The political book
The political book is since 1982 annually by the SPD ready or almost ready Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) awarded, worth 10,000 euros Literature Prize to promote important political literature. The award ceremony takes place on May 10th or in close proximity to the anniversary of the National Socialist book burning in 1933 .
idea
As an institution that is committed to the ideas and basic values of social democracy , the FES distinguishes political literature. Current topics that are given special consideration are:
- Social cohesion,
- democratic culture,
- Innovation and participation,
- globalization based on solidarity.
Selection process and jury
Applications and suggestions for award winners are possible until October 30th. In the case of foreign-language authors, the proposed book in a German translation must be on the book market. The actual selection of the prizewinner is made by an independent expert jury, which also compiles a list of further recommended political books.
Since 2019, the jury has consisted of the following jurors:
- Arne Ackermann (* 1965), Director of the Munich City Library
- Reingard Al-Hassan (* 1957), Director of the University Library of the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
- Horst Baraczewski (* 1954), bookseller, member of the board of the Bremen Literature Foundation. Member of the jury since 1997
- Klaus Hohlfeld (* 1939), former director D. of the Mannheim City Library. Member of the jury from the beginning and its spokesman since 1990
- Jens Hundrieser (* 1940), lecturer for the training of library assistants in Göttingen
- Annette Kasper (* 1953), a. D. of the Ernst-Abbe-Bücherei Jena (September 1985 - January 2016)
- Stephan Kosa (* 1981), Book Guild Gutenberg Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
- Gerald Leitner (* 1958), General Secretary of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
- Barbara Lison (* 1956), director of the Bremen City Library. Managing Director of the Rudolf Alexander Schröder Foundation for the award of the Bremen Literature Prize
- Metz, Susanne (* 1964), director of the Leipzig Municipal Libraries since 2013
- Werner Stephan (* 1947), director of the Stuttgart University Library, among others, participation in the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
List of award winners and laudators
| year | Date, place | Award winners | book | Keynote speaker |
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| 2020 | September 17th Berlin | Matthias Quent | Germany far right: How the right are reaching for power and how we can stop them. Piper Verlag 2019, ISBN / EAN: 978-3-492-99432-3 | |
| 2019 | May 10, Berlin | Nikola Rossbach | Attention censorship! About freedom of expression and its limits . Ullstein, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-550-05062-6 . | Franziska Giffey |
| 2018 | May 16, Berlin | Timo Daum | We are the capital. On the criticism of the digital economy . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-96 054-058-8 | Katarina Barley |
| 2017 | May 10, Berlin | Wolfgang Gründinger | Old sacks of politics. How we gamble away our future . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2016, ISBN 978-3-579-08626-2 . | Ralf Stegner |
| 2016 | May 10, Berlin | Lamya Kaddor | Ready to kill. Why German young people are pulling into jihad . Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05703-5 . | Aydan Özoguz |
| 2015 | May 20, Berlin | Thomas Piketty | Capital in the 21st century . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-67131-9 . | Olaf Scholz |
| 2014 | May 15, Berlin | Hannelore Schlaffer | The city. Street life in the planned city . To Klampen Verlag, Springe 2013, ISBN 978-3-86674-188-1 | Klaus Hohlfeld |
| 2013 | May 14, Berlin | Robert Menasse | The European country messenger. The anger of the citizens and the peace of Europe or why the given democracy has to give way to a won one . Zsolnay, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-552-05616-9 . | Peer Steinbruck |
| 2012 | May 8, Berlin | Colin Crouch | The strange survival of neoliberalism. Post-Democracy II . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42274-8 . | Sigmar Gabriel |
| 2011 | July 5th, Berlin | Peer Steinbruck | Bottom line . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-455-50166-7 . | Wolfgang Schäuble |
| 2010 | May 11, Berlin | Rolf Hosfeld | The spirits he called. A new Karl Marx biography. Piper, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-05221-4 . | Andrea Nahles |
| 2009 | May 12, Berlin | Christiane Grefe , Harald Schumann | The global countdown. Righteousness or self-destruction. The future of globalization. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03979-5 . | Wolfgang Thierse |
| 2008 | May 6, Berlin | Peter Schaar | The end of privacy. The way to the surveillance society. Bertelsmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-00993-2 . | Ehrhart Körting |
| 2007 | May 10, Berlin | Nadja Klinger , Jens König | Just left behind. A true report on the new poverty in Germany. Rowohlt, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-87134-552-0 . | Matthias Platzeck |
| 2006 | May 9, Berlin | Erhard Eppler | State being discontinued? Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-518-12462-5 . | Hubertus Heil |
| 2005 | May 12, Berlin | Carolin Emcke | From the wars. Letters to friends. Fischer, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-10-017013-X . | Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul |
| 2004 | May 13, Berlin | Michael Mann | The impotent superpower. Why the US can't rule the world. Campus, Frankfurt, New York 2003, ISBN 3-593-37313-0 . | Jürgen Kocka |
| 2003 | May 14, Berlin | Gunter Hofmann | Farewells, beginnings. The Federal Republic of. An anatomy. Kunstmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-593-37313-0 . | Peter Glotz |
| 2002 | May 7, Berlin | Michael Howard | The invention of peace. About war and the order of the world. zu Klampen, Lüneburg 2001, ISBN 3-924245-98-3 . | Erhard Eppler |
| 2001 | May 10, Berlin | Heinrich August Winkler | The long way west. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-89331-575-6 . | Julian Nida-Rümelin |
| 2000 | May 9, Berlin | Wolfgang Engler | The East Germans. Lore of a lost land. Structure, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-351-02490-8 . | Wolfgang Thierse |
| 1999 | May 18, Bonn | Richard Sennett |
The flexible person. The culture of the new capitalism. Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8270-0031-9 .
The yellow, the black, the white. Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8218-4159-1 . |
Anke Fuchs |
| 1998 | May 19, Bremen | Markus Tiedemann |
“Nobody Was Gassed In Auschwitz” .60 Right-Wing Radical Lies and How to Refute Them. Verlag an der Ruhr, Mülheim / Ruhr 1996, ISBN 3-86072-275-1 .
Chernobyl. A chronicle of the future . Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8333-0357-3 . |
Henning Scherf |
| 1997 | May 14, Bonn | Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof |
Sadness and hope. Rowohlt, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87134-278-5 .
Best. Biographical studies on radicalism, worldview and reason 1903-1989 . Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5019-9 . |
Reinhard Höppner |
| 1996 | May 10, Berlin | Peter Merseburger |
The difficult German. Kurt Schumacher. A biography. DVA, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-421-05021-X .
Factor four. Twice the prosperity - halve the consumption of nature. The new report to the Club of Rome . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-426-26877-9 . |
Manfred Stolpe |
| 1995 | May 10, Bonn | Norberto Bobbio |
Right and left. Reasons and meanings of a political distinction . Wagenbach, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-8031-2311-9
Third World Handbook . Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-8012-0201-1 . |
Erhard Eppler |
| 1994 | May 10, Leipzig | Martin and Sylvia Greiffenhagen |
A difficult fatherland. On the political culture of Germany. List, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-471-77629-X .
The order of terror. The concentration camp . S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-10-072704-5 . |
Günter Wichert |
| 1993 | May 12, Bonn |
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Regina Griebel , Marlies Coburger , Heinrich Scheel (Eds.) |
The Great Migration . Thirty-three markers . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1992, ISBN 3-518-40483-0 .
Detected. The Gestapo album for the Red Orchestra. A photo documentation . Audioscop, Halle / Saale 1992, ISBN 3-88384-044-0 . |
Reinhard Höppner |
| 1992 | June 4th, Bonn |
Klaus cordon
Wolfgang Benz (Ed.) |
The Lisa. One life. Illustrations: Peter Schimmel . Ars Edition, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-7607-7681-7 .
The exile of the common people. Everyday experiences of German Jews in emigration . CH Beck, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-406-35503-X . |
Renate Schmidt |
| 1991 | May 10, Leipzig |
Timothy Garton Ash
Reinhard Bohse (Ed.) |
A century is voted out. From the centers of Central Europe 1980–1990. Hanser, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-446-15898-7 .
Now or never - democracy! Leipzig autumn '89 . Forum Verlag, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-931801-11-X . |
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| 1990 | May 26, Prague | Vaclav Havel |
Remote interrogation. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-498-02882-0
Trouble with the truth . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989, ISBN 3-499-12731-8 |
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| 1989 | May 10, Bonn | Helmut Schmidt |
People and powers. Bertelsmann Club (License: Siedler), Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-88680-278-7 .
Inhabited woman . Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1988, ISBN 3-87294-375-8 . Africa White Paper. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-8012-0123-6 . |
Holger Borner |
| 1988 | May 18, Bonn | Mikhail Gorbachev |
Perestroika. The second Russian revolution. A new policy for Europe and the world. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-426-26375-0 .
About the Germans - a historical portrait . CH Beck, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-406-08834-1 . |
Peter Glotz |
| 1987 | May 21, Bonn |
Günter Gaus
Angela Joschko , Hanne Huntemann (Eds.) |
Where Germany is. A location determination . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-455-08694-2 .
The unknown freedom of my life - women between youth and old age . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim 1983, ISBN 3-407-85038-7 . You for us and we for you - 40 years of the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 1986, ISBN 3-8012-0116-3 . |
Holger Borner |
| 1986 | May 14, Bonn |
Wolfgang Apitzsch , Thomas Klebe , Manfred Schumann (Eds.)
Regina Becker-Schmidt , Gudrun-Axeli Knapp , Beate Schmidt |
Section 116 AFG. Struggle for the right to strike . VSA Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-87975-362-8 .
My way across the Pyrenees. Memories 1949/41 . Hanser Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-446-13948-6 . One thing is too little - both are too much. Experiences of working women between family and factory. Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-87831-383-7 . |
Johannes Rau |
| 1985 | May 10, Bonn |
Tomi Ungerer
Dieter Bänsch (Ed.) |
Black book . Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-570-05675-9
The fifties. Contributions to politics and culture . Günter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1985, ISBN 3-87808-385-8 Working time is lifetime! Arguments for shortening working hours, Gutenberg Book Guild, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-7632-2935-3 . |
Monika Wulf-Mathies |
| 1984 | May 10, Bonn | Andrew Wilson |
The disarmament manual . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-455-08689-6 .
The future of progress. Socialism and the crisis of industrialism . Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1981 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-87831-300-4 . A working life. Memories of Weimar and afterwards . Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1983, ISBN 3-87294-213-1 . |
Hans-Jochen Vogel |
| 1983 | May 10, Bonn | Christian Schaffernicht (Ed.) |
At home in a foreign country. A German foreigner reading book . Atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude 1981, ISBN 3-88132-045-8 .
Deadly everyday life. Criminal defense attorney in the Third Reich . Severin and Siedler, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88680-009-1 . |
Axel Eggebrecht |
| 1982 | May 10, Bonn |
Horst Brehm , Gerd Pohl (Eds.)
Ingeborg Bayer (Ed.) |
Union resistance. Manual for lobbying in companies and businesses . Bund-Verlag, Cologne / Berlin 1982.
Before everything becomes a legend. The 3rd Reich in stories, reports, documents . Signal-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1979, ISBN 3-7971-0195-3 . Our hour will come. Right-wing extremism among young people . Lamuv Verlag, Göttingen 1979, ISBN 3-921521-13-0 . |
Bjorn Engholm |
Web links
- Website of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on the Literature Prize
- Award ceremony: The political book of the year in the catalog of the German National Library (years 1999, 2005–2007)
Individual evidence
- ^ Jury according to information from FES ; Retrieved December 5, 2014.