German Music Authors' Prize
The German Music Authors' Prize 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", 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
- 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
- Composition Instrumental music: York Höller
- Composition Opera/Song: Aribert Reimann
- Composition Film music:
- Composition Pop: Annette Humpe, Adel Tawil,, Sebastian Kirchner '
- Composition Rock: Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs '
- Lyrics Singer-songwriter/song: Reinhard Mey
- Lyrics Schlager/Volkstümliche Musik: Jutta Staudenmayer
- Most Successful Work of the Year:,
- Young Talent Award:
- Lifetime achievement: Hans Werner Henze
2012
- Composition Film music:
- Lyrics Children's song:
- Composition Jazz: Tied & Tickled Trio
- Composition Experimental music: Georg Katzer
- Composition Religious music: Dieter Schnebel
- Lyrics Pop:
- Composition Rock:
- Young Talent Award: Sarah Nemtsov
- Most Successful Work of the Year: Dieter Bohlen
- Lifetime achievement: James Last
2013
- 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
- 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:
- Most Successful Work of the Year: Sportfreunde Stiller – Applaus, Applaus
- Lifetime achievement: Udo Jürgens
2015
- 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:
- Most Successful Work of the Year: Mark Forster, Sido,, Daniel Nitt und Philipp Steinke – Au revoir
- Lifetime achievement: Helmut Lachenmann
2016
- Composition Pop/Rock: Sonja Glass
- Composition Jazz/Crossover: Tini Thomsen
- Lyrics Hip-Hop: Marten Laciny
- Composition Ensemble Music: Enno Poppe
- Composition Music with voice:
- Composition Audiovisual media:
- Lyrics Singer-songwriter: Sven Regener
- 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:
- Composition Rock/Pop: Wallis Bird
- Composition Symphonic: Olga Neuwirth
- Text Schlager:
- Text Musikkabarett:
- Most Successful Work of the Year: Kerstin Ott
- Young Talent award:
- 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:
- 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
- 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, , Simon Müller-Lerch and Alpha Diallo
- Lifetime achievement: Wolfgang Rihm