Goethe Medal

The Goethe Medal is an award that is given annually since 1955 by the Goethe Institute for Services to the cultivation of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural cooperation. It applies since 1975 as an official Order of the Federal Republic of Germany. The medal is in accordance with Article 2 of the Statute for the award of the Goethe Medal ( cf. Federal Law Gazette I p 522, 523 ) usually for " special scientific or literary, didactic, organizational services that mediate between German culture or the culture the partner countries benefit " conferred. It is awarded only in exceptional cases Germans. The day of the ceremony is (since 2008) is the birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on August 28.

Award winners

2013

  • S. Mahmoud Hosseini Zad, Iranian writer and translator
  • Naveen Kishore, Indian publishers and artists
  • Petros Markaris, Greek author and president of the National Book Centre of Greece

2012

  • Bolat Atabayev, Kazakh, theater director and human rights activists
  • Dževad Karahasan Bosnian writer, playwright, essayist and literary critic
  • Irena Veisaitė, Lithuanian theater scholar

2011

2010

  • Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher
  • Fuad Rifka, Lebanese translator, poet and philosopher
  • John Spalek, American and German studies exile researchers

2009

  • Lars Gustafsson, Swedish writer and philosopher
  • Victor Scoradet, Romanian theater critic and translator
  • Sverre Dahl, Norwegian translator

2008

  • Gholam Dastgir Behbud, Afghan Germanist
  • Bernard Sobel, French theater director
  • John E. Woods, American translator

2007

  • Daniel Barenboim, the Israeli pianist and conductor
  • Dezso Tandori, Hungarian writer and translator
  • Min'Gi Kim, South Korean theater director, film director and songwriter

2006

  • Vera San Payo de Lemos
  • Givi Margwelaschwili
  • Said

2005

  • Samuel Assefa
  • Ruth Smarter
  • Dmytro Volodymyrovych Satonsky
  • Yōko Tawada
  • Simone Young

2004

  • Mohan Agashe
  • Imre Kertész
  • Paul Michael Lützeler
  • Anatoly A. Mikhailov
  • Sérgio Paulo Rouanet

2003

  • Lenka Reinerová
  • Jorge Semprún

2002

  • W. Michael Blumenthal
  • Georges- Arthur Goldschmidt
  • Francisek Grucza
  • Touradj Rahnema
  • Antonio Skarmeta

2001

2000

1999

  • Michel Battalion, theater makers
  • Dani Karavan, painters, sculptors, installation artists
  • Leoluca Orlando, legal scholars and politicians
  • Jiří Gruša, writer, poet and diplomat
  • Andrei Pleşu, theologian and politician

1998

  • Ralf Dahrendorf, a publicist, and scientist
  • Sudhir Karar, psychoanalyst and author
  • Takashi Oshio, Professor of German Studies, Chuo University, Tokyo
  • Joao Barrento, essayist, translator and literary critic
  • Claire Kramsch, Professor of German Studies, University of Berkeley

1997

  • Gian Enrico Rusconi, a political scientist
  • Rolf Liebermann, composer and author
  • Nam June Paik, video artist and composer
  • Sebastian K. Bemile, linguist, translator and specialist in German
  • Miguel Sáenz de Sagaseta Ilúrdoz, author and translator

1996

  • Suzanne Pagé, art historian
  • Philip Brady, head of Germanistisches Fakultär, University of London
  • Naoji Kimura, Professor of German Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo
  • Ioanna Kuçuradi, philosopher
  • January horseradish, historian

1995

  • Ada Brodsky, author and translator
  • Laila Naim, author and philosopher
  • José Maria Perez Gay, writer and translator
  • Naum Klejman, film historian
  • Isang Yun, composer
  • Hermann Walther von der Dunk, historian

1994

  • Paolo Chiarini, Professor of German Studies, University of Rome La Sapienza
  • István Szabó, Film Director
  • Graciela Paraskevaidis, composer
  • Billy Wilder, Film Director
  • Per Øhrgaard, Professor of German Philology, University of Copenhagen

1993

  • Adam Krzeminski, German scholar and publicist
  • José Maria Carandell, essayist and writer
  • Michel Tournier, writer
  • Patrice Chéreau, theater and film director

1992

  • Hugo Rokyta, literary historians and conservation
  • Sir Karl Raimund Popper, philosopher and philosopher of science
  • Elisabeth Augustin, writer

1991

  • Hans Sahl, writer, translator and journalist
  • Leslie Bodi, head of the German Department, Monash University, Melbourne
  • Panagiotis Kondylis, publisher
  • Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor
  • Jan Hoet, curator, artistic director of Documenta IX

1990

  • Eda Sagarra, director of the Institute for German Studies, Trinity College Dublin
  • György Ligeti, composer
  • Hilde Spiel, writer, translator and journalist
  • Hubert Orlowski, Professor of German, University of Poznan
  • Thomas Messer, art historian

Previous winners (selection)

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