Herder Prize

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The Herder Prize (German: Gottfried-von-Herder-Preis), named after the German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), was a prestigious international prize awarded every year to scholars and artists from Central and Southeast Europe whose life and work have contributed to the cultural understanding of European countries and their peaceful interrelations. Established in 1963, the first prizes were awarded in 1964.

The prize jury was composed of German and Austrian universities. Financing for the Prize, which amounted to €15,000, was sponsored by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation based in Hamburg. The awards were traditionally presented in an annual ceremony at the University of Vienna and handed over by the President of Austria. Each prize also included a one-year scholarship at an Austrian university given to a young person nominated by the winning scholar.

The prize was open to humanities scholars and artists from a wide variety of fields, including ethnographers, writers, architects, composers, poets, folklorists, painters, historians, literary scholars, art historians, archeologists, theatre directors, musicologists, museologists, linguists, playwrights, etc. Several writers who received the Herder Prize went on to later win the Nobel Prize in Literature, such as Wisława Szymborska (in 1995 and 1996), Imre Kertész (in 2000 and 2002), and Svetlana Alexievich (in 1999 and 2015), and many other recipients received other international accolades and were members of their national academies.

Since its inception the prize was open to scholars and artists from seven central and southeast, mostly communist, European countries (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia). After the fall of communism in Europe in the late 1980s and the subsequent turmoil which led to the breakup of Yugoslavia, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, scholars from all the succeeding countries remained eligible for the prize. In the early 1990s several ex-Soviet European countries (the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; Belarus, and Ukraine) as well as Albania were also made eligible.

Usually seven recipients would be announced every year, except in 1964 (four), 1977 (eight), 1993 (nine), and in 2006 (five) — which was also the last edition of the Herder Prize. In 2007 the prize was discontinued and merged with other prize funds sponsored by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation to create a new Europe-wide annual award, the KAIROS Prize, worth €75,000 and given to a single artist every year to encourage their innovative work.

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Yea]]r Recipients
1964 Oto Bihalji-Merin, Jan Kott, Stanisław Lorentz, Lucijan Marija Škerjanc
1965 Tudor Arghezi, Manos Hatzidakis,  [cs], Zoltán Kodály, László Németh,  [cs],  [bg]
1966 Ján Cikker,  [hu], Zlatko Gorjan, Aleksander Kobzdej, ,  [sl],
1967 , Vladimír Kompánek, Witold Lutosławski, Spyridon Marinatos, Alexandru A. Philippide, Mihai Pop, Svetozar Radojčić
1968 Constantin Daicoviciu, Roman Ingarden, Miroslav Krleža, , Anastasios Orlandos,  [hu], Pancho Vladigerov
1969  [hu], Albín Brunovský, Bohuslav Fuchs, Mihail Jora,  [hr],  [pl],  [sl]
1970 Jan Białostocki, Jan Filip,  [hu], Milovan Gavazzi, Gyula Illyés, Yiannis Papaioannou,  [bg]
1971 Jiří Kolář, Blaže Koneski, , Kazimierz Michałowski, , Zaharia Stancu, Bence Szabolcsi
1972 Dragotin Cvetko, Atanas Dalchev, , Gyula Ortutay,  [cs], Henryk Stażewski, Virgil Vătășianu
1973 Veselin Beshevliev, Stylianos Harkianakis, János Harmatta, Zbigniew Herbert, Eugen Jebeleanu, Petar Lubarda,  [cs]
1974  [pl], IvanDuichev,  [hr],  [hu],  [el],  [sk],  [de]
1975  [pl],  [de], Stanislav Libenský, , Gábor Preisich, Pandelis Prevelakis, StanojloRajičić
1976 Jagoda Buić, Marin Goleminov, Ioannis Kakridis, Dezső Keresztury, Nichita Stănescu,  [pl],  [pl]
1977  [de],  [sl], Emmanuel Kriaras, Albert Kutal,  [hu], Krzysztof Penderecki,  [bg],
1978 Eugen Barbu, , Kazimierz Dejmek,  [bg],  [hu],  [cs], Yiannis Spyropoulos
1979 Magdalena Abakanowicz, Ferenc Farkas, ,  [bg], András Sütő,  [de],
1980 ,  [hu], Kamil Lhoták, , Vera Mutafchieva, Alexandru Rosetti, Wiktor Zin
1981  [ro], Sándor Csoóri, , Dimitrios Loukatos, Vjenceslav Richter, Eugen Suchoň,  [pl]
1982 , Ana Blandiana,  [sr], , , , Imre Varga
1983 Władysław Bartoszewski,  [hu],  [cs], , ,  [bg], C. A. Trypanis
1984  [sl],  [de],  [cs], György Konrád, Constantin Lucaci, , Krzysztof Meyer
1985 Branko Fučić, Růžena Grebeníčková,  [ro], ,  [hu], , Andrzej Wajda
1986  [bg], , ,  [pl], , Jiří Kotalík, Anatol Vieru
1987 Roman Brandstaetter, Doula Mouriki,  [hu], Vladimir Veličković,  [bg],  [ro]
1988 , Christos Kapralos, Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga, György Györffy, ,  [pl], Edvard Ravnikar
1989 Maria Banuș,  [hu],  [pl],  [cs],  [bg], ,
1990 , Bronisław Geremek, Aris Konstantinidis, Dejan Medaković, , Adriena Šimotová,  [hu]
1991 Maja Bošković-Stulli, Gerard Labuda,  [hu],  [de],  [cs], Marin Sorescu,  [bg]
1992 Manolis Andronikos, , Blaga Dimitrova, ,  [de],  [sl],
1993 , , György Kurtág,  [pl], Răzvan Theodorescu,  [cs], Māra Zālīte, , Viktor Žmegač
1994 István Borzsák,  [bs], Ștefan Niculescu, Andrzej Szczypiorski,  [cs],  [de], Zigmas Zinkevičius
1995 Sándor Kányádi, Mirko Kovač,  [bg], ,  [lv], Wisława Szymborska, Jaan Undusk
1996  [hu], Karel Hubáček,  [bg],  [ro],  [sl], Pēteris Vasks,  [pl]
1997 Tasos Athanasiadis, Bogdan Bogdanović,  [sk], Ferenc Glatz,  [pl], Jaan Kross,  [hr]
1998  [hu],  [de], , Ismail Kadare, Justinas Marcinkevičius, Dorota Simonides,
1999 Svetlana Alexievich, , Mircea Dinescu,  [hu], Henryk Górecki, Dževad Karahasan,  [sk]
2000 ,  [sh],  [bg], Imre Kertész, Milan Kundera,  [de], Arvo Pärt
2001 Yurii Andrukhovych, Janez Bernik, , , Marek Kopelent, Andrej Mitrović,  [fr]
2002 , Māris Čaklais, Péter Esterházy, ,  [hr], Aurel Stroe, Lech Trzeciakowski
2003 Vasil Gyuzelev, Drago Jančar,  [hu],  [pl],  [de], ,  [ro]
2004 Theodore Antoniou, Michał Głowiński, Dušan Kováč, Fatos Lubonja, Éva Pócs,  [de], Romualdas Požerskis
2005 Károly Klimó, Hanna Krall,  [sl],  [cs], Andrei Marga, Eimuntas Nekrošius,  [hr]
2006 Włodzimierz Borodziej, ,  [sk], Ene Mihkelson, Vojteh Ravnikar

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