Goethe Prize

The Goethe Prize of Frankfurt-am-Main (Goethepreis der Stadt Frankfurt) is a German literary award of high prestige (not restricted to writers, though) named after Johann Wolfgang Goethe. It was initially an annual award, but became triennial. The recipients have been:

• 1927 - Stefan George, Germany
• 1928 - Albert Schweitzer, Germany
• 1929 - Leopold Ziegler, Germany
• 1930 - Sigmund Freud, Germany
• 1931 - Ricarda Huch, Germany
• 1932 - Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany
• 1933 - Hermann Sehr, Germany
• 1934 - Hans Pfitzner, Germany
• 1935 - Hermann Stegemann, Germany
• 1936 - Georg Kolbe , Germany
• 1937 - Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, Germany
• 1938 - Hans Carossa, Germany
• 1939 - Carl Bosch, Germany
• 1940 - Agnes Miegel, Germany
• 1941 - Wilhelm Schäfer, Germany
• 1942 - Richard Kuhn, Germany
• 1945 - Max Planck, Germany
• 1946 - Hermann Hesse, Germany
• 1947 - Karl Jaspers, Germany
• 1948 - Fritz von Unruh, Germany
• 1949 - Thomas Mann, Germany
• 1952 - Carl Zuckmayer, Germany
• 1954 - Theodor Brugsch, Germany
• 1955 - Annette Kolb, Germany
• 1958 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Germany
• 1960 - Ernst Beutler, Germany
• 1961 - Walter Gropius, Germany
• 1964 - Benno Reifenberg, Germany
• 1967 - Carlo Schmid, Germany
• 1970 - Gyorgy Lukacs, Hungary
• 1973 - Arno Schmidt, Germany
• 1976 - Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
• 1979 - Raymond Aron, France
• 1982 - Ernst Jünger, Germany
• 1985 - Golo Mann, Germany
• 1988 - Peter Stein, Germany
• 1991 - Wislawa Szymborska, Poland
• 1994 - Ernst Gombrich, United Kingdom
• 1997 - Hans Zender, Germany
• 2000 - Siegfried Lenz, Germany
• 2002 - Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany
• 2005 - Amos Oz, Israel

See also

• German literature
• List of literary awards
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in literature
• List of years in poetry
• Hanseatic Goethe Prize