Herder Prize

The Herder Prize, established in 1963 and named for Johann Gottfried von Herder, is a prestigious international prize, dedicated to the promotion of scientific, art and literature relations, and presented to scholars and artists from Central and Southeastern Europe whose life and work have improved the cultural understanding of European countries and their peaceful interrelations.

The jury is composed of German and Austrian universities. Financing for the Herder Award (which raises to 15,000 €) is ensured by the Alfred Töpfer Foundation in Hamburg. The awards are traditionally presented at the University of Vienna each year and handed over by the President of Austria. The awarded has also the right to make a nomination for an one-year Herder scholarship (900-1000 € monthly) at an Austrian university.

In 2007, the Herder Prize will merge with another fund creating a new European culture prize worthing 75,000 € and designed to encourage young European artists.

List of recipients

1965	Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer László Németh, Hungarian writer
1966	Ján Cikker, Slovak composer
1967	Witold Lutosławski, Polish Composer Mihai Pop, Romanian ethnologist
1968	Lajos Vayer
1969	Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist
1970	Gyula Illyés, Hungarian poet and novelist
1971	Zaharia Stancu, Romanian writer
1972	Gyula Ortutay, Hungarian ethnographer Virgil Vătăşianu, Romanian art historian
1973	Zbigniew Herbert, Polish poet, essayist and moralist
1975	Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet
1976	Dezső Keresztury, Hungarian writer, poet Marin Goleminov, Bulgarian composer
1977	Eugen Barbu, Romanian novelist, playwright and journalist Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
1978	Béla Gunda, Hungarian ethnographer
1979	Ferenc Farkas, Hungarian composer
1980	Emil Condurachi, Romanian academician, historian
1981	Sándor Csoóri, Hungarian poet, writer
1982	Ana Blandiana, Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure Imre Varga, Hungarian sculptor
1983	Jozef Jankovič, Slovak sculptor György Konrád, Hungarian novelist and essayist (1984?) Adrian Marino, Romanian literary critic Stoimen Stoilov, Bulgarian artist
1984	Constantin Lucaci, Romanian sculptor
1985	Adrian Marino, Romanian literary critic, historian and theoretician
1986	Tekla Dömötör Anatol Vieru, Romanian composer
1987	József Ujfalussy, Hungarian aesthete
1988	Ana Blandiana, Romanian poet Constantin Noica, Romanian philosopher and essayist
1990	András Vizkelety, Hungarian philologist
1991	Marin Sorescu, Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist Stoimen Stoilov, Bulgarian artist
1994	Sándor Kányádi, Hungarian poet (1995?) Zigmas Zinkevičius, Lithuanian linguist and historian
1995	Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet, essayist and translator
1996	Konstantin Iliev, Bulgarian dramatist
1997	Ferenc Glatz, Hungarian academician, professor
1998	Imre Bak, Hungarian artist Andrei Corbea Hoişie, Romanian philologist
1999	Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet, editor and dissident István Fried Svetlana Alexievich, Byelorussian investigative journalist
2000	Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer Milan Kundera, Czech writer
2001	Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer Janez Bernik, Slovenian painter János Böhönyey, Hungarian architect Marek Kopelent, Czech composer
2002	Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer
2003	Drago Jančar, Slovenian novelist and dramatist Károly Manherz, Hungarian germanist, linguist, professor Ana Maria Zahariade, Romanian architect
2004	Éva Pócs, Hungarian ethnographer
2005	Károly Klimó, Hungarian artist Hanna Krall, Polish journalist and writer Primoz Kuret, Slovenian historian and musicologist Jir¡ í Kuthan Andrei Marga, Romanian professor, philosopher Eimuntas Nekrošius, Lithuanian theater director Krešimir Nemec, Croatian literary critic
2006	Wlodzimierz Borodziej, Polish historian Nicos Hadzinikolau Gabriela Kilianova, Slovak ethnologist Ene Mihkelson, Estonian writer Vojteh Ravnikar, Slovenian architect, professor

See also

• List of prizes, medals, and awards

External links

• Alfred Töpfer Foundation Template:De icon
• University of Vienna