Actor at the VEB DEFA studio for feature films	for his artistically convincing, high acting achievements, especially as the actor of Karl Marx in Mohr and the Ravens of London
	Emmy Koehler-Richter	Dance teacher at the Leipzig City Theaters	for her intensive and determined ensemble work, which brought the Leipzig Opera House great artistic ballet successes, especially for the promotion of contemporary ballet creation
	Wilhelm Schmied	Painter and graphic artist, Sangerhausen	for his convincing design of the people in our society and their relationships to their socialist homeland as well as for his work as a visual artist in Halle-Neustadt
	Rosemarie Schuder	Writer, Berlin	for her historical novels, especially for The Enlightened, in which a historically significant phase of the revolutionary traditions of our people is artistically designed
	Eva Schulze-Knabe	Painter, Dresden	for her artistic work, which has been dedicated to the struggle of the working class and the shaping of the socialist image of man for decades

Prize amounts

year	Prize amount in marks
1960	275,000
1961	250,000
1962	225,000
1963	200,000
1964	400,000
1965	225,000
1966	125,000
1967	275,000
1968	150,000
1969	250,000
total	2,375,000

Remarks

1. ↑ 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.