| 1949 | De Harris Grant |
| 1967 | Louise Aeschlimann Grant |
| 1974/75 | DAAD Grant, Berlin |
| 1997 | Receives city of Goslar’s Kaiserring |
| 1998 | Prize of the Bürgi-Willert-Foundation |
| 2005 | Receives honorary citizen award from the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel |
| 2006 | Receives honorary citizen award of the commune Rüschegg |