- Shakespeare Prize
The
Shakespeare Prize was an annual prize for writing or performance awarded to a British citizen by theHamburg Alfred Toepfer Foundation. First given by Alfred Toepfer in 1937 as an expression of his Anglophilia in the face of tense international conditions, the prize was awarded only twice before the outbreak ofWorld War II , to composerRalph Vaughan Williams and poetJohn Masefield . The award resumed in 1967 following the visit of Queen Elizabeth to Germany [cite news
title=Interview, Maggie Smith
work=The Observer
date=May 26th, 1991] and the last prize was awarded in 2006.Recipients
*1937Ralph Vaughan Williams
*1938John Masefield
*1967 Sir Peter Hall
*1968Graham Greene
*1969 Roy Pascal (Professor)
*1970Harold Pinter
*1971Janet Baker
*1972Paul Scofield
*1973Peter Brook
*1974Graham Sutherland
*1975John Pritchard
*1976Philip Larkin
*1977Margot Fonteyn
*1978John Dexter
*1979Tom Stoppard
*1980Roy Strong
*1981John Schlesinger
*1982Doris Lessing
*1983David Hockney
*1984Colin Davis
*1985Alec Guinness
*1986 Harold Jenkins (Professor)
*1987 Gwyneth Jones
*1988Iris Murdoch
*1989Peter Shaffer
*1990Neville Marriner
*1991Maggie Smith
*1992Richard Attenborough
*1993Julian Barnes
*1994Robert Burchfield
*1995 Sir George Christie
*1996Simon Rattle
*1997Howard Hodgkin
*1998Derek Jacobi
*1999Ian McEwan
*2000Sam Mendes
*2001Tony Cragg
*2002A. S. Byatt
*2003Matthew Bourne
*2004Paul Muldoon
*2005Richard Dawkins
*2006Bryn Terfel References
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