German-Polish Society Federal Association
The German-Polish Society Federal Association (in Polish Federalny Związek Towarzystw Niemiecko-Polskich ) is a registered association and amalgamation of various regional societies that have set themselves the goal of reconciliation and cooperation between Germany and Poland . The association emerged in 1996 from the Federal Association of German-Polish Societies , which in turn emerged in 1987 from regional societies. Among other things, the company campaigned for the integration of Poland into the European Union .
In November 2010, Dietmar Nietan, a member of the Bundestag, was elected chairman of the association's board of directors as the successor to Angelica Schwall-Düren , who had held the office since 2000. The chairman of the board of trustees is Rita Süssmuth . The association is based in Berlin .
The association publishes the bilingual magazine " Dialog " every quarter in cooperation with its Polish partners . The current editor-in-chief is Basil Kerski .
DIALOG price
Every year since 2005, the Federal Association has awarded the undoped DIALOG Prize, which consists of an art object and a certificate, to people and institutions who “work in an exemplary manner for the dialogue between peoples and cultures in Europe and the deepening of German-Polish Engage Relationships ".
Previous winners were:
- 2005: The editorial staff of the Cracow weekly newspaper " Tygodnik Powszechny "
- 2006: The “ Pogranicze ” Foundation from Sejny
- 2007: The working group of Christian pupils of the " Christian Education Initiative "
- 2008: The writer and cabaret artist Steffen Möller
- 2009: The two civil rights activists Ludwig Mehlhorn and Wolfgang Templin
- 2010: The historian Klaus Zernack and the television magazine " Kowalski meets Schmidt "
- 2011: The " Institute for Applied History " in Frankfurt (Oder)
- 2012: The writer Artur Becker
- 2013: The publicists Grażyna Słomka and Adam Krzemiński
- 2014: Lech Wałęsa and the Interregional Union Council Elbe-Neisse
- 2015: The writer Zofia Posmysz and the editorial team of the OSTEUROPA magazine
- 2016: The Polish diplomat Marek Prawda
- 2017: The Austrian journalist and literary translator Martin Pollack
See also
- German-Polish Society of the Federal Republic of Germany , a similar but not identical organization
- Poland in Germany