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