The Max Reger Art Prize was an art prize of the Bezirk Suhl in the German Democratic Republic. It was awarded annually on 7 October on the occasion of Tag der Republik to personalities from the fields of science and art in the district of Suhl. The prize was named after the composer and conductor Max Reger, who lived in the former residential town of Meiningen from 1911 to 1915 and conducted the Meiningen Court Orchestra there until 1914.Kuratorium Meiningen (ed.): Lexikon zur Stadtgeschichte Meiningen. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, . pages 178/179. This humanistic tradition of the town of Meiningen expired with the German Reunification Treaty in 1990.
The award ceremony used to take place in the Marble Hall of the Elisabethenburg Palace in Meiningen. Among others, the Max Reger Chamber Music Ensemble was engaged for the ceremony. The prize was endowed with 3000 marks of the GDR and consisted of a bronze medal in a leather case as well as a representative leather folder with a certificate. The prize had different classes, including the classes "Literature" and "Theatre".
Laureates Konrad Mann (conductor, pianist) 1962 Walter WernerWerner, Walter In Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Werenberg – Wiedling Walter de Gruyter, 2011, . (writer) 1962. Olaf Koch (conductor) (conductor) 1964 Werner Schwarz (painter, graphic artist) 1965. Wolfgang Hocke (conductor) 1967 Curt Letsche (writer) 1969 Fritz Kühn (art smith, sculptor) 1970 Kurt BaumgartenGrafik Museum Bad Steben (painter) 1971 Günther Hofmann (opera singer and director) for theatre 1975 Chris HornbogenHornbogen, Chris In Kürschners Deutscher Literaturkalender 1988. de Gruyter, 1988. (man of letters) 1977. Meininger Chorgemeinschaft Franz Grothe (composer) 1978 Horst Jäger (author) for Literature 1979 Joachim Knappe (writer) 1979 Chamber Orchestra of the Technische Universität Ilmenau 1979 Landolf ScherzerScherzer, Landolf on Lese-Zeichen] retrieved 28 January 2021. (writer) 1980 1985 Peter Ehrlicher (singer) 1988 Neuhaus am Rennsteig folk ensemble 1989 Choir Community Krayenberg
The Max Reger Art Prize is not to be confused with the Main-Franconian Art Prize as a Nazi honour, which was also called the Max Reger Prize.
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