# Max Reger Prize

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East-German cultural prize

The **Max Reger Art Prize** was an art prize of the [Bezirk Suhl](/source/Bezirk_Suhl) in the [German Democratic Republic](/source/German_Democratic_Republic). It was awarded annually on 7 October on the occasion of [Tag der Republik](/source/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](/source/Max_Reger), who lived in the former residential town of [Meiningen](/source/Meiningen) from 1911 to 1915 and conducted the [Meiningen Court Orchestra](/source/Meiningen_Court_Orchestra) there until 1914.[1] This humanistic tradition of the town of Meiningen expired with the [German Reunification Treaty](/source/German_reunification#German_Reunification_Treaty) in 1990.

The award ceremony used to take place in the *Marble Hall* of the [Elisabethenburg Palace](/source/Elisabethenburg_Palace#Main_Wing) 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".[2]

## Laureates

- Konrad Mann (conductor, pianist) 1962

- [Walter Werner](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walter_Werner_(writer)&action=edit&redlink=1)[3] (writer) 1962.

- [Olaf Koch (conductor)](/source/Olaf_Koch_(conductor)) (conductor) 1964

- Werner Schwarz[4] (painter, graphic artist) 1965.

- [Wolfgang Hocke](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_Hocke&action=edit&redlink=1) (conductor) 1967

- [Curt Letsche](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curt_Letsche&action=edit&redlink=1) (writer) 1969

- [Fritz Kühn](/source/Fritz_K%C3%BChn) (art smith, sculptor) 1970

- Kurt Baumgarten[5] (painter) 1971

- [Günther Hofmann](/source/G%C3%BCnther_Hofmann) (opera singer and director) for *theatre* 1975

- Chris Hornbogen[6] (man of letters) 1977.

- Meininger Chorgemeinschaft

- [Franz Grothe](/source/Franz_Grothe) (composer) 1978[7]

- [Horst Jäger](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horst_J%C3%A4ger_(writer)&action=edit&redlink=1) (author) for *Literature* 1979

- [Joachim Knappe](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joachim_Knappe&action=edit&redlink=1) (writer) 1979

- Chamber Orchestra of the [Technische Universität Ilmenau](/source/Technische_Universit%C3%A4t_Ilmenau) 1979

- [Landolf Scherzer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Landolf_Scherzer&action=edit&redlink=1)[8] (writer) 1980

- [Suhler Knabenchor](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suhler_Knabenchor&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suhler_Knabenchor)] 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.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Kuratorium Meiningen (ed.): *Lexikon zur Stadtgeschichte Meiningen.* Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-9809504-4-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-9809504-4-2). pages 178/179.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Archiv_2-0)** ["Collection of Music History of the Meiningen Museums, Max Reger Archive, Meiningen"](http://musikgeschichte-meiningen.de/impressum.html). Retrieved 28 January 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Werner, Walter In *Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Werenberg – Wiedling* Walter de Gruyter, 2011, p. 152.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Staatsarchiv Meiningen](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Staatsarchiv_Meiningen&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatsarchiv_Meiningen)]

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Grafik Museum Bad Steben

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Hornbogen, Chris In *Kürschners Deutscher Literaturkalender 1988.* [de Gruyter](/source/De_Gruyter), 1988.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Grünberg-Rinkleff, Ingrid (2001). "Grothe, Franz (Johannes August)". *Grove Music Online*. [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.11836](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fgmo%2F9781561592630.article.11836).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [Scherzer, Landolf](https://web.archive.org/web/20140223101052/http://www.lesezeichen-ev.de/vs-thueringen/mitglieder/details/member/scherzer-landolf.html) on Lese-Zeichen] retrieved 28 January 2021.

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