Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose
The Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose is a German science prize that was founded in 1964 by HEAG Südhessische Energie AG . It is awarded annually by the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt during its autumn conference. The endowment is 20,000 euros. The prize is dedicated to Sigmund Freud , the master of learned prose , who succeeded in presenting complex facts of his science in a generally understandable way and thus contributing to the popularity of his field of knowledge.
Award winners
- 1964: Hugo Friedrich , Romanist
- 1965: Adolf Portmann , zoologist
- 1966: Emil Staiger , Germanist
- 1967: Hannah Arendt , philosopher
- 1968: Karl Barth , theologian
- 1969: Bruno Snell , classical philologist
- 1970: Werner Heisenberg , physicist
- 1971: Werner Kraft , literary historian
- 1972: Erik Wolf , lawyer
- 1973: Karl Rahner , theologian
- 1974: Günter Busch , art historian
- 1975: Ernst Bloch , philosopher
- 1976: Jürgen Habermas , philosopher
- 1977: Harald Weinrich , novelist
- 1978: Siegfried Melchinger , theater historian
- 1979: Hans-Georg Gadamer , philosopher
- 1980: Hans Blumenberg , philosopher
- 1981: Kurt von Fritz , classical philologist
- 1982: Arno Borst , historian
- 1983: Peter Graf von Kielmansegg , political scientist
- 1984: Odo Marquard , philosopher
- 1985: Hermann Heimpel , historian
- 1986: Hartmut von Hentig , educator
- 1987: Gerhard Ebeling , theologian
- 1988: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , natural scientist
- 1989: Ralf Dahrendorf , political scientist
- 1990: Walther Killy , literary scholar
- 1991: Werner Hofmann , art historian
- 1992: Günther Anders , philosopher
- 1993: Norbert Miller , literary scholar
- 1994: Peter Gülke , musicologist
- 1995: Gustav Seibt , historian
- 1996: Peter Wapnewski , Medievalist
- 1997: Paul Parin , ethno-psychoanalyst
- 1998: Ilse Grubrich-Simitis , psychoanalyst
- 1999: Reinhart Koselleck , historian
- 2000: Kurt Flasch , philosopher
- 2001: Horst Bredekamp , art historian
- 2002: Klaus Heinrich , philosopher
- 2003: Walter Burkert , classical philologist
- 2004: Karl Schlögel , historian
- 2005: Peter Sloterdijk , philosopher
- 2006: Johannes Fried , historian
- 2007: Josef H. Reichholf , evolutionary biologist
- 2008: Michael Hagner , physician and science historian
- 2009: Julia Voss , art historian and journalist
- 2010: Luca Giuliani , archaeologist
- 2011: Arnold Esch , historian
- 2012: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde , lawyer
- 2013: Angelika Neuwirth , Arabist
- 2014: Jürgen Osterhammel , historian
- 2015: Peter Eisenberg , linguist
- 2016: Jan Assmann , cultural theorist and Egyptologist
- 2017: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger , historian
- 2018: Wolfgang Kemp , art historian
- 2019: Thomas Macho , philosopher
- 2020: Ute Frevert , historian
Web links
- Sigmund Freud Prize on the website of the German Academy for Language and Poetry (with speeches of thanks, laudations and documents)