Aleksandr Men Prize
The Aleksandr Men Prize was donated by the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and the All-Russian Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow and has been awarded since 1995 for intercultural mediation between Russia and Western Europe . The prize, endowed with 2,500 euros, is awarded in memory of the Russian Orthodox religious philosopher Aleksander Men ( Russian Александр Владимирович Мень ), who was murdered in 1990 under unexplained circumstances.
The religious philosopher, priest and dissident Alexander Men is one of the leading Russian Orthodox theologians of the 20th century. Men has been under surveillance by the KGB since the 1960s . After the fall of the Soviet Union , it gained great popularity, but was attacked by Russian nationalists and anti-Semites because of its Jewish origins and ecumenical views.
On September 9, 1990, he was killed by an assassin with an ax on the way to church early in the morning in Moscow . The government set up a commission of inquiry, the results of which were never presented. The chairman of the commission was killed.
List of award winners
- 1995 Kathinka Dittrich van Weringh
- 1996 Lev Kopelev
- 1997 Wolfgang Kasack
- 1998 Tschingis Aitmatow
- 1999 Gerd Ruge
- 2000 Mikhail Gorbachev
- 2001 Otto Graf Lambsdorff
- 2002 Anatoly Pristavkin
- 2003 Alexander Steininger
- 2004 Daniil Granin
- 2005 Ernst-Jörg von Studnitz
- 2006 Solomon Apt
- 2007 Christina Weiss
- 2008 Lyudmila Ulitskaya
- 2009 Falk Bomsdorf
- 2010 Sofia Gubaidulina
- 2011 Wolfgang Eichwede
- 2013 Goethe Institute Moscow
Web links
- Aleksandr Men Prize on the website of the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Individual evidence
- ↑ Goethe-Institut Moscow received the Alexander Men Prize ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. germania.diplo.de. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
