The Biermann-Ratjen-Medaille (Biermann Ratjen Medal) is an award of the City of

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...

, Germany. It was founded in 1978 by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to commemorate the achievements of the previous senator of culture Hans-Harder Biermann-Ratjen. The award is given to people, groups and institutions who have made outstanding contributions to the culture of Hamburg. The

Praeses ''Praeses'' (Latin ''praesides'') is a Latin word meaning "placed before" or "at the head". In antiquity, notably under the Roman Dominate, it was used to refer to Roman governors; it continues to see some use for various modern positions. ...

of the Department of Culture decides on the recipients and awards the medal on behalf of the Senate.

Previous winners

* 1978:

Horst Janssen Horst Janssen (14 November 192931 August 1995) was a German draftsman, printmaker, poster artist and illustrator. He had a prolific output of drawings, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs and wood engravings. Janssen was a student of Alfred Mahlau a ...

, Elsbeth Weichmann (politician),

Boy Gobert Boy Gobert (5 June 1925 – 30 May 1986) was a German film and television actor. Partial filmography * '' Island of the Dead'' (1955) – Schiffs-Steward * ''A Heart Full of Music'' (1955) – Granito Bubiblanca * ''My Children and I'' (1955) � ...

(actor),

Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Heinrich may refer to: People * Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of peo ...

(editor),

Hans Leip Hans Leip (22 September 1893 – 6 June 1983) was a German novelist, poet and playwright, best remembered as the lyricist of Lili Marleen. Leip was the son of a former sailor and harbour-worker at the port of Hamburg. He was educated there, a ...

(writer), Altonaer Singakademie, Griffelkunst Vereinigung * 1979: ''no award'' * 1980: Martin Beheim-Schwarzbach (writer),

Altonaer Theater The Altonaer Theater is a theater in Hamburg, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixte ...

* 1981: Willem Grimm (painter), Ernst Hauswedell, Fritz Kempe (photographer), Rudolf Joerden (director of public libraries), Marie Friedrich (librarian) * 1982: Rosemarie Clausen (photographer of theatre), Arie Goral-Sternheim (writer), Rudolf Nicolussi (librarian) * 1983: Gerda Gmelin (actress), Lola Rogge (dancer) * 1984:

Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (15 April 1906, in Stuttgart – 1 April 1985, in Hamburg) was a German conductor. He began his career in Munich as an assistant to Hans Knappertsbusch at the Bavarian State Opera. After several appointments in Essen, ...

(conductor) * 1985:

Heidi Kabel Heidi Bertha Auguste Kabel (; 27 August 1914 – 15 June 2010) was a German actress and musician. Most of her stage roles were performed at the Ohnsorg-Theater in Hamburg, many of them in Low German. She became famous in Germany as many of the pr ...

(actress), Arnold Fiedler (painter), Karl August Ohrt (sculptor), Kurt Collien (St. Pauli-Theater), Sibylle Niester (president of GEDOK),

Jürgen Jürgens Jürgen Jürgens (5 October 1925 – 4 August 1994) was a German choral conductor and academic teacher. He founded and directed the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg, a pioneering ensemble for Monteverdi's music. Biography Born in Frankfurt am Main, Jür ...

(conductor of the Monteverdi-Chor), Otto Rohse (illustrator) * 1986: Bergedorfer Kammerchor, Hans Kock (sculptor and painter), Thomas Peiter (painter and graphic artist), Dieter Schmeel (church musician), René Drommert (journalist) * 1987: Kurt Kranz ( Hochschule für bildende Künste),

Manfred Steffen ''Manfred: A dramatic poem'' is a closet drama written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of Gothic fiction. Byro ...

(actor) * 1988: Herbert Joost (patron), Heidi Oetinger (editor), Hans Drescher (scientist) * 1989:

Lotar Olias Lotar Olias (23 December 1913 – 21 October 1990) was a German composer who worked on numerous film scores. He composed the tune of the 1953 song '' You, You, You''.Tyler p.452 Selected filmography * '' Artists' Blood'' (1949) * '' The Thief of ...

(composer),

Felicitas Kukuck Felicitas Kukuck (2 November 19144 June 2001) was a German music educator and composer of opera and other works. Biography Felicitas Kukuck was born in Hamburg in 1914. Her parents encouraged their daughter's artistic development from childhood an ...

(composer) * 1990: Richard Germer (composer and singer) * 1991: Peter Hinrichs (

Hamburger Symphoniker The Symphoniker Hamburg (''Hamburg Symphony Orchestra'') is a German orchestra based in Hamburg, Germany. Founded in 1957, it is one of the city's three largest orchestras. The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra is the orchestra in residence in the Lae ...

), F.C. Gandlach (photographer and gallerist) * 1992: Albert Feser (painter and educator), Herbert Schemmel (president of Amicale Internationale de Neuengamme) * 1993: Ernst Schönfelder (director of Philharmonic Orchestra) * 1994:

Ernst Bader Ernst Bader (7 June 1914 – 10 August 1999) was a German actor, composer and songwriter (lyricist) best known for his hit recordings " Tulips from Amsterdam" and "Milord". In 2021, " Bongo Cha Cha Cha", a song he co-wrote for Caterina Valent ...

(actor), Eliza Hansen (pianist and harpsichordist), Brigitte Klosowski (juweler), Karel Trinkewitz (writer),

Esther Béjarano Esther Béjarano ( Löwy; 15 December 1924 – 10 July 2021) was one of the last survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She survived because she was a player in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. She was active in various ways, includ ...

(singer) * 1995: Michael Hauptmann (gallerist), Geno Hartlaub (writer), Hildburg Frese (actress),

Christa Möbius Christa may refer to: * Christa (given name), a female given name * Janusz Christa (1934–2008), Polish comics author * ''Swedish Fly Girls'', a 1971 film also known as ''Christa'' * 1015 Christa, an asteroid See also * Christ (disambiguation) * ...

and Eberhard Möbius (cabaretists) * 1996: Ingeborg Hecht-Studniczka (writer and journalist),

Freddy Quinn Freddy Quinn (born Franz Eugen Helmut Manfred Nidl; 27 September 1931) is an Austrian singer and actor whose popularity in the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s. As Hans Albers had done two generations before him, Quinn ...

(singer), Annemarie Marks-Rocke (actress) * 1997: Nana Gualdi (singer),

Wolfgang Borchert Wolfgang Borchert (; 20 May 1921 – 20 November 1947) was a German author and playwright whose work was strongly influenced by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the ''Wehrmacht'' during the Second World War. His work is among t ...

(founder of Junges Theater Hamburg – later

Ernst Deutsch Theater Ernst Deutsch Theater is a theatre in Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the Europe ...

), Günter Seggermann (organist and cantor), Gudrun Piper (painter) and Max Hermann Mahlmann (painter) * 1998: Peggy Parnass (journalist),

Günter Harte Gunter or Günter may refer to: * Gunter rig, a type of sailing rig, especially in small boats * Gunter Annex, Alabama, a United States Air Force installation * Gunter, Texas, city in the United States * the former German name of the village of ...

(linguist) Werner Burkhardt (journalist), Werner Krützfeldt (music educator) * 1999: no award * 2000: Telse Grell (director of Hansa-Theater), Erich Grandeit (scenic designer),

Günter Discher Günter Discher (20 March 1925 – 9 September 2012) was a swing music lover and gramophone record- collector, and was called "the oldest jazz-DJ in Germany". Life Discher was born on 20 March 1925 in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel. The Nazi "Reichskultu ...

(collector), Peter Dannenberg (Intendant of the

), Renata Klée Gobert (conservationist), Hans-Dieter Loose (former president of Stiftung Denkmalpflege), Hilde Sicks (actress) * 2001: Michael Collien (director of St. Pauli-Theater),

Günter Fuhlisch Gunter or Günter may refer to: * Gunter rig, a type of sailing rig, especially in small boats * Gunter Annex, Alabama, a United States Air Force installation * Gunter, Texas, city in the United States * the former German name of the village of G ...

(trombonist),

Gert Westphal Curt Gerhard Westphal, stage name Gert Westphal, (5 October 1920 – 10 November 2002) was a German-Swiss actor, audiobook narrator, recitator and director, one of the best-known audiobook narrators and speakers in German, described as "König der ...

(actor and speaker),

Hannelore Hoger Hannelore Hoger (; 20 August 1939 – 21 December 2024) was a German actress and theatre director. She played the title role in '' Bella Block''. Life and career Hoger was born in Hamburg on 20 August 1939. Her father worked as an inspector ...

(actress and stage director), John-Erik Berganus (patron),

Rolf Mares Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. ...

(cultural politician) * 2002: Will Baumgarten (patrons of archeology and the Helms Museum)

Gisela Trowe Gisela Trowe (5 September 1922 in Dortmund – 5 April 2010 in Hamburg) was a German actress and voice actress. Selected filmography * 1948: ''Street Acquaintances (1948 film), Street Acquaintances'' * 1948: ''The Time with You'' * 1948: ' * ...

(actress),

(director of

Deutsches Schauspielhaus The Deutsches Schauspielhaus, sometimes referred to as the Hamburg Schauspielhaus or Hamburg Theatre, is a theatre in the St. Georg, Hamburg, St. Georg quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany History The Deutsches Schauspielhaus was co-foun ...

, Thalia Theater,

Hamburgische Staatsoper The Hamburg State Opera (in German: ) is a German opera company based in Hamburg. Its theatre is near the square of Gänsemarkt. Since 2015, the current ''Intendant'' of the company is Georges Delnon, and the current ''Generalmusikdirektor'' ...

Komödie Winterhuder Fährhaus Komödie Winterhuder Fährhaus is a theatre in Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in th ...

) * 2003:

Uwe Friedrichsen Uwe Friedrichsen (27 May 1934, in Altona, Hamburg, Altona – 30 April 2016, in Hamburg) was a German television actor. Filmography Voice acting / Dubbing External links *Scherf Agency Berlin
1934 births 2016 deaths German male tel ...

(actor), Robert Stehli (conductor), Edgar Bessen (actor), Hans-Werner Funke (concert manager) * 2004:

Arno Surminski Arno Surminski (born 20 August 1934 in Jäglack, East Prussia) is a German writer, living in Hamburg, a father of three and a grandfather of 8. After growing up in East Prussia, his parents were deported to the Soviet Union, while he was expel ...

(writer and journalist) * 2005:

Joop van den Ende Johannes "Joop" Adrianus van den Ende (born 23 February 1942) is a Dutch theatrical producer, co-founder of international television production company Endemol and founder/owner of Stage Entertainment, Europe's largest live entertainment comp ...

(producer of musical and theatre) * 2006: Werner Grassmann (founder of cinema Abaton) * 2007:

Claus Bantzer Claus Bantzer (born 10 October 1942 in Marburg) is a German church musician, composer and director. Life and work Claus Bantzer was born in Marburg in 1942 into an artist's family. His older brother Christoph Bantzer is an actor. Bantzer b ...

(composer and church musician), Karsten Jahnke (concert manager) * 2008: Gert Hinnerk Behlmer (

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) * 2008: Jürgen Blankenburg (president of Kuratoriums der Stiftung für die Hamburger Kunstsammlungen) * 2009: Barbara Hass and

Uwe Deeken Uwe or UWE may refer to: * Uwe (given name) * Uwe, a wrecked barge in Hamburg, Germany * UML-based web engineering * University of the West of England * University Würzburg's Experimental space satellites: **UWE-1 UWE-1 (Universität Würzbur ...

(founder of the chamber opera Allee-Theater), Henning Venske (actor), Gothart Stier (conductor of Monteverdi-Chor), Günter and Lieselotte Powalla (patrons) * 2010: Hans Scheibner (cabarettist), Heinz Glüsing (painter) * 2011:

Max Pommer Max Pommer (born 9 February 1936) is a German musicologist and conductor, a director of the Leipziger Universitätschor and the founder and conductor of the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum. Career Born in Leipzig, Pommer was a student of ...

(conductor of Hamburger Camerata) and Gerhard Hirschfeld (architect) * 2012: ''no award'' * 2013: Uta Falter-Baumgarten (sculptor), Renate Kammer (galerist), Norbert Aust (cultural manager, Managing Director of the Schmidt Theater) * 2014: Hanne Mogler (Principal of the theater "fools garden"), Michael Batz (author, dramaturge, director and light artist),

Volker Lechtenbrink Volker Lechtenbrink (18 August 1944 – 22 November 2021) was a German actor on stage, in film and television, a singer-songwriter, dubbing artist, stage director and theatre manager. He played in the anti-war movie '' The Bridge'' in 1959 at a ...

(actor, director, singer, author),

Joachim Kaiser Joachim Kaiser (18 December 1928 – 11 May 2017) was a German musicologist, critic, and journalist. He worked as a senior editor and cultural critic for the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' from 1959, contributing reviews and articles on music, literatur ...

(Board of Directors Foundation Hamburg Maritim) * 2015: Heidi Mahler (actor) * 2016: Klaus Francke (politician, monument protector, Rettet die Deichstraße e.V., Förderkreis Mahnmal St. Nikolai e.V.) * 2017: Elke Dröscher (monument protector and operator of the doll museum Falkenstein), Christian Seeler (intendant of the Ohnsorg-Theater until 2017), Jutta Heinrich (author), Hans-Michael Bock (filmhistorian and publicist, CineGraph), * 2018: Rudolf Kelber (cantor and organist,

Kirchenmusikdirektor Kirchenmusikdirektor (KMD, director of church music) is a German title for professional church musicians (' who have responsibility for not only a parish but a larger region, in both Protestant and Catholic church music. The title is also sometimes ...

St. Jacobi) * 2019: Hella Schwemer-Martienßen (direktor of the foundation Hamburger Öffentliche Bücherhallen) * 2020: Albert Wiederspiel (head of Filmfest Hamburg) * 2022: Stephan von Löwis of Menar (founder of KinderKinder e.V. Hamburg) * 2023: Anke Feuchtenberger (artist and cartoonist) * 2024: Frank Göhre (crime writer)

References

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External links

Senator-Biermann-Ratjen-Medaille

German awards Awards established in 1978 1978 establishments in West Germany