Awards & Winners

Goethe Prize

Goethe Prize

The Goethe Prize of Frankfurt am Main is a German literary award of high prestige named after Johann Wolfgang Goethe. It was initially an annual award, but became triennial. The recipients have been: 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

Check all the winners of Goethe Prize presented under Goethe Prize since 1927 .


Amos Oz

Honored for : A Tale of Love and Darkness