Medal for Art and Science (Hamburg)
The Medal for Art and Science of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg was donated in 1956. It is intended to honor people for special, outstanding achievements of lasting value for Hamburg in the fields of research, science or art. It is not associated with monetary donations, but serves exclusively as recognition.
Award winners
- 1956: Rudolf Laun , lawyer
- 1957: Robert Johannes Meyer , lawyer
- 1958: Leo Raape , lawyer
- 1959: Hermann and Philipp Reemtsma , patrons; Alfred Töpfer , patron; Gustaf Gründgens , actor
- 1960: Carl Georg Heise , art historian
- 1961: Hans Leip , writer
- 1963: Ernst Georg Nauck , physician; Heinrich Pette , neurologist; Christian Wegner , publisher
- 1964: Wilhelm Huth; Percy Ernst Schramm , historian; Gustav Bolland , historian
- 1966: Hermann Holthusen , medic; Richard Seifert
- 1967: Willy Maertens , actor and director
- 1968: Gerhard Marcks , sculptor
- 1969: Kurt A. Körber , patron; Werner Otto , patron
- 1970: Ida Ehre , director of the Hamburger Kammerspiele; Rolf Liebermann , director of the Hamburg State Opera; Eduard Soering , patron
- 1976: Ernst Hauswedell , art auctioneer, publisher; Mary Lavater-Sloman , writer
- 1978: Hans W. Hertz , notary
- 1980: Boy Gobert , director of the Thalia Theater
- 1984: Walter Jens , writer and professor of rhetoric; Will Quadflieg , actor
- 1985: Ben Witter , journalist and writer
- 1987: Wolfgang Hildesheimer ; Horst Janssen , visual artist; Günter Kranz
- 1988: Hans Drescher ; Günter Grass , writer
- 1989: Gerda Gmelin , theater director and actress; Heidi Kabel , popular actress; Hans Platschek , painter
- 1990: Werner Hofmann , director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, art historian; Kurt Kranz , painter
- 1991: Eberhard Fechner ; Jürgen Flimm , director of the Thalia Theater; Inge Meysel , actress; Friedrich Schütter , director of the Ernst Deutsch Theater; Günter Wand , conductor
- 1992: Placido Domingo , tenor
- 1993: Richard J. Evans ; Ralph Giordano , writer; Zuzana Růžičková , harpsichordist
- 1994: Naftali Bar-Giora Bamberger , documentation of Jewish cemeteries; Peter Rühmkorf , writer
- 1997: Hans J. Müller-Eberhard , Research; Gudrun Piper and Max H. Mahlmann , visual artists
- 2000: Vitus B. Dröscher , animal researcher, writer and journalist; Per Nørgård , composer
- 2003: György Ligeti , composer; John Neumeier , choreographer, ballet director
- 2006: Wolf Biermann , poet, songwriter; Jürgen Lüthje , President of the University of Hamburg; FC Gundlach , photographer and collector; Yu-Chien Kuan , sinologist; Shan Fan , designer; Peter Zadek , director
- 2009: Robert Wilson , theater director, painter and designer
- 2015: Hermann Rauhe , music college president, author, music educator, radio editor
- 2016: Axel Schildt , Director of the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg (FZH) and Professor of Modern History at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg
Web links
- Web presence of the Medal for Art and Science , accessed on December 22, 2019
- Illustration of the medal for art and science at die-deutschen-orden.de