German Music Authors' Prize Explained

The German Music Authors' Prize (German: Deutscher Musikautorenpreis) is a German music prize that has been awarded since 2009 by German collective rights association GEMA. It is awarded to composers and lyricists for their outstanding achievements. Under the motto "Authors honor authors" (German: Autoren ehren Autoren), the winners are chosen by an independent jury of composers, lyricists and producers from all genres. Amongst the ten categories awarded, only the Young Talents category comes with a monetary prize of 10,000 Euro.

Recipients

2009

The ceremony took place on 28 May 2009 in Berlin, at the "axica" conference center.

• Composition Film music: Martin Böttcher
• Composition Pop/Rock: Peter Fox
• Lyrics Pop/Rock: Judith Holofernes
• Composition Independent:
• Lyrics Hip-Hop: Die Fantastischen Vier
• Composition Music Theatre: Detlev Glanert
• Composition Symphonic: Manfred Trojahn
• Most Successful Work of the Year: Annette Humpe
• Young Talent Award: Kai-Uwe Kolkhorst
• Lifetime achievement: Peter Thomas

2010

The ceremony took place on 22 April 2010 in Berlin, at the "axica" conference center.

• Composition Dance: Alex Christensen
• Lyrics Schlager: Joachim Horn-Bernges
• Composition Pop/Rock: David Jost, Dave Roth, Pat Benzner
• Lyrics Pop/Rock: Jan Delay
• Composition Jazz: Nils Wogram
• Composition Instrumental music: Rebecca Saunders
• Composition Experimental music: Carola Bauckholt
• Most Successful Work of the Year: Silbermond
• Young Talent Award:
• Lifetime achievement: Michael Kunze

2011

The ceremony took place on 14 April 2011 in Berlin, at the .^[1]

• Composition Instrumental music: York Höller
• Composition Opera/Song: Aribert Reimann
• Composition Film music:
• Composition Pop: Annette Humpe, Adel Tawil,, Sebastian Kirchner (Ich + Ich)
• Composition Rock: Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs (Scorpions)
• Lyrics Singer-songwriter/song: Reinhard Mey
• Lyrics Schlager/Volkstümliche Musik: Jutta Staudenmayer
• Most Successful Work of the Year:, (Unheilig)
• Young Talent Award:
• Lifetime achievement: Hans Werner Henze

2012

The ceremony took place on 24 May 2012 in Berlin, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.^[2]

• Composition Film music:
• Lyrics Children's song:
• Composition Jazz: Tied & Tickled Trio (Markus Acher, Micha Acher,)
• Composition Experimental music: Georg Katzer
• Composition Religious music: Dieter Schnebel
• Lyrics Pop:
• Composition Rock: (Catharina Sieland)
• Young Talent Award: Sarah Nemtsov
• Most Successful Work of the Year: Dieter Bohlen
• Lifetime achievement: James Last

2013

The ceremony took place on 25 April 2013 in Berlin, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.^[3]

• Composition Rock/Pop: Die Toten Hosen
• Composition Film music: Annette Focks
• Lyrics Pop:
• Lyrics Hip-Hop: Deichkind
• Composition Symphonic: Jörg Widmann
• Composition Art song:
• Composition Dance/Elektro: Yann Peifer & Manuel Reuter
• Young Talent Award: & Jan Miserre
• Most Successful Work of the Year: Die Toten Hosen – Tage wie diese
• Lifetime achievement: Klaus Huber

2014

The ceremony took place on 8 May 2014 in Berlin, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

• Composition Jazz:
• Composition Film music: Martin Todsharow
• Composition Elektro: Robot Koch
• Composition Solo concert: Isabel Mundry
• Lyrics Vernacular:
• Composition Contemporary choir music: Charlotte Seither
• Lyrics Pop/Rock: Bosse
• Young Talent Award: Marko Nikodijević
• Most Successful Work of the Year: Sportfreunde Stiller – Applaus, Applaus
• Lifetime achievement: Udo Jürgens

2015

The ceremony took place on 21 May 2015 in Berlin, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.^[4]

• Composition Pop: Tobias Kuhn
• Composition Hip-Hop: Farhot
• Composition Music Theatre: Helmut Oehring
• Composition Orchestra: Adriana Hölszky
• Composition Audiovisual media:
• Lyrics Pop/Rock: Wolfgang Niedecken
• Lyrics Schlager:
• Young Talent Award: (Eleni Zafiriadou)
• Most Successful Work of the Year: Mark Forster, Sido,, Daniel Nitt und Philipp Steinke – Au revoir
• Lifetime achievement: Helmut Lachenmann

2016

The ceremony took place on 12 May 2016 in Berlin, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.^[5]

• Composition Pop/Rock: Sonja Glass
• Composition Jazz/Crossover: Tini Thomsen
• Lyrics Hip-Hop: Marten Laciny (Marteria/Marsimoto)
• Composition Ensemble Music: Enno Poppe
• Composition Music with voice:
• Composition Audiovisual media:
• Lyrics Singer-songwriter: Sven Regener (Element of Crime)
• Young Talent award: Jagoda Szmytka
• Most Successful Work of the Year: Andreas Bourani,,, Marek Pompetzki,, Paul Würdig – Astronaut
• Lifetime achievement: Martin Böttcher

2017

• Composition Audiovisual media: &
• Composition Hip-Hop:
• Composition Musik Für Musiktheater: Anno Schreier
• Composition Rock/Pop: Wallis Bird
• Composition Symphonic: Olga Neuwirth
• Text Schlager:
• Text Musikkabarett:
• Most Successful Work of the Year: Kerstin Ott
• Young Talent award: Von Wegen Lisbeth
• Lifetime achievement: Sofia Gubaidulina

2018

• Composition Audiovisual media:
• Composition Dance/Elektro: Martin Stimming
• Composition Voice Experiment: David Moss
• Composition Rock/Metal: Rammstein
• Composition Solo concert:
• Text Hip-Hop: (Friedrich Kautz)
• Text Pop:
• Young Talent award:, Kathrin A. Denner and
• Most Successful Work of the Year: Alice Merton and Nicolas Rebscher
• Lifetime achievement: Klaus Doldinger

2019

• Composition Audiovisual media:
• Composition Choir music: Arvo Pärt
• Composition Ensemble with electronic:
• Composition Hip Hop: Christian Kalla (Crada)
• Composition Jazz/Crossover: Martin Tingvall
• Text Kinderlied: Suli Puschban
• Text Pop/Rock: Maxim Richarz
• Young Talent award: Elif Demirezer and Mark Barden
• Most Successful Work of the Year: Namika, Simon Triebel, (around Hannes Büscher, David Vogt, Philip Böllhoff and Sipho Sililo), Simon Müller-Lerch and Alpha Diallo (Black M)
• Lifetime achievement: Wolfgang Rihm

Notes and References

1. Web site: "Autoren ehren Autoren" und machen sie zu glücklichen Gewinnern . German Music Authors' Prize . 2011 . 1 September 2012 . de . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121025022427/http://www.musikautorenpreis.de/presse/2011/presseinformationen/autoren-ehren-autoren-und-machen-sie-zu-gluecklichen-gewinnern . 25 October 2012 .
2. Web site: Musikautorenpreis 2012 . German Music Authors' Prize . 2012 . 12 January 2013 . de . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121026080416/http://www.musikautorenpreis.de/preisverleihung/2012/ . 26 October 2012 .
3. Web site: Der Deutsche Musikautorenpreis 2013: Die Gewinner . German Music Authors' Prize . 26 April 2013 . 27 May 2013 . de . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130514020109/http://www.musikautorenpreis.de/presse/pressemitteilungen-2013/pm4/ . 14 May 2013 .
4. Web site: German Music Author Awards: All The Winners . Music Business Worldwide . 26 May 2015 . 21 July 2016.
5. Web site: Winners of the German Music Authors' Prize 2016 . GEMA . 13 May 2016 . 21 July 2016.