Ruth (music award)

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World Music Prize RUTH and its designer until 2012, Ulf Geer

RUTH - The German World Music Prize has been awarded annually since 2002 on the Saturday of the first weekend in July during the Rudolstadt Festival . Starting in 2020, the festival's ten-person organizational team will be awarding this award, which is endowed with 5,000 euros. Until 2019, the MDR Kultur award was primarily awarded to other radio stations involved, together with the Rudolstadt Festival and the creole support group . Until 2006, Profolk , the association for folk , song and world music in Germany, was one of the promoters. The predecessor was the Folk Promotion Prize awarded from 1992 , a prize for promising young musicians. The name of the award is a play on words with root , the English word for root and roots music as a term for traditional folk and world music. The prize was endowed with a total of 11,500 euros until 2019. Deviating from the official designation of the price, the RUTH is usually used like the female first name Ruth, together with a female article.

Goal setting

Concerns the price is outstanding achievements in world music - genre to appreciate and make this music genre to get more attention, and both the domestic and international reputation of the winners and beyond to the entire German folk, song and world music scene strengthen.

Until 2012, the RUTH was awarded annually in the categories:

  • "Deutsche RUTH" - for artists with roots in German musical traditions,
  • "Globale RUTH" - for artists with roots in regional music traditions of the world,
  • "Ehren-RUTH" - for people or institutions who have made a great contribution to promoting world music.
  • "Newcomer" (until 2006)

"Ehren-RUTH" and "Newcomer" were awarded several times.

After the new jury found the categories to be too rigid, they were subjected to a “general revision” in 2013. Since this year, the prize has therefore been awarded in the following categories:

  • "RUTH" (main prize)
  • "Funding RUTH"
  • "Honor RUTH"
  • "Rudolstadt Festival RUTH"

From 2020, the RUTH will no longer be allocated according to categories.

Selection process

RUTH is a nomination price, personal applications are not possible. An advisory board nominates the potential award winners.

In the categories German RUTH and Globale RUTH, the advisory board primarily assessed the artistic activity in the previous year for its proposals to the jury . It was expressly not stipulated that "native" Germans should refer to German RUTH and immigrants to global RUTH. Nominees must be available for a live performance at the Rudolstadt Festival.

The advisory board and jury are made up of experts in the field of the sponsors (specialist journalists, publishers , organizers , record dealers, musicians ).

Award winners

2020
Jan Krauthäuser and the Cologne Carnival and Music Association Humba eV Due to the cancellation of the Rudolstadt Festival 2020, the RUTH 2020 will be awarded at the Rudolstadt Festival 2021.
RUTH Awards 2014
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002

German Folk Promotion Prize (until 2001)

2001
  1. Toni Geiling (Halle / Saale)
  2. Ilki Dünya
  3. Ecco Meineke (Munich)
2000
  1. Shameful
  2. Jan Degenhardt
  3. Sneppedals
1999
  1. Robert Zollitsch (Munich / Beijing)
  2. Nassler & Schneider
  3. The Blue Unicorn (Dresden)
1998
  1. Kerberbrothers Alpine Fusion
  2. Micha Dümpelmann
  3. Rolling Drones
1997
  1. Trio keychain
  2. Aquabella
  3. Schnaftl Ufftschik
1996
  1. O. Felix
  2. Hora Colora
  3. passe-partout
1995
  1. The border crossers
  2. Suzanna & Dzelem
  3. Trio Modal
1994
  1. Johannes & Andreas Uhlmann (now four: ULMAN )
  2. Werner Vonberg
  3. Thalassa from Greece
1993
  1. Holderlin Express
  2. Nûrê and Tango Fuego
  3. Bremen street music ear box
1992
  1. Baba Jam Band
  2. Hailstorm & fairy dance
  3. Noks

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c City of Rudolstadt: World Music Prize RUTH for Humba eV from Cologne. February 19, 2020, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Press release on the award of the World Music Prize RUTH 2014, from March 4, 2014 ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Melanie Strauss: Individual price for creative artists. In: Hersbrucker Zeitung , July 13, 2012. In the N-Land portal , accessed on July 8, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b Sieger 2016 , Ostthüringer Zeitung , accessed July 15, 2016
  5. ↑ Call for applications for Ruth 2020 ( Memento from July 21, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Program of the TFF 2013, page 31
  7. ^ City of Rudolstadt: Rudolstadt Festival and bird shooting canceled. April 17, 2020, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  8. ↑ RUTH 2019 - Comments of the jury ( Memento from July 21, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ RUTH 2018 - Comments of the jury ( Memento from July 21, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ RUTH 2017 - Comments of the jury ( Memento from October 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ RUTH 2015 - Comments from the jury ( Memento from July 21, 2019 in the Internet Archive )