Biermann Ratjen Medal
The (Senator) - Biermann-Ratjen-Medal was donated in 1978 by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in memory of the merits of the former Senator for Culture, Hans-Harder Biermann-Ratjen . Since then, it has been used to honor people and groups of people who have made outstanding contributions to Hamburg through artistic or other cultural achievements. The medal can also be awarded to institutions that bring out the cultural image or character of the city in a special way. The president of the cultural authority decides on the award . He presents the medal on behalf of the Senate . It is not associated with monetary donations, but serves purely for recognition.
Award winners
- 1978: Horst Janssen (draftsman and graphic artist); Elsbeth Weichmann (politician); Boy Gobert (actor and director); Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt (publisher); Hans Leip (writer); Altona Singakademie ; Griffelkunst-Vereinigung
- 1979: (no award)
- 1980: Martin Beheim-Schwarzbach (writer); Altona Theater
- 1981: Willem Grimm (painter); Ernst Hauswedell ; Fritz Kempe (photographer); Rudolf Joerden (director of the public library); Marie Friedrich (Librarian)
- 1982: Rosemarie Clausen (theater photographer); Arie Goral-Sternheim (writer, publicist, gallery owner and painter); Rudolf Nicolussi (Managing Director of the Central Library )
- 1983: Gerda Gmelin (principal, actress); Lola Rogge (dancer and choreographer)
- 1984: Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (conductor)
- 1985: Heidi Kabel (actress); Arnold Fiedler (painter); Karl August Ohrt (sculptor); Kurt Collien (St. Pauli Theater); Sibylle Niester (President of the Association of Artists and Art Friends - GEDOK); Jürgen Jürgens (Monteverdi Choir); Otto Rohse (illustrator, book artist, press printer)
- 1986: Bergedorfer Chamber Choir ; Hans Kock (sculptor and painter); Thomas Peiter (painter and graphic artist); Dieter Schmeel ( regional church music director ); René Drommert (journalist and critic)
- 1987: Kurt Kranz (former lecturer at the University of Fine Arts and Artists); Manfred Steffen (actor)
- 1988: Herbert Joost (patron); Heidi Oetinger (publisher); Hans Drescher (scientist)
- 1989: Lotar Olias (hit song and musical composer); Felicitas Kukuck (composer)
- 1990: Richard Germer (composer and folk singer)
- 1991: Peter Hinrichs (chairman of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra ); FC Gundlach (photographer and gallery owner)
- 1992: Albert Feser (painter and art teacher); Herbert Schemmel (Chairman of the Amicale Internationale de Neuengamme)
- 1993: Ernst Schönfelder (orchestra director of the Philharmonic State Orchestra)
- 1994: Ernst Bader (actor, song writer and composer); Eliza Hansen (pianist and harpsichordist); Brigitte Klosowski (goldsmith); Karel Trinkewitz (writer, journalist and visual artist); Esther Béjarano (singer)
- 1995: Michael Hauptmann (gallery owner); Geno Hartlaub (writer); Hildburg Frese (acting teacher); Christa Möbius and Eberhard Möbius (cabaret artists and theater makers)
- 1996: Ingeborg Hecht-Studniczka (writer and journalist); Freddy Quinn (singer and actor); Annemarie Marks-Rocke (actress and acting teacher)
- 1997: Nana Gualdi (singer); Wolfgang Borchert (co-founder of the Junge Theater Hamburg - later Ernst Deutsch Theater -, actor and administrative director); Günter Seggermann (organist and cantor); Gudrun Piper (painter) and Max Hermann Mahlmann (painter)
- 1998: Peggy Parnass (journalist and writer); Günter Harte (Low German writer and linguist); Werner Burkhardt (journalist, music and theater critic) Werner Krützfeldt (music teacher)
- 1999: (no award)
- 2000: Telse Grell (director of the Hamburg Hansa-Theater ); Erich Grandeit (set designer); Günter Discher ( swing lover and collector); Peter Dannenberg (director of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra ); Renata Klée Gobert (monument conservator); Hans-Dieter Loose (former chairman of the Foundation for Monument Preservation); Hilde Sicks (actress at the Ohnsorg Theater )
- 2001: Michael Collien (former director of the St. Pauli Theater); Günter Fuhlisch (trombonist and band leader); Gert Westphal (actor, director and speaker); Hannelore Hoger (actress and director); John-Erik Berganus (patron); Rolf Mares (cultural politician)
- 2002: Will Baumgarten (sponsor of archeology and the Helms Museum ); Gisela Trowe (actress); Rolf Mares (Director at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus , the Thalia Theater and the Hamburg State Opera , first director of the comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus )
- 2003: Uwe Friedrichsen (actor); Robert Stehli (conductor); Edgar Bessen (actor); Hans-Werner Funke (concert manager)
- 2004: Arno Surminski (writer and journalist)
- 2005: Joop van den Ende (musical and theater producer)
- 2006: Werner Grassmann (founder and managing director of the Abaton cinema, producer, author and actor)
- 2007: Claus Bantzer (composer and church music director); Karsten Jahnke (concert organizer); Ekkehard Nümann (Director Friends of the Kunsthalle )
- 2008: Gert Hinnerk Behlmer ( former State Councilor); Jürgen Blankenburg (Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Hamburg Art Collections)
- 2009: Barbara Hass and Uwe Deeken (founders and directors of the theater for children and the Hamburg Chamber Opera ); Henning Venske (cabaret artist, actor, book author); Gothart Stier (artistic director of the Monteverdi Choir ); Günter and Lieselotte Powalla (patrons)
- 2010: Hans Scheibner (cabaret artist and songwriter); Heinz Glüsing (painter / visual artist)
- 2011: Max Pommer (long-time chief conductor of the Hamburger Camerata ); Gerhard Hirschfeld (architect)
- 2012: (no award)
- 2013: Uta Falter-Baumgarten (sculptor); Renate Kammer (gallery owner); Norbert Aust (cultural manager, managing director of the Schmidt Theater )
- 2014: Hanne Mogler (principal of the “fools garden” theater); Michael Batz (author, dramaturge, director and light artist); Volker Lechtenbrink (actor, director, singer, author); Joachim Kaiser (Chairman of the Hamburg Maritime Foundation )
- 2015: Heidi Mahler (actress)
- 2016: Klaus Francke (politician, monument protector, Rettet die Deichstraße eV, Förderkreis Mahnmal St. Nikolai eV); Elke Dröscher (monument protector and operator of the Falkenstein Puppet Museum )
- 2017: Christian Seeler (director of the Ohnsorg Theater until 2017); Jutta Heinrich (Hamburg writer); Hans-Michael Bock (film historian and publicist, CineGraph ); Rudolf Kelber (Cantor and Organist, Church Music Director St. Jacobi)
- 2018: Gilla Cremer (freelance actress, author and producer); Ursel Scheffler (children's book author, initiator of the "book towers")
- 2019: Hella Schwemer-Martienßen (Director of the Hamburg Public Library Foundation )
Web links
- Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal
References and comments
- ↑ Official Gazette of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, issue 40/2017 of May 23, 2017, page 799. The award of the Biermann-Ratjen Medal is there as one of the reasons for naming the Hilde-Sicks-Weg in Hamburg-Rahlstedt called.
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of November 9, 2017
- ↑ Gilla Cremer receives Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal