# Berliner Kunstpreis

The Berliner Kunstpreis (Berlin Art Prize), officially Großer Berliner Kunstpreis, is a prize for the arts by the City of Berlin. It was first awarded in 1948 in several fields of art. Since 1971, it has been awarded by the Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) on behalf of the Senate of Berlin. Annually one of its six sections, fine arts, architecture, music, literature, performing arts and film and media arts, gives the great prize, endowed with €15,000, whereas the other five sections annually award prizes endowed with €5,000.

## History

The Berlin Art Prize has been awarded since 1948 in commemoration of the March Revolution of 1848. The official name then, Berliner Kunstpreis – Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948 (Berlin Art Prize – 1848/1948 Jubilee Foundation), was used until 1969, the ceremony was held by the Mayor in the Charlottenburg Palace.
The prize was planned to be awarded first on 18 March 1948 by the City Berlinale, to commemorate the March Revolution and the revolutionaries who fell for a new state (für einen neuen Staat gefallenen Revolutionäre). The first prize winners of 1948, shortly before the currency reform, who received awards of 10,000 Mark, were the sculptor Renée Sintenis and the composers Ernst Pepping and Wolfgang Fortner. The then-Senator of Education awarded the prize without consulting a jury.
In 1949 a constitution was drafted. The prize (per section DM 3,000.00) should be awarded annually for achievements in literature, music, painting, graphic and performing arts. As a result, changes were made regarding the divisions, the division between several winners and the award criteria. From the mid-1950s, the ceremony was always accompanied by criticism.
Since 1971, the prize is awarded by the Academy of Arts. The Academy awards the prize annually in alternating intervals of its six sections in the order of fine arts, architecture, music, literature, performing arts and film and media arts. The Arts Award for "Film and Media Arts" award since 1984 and from 1956 to 1983, there were instead the Arts Award for "Radio-Television-Film." The prize, awarded every six years by the literature section was named in 2010 the Fontane Prize.

## Great Prize recipients

* 1971: Rainer Küchenmeister
* 1972: György Ligeti (Music)
* 1973: Bernhard Minetti
* 1974: Gottfried Böhm
* 1975: Josef Tal
* 1976: Wilhelm Borchert
* 1977: Joachim Schmettau
* 1980: Peter Stein (returned)
* 1981: George Tabori
* 1982: Meret Oppenheim
* 1983: Rolf Gutbrod
* 1984: Olivier Messiaen
* 1986: Marianne Hoppe
* 1987: Lina Wertmüller
* 1988: Rupprecht Geiger
* 1989: Norman Foster
* 1990: Luigi Nono
* 1992: Peter Zadek
* 1993: Otar Iosseliani
* 1994: Dieter Roth
* 1995: Renzo Piano
* 1996: Pierre Boulez
* 1998: Horst Sagert
* 1999: Kira Georgijewna Muratowa
* 2000: Anna and Bernhard Blume
* 2001: Hermann Czech
* 2002: Aribert Reimann
* 2004: Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts
* 2005: Aki Kaurismäki
* 2006: George Brecht
* 2007: Architects office SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) in Tokyo
* 2008: Helmut Lachenmann
* 2010: Thomas Langhoff
* 2011: Claire Denis
* 2012: Cristina Iglesias
* 2013: Florian Beigel
* 2014: Mathias Spahlinger
* 2015: Sherko Fatah
* 2016: Stefan Prins
* 2017: Emin Alper
* 2018: Thomas Demand
* 2019: Renée Gailhoustet
* 2020: Younghi Pagh-Paan
* 2021: Annett Gröschner [Wikidata]
* 2022: Richard Peduzzi
* 2023: Joachim Trier
* 2024: Simone Fattal

## Selected prize recipients

Recipients are typically listed in the sequence "Bildende Kunst" (art), "Baukunst" (architecture), "Musik" (music), "Darstellende Kunst" (performing art), "Film-Hörfunk-Fernsehen" (media)
* 1948: Renée Sintenis, Ernst Pepping, Wolfgang Fortner
* 1950: Bernhard Heiliger, Karl Hartung, Hans Uhlmann, Werner Heldt, Hans Jaenisch, Wolf Hoffmann, Wilhelm Deffke, Mac Zimmermann, Carl-Heinz Kliemann (art), Werner Egk, Helmut Roloff, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (music), Heinz Tietjen, Boleslaw Barlog (performing art)
* 1951: Louise Stomps, Mac Leube, Hans-Joachim Ihle, Theodor Werner, Alexander Camaro, Marcus Behmer, Siegmund Lympasik (art), Boris Blacher, Gerhard Puchelt (music), Hermine Körner, O. E. Hasse (performing art)
* 1952: Richard Scheibe, Lidy von Lüttwitz, Gerhart Schreiter, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Woty Werner, Eva Schwimmer, Gerda Rotermund, Georg Gresko (art), Arthur Rother, Helmut Krebs, Giselher Klebe (music), Mary Wigman, Frank Lothar, Kurt Meisel (performing art)
* 1953: Alexander Gonda, Emy Roeder, Johannes Schiffner, Karl Hofer, Otto Hofmann, Ernst Böhm, Dietmar Lemke, Elsa Eisgruber (art); Gerda Lammers, Karl Forster, Max Baumann (music); Käthe Dorsch, Ita Maximowna, Wolfgang Spier (performing art)
* 1954: Paul Dierkes, Ursula Förster, Otto Placzek, Max Pechstein, Curt Lahs, Hans Thiemann, Hans Orlowski, Sigmund Hahn (art), Erna Berger, Hertha Klust, Volker Wangenheim (music); Tatjana Gsovsky, Käthe Braun, Caspar Neher (performing art)
* 1955: Gerhard Marcks, Hans Purrmann, Manfred Bluth, August Wilhelm Dressler, Max Taut, Hans Scharoun, Sergiu Celibidache, Joseph Ahrens, Josef Greindl, Walter Franck
* 1956: Heinz Trökes, Hugo Häring, Philipp Jarnach, Ernst Schröder, Helmut Käutner
* 1957: Erich Heckel, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Heinz Tiessen, Joana Maria Gorvin, Heinz Rühmann
* 1958: Fritz Winter, Wassili Luckhardt, Hans Werner Henze, Martin Held, Robert Siodmak
* 1959: Elsa Wagner
* 1960: Julius Bissier, Paul Baumgarten, Wladimir Vogel, Erich Schellow, Günter Neumann, Heinz Pauck
* 1961: Rudolf Belling, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Willi Schmidt, Robert Müller
* 1962: Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann, Egon Eiermann, Gerhart von Westerman, Gert Reinholm, Hans Rolf Strobel and Heinz Tichawsky
* 1963: Max Kaus, Sergius Ruegenberg, Paul Hindemith, Fritz Kortner, Jürgen Neven-du Mont
* 1964: Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Werner Düttmann, Hans Chemin-Petit, Rolf Henniger, Wolfgang Neuss
* 1965: Jan Bontjes van Beek, Hermann Fehling, Elisabeth Grümmer, Ernst Deutsch, Dieter Rams, Reinhold Weiss
* 1966: Hann Trier, Walter Rossow, Johann Nepomuk David, Rudolf Platte, Dieter Ertel
* 1967: Rudolf Hoflehner, Frei Otto, Karl Böhm, Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Hans Richter
* 1968: Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Erwin Gutkind, Heinz Friedrich Hartig, Hans Lietzau, Georg Stefan Troller
* 1969: Heinrich Richter, Ludwig Leo, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Herbert Ihering, Peter Zadek
| Year | Fine arts | Architecture | Music | Literature (Fontane Prize) | Performing Arts | Film – radio – television / Film and media art (from 1983) |
| 1971 | Rainer Küchenmeister | Fred Forbat | | | | |
| 1972 | | | György Ligeti | Hans-Heinrich Reuter | | |
| 1973 | | | | | Bernhard Minetti | Internationales Forum des Jungen Films: Ulrich Gregor, Klaus Wiese, Christian Ziewer; ARD-Filmstudio: Franz Everschor, Klaus Lackschéwitz, Heinz Ungureit |
| 1974 | | Gottfried Böhm | | | | |
| 1975 | | | Josef Tal | Hubert Fichte | | |
| 1976 | | | | | Wilhelm Borchert | Ernst Jacobi, Peter Watkins |
| 1977 | Joachim Schmettau | Julius Posener | | | | |
| 1979 | | | | Alexander Kluge | | |
| 1980 | | | | | Peter Stein, refused | |
| 1981 | | | | | | George Tabori |
| 1982 | Meret Oppenheim | | | | | |
| 1983 | | Rolf Gutbrod | | | | |
| 1984 | | | Olivier Messiaen | | | |
| 1985 | | | | Brigitte Kronauer | | |
| 1986 | | | | | Marianne Hoppe | |
| 1987 | | | | | | Lina Wertmüller |
| 1988 | Rupprecht Geiger | | | | | |
| 1989 | | Norman Foster | | | | |
| 1990 | | | Luigi Nono | | | |
| 1991 | | | | Gerhard Meier | | |
| 1992 | | | | | Peter Zadek | |
| 1993 | | | | | | Otar Iosseliani |
| 1994 | Dieter Roth | | | | | |
| 1995 | | Renzo Piano | | | | |
| 1996 | | | Pierre Boulez | | | |
| 1997 | | | | Wolfgang Hilbig | | |
| 1998 | | | | | Horst Sagert | |
| 1999 | | | | | | Kira Muratowa |
| 2000 | Bernhard Johannes Blume, Anna Blume | | | | | |
| 2001 | | Hermann Czech | | | | |
| 2002 | | | Aribert Reimann | | | |
| 2003 | | | | Wilhelm Genazino | | |
| 2004 | | | | | Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch | |
| 2005 | | | | | | Aki Kaurismäki |
| 2006 | George Brecht | | | | | |
| 2007 | | SANAA | | | | |
| 2008 | | | Helmut Lachenmann | | | |
| 2009 | | | | Emine Sevgi Özdamar | | |
| 2010 | | | | | Thomas Langhoff | |
| Year | Fine arts | Architecture | Music | Literature | Performing Arts | Film and media art |
| 2011 | Philip Loersch | BeL Sozietät für Architektur = Anne-Julchen Bernhardt & Jörg Leeser | Alan Hilario | Nora Bossong | Moritz Grove | Maria Speth |
| 2012 | Abbas Akhavan | Tatiana Bilbao | Christoph Ogiermann | Monika Rinck | Manuel Pelmus, Kristof Van Boven | Astrid Schult, Sebastian Bäumler |
| 2013 | Birgit Dieker | SelgasCano = José Selgas, Lucía Cano | Simon Steen-Andersen | Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker | Ulrich Rasche | Ali Samadi Ahadi, Nadim Mishlawi |
| 2014 | Kader Attia | Group "Miasto Moje A w Nim" | Sergej Newski | Stephan Thome | Bettina Bartz | Maren Ade |
| 2015 | Marta Popivoda | Achim Menges | Marena Whitcher, Rafael Nassif | Thomas Melle | Kollektiv laborgras: Renate Graziadei, Arthur Stäldi | Andrey Zvyagintsev |
| 2016 | Sven Johne | Office KGDVS = Kersten Geers, David van Severen | Stefan Prins | Angelika Meier | Anna Prohaska | Peter Avar |
| 2017 | Axel Anklam | Francisco Mangado | Elena Mendoza | Annett Gröschner | Valery Tscheplanowa | Athina Rachel Tsangari |
| 2018 | Dominik Lejman | Philippe Block | Anna Korsun | Daniela Danz | Simon Stone | Christoph Brech |
| 2019 | Prinz & Gholam | Dorte Mandrup | Zeynep Gedizlioğlu | Uljana Wolf | Alexander Scheer | Nicolette Krebitz |
| 2020 | David Schutter | Architekturmagazin ARCH+ | Christian Winther Christensen | Norbert Zähringer | Sasha Marianna Salzmann | Christine A. Maier |
| 2021 | Sajan Mani | Architekturbüro HARQUITECTES | Petra Strahovnik | Lea Schneider | Gina Haller | Susann Maria Hempel |
| 2022 | Stephanie Gudra | atelier le balto | Øyvind Torvund | Roman Ehrlich | Bastian Reiber | Bettina Blümner |
| 2023 | Petrit Halilaj | Xu Tiantian | Joanna Bailie | Barbi Marković | Marcel Kohler | Nelly Quettier |
| 2024 | Leyla Yenirce | Summacumfemmer | Cedrik Fermont / Syrphe | Carolin Callies | Lilith Stangenberg | Salomé Jashi |