Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize
The Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize of the City of Dresden was an art prize in the GDR. The award was named after the Danish writer Martin Andersen Nexø , who spent the last years of his life in Dresden . The prize was awarded annually from 1959 to 1990 on June 26th, Andersen Nexø's birthday, by the City Council of Dresden. His successor has been the Art Prize of the City of Dresden since 1993 ; its forerunner was the Dresden Art Prize .
The prize was awarded “for outstanding achievements in the field of fine arts, literature and music”.
Award winner (incomplete)
- 1959: Auguste Lazar , Eva Schulze-Knabe , Erich Fraaß , Walter Baensch
- 1961: Karl Zuchardt , Karl-Rudi Griesbach , Wilhelm Rudolph
- 1962: Otto Reinhold , Margret Häusler , Rudolf Nehmer , Fritz Tröger , Ruth Seydewitz
- 1963: Heinz Klemm , Arnd Wittig
- 1964: Annemarie Reinhard , Rudolf Mauersberger
- 1965: Alfred Hesse , Hasso Mager
- 1966: Herbert Friedrich , Manfred Arlt , Herbert Terpitz , Erich Gerlach , Erich Mitzscherlich ; out of rotation: Otto Dix
- 1967: Max Zimmering , Hans Mroczinski
- 1968: Manfred Streubel , Erich Hering , Hans-Hendrik Wehding †, Hans Steger †
- 1969: Marianne Bruns , Gottfried Herold , Rudolf Bergander , Werner Haselhuhn , Bernhard Kretzschmar , Theo Adam , Antonia Dietrich , Karl Laux , Walter Weidauer , Central Ensemble of Young Talents Dresden
- 1970: Song and dance ensemble of the Dresden garrison of the Soviet armed forces, Peter Schreier , collective of the music school "Paul Büttner", Eva Schumann , Gerd Jaeger , Leopold Wiel
- 1971: Kurt Liebmann , Siegfried Köhler
- 1972: Lea Grundig , Gret Palucca , Kurt Masur , Hans-Dieter Mäde , Wolfgang Berger , Erich Höhne
- 1973: Paul Michaelis , Udo Zimmermann , Joochen Laabs , Dorothea Anger
- 1974: Max Piroch , Rainer Kunad , Gerhard Stengel , Heide Wendland-Herold ; out of rotation: Grigory Yastrebenezki
- 1975: Walter Arnold , Gerhard Bondzin , Max Seydewitz
- 1976: Manfred Bachmann , Horst Kleineidam , Günter Tiedeken , vocal quartet " The four Brummers "
- 1977: Traute Richter , Fritz Eisel , Manfred Schubert , Manfred Weiss , Rolf Floß , Günter Hörig
- 1978: Gerhard Kettner , Hermann Werner Kubsch
- 1979: Lotte Meyer , Wolfgang Hänsch
- 1980: Wilfried Krätzschmar
- 1981: Hermann Stövesand
- 1982: Herbert Collum †, Werner Matschke , Hans Nadler , Tine Schulze-Gerlach , Ekkehard Walter
- 1983: Fritz Löffler , Alexander Alfs , Lüder Baier , Werner Knodel , Maria Schwauß , Horst Seeger , FDJ student symphony orchestra of the TU Dresden
- 1984: Helmut Heinze
- 1986: Rainer Lischka , Dresden dance symphonist
- 1987: Rudolf Neuhaus , Vinzenz Wanitschke , Klaus Dieter Kirst , Jochen Paentzer , Gisela Grube , TU Dresden dance ensemble, Rolf Häser
- 1988: Joachim Heuer , Günter Kretzschmar , Wolfgang Strauss , Angelo Walther , Rudolf Scholz
- 1989: Eleonore Elstermann , Ludwig Güttler , Dresden Philharmonic Choir (conductor: Matthias Geissler ), Peter Herden , Ursula Rzodeczko , Horst Zimmermann , Herbert Wotte †, Theater of the Young Generation Dresden
- 1990: Gerhard Wolfram , Hans John , Dietrich Nitzsche , design collective of the International Dixieland Festival, amateur film studio "Stativ" at TU Dresden
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from: Meyers Taschenlexikon Writers of the GDR . Leipzig 1974. p. 651