Former prize winners

2022

Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Cambridge/USA
 Professor of Art History

Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler, Saarbrücken/Deutschland
 Printer and professor of printmaking

2020Gerhard Steidl, Göttingen/Germany
 Printer and publisher with his own publishing house
2018Alberto Manguel, Buenos Aires/Argentina
 Director of the National Library of Argentina and author
2016Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, Berlin/Germany
 Cultural manager and librarian
2014Umberto Eco, Mailand/Italien
 Writer, philosoph and media scientist
2012 Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, Washington D.C./USA
 Historian
2010 Mahendra Patel, Ahmedabad/Indien
 Indian typeface designer and professor of typography
2008 Michael Knoche, Weimar/Deutschland
 Director of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library / Foundation Weimar Classic
2006 Hubert Wolf, Münster/Deutschland
 Professor of Medieval and Modern Church History
2004Robert Darnton, New York/USA
 Historian and cultural scientist
2002Otto Rohse, Hamburg/Deutschland
 Typographer, book designer, wood engraver and engraver, publisher of the Otto-Rohse-Presse
2000Joseph M. Jacobson, Cambridge/USA
 Inventor and technologist
1998 Henri-Jean Martin, Paris/Frankreich
 Book Historian
1996John G. Dreyfus, London/Großbritannien
 Typographer and book historian
1994Paul Brainerd, Seattle/USA
 Pioneer of desktop publishing technology
1992 Ricardo José Vicent Museros, Valencia/Spanien
 Printer, publisher and founder of the first Spanish Print Museum
1989Lotte Hellinga-Querido, London/Großbritannien
 Incunabula researcher
1986Adrian Frutiger, Bremgarten-Bern/Schweiz
 Calligrapher
1983 Gerrit Willem Ovink, Amsterdam/Niederlande
 Professor of History and Aesthetics of Printing Art
1980 Helmuth Lehmann-Haupt, Columbia, MO/USA
 Book historian and university professor
1977 Rudolf Hell, Kiel/Deutschland
 Inventor and technologist
1974Hermann Zapf, Darmstadt/Deutschland
 Typgrapher and book designer
1971Henri Friedländer, Jerusalem/Israel
 Typographer
1968Giovanni Mardersteig, Verona/Italien
 Printer, font and book designer