From 1959 to 1989, the city of

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

awarded the Kunstpreis der Stadt Leipzig, which was given for outstanding merits in the artistic field to persons who promoted the reputation of the city beyond the region: architects, visual artists, composers, musicians, singers, actors and writers as well as literary and art critics.

Prize winners

* 1959 Walter Arnold, "Neuland unterm Pflug"-Schauspielerkollektiv, Heinz Rusch and Rudolf Fischer * 1960

Fritz Geißler Fritz Geißler (or Geissler) (16 September 1921 in Wurzen, Saxony – 11 January 1984 in Bad Saarow, Brandenburg) was one of the most important composers of the German Democratic Republic. The son of Elsa and Walther Geißler, he was raised in m ...

, Paul Joachim Schneider, Walter Münze, Hanns Maaßen and the Kollektiv Architekt Berthold Schneider * 1961 Heinrich Witz, Emmy Köhler-Richter, Ferdinand May and Wilhelm Weismann * 1962 Gabriele Meyer-Dennewitz * 1963 Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß * 1964

Georg Maurer Georg Maurer (11 March 1907 – 4 August 1971) was a German poet, essayist, and translator. He wrote under the pseudonyms ''Juventus, murus,'' and ''Johann Weilau''. The son of a teacher, he was born in Szászrégen, Austria-Hungary (now in Roma ...

* 1965

Hans Pfeiffer Hans Pfeiffer is a physicist best known for his contribution to the development of electron beam lithography. Life Dr. Pfeiffer received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany in 1967 and joined IBM the following year. During ...

, Ottmar Gerster, Ingeborg Ottmann and Kollektiv Kurt Nowotny, Alfred Rammler, Rudolf Rohrer * 1966

Annerose Schmidt Annerose Schmidt (5 October 1936 – 10 March 2022) was the professional name used by Annerose Boeck, a German pianist. She received official recognition as a concert pianist from what later became the East German state in 1948, which was the yea ...

, Georg Kretzschmar * 1967 Gerhard W. Menzel * 1968 Carlernst Ortwein, Hans Sandig,

Wolfgang Mattheuer Wolfgang Mattheuer (7 April 1927—7 April 2004) was a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Together with Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig he was a leading representative of the Leipzig School, a figurative art current in East Germany. ...

, Hans-Joachim Hegewald, Bernhard Schröter and the "Kollektiv des Leipziger Arbeitervarietes des FDGB" * 1969 Peter Herrmann, Walter Schmidt, Manfred Künne, Wolfgang Müller, Heinz Wagner Gunter Walther, Ensemble „Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft“, Ursula Tschesno-Hell, Michael Tschesno-Hell and Lothar Dutombé * 1970 Werner Heiduczek, Fred Lohse,

Bernhard Heisig Bernhard Heisig (31 March 1925 – 10 June 2011) was a German painter and graphic artist. Long-time director of the Leipzig Academy (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst; 1961–64, 1976–87) and a leading figure in East Germany's Leipzig School ...

* 1971

Rudolf Skoda Felix Rudolf Skoda (26 September 1931 – 2 April 2015) was a German architect and academic teacher. He was chief architect for the Gewandhaus, Neue Gewandhaus in Leipzig. Life Born in Leipzig, Skoda was the son of the painter and graphic arti ...

, Werner Tübke, Erhard Ragwitz * 1972

Erhard Mauersberger Erhard Mauersberger (29 December 1903 in Mauersberg, Saxony – 11 December 1982 in Leipzig) was a German choral conductor who conducted the Thomanerchor as the 14th Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He was also an academic teacher and ...

, Ursula Mattheuer-Neustädt * 1973 Jürgen Brinkmann and Friedhelm Eberle * 1974 "Wallenstein"Inszenierungskollektiv der Leipziger Theater, Künstlerkollektiv für die Schaffung des Hochreliefs für die Karl-Marx-Universität ( Rolf Kuhrt, Frank Ruddigkeit, Klaus Schwabe),

Thomanerchor The Thomanerchor (English: St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig) is a boys' choir in Leipzig, Germany. The choir was founded in 1212. The choir comprises about 90 boys from 9 to 18 years of age. The members, called ''Thomaner'', reside in a boarding sch ...

and Gewandhauschor * 1975 Karl Krug * 1976 ''Ring des Nibelungen''-Inszenierungskollektiv (among others Joachim Herz, Sigrid Kehl, Gert Bahner, Andreas Pieske and Helmut Ernst, Heinz Krause-Graumnitz) * 1978

Kurt Masur Kurt Masur (18 July 1927 – 19 December 2015) was a German conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus O ...

, Irmgard Horlbeck-Kappler, Ulrich Hachulla, Rundfunk-Kinderchor Leipzig, Gertrud Oertel, Helmut Richter, Günter Meißner and Eberhardt Klemm * 1979 Dietrich Burger, Horst Förster, Gert Gütschow, Karl-Wilhelm Hahnemann, Gunter Preuß, Henry Schumann,

Siegfried Thiele Siegfried Thiele (born 28 March 1934) is a German composer. From 1990 to 1997 he was rector of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Life Born in Chemnitz Thiele was born the son of a craftsman. Already at the age of twelve he created h ...

Werner Wolf Werner Wolf (15 March 1925 – 23 December 2019) was a German musicologist and music critic. The acknowledged Wagner researcher was co-editor of ''Sämtlicher Briefe'' of the composer from 1967 to 1979. He also presented several opera performance ...

, Leipziger Opernchor, Gewandhaus Bläserquintett, Akademisches Orchester Leipzig * 1980 Gerhard Bosse, Günter Lohse, Gotthard Müller, Helmut Bartuschek, Günter Horlbeck, Günther Garbe, Olaf Didam, Karl-Max Kober and Fritz Kämpfer * 1981 Rosemarie Lang, Karl Ottomar Treibmann, Karl Mehlich, Elisabeth Schulz-Semrau, Günter Richter, Ulrike Oelzner, Thomas Oelzner, Leipziger Synagogalchor (Ltg. Helmut Klotz), Georg Antosch, Günter Hofmann and Boris Prokrowski * 1982 Walter Eichenberg, Hans-Joachim Förster,

Friedrich Schenker Friedrich Schenker (23 December 19428 February 2013) was a German avant-garde composer and trombone player. Life Born in the German town of Zeulenroda, Schenker learned trombone and piano as a child and made his first compositional attempts at ...

, Jürgen Lehmann, Erich Gerberding, Manfred Stephan, Monika Winkler and Horst Galle * 1983 Leipziger Hornquartett, Egbert Herfurth, Wolfgang Peuker,

Udo Klement Udo Fritz Peter Klement (born 12 January 1936) is a German musicologist and music critic. Life Klement, non-denominational, was born in 1936 in Dresden as the son of a gear cutter and an agricultural worker and saleswoman. He attended the Dresd ...

* 1984 Karl-Georg Kayser, Gottfried Richter, MDR Sinfonieorchester, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rolf Seidel, Gisela Keller-Oechelhaeuser, Gert Pötzschig, Evelyn Richter, Peter Gosse, Karl Zumpe, Werner Bachmann,

Günter Neubert Günter Neubert (born 11 March 1936) is a German composer and tonmeister. Life Born in Crimmitschau, Saxony, after his Abitur at a secondary school in Crimmitschau in 1954, Neubert studied school music at the University of Music and Theatre ...

and Horst Pieroh * 1985 Hans Grüß,

Adel Karasholi Adel Karasholi (Arabic: عادل قرشولي. born October 15, 1936) is a German and Arabic writer. Life Already a published poet in his youth, he founded a literary magazine in Damascus which was banned by the Syrian government. He then began w ...

, Věnceslava Hrubá-Freiberger, Rudolf Riemer, Arnd Schultheiß, Roselind Czernetzky, Ute Holstein, Rainer Behrens and Günter Latsch * 1986

Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler was an ensemble of musicians founded in 1970 in Leipzig with a focus on contemporary classical music, which played several world premieres and toured internationally. The ensemble disbanded in 1993. History The ens ...

, Wolfgang Hauswald, Roland Seiffarth, Günter Schwarzlose, Heinz Zander, Dieter Nentwig, Angela Stachowa, Dieter Gleisberg and Peter Reichel * 1987 Peter Sylvester,

Hans-Joachim Rotzsch Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (25 April 1929 – 25 September 2013) was a German choral conductor, conducting the Thomanerchor from 1972 until 1991 as the fifteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He was also a tenor and an academic teacher. B ...

, Frank Schöbel * 1988 GewandhausKinderchor, Jürgen Kurth, Roger Rössing and Renate Rössing * 1989 Evelyn Richter, Berndt Stübner,

Arno Rink Arno Rink (26 September 1940 – 5 September 2017) was a German painter. He was accepted to the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in 1962 and studied under Werner Tübke, Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Harry Blume. He is associated with ...

References

{{Reflist Culture in Leipzig German art awards Orders, decorations, and medals of East Germany Awards established in 1959