The Recipients of Piscator Award

2021
Alhierd Bacharevic

2021
Dr. h.c. Irène Lejeune
(Honorary Award)

2021
Prof. Dr. phil. h.c. mult. Erich Lejeune
(Honorary Award)

2021
Hansjörg Utzerath
(Life Achievement Award)

2020
Piotr Beczala

2020
Kim Kowalke
(Honorary Award)

2019
Ayad Akhtar

2019
Katherine Goldsmith
(Honorary Award)

2019
Clifford Goldsmith
(Honorary Award)

2019
Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler
(Life Achievement Award)

2018
J.T. Rogers

2018
Jolana Blau
(Honorary Award)

2017
James C. Nicola

2017
Marina Kellen French
(Honorary Award)

2016
Bartlett Sher

2016
Sachi Liebergesell
(Honorary Award)

2016
Prof. Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte
(Life Achievement Award)

2015
John Guare

2015
Cesare L. Santeramo
(Honorary Award)

2015
Dr. Robert J. Campbell
(Honorary Award)

2014
Harold Prince

2014
Vartan Gregorian
(Honorary Award)

2013
André Bishop

2013
Barbara Goldsmith
(Honorary Award)

2012
Thomas Hampson

2012
Louise Hirschfeld Cullman
and Lewis B. Cullman
(Honorary Award)

2011
E.L. Doctorow

2011
Peter Gelb,
General Manager Metropolitan Opera
(Honorary Award)

2010
Martina Arroyo

2010
Carol Kahn Strauss,
Executive Director Leo Baeck Institute
(Honorary Award)

2010
Luise Rainer
(Life Achievement Award)

2010
Christine Ostermayer
(Jubilee Award)

2009
Marian Seldes

2009
Lya Friedrich Pfeifer,
President Max Kade Foundation
(Honorary Award)

2008
Edward Albee

2008
Meera T. Gandhi
(Honorary Award)

2007
Deborah Voigt

2007
Alexandra H.M. Kauka
(Honorary Award)

2007
Marta Eggerth
(Life Achievement Award)

2006
Elaine Stritch

2006
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
(Honorary Award)

2005
Ben Gazzara

2005
Donald M. Kendall Sr.
(Honorary Award)

2004
Kitty Carlisle Hart

2004
Dr. Johann Georg Prince of Hohenzollern
(Honorary Award)

2003
Anna Moffo

2003
Kurt F. Viermetz
(Honorary Award)

2002
Kurt Masur

2002
Dr. Bernd-A. von Maltzan
(Honorary Award)

2001
Anne Jackson

2001
Eli Wallach

2001
Ellen Hedda Landesmann
(Honorary Award)

2001
Peter Landesmann
(Honorary Award)

2000
Ellen Burstyn

2000
Anna-Maria and
Stephen M. Kellen
(Honorary Award)

1999
Tony Randall

1999
Mary Sharp Cronson
(Honorary Award)

1998
Uta Hagen

1998
Martha W. Coigney
(Honorary Award)

1997
Lanford Wilson

1997
Prof. Gabriele Henkel
(Honorary Award)

1996
Marshall W. Mason

1996
Lucille Lortel
(Honorary Award)

1995
Prof. Dr. Margret Herzfeld-Sander

1995
Prof. Dr. Volkmar Sander

1994
William M. Hoffman

1993
Klaus Dieter Wilke

1990
Robert Wilson

1989
Peter Zadek

1988
Judith Malina

1987
Giorgio Strehler

1986
Lee Grant