Robert Schumann Prize for Literature and Music

With the Robert Schumann Prize for Literature and Music, the Academy honours personalities for an outstanding life's work in the field of literature and music. The prize, which is endowed with 15,000 euros and is awarded every two years , is sponsored by the Strecker Foundation in Mainz.

Prize winners

Year Prize winner
2012 Pierre Boulez
2014 Wolfgang Rihm
2016 Aribert Reimann
2018 Jörg Widmann