Peter Weiss Prize
The Peter Weiss Prize is a culture prize that is awarded every two years by the City of Bochum in memory of the writer, painter, graphic artist and experimental filmmaker Peter Weiss .
It has been awarded in the theater, literature, film and visual arts categories since 1990 and is endowed with 15,000 euros (as of 2019).
Award winners
- 1990 - George Tabori
- 1992 - Marcel Ophüls
- 1994 - Elfriede Jelinek
- 1996 - Jochen Gerz
- 1998 - Christoph Hein
- 2000 - Kurt Huebner
- 2002 - Harun Farocki
- 2004 - Hans Haacke
- 2006 - Ingo Schulze
- 2008 - Dimiter Gotscheff
- 2010 - Rosemarie Trockel
- 2012 - Fatih Akın
- 2014/15 - Ulrich Peltzer
- 2017 - Milo Rau
- 2019 - Otobong Nkanga
Individual evidence
- ↑ The idea of freedom in art. Dimiter Gotscheff receives the “Peter Weiss Prize” ( memento of the original from May 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , April 14, 2008
- ↑ The City of Bochum awards two Peter Weiss Prizes in 2016, accessed on June 10, 2016