The Fred Sinowatz Science Prize of the Province of Burgenland , named after Fred Sinowatz (1929–2008), was founded in 2004 on his 75th birthday as a science prize and promotes scientific publications in the field of regional studies research.
A commission of experts from the humanities, natural sciences or economics nominates a total of 12 publications. Thereafter, up to three publications will be awarded a prize or research projects will be awarded a grant. The writings were mostly published by the Burgenland Provincial Archives in the Burgenland Research series.
Award winners
year
Nominations
Award winners
scholarship
2004
12
Herbert Brettl for the Jewish community of Frauenkirchen.
2005
3
Eva Holpfer for the research project National Socialist Crimes against Jews in Burgenland and their punishment by the People's Courts (1945–1955).
Susanne Uslu-Pauer for the research project Judicial punishment of Nazi officials in Burgenland (1945–1955).
2006
8th
Ursula Mindler for Dr. Tobias Portschy . Biography of a National Socialist. The years up to 1945.
2007
7th
Christian Ratz for the research project Between Idyll and Radicalization. Political culture in Burgenland from 1927 to 1938.
Elisabeth Fraller for the research project National Socialist Persecution of Jews in Burgenland with special consideration of the Jewish community of Lackenbach.
2008
2
Cyprian Leiner for compositional and technical characteristics of the horns in the work of Joseph Haydn .
2009
0
no award
2010
2
no award
2011
12
Stefan Franz Kalamar for Das Badehaus und der Edelhof von Großhöflein - building history in the first decade of the 19th century, integration into the bathing architecture of the time, integration into a design for the revitalization of the town center.
Renate M. Schönfeldinger for you will live! The fate of a Jewish slave laborer from Hungary and his rescue by a Burgenland family in 1945.
Roma Service Association with chairman Emmerich Gärtner-Horvath for Mri Historija. Life stories of the Burgenland Roma.
2012
7th
Ursula Mindler for setting limits in living together. Locations of Jewish history in the Hungarian / Austrian provinces using the example of Oberwart / Felsöör.
Herbert Brettl for National Socialism in Burgenland. Victim. Perpetrator. Opponent.
2013
7th
Stefan Körner for Nikolaus II. Esterházy and the arts. Biography of a manic collector.
Ina Friedmann for The Prehistorian Richard Pittioni (1906–1985) between 1938 and 1945 including the years of Austrofascism and the beginning of the Second Republic.
Fabian Stegmayer for the Seebrücke project. "Bridge battle" at Lake Neusiedl.
2015
Walter Feymann for The Long Shadows of the Past , publication on the Nazification and denazification of Burgenland
Peter Liszt for the wars of my fathers , historical processing of a family history
Pupils of the 4ku class of the new secondary school Rechnitz for the 70th anniversary of the end of the war
Appreciation award: Manuela Horvath, brochure about a 1995 bomb attack against the Roma ethnic group
2016
Julia Gregorich for the consequences of certain factors of global warming for the production and yield of selected crops
Lukas Szigeti for the events in March / April 1938 and the Jewish population in the Neusiedl am See district
Thomas Szigeti for Characterized by a river - life with and on the Leitha using the example of Zurndorf
Marie-Sophie Polay for Roma in Burgenland at the time of National Socialism
2019
Nikolaus Gartner for his work on construction activities around Lake Neusiedl
Individual evidence
↑ Jewish community Lackenbach with continuation in a film project
