The Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig (German: Gutenberg-Preis der Stadt Leipzig) is an award in memory of Johannes Gutenberg. Since 1959, the prize honor personalities or institutions that make outstanding contributions to the promotion of the art of books. Awarded people and Institutions have set standards with their artistic, technical, or scientific achievements, especially in the areas of typography, book illustration, book publishing, and book production.
The award is in the Leipzig tradition as a historic center for print quality and care for book art.
Since 1993, the Gutenberg Prize has been alternated with the Gutenberg Prize of the City of Mainz and the Gutenberg International Society annually. The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.
Winners
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1959: Horst Erich Wolter 1960: Karl Gossow; Offizin Andersen Nexö Leipzig 1961: Albert Kapr; Erfurt printing company 1962: Werner Klemke; Typoart Dresden / Leipzig 1963: Solomon Benediktinowitsch Telingater, Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke 1964: University of Graphics and Book Art of Leipzig 1965: Lajos Lengyel, Jan Tschichold; Large-scale graphic company Völkerfreundschaft Dresden 1966: Hans Baltzer, Bruno Rebner 1967: publishing house Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig 1968: Walter Schiller, Vasil Jontschev; Interdruck Leipzig 1969: Bruno Kaiser; Röderdruck Leipzig 1970: German Museum of Books and Writing Leipzig; Graphic arts institution H.F. Jütte Leipzig 1971: Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Gontscharow 1972: Horst Kunze, Roman Tomaszewski 1973: Hellmuth Tschörtner 1974: Insel publishing house "Anton Kippenberg" Leipzig, publishing house of the art Dresden 1975: Vadim Vladimirovich Lazursky; Stock Exchange Association of German Booksellers in Leipzig 1976: Joachim Kölbel 1977: Horst Schuster, György Haiman, Siegfried Hempel, Hans Marquardt 1978: HAP Grieshaber 1979: Gert Wunderlich 1980: Edition Leipzig 1981: Hans Fronius 1982: Tibor Szántó, Helmut Selle 1983: Siegfried Hoffmann 1984: Elizabeth Shaw 1985: Dmitri Spiridonowitsch Bisti 1986: Jiri Salamoun 1987: Fritz Helmut Landshoff 1988: Lothar Reher 1989: Yü Bing-Nan, Klaus Ensikat 1990: Heinz Hellmis 1991: Oldrich Hlavsa 1992: Gutenberg Book Guild; Jürgen Seuss, Hans Peter Willberg 1993: Kurt Löb 1995: Wilhelm Neufeld 1997: Květa Pacovská 1999: Jost Hochuli 2001: Irma Boom 2003: Wolf Erlbruch 2005: Alvaro Sotillo 2007: Ahn Sang-soo 2009: Uwe Loesch 2011: Karl-Georg Hirsch 2013: Friedrich Pfäfflin 2015: Jan Philipp Reemtsma 2017: Klaus Detjen 2019: Fonts for Freedom
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