Goethe Prize

Recipients

• 1927 – Stefan George, Germany
• 1928 – Albert Schweitzer, France
• 1929 – Leopold Ziegler, Germany
• 1930 – Sigmund Freud, Austria
• 1931 – Ricarda Huch, Germany
• 1932 – Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany
• 1933 – Hermann Stehr, Germany
• 1934 – Hans Pfitzner, Germany
• 1935 – Hermann Stegemann, Germany
• 1936 – Georg Kolbe, Germany
• 1937 – Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, Germany
• 1938 – Hans Carossa, Germany
• 1939 – Carl Bosch, Germany
• 1940 – Agnes Miegel, Germany
• 1941 – Wilhelm Schäfer, Germany
• 1942 – Richard Kuhn, Germany
• 1945 – Max Planck, Germany
• 1946 – Hermann Hesse, Germany
• 1947 – Karl Jaspers, Germany
• 1948 – Fritz von Unruh, Germany
• 1949 – Thomas Mann, Germany
• 1952 – Carl Zuckmayer, Germany
• 1954 – Theodor Brugsch, Germany
• 1955 – Annette Kolb, Germany
• 1958 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Germany
• 1960 – Ernst Beutler, Germany
• 1961 – Walter Gropius, Germany
• 1964 – Benno Reifenberg, Germany
• 1967 – Carlo Schmid, Germany
• 1970 – György Lukács, Hungary
• 1973 – Arno Schmidt, Germany
• 1976 – Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
• 1979 – Raymond Aron, France
• 1982 – Ernst Jünger, Germany
• 1985 – Golo Mann, Germany
• 1988 – Peter Stein, Germany
• 1991 – Wislawa Szymborska, Poland
• 1994 – Ernst Gombrich, United Kingdom
• 1997 – Hans Zender, Germany
• 1999 – Siegfried Lenz, Germany
• 2002 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany
• 2005 – Amos Oz, Israel
• 2008 – Pina Bausch, Germany
• 2011 – Adunis, Syria
• 2014 – Peter von Matt, Switzerland
• 2017 – Ariane Mnouchkine, France
• 2020 – Dževad Karahasan, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2023 – Barbara Honigmann, Germany
• 2026 – Uwe Timm, Germany