Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
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The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade is an international peace prize . The award is given annually on the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Paulskirche ( Frankfurt am Main ) to a personality "who has made an outstanding contribution to the realization of the idea of peace, primarily through her work in the fields of literature, science and art."
The Peace Prize is awarded by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and is endowed with prize money of 25,000 euros. The award at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest book fair in the world, is associated with international publicity.
The Peace Prize goes back to the initiative of a few writers and publishers in 1949 and was first awarded in 1950 as the "Peace Prize of German Publishers" in Hamburg. In 1951 he was awarded a price for the entire book trade by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. It was awarded posthumously for the first time in 1972. The winners are determined by the Board of Trustees. Suggestions can come from anyone and must be adequately justified and substantiated.
Board of Trustees
Members of the Board of Trustees (as of March 16, 2020):
- Klaus Brinkbäumer ( Die Zeit , Hamburg)
- Raphael Gross (President of the German Historical Museum Foundation , Berlin)
- Moritz Helmstaedter (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main)
- Nadja Kneissler ( Delius Klasing Verlag , Hamburg)
- Karl-Josef Kuschel ( Eberhard-Karls-University , Tübingen)
- Felicitas von Lovenberg ( Piper Verlag , Munich)
- Ethel Matala de Mazza ( Humboldt University Berlin )
- Bascha Mika ( Frankfurter Rundschau )
- Karin Schmidt-Friderichs ( Verlag Hermann Schmidt , Mainz), Head of the Börsenverein since October 2019, Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees.
Award winners
So far, the prize has been awarded 72 times, including 12 times to a woman (as of 2021).
literature
- The Exchange Association of the German Book Trade 1825–2000. A historical outline . Edited on behalf of the Historical Commission by Stephan Füssel , Georg Jäger and Hermann Staub in conjunction with Monika Estermann. Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Foundation for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade - The Statute. Board of Directors of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, November 6, 2007, accessed on June 20, 2013 .
- ↑ The Board of Trustees. Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e. V., accessed on March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ "With Jaron Lanier, the German book trade is ironically honoring a computer developer who has tried all his life to free computers and digital media from the dominance of written language" ( merkur-blog.de ).
- ↑ Islamic scholar and journalist: Navid Kermani receives Peace Prize from the German Book Trade. In: Spiegel Online , June 18, 2015; spiegel.de, accessed on June 18, 2015.
- ^ Peace Prize of the German Book Trade to Margaret Atwood , accessed on June 14, 2017.
- ^ Peace Prize of the Book Trade for the Assmann couple , accessed on June 12, 2018
- ↑ The 2019 Prize Winner , boersenverein.de, accessed on June 18, 2019.
- ↑ Peace Prize 2020 , friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels.de, accessed on June 17, 2020.
- ↑ Klaußner read the laudation from Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier , who was not present because of a voluntary corona quarantine ( Börsenblatt )
- ↑ Tsitsi Dangarembga receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade on June 21, 2021.