Weimar Prize

The Weimar Prize is an award that the City of Weimar has been awarding since 1990. It is awarded to individuals or "several people involved in a work who have made a contribution to the cultural reputation of the city of Weimar." It can honor both an individual achievement and a lifetime achievement that has "a recognizable reference" to the city of Weimar. The prize is endowed with 5000 euros; furthermore, a certificate will be handed over by the mayor of Weimar. The culture committee of the City Council of Weimar decides on the winner based on the suggestions received; the winner is confirmed by the city council.

Award winners

• 2020 Sigrid Damm
• 2018 Not awarded (the intended award winner Thomas Thieme declined the award)
• 2016 Alan Bern
• 2014 Ludger Vollmer
• 2012 Gerd Zimmermann
• 2009 Peter Gülke
• 2008 Klaus-Jürgen Teutschbein
• 2007 Paul Raabe (returned in 2008)
• 2006 Gisela Kraft
• 2005 Hans Tutschku
• 2004 Otto Paetz
• 2003 Radio Lotte
• 2002 Staatskapelle Weimar
• 2001 Hannelore Köhler
• 2000 Volkhard Knigge
• 1999 Walter Sachs
• 1998 Frank Motz
• 1997 Horst Jahresling (1922-2013)
• 1996 Michael von Hintzenstern
• 1995 Jorge Semprun
• 1994 Wulf Kirsten
• 1993 Eberhard Haufe
• 1992 Hans Winkler
• 1991 Renate Müller-Krumbach
• 1990 Jutta Hecker

literature

• Fritz von Klinggräff (ed.): Culture in Weimar: 20 years of the Weimar Prize , with contributions by Peter Gülke , Volkhard Knigge , Michael von Hintzenstern, Wulf Kirsten , Frank Motz, Walter Sachs, Weimar: Weimarer Verl.-Gesellschaft 2011, ( Kulturjournal-Edition) ISBN 978-3-941830-19-6 .

Web links

• Page about the Weimar Prize of the City of Weimar
• Statute for the award of the Weimar Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see the homepage of the City of Weimar Prize
2. ↑ Sigrid Damm receives Weimar Prize 2020
3. ↑ Thomas Thieme rejects Weimar Prize , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on June 26, 2018
4. ↑ Press release of the City of Weimar from July 10, 2014 ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ see http://www.boersenblatt.net/264626/ - Raabe gave the price back in protest against a real estate deal in the city of Weimar
6. ↑ Hannelore Köhler is the former city organist and also wife of the long-time city organist Johannes Ernst Köhler, see http://hfm-weimar.de/v1/foerderer/foerderer/koehler_nachlass.php
7. ↑ on Walter Sachs see his homepage at http://www.waltersachs.de/vita/
8. ^ Painter and founder of the ACC Gallery in Weimar, see archive link ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )