Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal
The Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal (until 2002 the Friedrich Torberg Medal ) is awarded at irregular intervals in Vienna by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde to personalities and initiatives who have come out against anti-Semitism , racism and National Socialism or neo-Nazism .
The price
The Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal honors the memory of the writer, journalist and publicist Friedrich Torberg , who opposed National Socialism and campaigned against communism, as well as his long-time wife (1945–1962) and estate administrator Marietta. The Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal is awarded in Friedrichs Torberg's memory to people who campaigned for democracy and the rule of law in an independent Austria.
Prize winners and laudators
1987
1990
- Siegfried Reingruber and Hermann Reitmajer (laudation: Peter Rabl )
1995
- Students and teaching staff of the Friesgasse grammar school (laudation: Paul Chaim Eisenberg )
1997
- Josef Broukal (laudation: Caspar Eine )
1999
- "Lost Neighborhood" initiative ( Primavera Gruber , Käthe Kratz , Hans Litsauer, Werner Rotter, Karin Schön, Georg Schönfeld)
- Hubert Steiner (laudation: Franz Vranitzky )
2000
- Hubertus Czernin (laudation: Emile Zuckerkandl )
- Gertraud Knoll (laudation: Franz Vranitzky )
- Werner Vogt (laudation: Michael Scharang )
2001
- Marianne Enigl (laudation: Michael Hubenstorf )
- Hans Rauscher (laudation: Gerhard Roth )
- Joachim Riedl (laudation: Christian Brandstätter )
- Günter Traxler (laudation: Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi )
2002
- Terezija Stoisits (laudation: Rudolf Scholten )
- Ludwig Adamovich (laudation: Clemens Jabloner )
- Wolfgang Petritsch (laudation: Jakob Finci )
2003
- Ute Bock (laudation: Helmut Schüller )
- Heinz Katschnig (laudation: Asmus Finzen )
- Alexander Potyka (laudation: Robert Schindel )
2005
- Waltraud Klasnic (laudation: Hans Rauscher )
- Clemens Jabloner (laudation: Georg Springer )
- Wolfgang Neugebauer (laudation: Kurt Scholz )
2007
October
- Eva Blimlinger (laudation: Terezija Stoisits )
- Ida Olga Höfler (laudation: Elie Rosen )
November
- Gerhard Roth (laudation: Daniel Charim)
2008
- Georg Haber (laudation: Ariel Muzicant )
2010
- Lena, Franziska and Franz Müllner (laudation: Kitty Schrott )
- Martina Enzmann (laudation: Thomas Trenkler )
- Werner Sulzgruber (laudation: Isabella Siedl)
2011
- Thomas Haffner (laudation: Markus Kupferblum )
- Gerhard Zatlokal (laudation: Claudia Laschan )
2012
March
- Helmut Nausner (laudation: Martin Jäggle )
May
- Clemens Hellsberg (laudation: Zubin Mehta )
- Wolfgang Schütz (laudation: Arnold Pollak)
November
- Andreas Maislinger (laudation: Anton Pelinka and greeting: Wladyslaw Bartoszewski )
- Hannes Porias (laudation: Willy Weisz )
2013
- Christian Kern (laudation: Hans Peter Haselsteiner )
2015
2016
- Andreas Mailath-Pokorny (laudation: Matti Bunzl )
2018
- Heinz Becker (laudation: Raya Kalenova)
2019
- Renate Loidolt and Peter Loidolt (laudation: Ariel Muzicant )
Individual evidence
- ^ Opening of the Friedrich Torberg show in the Jewish Museum . City hall correspondence of September 17, 2008, accessed on March 4, 2019.
- ↑ Award of the Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal 2012 to Clemens Hellsberg, Wolfgang Schütz OTS, May 21, 2012
- ^ Perchtoldsdorf: High distinction for Heinz Becker . Article dated November 23, 2018, accessed November 23, 2018.
- ↑ Israelitische Kultusgemeinde awards the Torberg Medal . OTS notification dated November 21, 2018, accessed November 23, 2018.
- ^ Culture: Torberg Medal for Reichenau directors. In: noe. ORF.at . October 4, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Israelitische Kultusgemeinde awards the Torberg Medal. October 2, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 .