The Sigmund Freud Prize, also called the Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic Prose (German: Sigmund Freud-Preis für wissenschaftliche Prosa), is a German literary award named for Sigmund Freud. It is given by the German Academy for Language and Literature. The prize was first given in 1964.

The Sigmund Freud Prize and philosophy

In 1967, the Sigmund Freud Prize was awarded for the first time to a philosopher, Hannah Arendt. By 2006, ten of its recipients were philosophers writing in the German language, including Hannah Arendt (1967), Ernst Bloch (1975), Jürgen Habermas (1976), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1979), Hans Blumenberg (1980), Odo Marquard (1984), Günther Anders (1992), Kurt Flasch (2000), Klaus Heinrich (2002), and Peter Sloterdijk (2005).

The Sigmund Freud Prize is one of the most renowned academic prizes in Germany.