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.
Selected Great Prize recipients[]
- 1971:
- 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:
- 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:
- 1999: Kira Georgijewna Muratowa
- 2000: Anna and Bernhard Blume
- 2001: Hermann Czech
- 2002: Aribert Reimann
- 2004:
- 2005: Aki Kaurismäki
- 2006: George Brecht
- 2007: Architects office SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) in Tokio
- 2008: Helmut Lachenmann
- 2010:
- 2011: Claire Denis[1]
- 2012: Cristina Iglesias
- 2013: Florian Beigel
- 2014: Mathias Spahlinger
- 2015:
- 2016: Stefan Prins
- 2017: Emin Alper
- 2018: Thomas Demand
- 2019: Renée Gailhoustet
- 2020: Younghi Pagh-Paan[2]
- 2021: [3]
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, , Hans Uhlmann, Werner Heldt, , , , , (art), Werner Egk, Helmut Roloff, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (music), Heinz Tietjen, Boleslaw Barlog (performing art)
- 1951: , , , , Alexander Camaro, Marcus Behmer, (art), Boris Blacher, Gerhard Puchelt (music), Hermine Körner, O. E. Hasse (performing art)
- 1952: Richard Scheibe, , , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, , , , (art), , Helmut Krebs, Giselher Klebe (music), Mary Wigman, , Kurt Meisel (performing art)
- 1953: , Emy Roeder, , Karl Hofer, Otto Hofmann, Ernst Böhm, , (art); Gerda Lammers, Karl Forster, Max Baumann (music); Käthe Dorsch, Ita Maximowna, (performing art)
- 1954: , , Otto Placzek, Max Pechstein, Curt Lahs, , Hans Orlowski, (art), Erna Berger, Hertha Klust, Volker Wangenheim (music); Tatjana Gsovsky, Käthe Braun, Caspar Neher (performing art)
- 1955: Gerhard Marcks, Hans Purrmann, , , Max Taut, Hans Scharoun, Sergiu Celibidache, Joseph Ahrens, Josef Greindl, Walter Franck
- 1956: , Hugo Häring, Philipp Jarnach, Ernst Schröder, Helmut Käutner
- 1957: Erich Heckel, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Heinz Tiessen, , Heinz Rühmann
- 1958: Fritz Winter, Wassili Luckhardt, Hans Werner Henze, Martin Held, Robert Siodmak
- 1959: Elsa Wagner
- 1960: , , Wladimir Vogel, Erich Schellow, Günter Neumann, Heinz Pauck
- 1961: Rudolf Belling, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, ,
- 1962: Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann, Egon Eiermann, Gerhart von Westerman, , and
- 1963: Max Kaus, , Paul Hindemith, Fritz Kortner,
- 1964: Ernst Wilhelm Nay, , Hans Chemin-Petit, , Wolfgang Neuss
- 1965: Jan Bontjes van Beek, , Elisabeth Grümmer, Ernst Deutsch
- 1966: Hann Trier, Walter Rossow, Johann Nepomuk David, Rudolf Platte,
- 1967: , Frei Otto, Karl Böhm, Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Hans Richter
- 1968: Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Erwin Gutkind, Heinz Friedrich Hartig, Hans Lietzau,
- 1969: Heinrich Richter, , Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Herbert Ihering, Peter Zadek
- 2021: Sajan Mani, HARQUITECTES, Petra Strahovnik, Gina Haller, Susann Maria Hempel, Lea Schneider (literature)[4]
References[]
- ^ "Großer Kunstpreis Berlin an Claire Denis". Der Standard. Vienna. APA/dpa. 26 January 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Großer Kunstpreis Berlin geht an südkoreanische Komponistin Younghi Pagh-Paan". neue musikzeitung. Regensburg. dpa. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Berliner Kunstpreis für Anett Gröschner". Süddeutsche.de (in German). 22 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ "Annett Gröschner erhält den Großen Kunstpreis Berlin 2021". www.adk.de (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2021.
External links[]
- Awards established in 1948
- Arts awards in Germany