Erich Kästner Prize (Dresden)
The Erich Kästner Prize is awarded annually by Presseclub Dresden e. V. awarded to a personality who has rendered outstanding services to tolerance , humanity and international understanding. The award winners should have set standards through their work in politics, business, culture or another area of public life and their commitment should be related to the city of Dresden . The award consists of a certificate, an honorary award and an amount of money. The Erich Kästner Prize is endowed with 10,000 euros and will be presented in a ceremony at Albrechtsberg Castle .
It is named after the German writer Erich Kästner , who spent the first twenty years of his life in Dresden.
Award winners
- 1994: Ignatz Bubis , Chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
- 1995: Pastor Frank Richter , youth minister of the Dresden-Meißen diocese
- 1996: Marion Countess Dönhoff , editor Die Zeit
- 1997: Hans Nadler , Nestor of the Saxon Monument Preservation
- 1998: Rupert Neudeck , founder and chairman of Cap Anamur
- 1999: Frank Wobst, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of "Huntington Bancshares Incorporated", Columbus (Ohio)
- 2000: - no prize awarded -
- 2001: Joachim Gauck , former Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR ( BStU )
- 2002: Médecins Sans Frontières, Doctors Without Borders , German Section
- 2003: Richard von Weizsäcker , former Federal President D.
- 2004: Hans-Dietrich Genscher , former Foreign Minister D.
- 2005: Irmela Mensah-Schramm , curative teacher, has been documenting and removing neo-Nazi graffiti in Berlin and nationwide for years at her own expense
- 2006: Alan Russell , chairman of the "Dresden Trust", an English association to promote the reconstruction of the Dresden Frauenkirche
- 2007: Peter Maffay , musician, the UNICEF ambassador is particularly committed to children's rights
- 2008: Stefan Hippler , Catholic pastor, founder of the aid organization “HOPE Cape Town (South Africa)”, cares for children and young people who have AIDS
- 2009: Veronica Ferres , actress (declined)
- 2010: Kurt Biedenkopf , former politician (including Prime Minister of Saxony)
- 2011: Jan Vogler , cellist and festival director
- 2012: Gunter Demnig , sculptor and creator of the Stolpersteine
- 2013: Dieter Hildebrandt , cabaret artist
- 2014: Iris Berben , actress
- 2015: Jürgen Micksch , theologian and sociologist
- 2016: Rafał Dutkiewicz , Mayor of Wrocław (Breslau)
- 2017: Gerhard Ehninger , professor of medicine
- 2018: Markus Rindt , horn player and co-founder of the Dresden Symphony Orchestra
- 2020: Claus-Peter Reisch , sea rescuer
See also
- Erich Kästner Prize for Literature from the Erich Kästner Society
- Erich Kästner TV Prize