Deutscher Tanzpreis

Award

Deutscher Tanzpreis
Awarded for	Artistic dance in Germany
Sponsored by	Dachverband Tanz Deutschland
Date	1983
Country	Germany
Reward(s)	€20,000
First awarded	1983
Website	www.deutschertanzpreis.de/home/

The Deutscher Tanzpreis (German Dance Prize) is a prestigious prize for artistic dance in Germany. It has been awarded annually since 1983.^[1]

The Deutscher Berufsverband für Tanzpädagogik awarded the prize until 2012.^[2]^[3] From 2013 to 2017, it was awarded by an association, Förderverein Tanzkunst Deutschland.^[3] In 2017 the German Dance Prize was handed over to the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland e.V. (DTD) as sponsor.^[3] The Dachverband realizes the award ceremony in close cooperation with the city of Essen. It is awarded to personalities who earned special merits regarding the artistic dance in Germany. From 2005 to 2016, an additional award, Zukunft (Future) has been given to promising young artists in the categories female dancer, male dancer and choreographer. An additional Anerkennungspreis (Prize of acknowledgement) has been given for special merits from 2005 to 2016.

Recipients

German Dance Prize

1983: Gret Palucca
1983: Tatjana Gsovsky
1984: Kurt Peters
1985: Gustav Blank
1986: Heinz Laurenzen
1987: José de Udaeta
1988: John Neumeier
1989: Marcia Haydée
1990: Karl Heinz Taubert [de]
1991: Konstanze Vernon
1992: Horst Koegler
1993: Hans van Manen
1994: Maurice Béjart
1995: Pina Bausch
1996: Tom Schilling [de]
1997: Philippe Braunschweig
1998: Birgit Keil
1999: Uwe Scholz
2000: Fritz Höver
2001: Hans Werner Henze
2003: Gregor Seyffert [de]
2004: William Forsythe
2005: Hans Herdlein
2006: Reid Anderson
2007: Susanne Linke
2008: John Neumeier
2009: Heinz Spoerli
2010: Georgette Tsinguirides
2011: Egon Madsen
2012: Ivan Liška [de]
2013: Ulrich Roehm [de]
2014: Bertram Müller [de]
2015: Peter Breuer [de]
2016: Martin Puttke
2018: Nele Hertling
2019: Gert Weigelt [de]^[4]
2020: Raimund Hoghe^[5]
2021: Heide-Marie Härtel [de]^[6]^[7]
2022: Marco Goecke and Christoph Winkler [de]^[8]
2024: Sasha Waltz^[9]

Award for outstanding artistic developments in dance

2018: Ballett des Staatstheaters Nürnberg
2019: Jo Parkes / Mobile Dance
2020: Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft (APiG) and Raphael Hillebrand
2021: Claire Cunningham and Ursula Borrmann
2022: Verein Aktion Tanz^[10]^[11]

Award for outstanding performer

2018: Meg Stuart and her Company Damaged Goods
2019: Isabelle Schad
2020: Friedemann Vogel
2021: Adil Laraki

Lifetime Achievement Award

2022: Reinhild Hoffmann^[8]

Recipients of Deutscher Tanzpreis Zukunft

From 2005 to 2015 (with a break in 2008), the German Dance Prize "Future" was also awarded to up-and-coming artists who "have already attract attention"

2005: Polina Semionova, Flavio Salamanca (dance), Thiago Bordin (choreography)
2006: Alicia Amatrian, Jason Reilly (dance), Christian Spuck [de] (choreography)
2007: Katja Wünsche [de], Marian Walter (dance), Terence Kohler (choreography)
2008: no award
2009: Marijn Rademaker (dance)
2010: Iana Salenko (dance)
2011: Daniel Camargo (dance), Eric Gauthier (choreography)
2012: Gözde Özgür (dance)
2013: Bundesjugendballett Hamburg
2014: Demis Volpi (choreography)
2015: Elisa Badenes (dance)
2016: Marcos Menha (dance); Andrey Kaydanovskiy (choreography)

Anerkennungspreise

2005: Royston Maldoom (choreography, dance teacher)
2007: Uschi Ziegler
2010: Susanne Menck & Christine Eckerle
2011: Achim Thorwald
2013: Tobias Ehinger (Ballet manager)
2014: Nina Hümpel
2015: Ricardo Fernando (choreography, ballet director)
2016: Elisabeth Exner-Grave, Liane Simmel, Eileen M. Wanke (dance medical professionals)

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c "Dachverband Tanz: Deutscher Tanzpreis". Dachverband Tanz (in German). Retrieved 6 May 2022.
^ "Deutscher Tanzpreis 2019 in Essen verliehen". neue musikzeitung (in German). Regensburg. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
^ "Deutscher Tanzpreis". Süddeutsche Zeitung. Munich. 27 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
^ Drees, Stephanie (29 April 2020). "Deutscher Tanzpreis an Heide-Marie Härtel". nachtkritik.de (in German). Retrieved 16 June 2021.
^ "Bremer Institutsleiterin Härtel erhält Deutschen Tanzpreis – neue musikzeitung". nmz (in German). Retrieved 16 June 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Deutscher Tanzpreis für Marco Goecke und Christoph Winkler – neue musikzeitung". nmz (in German). Retrieved 6 May 2022.
^ "Ein Lob der Resilienz". Sueddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 24 April 2024.
^ Weickmann, Dorion (4 May 2022). "Deutscher Tanzpreis an Marco Goecke und Christoph Winkler". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 6 May 2022.
^ "Aktion Tanz". Aktion Tanz (in German). 22 April 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.