The Sigmund Freud Prize or Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic Prose (German: Sigmund Freud-Preis für wissenschaftliche Prosa) is a German literary award named after Sigmund Freud and awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (German Academy for Language and Literature). It was first awarded in 1964. The Sigmund Freud Prize and philosophy In 1967, the Sigmund Freud Prize was awarded for the first time to a philosopher, Hannah Arendt. , ten of its recipients were philosophers writing in the German language, among them Hannah Arendt (1967), Ernst Bloch (1975), Jürgen Habermas (1976), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1979), Hans Blumenberg (1980), Odo Marquard (1984), Günther Anders (1992), Kurt Flasch (2000), Klaus Heinrich (2002), and Peter Sloterdijk (2005). The Sigmund Freud Prize is amongst the most prestigious academic prizes in Germany. Winners 1964 Hugo Friedrich, classicist 1965 Adolf Portmann, zoologist 1966 Emil Staiger, scholar of German language and literature 1967 Hannah Arendt, philosopher 1968 Karl Barth, Theologian 1969 Bruno Snell, linguist (ancient languages) 1970 Werner Heisenberg, physicist 1971 Werner Kraft, literary historian 1972 Erik Wolf, jurist (lawyer) 1973 Karl Rahner, theologian 1974 Günter Busch, art historian 1975 Ernst Bloch, philosopher 1976 Jürgen Habermas, philosopher 1977 Harald Weinrich, classicist 1978 Siegfried Melchinger, theatrical historian 1979 Hans-Georg Gadamer, philosopher 1980 Hans Blumenberg, philosopher 1981 Kurt von Fritz, linguist (ancient languages) 1982 Arno Borst, historian 1983 Peter Graf Kielmansegg, political scientist 1984 Odo Marquard, philosopher 1985 Hermann Heimpel, historian 1986 Hartmut von Hentig, education studies 1987 Gerhard Ebeling, theologian 1988 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, physicist and philosopher 1989 Ralf Dahrendorf, political scientist 1990 Walther Killy, literary scholar 1991 Werner Hofmann, art historian 1992 Günther Anders, philosopher 1993 Norbert Miller, literary scholar 1994 Peter Gülke, musicologist 1995 Gustav Seibt, historian 1996 Peter Wapnewski, scholar of German language and literature 1997 Paul Parin, ethno-psychologist 1998 Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, psychologist 1999 Reinhart Koselleck, historian 2000 Kurt Flasch, philosopher 2001 Horst Bredekamp, art historian 2002 Klaus Heinrich, philosopher 2003 Walter Burkert, classicist 2004 Karl Schlögel, historian 2005 Peter Sloterdijk, philosopher 2006 Johannes Fried, historian 2007 Josef H. Reichholf, evolutionary biologist 2008 Michael Hagner, physician and historian of science 2009 Julia Voss, art historian and journalist 2010 Luca Giuliani, archeologist 2011 Arnold Esch, historian 2012 Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, lawyer 2013 Angelika Neuwirth, Arabist 2014 Jürgen Osterhammel, historian 2015 , linguist 2016 Jan Assmann, Egyptologist 2017 Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, historian 2018 , art historian 2019 , philosopher 2020 Ute Frevert, historian 2021 Hubert Wolf,