Herder Prize

The Herder Prize, established in 1963 and named for Johann Gottfried von Herder, was 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 was composed of German and Austrian universities. Financing for the Herder Award (which amounted to 15,000 €) was ensured by the Alfred Töpfer Foundation in Hamburg. The awards were traditionally presented at the University of Vienna each year and handed over by the President of Austria. It was also possible to make a nomination for a one-year Herder scholarship (900-1000 € monthly) at an Austrian university.

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

List of recipients

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Year	Name	Nationality and occupation
1964	Jan Kott	Polish theater critic
1965	Tudor Arghezi	Romanian writer
	László Németh	Hungarian writer
	Hristo Vakarelski	Bulgarian ethnographer
1966	Ján Cikker	Slovak composer
1967	Witold Lutosławski	Polish composer
	Mihai Pop	Romanian ethnologist
	Vladimír Kompánek	Slovak sculptor
1968	Lajos Vayer	Hungarian art historian
	Miroslav Krleža	Croatian writer
1969	Pancho Vladigerov	Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist
1970	Tseko Torbov	Bulgarian philosopher, lawyer, and translator
	Gyula Illyés	Hungarian poet and novelist
	Zoltan Franjo	Romanian poet and translator
1971	Zaharia Stancu	Romanian writer
1972	Gyula Ortutay	Hungarian ethnographer
	Virgil Vătăşianu	Romanian art historian
	Atanas Dalchev	Bulgarian poet, critic and translator
1973	Zbigniew Herbert	Polish poet, essayist and moralist
1974	Ivan Dujchev	Bulgarian historian, medievalist
1975	Nichita Stănescu	Romanian poet
	Gabor Presisch	Hungarian architect
1976	Dezső Keresztury	Hungarian writer, poet
	Marin Goleminov	Bulgarian composer and conductor
1977	Eugen Barbu	Romanian novelist, playwright and journalist
	Krzysztof Penderecki	Polish composer
1978	Béla Gunda	Hungarian ethnographer
1979	Ferenc Farkas	Hungarian composer
	Atanas Natev	Bulgarian philosopher
1980	Emil Condurachi	Romanian academician, historian
	Vera Mutafcheva	Bulgarian writer and historian
1981	Sándor Csoóri	Hungarian poet, writer
1982	Ana Blandiana	Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure
	Imre Varga	Hungarian sculptor
1983	Władysław Bartoszewski	Polish historian and politician
	Jozef Jankovič	Slovak sculptor
	György Konrád	Hungarian novelist and essayist
	Adrian Marino	Romanian literary critic
	Stoimen Stoilov	Bulgarian artist
1984	Constantin Lucaci	Romanian sculptor
	Krzysztof Meyer	Polish composer
1985	Adrian Marino	Romanian literary critic, historian and theoretician
1986	Tekla Dömötör	Hungarian writer
	Anatol Vieru	Romanian composer
1987	József Ujfalussy	Hungarian aesthete
1988	Ana Blandiana	Romanian poet
	Zoe Dumitrescu Bușulenga	Romanian literature historian and critic
	Constantin Noica	Romanian philosopher and essayist
	György Györffy	Hungarian historian
1989	Nikolay Genchev	Bulgarian historian
1990	Dejan Medaković	Serbian art historian and poet
	András Vizkelety	Hungarian philologist
1991	Marin Sorescu	Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist
	Stoimen Stoilov	Bulgarian artist
1992	Zmaga Kumer	Slovenian musicologist, Slavics scholar, and folklore researcher
1994	Sándor Kányádi	Hungarian poet
	Zigmas Zinkevičius	Lithuanian linguist and historian
1995	Wisława Szymborska	Polish poet, essayist and translator
	Jaan Undusk	Estonian writer and literary critic
	Mirko Kovač	Croatian, Serbian, montnegrin, bosno-Herzegovinian writer
1996	Konstantin Iliev	Bulgarian dramatist
	Pēteris Vasks	Latvian composer
1997	Bogdan Bogdanović	Serbian architect
	Ferenc Glatz	Hungarian academician, professor
	Jaan Kross	Estonian writer
1998	Imre Bak	Hungarian artist
	Andrei Corbea Hoişie	Romanian philologist
1999	Mircea Dinescu	Romanian poet, editor and dissident
	István Fried	Hungarian literary scholar
	Svetlana Alexievich	Belarusian investigative journalist
2000	Imre Kertész	Hungarian writer
	Milan Kundera	Czech writer
	Nikola Georgiev	Bulgarian literary historian, professor
	Arvo Pärt	Estonian composer
2001	Yuri Andrukhovych	Ukrainian writer
	Janez Bernik	Slovenian painter
	János Böhönyey	Hungarian architect
	Marek Kopelent	Czech composer
2002	Péter Esterházy	Hungarian writer
	Aurel Stroe	Romanian composer
2003	Drago Jančar	Slovenian novelist and dramatist
	Vasil Gyuzelev	Bulgarian historian, professor
	Károly Manherz	Hungarian Germanist, linguist, professor
	Ana Maria Zahariade	Romanian architect
2004	Theodore Antoniou	Greek composer and conductor
	Éva Pócs	Hungarian ethnographer
2005	Károly Klimó	Hungarian artist
	Hanna Krall	Polish journalist and writer
	Primož Kuret	Slovenian historian and musicologist
	Jiří Kuthan	Czech historian and art historian
	Andrei Marga	Romanian professor, philosopher
	Eimuntas Nekrošius	Lithuanian theater director
	Krešimir Nemec	Croatian literary critic
2006	Wlodzimierz Borodziej	Polish historian
	Nicos Hadzinikolau	Greek art historian
	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 (German)
• University of Vienna