Courage price
The Courage Prize is a prize that is awarded in the Lower Saxon town of Bad Iburg ( Osnabrück district ) to people and institutions that have made a special contribution to the common good .
Courage Committee
The prize is awarded by the association “Komitee Courage Bad Iburg e. V. “The prize is endowed with 5000 euros and is awarded annually at the end of September. The “Komitee Courage” has existed since 1995; The initiator and honorary member of the association is Gerd Schöwing, a businessman from Bad Iba. The Courage Prize was awarded for the first time in 1996. The first three winners received a lapel pin in the shape of the letter C, since the fourth award they receive a first of the Wallenhorst artist Lutz Sundorf and now from the Osnabrück artist Volker-Johannes Trieb designed sculpture .
Before the award ceremony in the Knights' Hall of Iburg Castle , the winner will be entered in the Golden Book of Bad Iburg, followed by “Iburger Friedensbrot and Friedenswein”. Until 2016 there was the panel discussion “Conversation by the fireplace” in the banquet hall of the castle; in 2017 it was replaced by a keynote speech. After the award there is the “Iburger Fisch-Schmaus”.
People from politics, culture, society and business took part in the panel discussions, for example the journalist Michel Friedman and Tilman Zülch ( Society for Threatened Peoples ) in 1998 , Hellmuth Karasek in 2001 , literary critic and university professor, and Christian Wulff in 2003 , then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony , 2004 Rudolf Seiters , former Federal Minister of the Interior and President of the German Red Cross , 2006 Ursula Engelen-Kefer ( DGB ) or 2009 Asfa-Wossen Asserate , management consultant and author.
The most prominent award winner in 2009 was Queen Silvia of Sweden , who founded the World Childhood Foundation in 1999. The laudation was given by Richard Oetker , the winner of the previous year . The 2010 award winner, Peter Maffay , unveiled a stele on Hanseplatz in Bad Iburg , commemorating the founding of the Courage Committee in 1995 and the aim of the award. Franz Müntefering gave the laudation for Maffay . The first prize winner in 1996 was Harry Jahns (born March 24, 1933 in Łódź ), who attended the Lower Saxon Home School Iburg in Iburg Castle from 1949 to 1954 , where he worked as a teacher from 1970 and initiated the castle concerts.
The initiator of the award, Gerd Schöwing, was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 2018 for his commitment.
Award winners
| year | Award winners | Reason for the honor | Topic of the "conversation at the fireplace", since 2017 "impulse lecture" |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Harry Jahns, artistic director of the Bad Iburg Palace Concerts | For his services to the " Bad Iburg Castle Concerts " | "Tolerance - just an ideal?" |
| 1997 | Jürgen Großmann , manager and entrepreneur | For his work to secure the Georgsmarienhütte steel site | "Taking responsibility, being a role model - the fine line between recognition and envy" |
| 1998 | Franz-Josef Bode , Bishop of Osnabrück | As chairman of the youth commission of the German Bishops' Conference for his work against youth unemployment | "Basis for Peace: Understanding and Reconciliation" |
| 1999 | Uschi Glas , actress | As patron of the patient protection organization German Hospice Foundation | "Morality and power - an obligation to be put to the test" |
| 2000 | Hans-Dietrich Genscher , politician | As the architect of the new Europe and advocate for the balance between East and West | "Whoever believes in the future changes the present" |
| 2001 | Sabine Christiansen , journalist and producer | For her commitment to children in need , for example as a UNICEF ambassador | "Evaluate change, not complain about change in values" |
| 2002 | Dagmar Schipanski , scientist and politician | For their commitment to promoting Germany as a location for education and science | "Hope has many faces" |
| 2003 | Joachim Gauck , theologian, first federal commissioner of the BStU | For his contribution to reconciliation | "Violence - an ethos of our time?" |
| 2004 | Dagmar Berghoff , radio and television presenter | As patron of terre des hommes | "Be proud of Germany ?!" |
| 2005 | Gyula Horn , former Prime Minister of Hungary | For the decision in 1989 as Foreign Minister to open the border to Austria | "Humanity through the ages" |
| 2006 | The citizens of Leipzig , on behalf of Christian Führer and Siegfried Grötsch, Nikolaikirche | For courage and non-violent demonstrations that the foundation for reunification laid | "Everything was better in the past - especially the future" |
| 2007 | Ulrike Folkerts , actress | Commitment to “burundikids e. V. “and the action alliance Landmine.de | "There are no problems - only tasks" |
| 2008 | Richard Oetker , entrepreneur | Use for the white ring | "The good example is the only way to influence others" |
| 2009 | Queen Silvia of Sweden | Founder of the World Childhood Foundation | "If the future doesn't know the answer, it helps to take a look at the past !?" |
| 2010 | Peter Maffay , musician | For his work to protect traumatized children and adolescents | "We must burn what should ignite in others" |
| 2011 | Iris Berben , actress | For their fight against right-wing extremism , anti-Semitism and xenophobia | "Only those who look up can see no limits" |
| 2012 | Marietta Slomka , journalist | For your social commitment and your commitment to the Bethel children's hospice | "The power of the media - danger or blessing?" |
| 2013 | Ullrich Kasselmann , farm owner and horse breeder | For his social commitment such as "riding against hunger" | "If you don't have a destination, you can't arrive" |
| 2014 | Reinhold Messner , extreme mountaineer | For his commitment as an environmental protector, friend of nature and people | "Maximum performance as a maxim - where is the person?" |
| 2015 | Michael Stich , tennis player | For his commitment to his foundation against HIV and AIDS | "Data storage - opportunity, protection or threat for us?" |
| 2016 | Katja Riemann , actress | For their diverse and constant social commitment | "Low interest rates - stimulus for the economy or danger for the business location?" |
| 2017 | Eckart von Hirschhausen , doctor and comedian | For his extraordinary commitment and work as a doctor and medical cabaret artist, among other things with his Foundation Humor helps Healing | Gina Schöler: "Luck has side effects" |
| 2018 | Gerd Schöwing, self-employed businessman | For his tireless and varied commitment to the benefit of his city, Bad Iburg, for decades | Christian Schüle : "Social cohesion through civic / voluntary commitment" |
| 2019 | Hannes Jaenicke , actor, author, documentary filmmaker and environmental activist | For his vehement advocacy for environmental, nature and animal protection as well as against ignorance, intolerance and racism | Baron Josef Kerckering zur Borg: "The ecological fall into sin - disturbed balance using the example of the sharks" |
literature
- Gerd Schöwing (Ed.): Only profiles leave traces ... - courageous, prominent and interesting contemporaries in words and pictures . Bad Iburg 2009 ISBN 978-3-933998-33-0
Web links
- Courage Committee
- Stefanie Adomeit: In the interview: Iburger Courage Prize inventor Gerd Schöwing. In: noz.de. August 2, 2018, accessed on August 2, 2018 (interview with the initiator of the award and founder of the Courage Committee).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cornelia Mönster, Stefanie Adomeit: The Queen of Children In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of October 17, 2009
- ↑ Sweden's Queen Silvia receives award In: Hamburger Abendblatt from October 16, 2009
- ↑ Stefanie Adomeit: More than a drop in the ocean In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of September 18, 2010, p. 9
- ↑ Stefanie Adomeit: Interview: Iburger Courage Prize inventor Gerd Schöwing. In: noz.de. August 2, 2018, accessed August 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Bad Iburg Castle Concerts