Hanseatic Goethe Prize
# Hanseatic Goethe Prize

The Hanseatic Goethe Prize (German: Hansischer Goethe-Preis) was a German literary and artistic award, given biennially from 1949 to 2005 to a figure of European stature. The prize money was €25,000. On the occasion of Goethe's 200th birthday, the Freiherr vom Stein Foundation in Hamburg endowed a cultural prize "for important personalities in the intellectual life". The prize was awarded by the foundation of the Hamburg businessman Alfred Toepfer, Alfred Toepfer Foundation F. V. S..

## Recipients

* 1951 Martin Buber
* 1955 T. S. Eliot
* 1956 Walter Gropius
* 1958 Paul Tillich
* 1961 Benjamin Britten
* 1967 Salvador de Madariaga
* 1969 Robert Minder [de] (French Germanist)
* 1971 Giorgio Strehler
* 1973 Manès Sperber
* 1974 Hanns Lilje
* 1975 Carlo Schmid
* 1989 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
* 1995 Nikolaus Harnoncourt
* 1997 Harald Weinrich
* 1999 Ryszard Kapuściński
* 2001 Pina Bausch
* 2003 Cees Nooteboom
* 2005 Ariane Mnouchkine (refused, because of Toepfer's activities in and for the Third Reich)
