The Würzburg Cultural Prize (Kulturpreis der Stadt Würzburg) is an award by the city of Würzburg. It is awarded to people who are connected to Würzburg by birth, life or work and who worked towards its cultural life ("... eine durch Geburt, Leben oder Werk mit der Stadt Würzburg verbundene Persönlichkeit (bzw. eine Künstlergruppe/Ensemble o. ä.) erhalten, die durch ihr künstlerisches Schaffen herausragend gewirkt oder sich in besonderer Weise um das kulturelle Leben der Stadt verdient gemacht hat").
Recipients
Recipients have included: 1965: Friedrich Schnack, writer 1966: Emy Roeder, sculptor and artist 1967: Eugen Jochum, conductor 1968: Fritz Koenig, sculptor 1970: Günter Jena, organist and choral director 1971: Josef Versl, artist 1972: , architect 1973: , actor and artist 1974: Otto Sonnleitner, Bildhauer 1975: , artist 1976: , author 1977: , artist 1978: Rudolf Köckert, musician 1979: , museum director 1980: Werner Dettelbacher, author 1981: Yehuda Amichai, poet 1984: Wilhelm Greiner, artist 1985: Siegfried Fink, percussionist 1986: , cathedral music director 1987: Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano 1988: Bertold Hummel, composer 1989: , sculptor 1990: Lothar C. Forster, sculptor 1991: Curd Lessig, artist 1992: Dieter Stein, artist 1994: Klaus Hinrich Stahmer, musician and composer 1996: Joachim Koch, sculptor 1998: Hans-Georg Noack, author 2000: Norbert Glanzberg, composer 2002: , cabarettist 2004: , church music director 2006: Bernd Glemser, pianist 2007: , sculptor 2009: 2010: Diana Damrau, soprano 2012: Mathias Repiscus, stage director 2014: Angelika Summa, sculptor 2015: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, literary theorist