Sigmund Freud Prize
The Sigmund Freud Prize or Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic Prose is a German literary award named after Sigmund Freud and awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. It was first awarded in 1964.
The Sigmund Freud Prize and philosophy
In 1967, the Sigmund Freud Prize was awarded for the first time to a philosopher, Hannah Arendt., ten of its recipients were philosophers writing in the German language, among them Hannah Arendt, Ernst Bloch, Jürgen Habermas, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Blumenberg, Odo Marquard, Günther Anders, Kurt Flasch, Klaus Heinrich, and Peter Sloterdijk.The Sigmund Freud Prize is amongst the most prestigious academic prizes in Germany.
Winners
- 1964: Hugo Friedrich, classicist
- 1965: Adolf Portmann, zoologist
- 1966: Emil Staiger, scholar of German language and literature
- 1967: Hannah Arendt, philosopher
- 1968: Karl Barth, Theologian
- 1969: Bruno Snell, linguist
- 1970: Werner Heisenberg, physicist
- 1971: Werner Kraft, literary historian
- 1972: Erik Wolf, jurist
- 1973: Karl Rahner, theologian
- 1974: Günter Busch, art historian
- 1975: Ernst Bloch, philosopher
- 1976: Jürgen Habermas, philosopher
- 1977: Harald Weinrich, classicist
- 1978: Siegfried Melchinger, theatrical historian
- 1979: Hans-Georg Gadamer, philosopher
- 1980: Hans Blumenberg, philosopher
- 1981: Kurt von Fritz, linguist
- 1982: Arno Borst, historian
- 1983: Peter Graf Kielmansegg, political scientist
- 1984: Odo Marquard, philosopher
- 1985: Hermann Heimpel, historian
- 1986: Hartmut von Hentig, education studies
- 1987: Gerhard Ebeling, theologian
- 1988: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, physicist and philosopher
- 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, scholar of German language and literature
- 1997: Paul Parin, ethno-psychologist
- 1998: Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, psychologist
- 1999: Reinhart Koselleck, historian
- 2000: Kurt Flasch, philosopher
- 2001: Horst Bredekamp, art historian
- 2002: Klaus Heinrich, philosopher
- 2003: Walter Burkert, classicist
- 2004: Karl Schlögel, historian
- 2005: Peter Sloterdijk, philosopher
- 2006: Johannes Fried, historian
- 2007: Josef H. Reichholf, evolutionary biologist
- 2008: Michael Hagner, physician and historian of science
- 2009: Julia Voss, art historian and journalist
- 2010: Luca Giuliani, archeologist
- 2011: Arnold Esch, historian
- 2012: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, lawyer
- 2013: Angelika Neuwirth, Arabist
- 2014: Jürgen Osterhammel, historian
- 2015:, linguist
- 2016: Jan Assmann, Egyptologist
- 2017: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, historian
- 2018:, art historian
- 2019:, philosopher
- 2020: Ute Frevert, historian
- 2021: Hubert Wolf, church historian
- 2022:, philosopher
- 2023:, science journalist
- 2024:, ethnologist and religious scholar
- 2025: Dan Diner, historian and political writer