From 1959 to 1989, the city of

Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

awarded the Kunstpreis der Stadt Leipzig, which was given for outstanding merits in the artistic field to persons who promoted the reputation of the city beyond the region: architects, visual artists, composers, musicians, singers, actors and writers as well as literary and art critics.

Prize winners

* 1959 Walter Arnold, "Neuland unterm Pflug"-Schauspielerkollektiv, Heinz Rusch and Rudolf Fischer * 1960 Fritz Geißler, Paul Joachim Schneider, Walter Münze, Hanns Maaßen and the Kollektiv Architekt Berthold Schneider * 1961 Heinrich Witz, Emmy Köhler-Richter, Ferdinand May and Wilhelm Weismann * 1962 Gabriele Meyer-Dennewitz * 1963 Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß * 1964 Georg Maurer * 1965 Hans Pfeiffer, Ottmar Gerster, Ingeborg Ottmann and Kollektiv Kurt Nowotny, Alfred Rammler, Rudolf Rohrer * 1966 Annerose Schmidt, Georg Kretzschmar * 1967 Gerhard W. Menzel * 1968 Carlernst Ortwein, Hans Sandig,

Wolfgang Mattheuer Wolfgang Mattheuer (7 April 1927—7 April 2004) was a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Together with Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig he was a leading representative of the Leipzig School, a figurative art current in East Germany. ...

, Hans-Joachim Hegewald, Bernhard Schröter and the "Kollektiv des Leipziger Arbeitervarietes des FDGB" * 1969 Peter Herrmann, Walter Schmidt, Manfred Künne, Wolfgang Müller, Heinz Wagner Gunter Walther, Ensemble „Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft“, Ursula Tschesno-Hell, Michael Tschesno-Hell and

Lothar Dutombé Lothar or Lothair (disambiguation), Lothair is a Danish language, Danish, Finnish language, Finnish, German language, German, Norwegian language, Norwegian, and Swedish language, Swedish masculine given name, while Lotár is a Hungarian language, H ...

* 1970 Werner Heiduczek, Fred Lohse,

Bernhard Heisig Bernhard Heisig (31 March 1925 – 10 June 2011) was a German painter and graphic artist. Long-time director of the Leipzig Academy (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst; 1961–64, 1976–87) and a leading figure in East Germany's Leipzig School ...

* 1971 Rudolf Skoda,

Werner Tübke Werner Tübke (30 July 1929 in Schönebeck, Germany – 27 May 2004 in Leipzig, Germany) was a German painter, best known for his monumental Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany, Peasants' War Panorama located in Bad Frankenhausen. Associated wi ...

, Erhard Ragwitz * 1972

Erhard Mauersberger Erhard Mauersberger (29 December 1903 in Mauersberg, Saxony – 11 December 1982 in Leipzig) was a German choral conductor who conducted the Thomanerchor as the 14th Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He was also an academic teacher an ...

, Ursula Mattheuer-Neustädt * 1973 Jürgen Brinkmann and Friedhelm Eberle * 1974 "Wallenstein"Inszenierungskollektiv der Leipziger Theater, Künstlerkollektiv für die Schaffung des Hochreliefs für die Karl-Marx-Universität ( Rolf Kuhrt, Frank Ruddigkeit, Klaus Schwabe),

Thomanerchor The Thomanerchor (English: St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig) is a boys' choir in Leipzig, Germany. The choir was founded in 1212. The choir comprises about 90 boys from 9 to 18 years of age. The members, called ''Thomaner'', reside in a boarding scho ...

and Gewandhauschor * 1975 Karl Krug * 1976 ''Ring des Nibelungen''-Inszenierungskollektiv (among others

Joachim Herz Joachim Herz (15 June 1924 – 18 October 2010) was a German opera director and manager. He learned at the Komische Oper Berlin as an assistant to Walter Felsenstein. His major stations were the Leipzig Opera where he opened the new house with Wa ...

, Sigrid Kehl, Gert Bahner, Andreas Pieske and Helmut Ernst, Heinz Krause-Graumnitz) * 1978

Kurt Masur Kurt Masur (; 18 July 192719 December 2015) was a German Conducting, conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewand ...

, Irmgard Horlbeck-Kappler, Ulrich Hachulla, Rundfunk-Kinderchor Leipzig, Gertrud Oertel, Helmut Richter,

Günter Meißner Günter Meißner (3 July 1936 – 19 November 2015) was a German art historian, who became known as editor-in-chief and publisher of the ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon''. Life Born in Hanover, Meißner studierte am Kunsthistorischen Institut de ...

and Eberhardt Klemm * 1979 Dietrich Burger, Horst Förster, Gert Gütschow, Karl-Wilhelm Hahnemann, Gunter Preuß, Henry Schumann, Siegfried Thiele,

Werner Wolf Werner Wolf (15 March 1925 – 23 December 2019) was a German musicologist and music critic. The acknowledged Richard Wagner, Wagner researcher was co-editor of ''Sämtlicher Briefe'' of the composer from 1967 to 1979. He also presented several op ...

, Leipziger Opernchor, Gewandhaus Bläserquintett, Akademisches Orchester Leipzig * 1980 Gerhard Bosse, Günter Lohse, Gotthard Müller, Helmut Bartuschek, Günter Horlbeck, Günther Garbe, Olaf Didam, Karl-Max Kober and Fritz Kämpfer * 1981

Rosemarie Lang Rosemarie Lang (21 May 1947 – 12 January 2017) was a German operatic mezzo-soprano. Life Born in Grünstädtel, Lang studied at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig with Elisabeth Breul, Eva Schubert-Hoffmann and Helga Forner. At the ...

, Karl Ottomar Treibmann, Karl Mehlich, Elisabeth Schulz-Semrau, Günter Richter, Ulrike Oelzner, Thomas Oelzner, Leipziger Synagogalchor (Ltg. Helmut Klotz), Georg Antosch, Günter Hofmann and Boris Prokrowski * 1982 Walter Eichenberg, Hans-Joachim Förster, Friedrich Schenker, Jürgen Lehmann, Erich Gerberding, Manfred Stephan, Monika Winkler and Horst Galle * 1983 Leipziger Hornquartett, Egbert Herfurth, Wolfgang Peuker,

Udo Klement Udo Fritz Peter Klement (born 12 January 1936) is a German musicologist and music critic. Life Klement, non-denominational, was born in 1936 in Dresden as the son of a gear cutter and an agricultural worker and saleswoman. He attended the Dresdn ...

* 1984 Karl-Georg Kayser, Gottfried Richter,

MDR Sinfonieorchester The MDR-Sinfonieorchester (MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra) is a German radio orchestra based in Leipzig. It is the radio orchestra of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, the public broadcaster for the German states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony ...

, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rolf Seidel, Gisela Keller-Oechelhaeuser, Gert Pötzschig, Evelyn Richter, Peter Gosse, Karl Zumpe, Werner Bachmann, Günter Neubert and Horst Pieroh * 1985

Hans Grüß Hans Ludwig Kurt Reinhold Grüß (4 March 1929 – 24 November 2001) was a German musicologist and ensemble leader. Life Childhood and studies He spent his childhood and adolescence in Freiberg since his father taught as professor of mathem ...

, Adel Karasholi, Věnceslava Hrubá-Freiberger, Rudolf Riemer, Arnd Schultheiß, Roselind Czernetzky, Ute Holstein, Rainer Behrens and Günter Latsch * 1986 Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler, Wolfgang Hauswald, Roland Seiffarth, Günter Schwarzlose, Heinz Zander, Dieter Nentwig, Angela Stachowa, Dieter Gleisberg and Peter Reichel * 1987 Peter Sylvester,

Hans-Joachim Rotzsch Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (25 April 1929 – 25 September 2013) was a German choral conductor, conducting the Thomanerchor from 1972 until 1991 as the fifteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He was also a tenor and an academic teacher. Bi ...

Frank Schöbel Frank Schöbel (born 11 December 1942, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany) is a German musician. He was one of the most successful pop singers in socialist East Germany (GDR), and has continued to perform even after German reunification. Career As the sec ...

* 1988 GewandhausKinderchor, Jürgen Kurth, Roger Rössing and Renate Rössing * 1989 Evelyn Richter,

Berndt Stübner Berndt Stübner (16 February 1947 – 2 June 2022) was a German actor, puppet maker, playwright and theatre director. Life and career Born in Leipzig, Stübner already participated as a child in the in Leipzig (1958–1962) and in 1961 in the ...

Arno Rink Arno Rink (26 September 1940 – 5 September 2017) was a German painter. He was accepted to the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in 1962 and studied under Werner Tübke, Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Harry Blume. He is associated with t ...

References

{{Reflist Culture in Leipzig German visual arts awards Orders, decorations, and medals of East Germany Awards established in 1959