Goethe Medal
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The Goethe Medal, also known as the Goethe-Medal, is a yearly prize given by the Goethe Institute to honor non-Germans for meritorious contributions in the spirit of the Institute. It is an official decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The prize is given on March 22, the anniversary of Goethe's death. The first awards were made in 1955. In the intervening years, through 2006, a total of 312 women and men from 57 countries have been so honored.
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Recent recipients
2006
- Vera San Payo de Lemos
- Giwi Margwelaschwili
- Said
2005
- Samuel Assefa
- Ruth Klüger
- Dmytro Volodymyrovych Satonsky
- Yoko Tawada
- Simone Young
2004
- Mohan Agashe
- Imre Kertész
- Paul Michael Lützeler
- Anatoli A. Michailow
- Sergio Paulo Rouanet
2003
2002
- Werner Michael Blumenthal
- Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt
- Francisek Grucza
- Touradj Rahnema
- Antonio Skármeta
2001
- Adonis
- Sofia Gubaidulina
- Gerardo Marotta
- Werner Spies
2000
- Nicholas Boyle
- György Konrád
- Daniel Libeskind
- Sara Sayin
- George Tabori
- Abdel-Ghaffar Mikkawy
Other notable recipients
- Agnes Bluhm 1940
- Joseph Wackerle 1940
- Pierre Bertaux 1970
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Bruno Bettelheim
- Pierre Boulez
- Gordon A. Craig 1987
- Giorgio Strehler
- Ernst Gombrich
- Jan Hoet
- György Ligeti
- Sir Karl Raimund Popper
- Michel Tournier
- István Szabó
- Billy Wilder
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