# Hessian Cultural Prize

The Hessian Cultural Prize (German: Hessischer Kulturpreis) 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 (political scientist); Thomas Michael Mayer (chairman, Georg Büchner Association)
* 1983 – Karl Krolow (lyricist); Hans-Jürgen von Bose (composer); Ror Wolf (author)
* 1984 – Bernard Schultze (painter); Albert Mangelsdorff (jazz trombonist)
* 1985 – Michael Gielen (conductor and composer); Ludwig Denecke [de] and Heinz Rölleke [de] (German philologists)
* 1986 – Karl Dedecius (translator); D. E. Sattler [de] (Hölderlin scholar)
* 1987 – Volker Schlöndorff (film director); E. R. Nele (sculptor); Ev Grüger (painter)
* 1988 – Gabriele Wohmann (author)
* 1989 – Adolf Dresen [ru] (film director); Judith Rosenbauer (actor)
* 1990 – Horst Krüger (novelist); Egbert Strolka (Tänzer und Ballettmeister)
* 1991 – Horst Antes (painter und sculptor); Helmut Burmeister (museum director); Gerd J. Grein [de] (museum director)
* 1992 – Eilke Brigitte Helm (physician); Marcel Ophüls (documentary director); Ensemble Modern
* 1993 – Hans-Albert Walter [de] (philologist); F. K. Waechter (author); Heiner Goebbels (composer)
* 1994 – Lucius Burckhardt and Annemarie Burckhardt (sociologists); Peter Urban (translator); Adelheid Hoffmann and Hans-Jürgen „Slu“ Slusallek (galerists)
* 1995 – Margret Stuffmann (museum director); William Forsythe (choreographer); Karlheinz Braun [de] (publicist)
* 1996 – Klaus Reichert [de] (anglicist); Klappmaul Theater (youth theater company); Walter Boehlich (author and translator)
* 1997 – Odo Marquard (philosopher); Anna Viebrock (scenic designer); Ute Gerhard (sociologist, gender studies)
* 1998 – Wolf Singer (neuroscientist); Thomas Bayrle (painter); Mischka Popp and Thomas Bergmann (director)
* 1999 – Jürgen Habermas (philosopher); Marcel Reich-Ranicki (literary critic); Siegfried Unseld (publisher)
* 2000 – Barbara Klemm (photographer); Helga Fanderl (film director); José Luis Encarnação (information scientist)
* 2001 – Gottfried Kiesow [de] (historic preservator); Paul Posenenske, Berthold Penkhues and Christoph Mäckler [eu] (architects)
* 2002 – Tabea Zimmermann (violist); Hans Zender (composer and conductor); Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt
* 2003 – Florian Illies (publicist); Nicolaus Schafhausen (curator); Til Schweiger (actor)
* 2004 – Andrea Breth (film director); Jürgen Holtz (actor); Klaus Völker [de] (dramaturge)
* 2005 – no award
* 2006 – Christine Schäfer (soprano); Christoph Prégardien (tenor); Lothar Zagrosek (conductor)
* 2007 – René Block [de] (galerist); Klaus Gallwitz [de] and Klaus Herding [de] (arts historians)
* 2008 – Wolfgang Diefenbach (orchestra director); Albrecht Beutelspacher (mathematician); Kindertheaterbürooo Kassel (Stefan Becker, Günter Staniewski)
* 2009 – Salomon Korn (Jewish community leader); Karl Lehmann (Cardinal); Peter Steinacker [pl] (former Protestant church leader); Navid Kermani (author, Islam scholar) rejected: Fuat Sezgin (Islam scholar)
* 2010 – Rebecca Horn (visual artist)
* 2011 – Dieter Rams (designer); F. C. Gundlach (photographer); Gunter Rambow [de] (visual artist)
* 2012 – Hilmar Hoffmann (former president of the Goethe-Institut)
* 2013 – Wolf D. Prix (architect)
* 2014 – Peter Härtling (author)
* 2015 – Artistic directors of documenta I–XIII
* 2016 – Andreas Scholl (countertenor) and Tamar Halperin (harpsichordist and pianist)
* 2017 – Volker Mosbrugger (paleontologist) and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (philosoph)
* 2018 – Margareta Dillinger and Johnny Klinke (Tigerpalast Frankfurt); Regina Oehler–van Gemmeren (science journalist hr), Andreas Platthaus (journalist FAZ) and Heike Schmoll (political correspondent FAZ)
* 2019 – Wolfgang Lorch and Andrea Wandel (Wandel Lorch Architekten, architects)
* 2020 – Caricatura Museum Frankfurt and Caricatura Gallery in Kassel
* 2021 – Sandra Ciesek and Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
* 2022 – Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken (director of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift)