Franz Werfel Human Rights Prize

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Franz Werfel (1890–1945)

The Franz Werfel Human Rights Prize is awarded by the Center against Expulsions of the Association of Expellees . It is named after the Austrian writer Franz Werfel , who a.o. in his novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh described the displacement and genocide of the Armenians .

The Franz Werfel Human Rights Prize goes to individuals, initiatives or groups "who have opposed the violation of human rights through genocide, displacement and the deliberate destruction of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups." awarded for two years in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt and was awarded for the first time in 2003.

jury

Jury 2007

In 2007 the jury consisted of the following people: Otto von Habsburg , Klaus Hänsch , Helga Hirsch , Milan Horáček , Hilmar Kopper , Rüdiger Safranski and Erika Steinbach . According to the awarding foundation, the award has the 4th Hague Convention of 1907, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, the 1998 resolution of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights , but also the conclusions of the session of the European Council of Heads of State and Government in Copenhagen in 1993 and other statements by the European Union on the basis.

Former jury members were Peter Glotz , Daniel Cohn-Bendit , Ralph Giordano , György Konrád and Lennart Meri .

Jury 2012

The 2012 jury consisted of the following people:

Award winners

  • 2003
    • Mihran Dabag (Germany), Head of the Institute for Diaspora and Genocide Research at the Ruhr University Bochum , “for his scientific work in the field of genocide research, the history of the persecution of Armenians and its current implications”.
    • The initiators of the “Cross of Reconciliation” in Wekelsdorf / Teplice nad Metují (Czech Republic), “for the establishment of the“ Cross of Reconciliation ”in Wekelsdorf / Teplice nad Metuji for the Sudeten Germans murdered on the Buchenberg in 1945 and all victims of national conflicts in this region and for a courageous sign of the dialogue between Germans and Czechs ”.
  • 2005 Bishop Franjo Komarica
  • 2007 György Konrád for "his outstanding advocacy for the dignity and rights of every individual affected by persecution, deportation and displacement, regardless of their national, ethnic and religious affiliation."
  • 2009 Herta Müller for the novel Atemschaukel . Ilija Trojanow gave the award speech .
  • 2010 David Vondráček , Czech filmmaker, best known for the film Zabíjení po česku (Killing in Czech).
  • 2012 Karl Schlögel
  • 2014 Rick Ostermann , director
  • 2016 Freya Klier , "Civil rights activist, writer and documentary filmmaker [...] for her life's work"
  • 2018 Michael Wolffsohn , German-Jewish historian and journalist, for "repeatedly making it clear that the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship should not lead to the injustice against the expelled Germans being kept silent."
  • 2020 Joachim Gauck , most recently Federal President , “who denounced the violation of human rights through genocide, displacement and genocide in various functions”. The award ceremony had to be postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and therefore only took place on July 4, 2021.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Werfel Human Rights Prize (homepage). In: zgv.de, accessed on August 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ Jury. Franz Werfel Human Rights Prize ( Memento from February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: zgv.de, accessed on August 20, 2016.
  3. ^ Franz Werfel Human Rights Prize - Laureate 2003. In: zgv.de, accessed on August 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ Center against Expulsions (zgv) Franz Werfel Human Rights Award gives to Bishop Dr. Franjo Komarica ( Memento of May 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). In: zgv.de, accessed on August 20, 2016.
  5. ^ Ilija Trojanow: In honor: Herta Müller. (PDF; 101 kB) In: zgv.de, accessed on August 20, 2016.
  6. ↑ Annette Bauer: Eastern European historian Karl Schlögel was honored with the 2012 Human Rights Prize on October 28th. Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt, press release from October 29, 2012 from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on February 1, 2021.
  7. ^ Franz Werfel Human Rights Prize for "Wolf Children": Filmmaker Rick Ostermann receives an award. The director and screenwriter will receive the award from the Center against Expulsions Foundation on November 2nd in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur , deutschlandradiokultur.de, October 24, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014.
  8. ↑ The Church . 22nd year, No. 34, August 21, 2016, ISSN  0949-8664 , p. 9, column 5, section People & Quotes.
  9. ↑ epd: Historian Wolffsohn honored with human rights award. In: evangelisch.de . October 21, 2018, accessed on January 31, 2021. -
    epd / ja: Michael Wolffsohn honored with human rights award. In: Jüdische Allgemeine . October 21, 2018, accessed January 31, 2021.
  10. ^ Franz Werfel Human Rights Prize for Joachim Gauck. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . Cultural news. August 27, 2020, accessed January 31, 2021.
  11. ^ Franz Werfel Human Rights Prize to Joachim Gauck. In: Transylvanian newspaper . Association of the Transylvanian Saxons in Germany V. , September 7, 2020, accessed January 30, 2021.
  12. ↑ Gauck honored for commitment to human rights. Deutschlandfunk , July 4, 2021, accessed on the same day.