The Hanseatic Goethe Prize (German: Hansischer Goethe-Preis) was a German literary and artistic award, given biennially from 1949 to 2005 to a figure of European stature. The prize money was €25,000. On the occasion of Goethe's 200th birthday, the Freiherr vom Stein Foundation in Hamburg endowed a cultural prize "for important personalities in the intellectual life". The prize was awarded by the foundation of the Hamburg businessman Alfred Toepfer, Alfred Toepfer Foundation F. V. S.. Recipients 1951 Martin Buber 1955 T. S. Eliot 1956 Walter Gropius 1958 Paul Tillich 1961 Benjamin Britten 1967 Salvador de Madariaga 1969 (French Germanist) 1971 Giorgio Strehler 1973 Manès Sperber 1974 Hanns Lilje 1975 Carlo Schmid 1989 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker 1995 Nikolaus Harnoncourt 1997 Harald Weinrich 1999 Ryszard Kapuściński 2001 Pina Bausch 2003 Cees Nooteboom 2005 Ariane Mnouchkine (refused, because of Toepfer's activities in and for the Third Reich) See also German literature List of literary awards List of poetry awards List of years in literature List of years in poetry Goethe Prize References Further reading German literary awards Johann Wolfgang von Goethe