Lower Saxony State Prize

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Awarding of the Lower Saxony State Prize 2012 to Georg Klein by Prime Minister David McAllister

The Lower Saxony State Prize has been awarded by the State of Lower Saxony since 2002 . From 1978 to 1999 it was called the Lower Saxony Prize. The award is presented by the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony .

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The prize is awarded to people who have made a name for themselves in the areas of culture, women, social affairs, science, the environment or business in Lower Saxony. A jury made up of ten people who are related to Lower Saxony will decide on the award. You will be appointed by the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony. The Lower Saxony State Prize is the most important prize in the state and is endowed with a total of 35,000 euros; it can be shared.

Until 1999, the then "Lower Saxony Prize" was awarded in three categories: the Science Prize, the Culture Prize and the Journalism Prize.

Winner of the Lower Saxony Prize

year Journalism Culture science
1978 Walter Kempowski Boys' Choir Hanover (Dir .: Heinz Hennig ) Reinhold Tüxen
1979 Fritz Wolf Eduard Lohse Georg Schnath
1980 Wolfgang Wagner Richard Oelze Manfred Eigen
1981 Westermann's monthly books Dieter Oesterlen Heinz Hundeshagen
1982 Friedrich Bohne Helmut Ottenjann Walter Bruch
1983 Walther Killy Alfred Koerppen Günther Patzig
1984 Hugo Dittberner Emil Cimiotti Fritz Sennheiser
1985 Guntram Vesper Karl-Heinz Kämmerling Günter Schmahl
1986 - Harry and Guntram Hillebrand Franz Wieacker
1986 - Jürgen Ahrend -
1987 Franz Schmedt Girls Choir Hanover Rudolf Pichlmayr
1988 - Arne Eggebrecht Madjid Samii , Hellmut Glubrecht
1989 - Richard Jakoby Fritz Peter Schäfer , Albrecht Schöne
1990 - Helen Donath Paul Raabe , Erwin Neher
1991 Kurt Morawietz Henri Nannen Bernhard Ulrich
1992 Eike Christian Hirsch Lajos Rovatkay Manfred R. Schroeder
1993 Ruth Klüger Christiane Möbus Andreas Büchting
1994 Petra Muschaweck-Kürten Thomas Quasthoff Ernst G. Bauer
1995 Tilman Zülch Ruth Falazik Jens Frahm
1996 Oskar Negt Sabine Meyer Hans-Georg Musmann
1997 Uri Avnery Gunter Hampel Wolfgang Junge
1998 Heinz Ludwig Arnold Doris Dörrie Ernst Schubert
1999 Gerlind Reinshagen Ingo Metzmacher Heinz Haferkamp

In 2000 the award was not given. From 2001, the division into the categories of journalism, culture and science was no longer given up. The artist and university professor Timm Ulrichs and the entrepreneur Jürgen Großmann were honored .

Winner of the Lower Saxony State Prize

Award winner Ulrich Reimers 2012
Prize winners 2014: The Scorpions (1st to 3rd from left) and Gudrun Schröfel (2nd from right)

Others

In addition to the Lower Saxony State Prize, the state of Lower Saxony awards prizes for literature ( Nicolas Born Prize ) and fine arts ( Lower Saxony Art Prize ) as well as music ( Praetorius Music Prize ) with their respective sponsorship prizes in the cultural field .

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