Clara Zetkin Women's Prize

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With the Clara Zetkin Women's Prize , Die Linke honors outstanding achievements by women in society and politics . The prize was awarded for the first time in 2011. The award of the prize is intended to "increase public awareness of the stubborn and unselfish engagement of women and encourage them to use their own abilities and strengths for a more just society". The prize is endowed with 3000 €.

designation

Clara Zetkin in the 1920s during her time as a member of the Reichstag

The women's award is named after the socialist German politician, women's rights activist and co- creator of the women's movement Clara Zetkin (* July 5, 1857 ; † June 20, 1933 ).

Award ceremony

Prize winners 2011
  • 2012: The 2012 Clara Zetkin Women's Prize went to the Düsseldorf project No pregnancy is illegal - STAY! . DIE LINKE awarded Esther Bejarano a special prize in 2012 for her life's work.
  • 2013: The Clara Zetkin Women's Prize 2013 was awarded to the Stille Straße project . The senior citizens of the senior citizens' meeting place Stille Straße 10 in Berlin-Pankow fought last year with an occupation for the preservation of their facility. The 2013 honorary award went to sociologist and philosopher Frigga Haug .
  • 2014: The Clara Zetkin Women's Prize 2014 was awarded to Women in Exile on March 7, 2014 ; the honorary award went to Inge Hannemann .
    Women in Exile is an initiative of refugee women founded in Brandenburg in 2002, which made the experience that refugee women are double victims of discrimination; As asylum seekers, they are both marginalized by racist laws and discriminated against as women.
    Inge Hannemann became known because, as an employee of a job center , she openly criticized the practice of sanctions and spoke out clearly in favor of the abolition of Hartz IV sanctions.
  • 2015: The Clara Zetkin Women's Prize 2015 was awarded to journalist Nareen Shammo for her initiative for Ezidies around the world and Yazda Center . The initiative supports Yazidi girls and women in northern Iraq who are threatened by the Islamic State .
  • 2016: The Clara Zetkin Women's Prize 2016 went to the Lilith Women's Center in Halberstadt, a free and sheltered space for girls and opportunities for encounters and contacts for women and girls of different nationalities, age groups, social class and lifestyles; the special prize for political intervention went to the campaign against sexism and racism without exception .
  • 2017: The German-Polish project Ciocia Basia , which advocates women's right to abortion, was awarded the Clara Zetkin Women's Prize 2017 . The Clara-Zetkin Honorary Award went to the human rights activist and HDP MP Feleknas Uca .
  • 2018: The Clara Zetkin Women's Prize 2018 went to the doctor Kristina Hänel for her commitment to the right to information about abortions. The project award went to the Yezidi women's council in Iraq TAJE.
  • 2019: The Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis 2019 went to the project Heimatlos in Köln eV, which supports homeless women and the captain of Solidarity at Sea Pia Klemp received the honorary award for social engagement.
  • 2020: The Clara Zetkin Women's Prize 2020 went to the women's initiative in Torgau.

See also

Clara Zetkin Prize of the IG Metall women Heidenheim an der Brenz . The prize has been awarded every two years since 2007, on March 8th, to a woman who has made a “sustainable contribution to women's work”.

Web links

Commons : Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Die Linke: Announcement of the Clara Zetkin Prize 2012
  2. ↑ Die Linke: Why did we choose Clara Zetkin as the namesake of the LINKE Women's Prize?
  3. ^ Die Linke: Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis 2011. 2011, accessed on April 3, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Project "STAY!" received the LINKE women's award
  5. ↑ Clara Zetkin Women's Prize 2013 to Frigga Haug and the Stille Straße project
  6. ↑ Die Linke: Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis 2014. 2014, accessed on April 3, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis In: taz , March 9, 2015, accessed on March 5, 2016
  8. ^ Die Linke: Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis 2016. April 3, 2016, accessed on April 3, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Die Linke: Clara Zetkin Women's Prize 2017. Accessed March 14, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Die Linke: Clara Zetkin Women's Prize 2018. Accessed March 14, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis 2019 die-linke.de, accessed on March 24, 2020
  12. ↑ Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis 2020. die-linke.de, accessed on March 24, 2020 .
  13. ^ Clara Zetkin Prize . Retrieved March 21, 2011.