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 (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)