Goethe-Plakette (Goethe Plaque) is the highest award by the
Hessian Ministry for Science and the Arts
The Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts (german: Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst) is a Ministry of Education and Culture, university and culture ministry in Hesse, Germany. Since January 2019, the minis ...
of the federal state of
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...
, Germany, named after
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as trea ...
. It has been awarded since 1949 at irregular intervals. The award is given to individuals who have contributed to arts and culture in a special way and have been influential in the cultural development of the state of Hesse.
Recipients
* (1949)
* (1952)
* (1953)
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Erwin Piscator
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of ...
(1953)
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Rudolf Bultmann
Rudolf Karl Bultmann (; 20 August 1884 – 30 July 1976) was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of the New Testament at the University of Marburg. He was one of the major figures of early-20th-century biblical studies. A prominent critic ...
(1954)
* (1954)
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Rudolf Asbach (1954)
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Georg Muche
Georg Muche (8 May 1895 – 26 March 1987) was a German painter, printmaker, architect, author, and teacher.
Early life and education
Georg Muche was born on 8 May 1895 in Querfurt, in the Prussian Province of Saxony, and grew up in the Rhön ...
(1955)
*
Friedrich Noack
Friedrich Noack, who wrote under the pseudonym ''F. Idus'', (20 April 1858, Gießen – 1 February 1930, Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German cultural historian and author, who wrote several articles for the Künstlerlexikon (arts dictionar ...
(1955)
* (1955)
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Bernhard von Brentano (1955)
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Kasimir Edschmid
Kasimir Edschmid, born Eduard Hermann Wilhelm Schmid, (5 October 1890 in Darmstadt – 31 August 1966 in Vulpera (Switzerland)) was a German expressionist writer. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 ...
(1955)
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Otto Ritschl
Otto Karl Albrecht Ritschl (26 June 1860 in Bonn – 28 September 1944 in Bonn) was a German theologian, the son of Albrecht Ritschl.
After studying at Göttingen, Bonn and Giessen, he became professor at Kiel
Kiel () is the capital and m ...
(1955)
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Fritz von Unruh
Fritz von Unruh (; 10 May 1885 – 28 November 1970) was a German expressionist dramatist, poet, and novelist.
Biography
Unruh was born in Koblenz, Germany. A general's son, he was an officer in the German army until 1912, when he ...
(1955)
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Carl Schuricht
Carl Adolph Schuricht (; 3 July 18807 January 1967) was a German conductor.
Life and career
Schuricht was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), German Empire; his father's family had been respected organ-builders. His mother, Amanda Wusinowska, a widow soo ...
(1955)
* (1956)
* (1956)
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Hermann Kasack
Hermann Robert Richard Eugen Kasack (24 July 1896 – 10 January 1966) was a German writer. He is best known for his novel '' Die Stadt hinter dem Strom'' (''The city beyond the river''). Kasack was a pioneer of using the medium broadcast for l ...
(1956)
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Hermann Heiß (1957)
* (1957)
* (1958)
* (1958)
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Boris Rajewsky (1958)
* (1960)
* (1964)
* (1968)
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Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer (; ; 14 February 1895 – 7 July 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist who was famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the Frankfurt School of social research. Horkheimer addressed authoritarianism, militari ...
(1970)
* (1971)
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Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Marie Luise Kaschnitz (born Marie Luise von Holzing-Berslett; 31 January 1901 – 10 October 1974) was a German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet. She is considered to be one of the leading post-war German poets.
She was born in Ka ...
(1971)
* (1973)
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Karl Krolow
Karl Krolow (11 March 1915 – 21 June 1999) was a German poet and translator. In 1956 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize. He was born in Hanover, Germany, and died in Darmstadt, Germany.
Biography
Krolow came from a family of civil servants ...
(1975)
* (1975)
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Ernst Krenek
Ernst Heinrich Krenek (, 23 August 1900 – 22 December 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer of Czech origin. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including ''Music Here and Now'' (1939), a study ...
(1978)
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Kurt Hessenberg Kurt Hessenberg (17 August 1908 – 17 June 1994) was a German composer and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt.
Life
Kurt Hessenberg was born on 17 August 1908 in Frankfurt, as the fourth and last child of ...
(1979)
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Christine Brückner
Christine Brückner (10 December 1921, in Schmillinghausen, Bad Arolsen, Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont – 21 December 1996, in Kassel) was a German writer. Her first novel, ''Before the Traces Disappear'' (''Ehe die Spuren verwehen''), was pu ...
(1982)
* (1982)
* (1983)
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Hilmar Hoffmann
Hilmar Hoffmann (25 August 1925 – 1 June 2018) was a German stage and film director, cultural politician and academic lecturer. He founded the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. He was for decades an influential city councillor in Fr ...
(1985)
* (1987)
* (1992)
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Hans-Dieter Resch (1992)
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Hans Drewanz (1994)
* (1995)
* (1997)
* (1997)
* , (1997)
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Thomas Stellmach
Thomas Stellmach (born 1965 in Straubing, West Germany) is a German animated film producer and director. Stellmach has received many awards including the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for his 1996 film ''Quest''.
Stellmach studied a ...
(1997)
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Willi Ziegler
Willi Ziegler (born 13 March 1929 in the neighborhood of Villingen in Hungen, Hessen; died 8 August 2002) was a German paleontologist.
Works
In 1969, he described the conodont genus ''Protognathodus''.
In 1984, with Charles A. Sandberg, he d ...
(1998)
* (2000)
* (2000)
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Helen Bonzel
Helen may refer to:
People
* Helen of Troy, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in the world
* Helen (actress) (born 1938), Indian actress
* Helen (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
Places
* Helen, G ...
(2001)
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Michael Herrmann
Michael Herrmann (born 4 February 1944, in Wiesbaden) is a German culture and music administrator. He founded the Rheingau Musik Festival in 1987 and is its Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer. He also runs a concert agency in the Frankf ...
(2002)
* (2003)
* (2004)
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Wolfram Nicol
Wolfram may refer to:
* Wolfram (name)
* Wolfram, an alternative name for the chemical element tungsten
* Wolfram Research, a software company known for the symbolic computation program Mathematica
** Wolfram Language, the programming language use ...
(2005)
*
Emil Mangelsdorff
Emil Mangelsdorff (; 11 April 1925 – 20 January 2022) was a German jazz musician who played alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet and flute. He was a jazz pioneer under the Nazi regime which led to his imprisonment. After World War II ...
(2006)
*
Wolfgang Seeliger
Wolfgang Seeliger (Heidelberg, May 30, 1946) is a German choral conductor.Who's who in the arts - Page 224 Otto J. Groeg - 1978 "SEELIGER Wolfgang, conductor (Kapellmeister) and choral dir.; b.: Heidelberg, May 30, 1946;" With his Konzertchor Darm ...
(2006)
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Hans Hollmann
Hans Erich (Eric) Hollmann (4 November 1899 – 19 November 1960) was a German electronic specialist who made several breakthroughs in the development of radar.
Hollmann was born in Solingen, Germany. He became interested in radio and even a ...
(2006)
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Solf Schaefer (2007)
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Margareta Dillinger (2007)
* (2007)
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Martin Lutz
Martin Lutz (born 19 May 1950) is a German musicologist, conductor and harpsichordist. He was the musical director of the concert choir Schiersteiner Kantorei in Wiesbaden from 1972 to 2017, and founded the biennial festival Wiesbadener Bachwoche ...
(2007)
* (2007)
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Hermann Zapf (2007)
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Eike Wilm Schulte
Eike Wilm Schulte (born 13 October 1939) is a German operatic baritone. A member of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, from 1988 the Bayerische Staatsoper, he made an international career, singing more than 100 parts at major opera houses suc ...
(2008)
* (2008)
* (2008)
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Udo Henke (2010)
* (2011)
* (2012)
* (2012)
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Max Hollein
Max Hollein (born 7 July 1969 in Vienna) is an Austria, Austrian art history, art historian and the current Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He served as Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from ...
(2016)
* (2018)
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Nguyen Thien Nhan (2018)
* (2019)
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Werner Kleinkauf (2019)
* (2020)
* (2021)
References
External links
* {{official, https://wissenschaft.hessen.de/Goethe-Plakette
German awards
Culture of Hesse
1949 establishments in Germany
Awards established in 1949