Hessian Cultural Prize
The Hessian Cultural Prize is an annual German culture prize awarded by the Government of Hesse. The prize was established in 1982. With a trophy of 60,000 German marks, now 45,000 Euro, it is currently the highest endowed culture prize in Germany.
Recipients
- 1982 – Eugen Kogon ; Thomas Michael Mayer
- 1983 – Karl Krolow ; Hans-Jürgen von Bose ; Ror Wolf
- 1984 – Bernard Schultze ; Albert Mangelsdorff
- 1985 – Michael Gielen ; and
- 1986 – Karl Dedecius ;
- 1987 – Volker Schlöndorff ; E. R. Nele ; Ev Grüger
- 1988 – Gabriele Wohmann
- 1989 – ; Judith Rosenbauer
- 1990 – Horst Krüger ; Egbert Strolka
- 1991 – Horst Antes ; Helmut Burmeister ;
- 1992 – Eilke Brigitte Helm ; Marcel Ophüls ; Ensemble Modern
- 1993 – ; F. K. Waechter ; Heiner Goebbels
- 1994 – Lucius Burckhardt and Annemarie Burckhardt ; Peter Urban ; Adelheid Hoffmann and Hans-Jürgen „Slu“ Slusallek
- 1995 – Margret Stuffmann ; William Forsythe ;
- 1996 – ; Klappmaul Theater ; Walter Boehlich
- 1997 – Odo Marquard ; Anna Viebrock ; Ute Gerhard
- 1998 – Wolf Singer ; Thomas Bayrle ; Mischka Popp and Thomas Bergmann
- 1999 – Jürgen Habermas ; Marcel Reich-Ranicki ; Siegfried Unseld
- 2000 – Barbara Klemm ; Helga Fanderl ; José Luis Encarnação
- 2001 – ; Paul Posenenske, Berthold Penkhues and
- 2002 – Tabea Zimmermann ; Hans Zender ; Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt
- 2003 – Florian Illies ; Nicolaus Schafhausen ; Til Schweiger
- 2004 – Andrea Breth ; Jürgen Holtz ;
- 2005 – no award
- 2006 – Christine Schäfer ; Christoph Prégardien ; Lothar Zagrosek
- 2007 – ; and
- 2008 – Wolfgang Diefenbach ; Albrecht Beutelspacher ; Kindertheaterbürooo Kassel
- 2009 – Salomon Korn ; Karl Lehmann ; ; Navid Kermani rejected: Fuat Sezgin
- 2010 – Rebecca Horn
- 2011 – Dieter Rams ; F. C. Gundlach ;
- 2012 – Hilmar Hoffmann
- 2013 – Wolf D. Prix
- 2014 – Peter Härtling
- 2015 – Artistic directors of documenta I–XIII
- 2016 – Andreas Scholl and Tamar Halperin
- 2017 – Volker Mosbrugger and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann
- 2018 – Margareta Dillinger and Johnny Klinke ; Regina Oehler–van Gemmeren, Andreas Platthaus and Heike Schmoll
- 2019 – Wolfgang Lorch and Andrea Wandel
- 2020 – Caricatura Museum Frankfurt and Caricatura Gallery in Kassel
- 2021 – Sandra Ciesek and Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
- 2022 – Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken
- 2023 – Bernd Loebe
- 2024 – Mirjam Wenzel