The Schiller Prize of the City of Marbach, endowed with 10,000 euros,
is awarded every two years on 10 November,
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friends ...
's birthday, to personalities who are committed to the poet's tradition of thought in their life or work.
The prize was first awarded in 1959, on the 200th birthday of Schiller.
Up until 2007 it was awarded every two years for outstanding work in the field of regional studies of
Württemberg
Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart.
Together with Baden and Hohenzollern, two other historical territories, Würt ...
.
In the Schiller Year 2009, the award criteria were changed. The award has been given to persons who are committed in their life or work to Schiller's tradition of thought.
Recipients
Source:
* 1959: Walter Grube
* 1961: Werner Fleischhauer
* 1963: Ruthardt Oehme
* 1965: Georg Wagner and Adolf Koch
* 1967: Hansmartin Decker-Hauff
* 1969: Paul Gehring
* 1971: Hans Jänichen
* 1973: Adolf Beck
* 1975: Max Schefold
* 1977: Paul Sauer
* 1979: Robert Uhland
* 1981: Wolfgang Binder
* 1983: Rainer Christlein
* 1985: Dorothea Kuhn
* 1987: Paul Feuchte
* 1989: Gerhard Schäfer
* 1991: Volkmar Wirth
* 1993: Renate Neumüllers-Klauser
* 1995: Norbert Oellers
* 1997:
Ulrike Gauss
Ulrike Gauss (5 November 1941 – 5 April 2021) was a German art historian.
Gauss is seen as one of the most renowned German art historians of her era. She became professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academ ...
and Christian von Holst
* 1999: Lutz Reichardt
* 2001: Bernhard Zeller
* 2003: Horst Carl
* 2005:
Peter-André Alt
Peter-André Alt (born 16 June 1960 in Berlin) is a German literary scholar, former president of the Freie Universitaet of Berlin and, since August 2018, president of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK). Alt is married to the writer Sabine Alt ( ...
* 2007:
* 2009:
Jens Reich
Jens Georg Reich (born 26 March 1939 in Göttingen, Province of Hanover) is a German scientist and a member of the German Ethics Council. He has become famous as a civil rights campaigner in the last decade of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) ...
* 2011:
Simone Veil
* 2013:
* 2015:
Andrea Breth
Andrea Breth (born 31 October 1952) is a stage director. From 1999 to 2019 she was in-house director at the Burgtheater in Vienna and also directed for the Salzburg Festival.
Biography
Born in Rieden am Forggensee, Germany, Andrea Breth grew up ...
* 2017:
Horst Bredekamp
Horst Bredekamp (born 29 April 1947, in Kiel) is a German art historian.
Life and work
Bredekamp studied art history, archeology, philosophy and sociology in Kiel, Munich, Berlin and Marburg. In 1974 he received his doctorate at the Phili ...
* 2019:
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
* 2021:
Saša Stanišić
Saša Stanišić ( sr-cyr, Саша Станишић; born 7 March 1978) is a Bosnian-German writer. He was born in Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina as the son of a Bosniak mother and a Serbian father. In the spring of 1992, he fled alongside ...
References
External links
* {{official, https://www.schillerstadt-marbach.de/schiller-co/friedrich-schiller/schillerpreis/
Awards established in 1959
German awards
1959 establishments in Germany