Great Austrian Youth Prize
The Great Austrian Youth Prize , later known as the First Austrian Youth Prize and RIZ-First Youth Prize , honored submissions from young people on technical, scientific, social and artistic topics.
history
The Great Austrian Youth Prize was founded by Erste Österreichische Sparkasse in 1978. After the bank changed its name in the mid-1980s, the prize was known as the First Austrian Youth Prize . The award was given for technical, social and artistic areas and was aimed at young people, initially up to the age of 26, which was later reduced. Every year the youth award was advertised on a specific topic, whereby the jury defined this broadly for the artistic submissions. When the prize was first advertised, the later children's book author Thomas Brezina was honored, and in 1983 author Klaus Ebner .
For example, the topics for the call for applications for 1983 were defined as four categories : Category 1 People and Society with the special topic Communication between the Generations , Category 2 Environment and Quality of Life with the special topic Survival Concepts , Category 3 Art, Literature and Music with the special topic Stories about Coexistence and Category 4 Science and Technology with the special topic of computers . These topics were related to the Year of Communication , which was proclaimed by the UN in 1983. In 1988 the youth award on the subject of the 21st century was announced.
With the change in the winners of the youth award, the name also changed. In the 1990s the award became the RIZ-Erste-Jugendpreis and later the NÖ-Sparkasse-RIZ-Jugendpreis . The prize is now aimed at schoolchildren between the ages of 14 and 19 and honors "creative and future-oriented ideas" that can be implemented in terms of research or business. Artistic works are no longer supported.
Prize winners in artistic fields (selection)
- 1978
- Thomas Brezina for his scripts for the puppet television series Tim, Tom and Dominik
- 1979
- Janko Ferk , writer
- Andreas Weixler , composer, for the window dreams trilogy
- 1980
- Alfred Pleyer , architect
- Werner Lemberg for the composition Five miniatures for piano
- 1981
- Regina Pitscheneder for the composition Das Kind (for wind orchestra)
- Franz Miklis for an anti-drug poster
- 1982
- Klaus Ebner for the novella Das Brandmal
- Wolfgang W. Wasserburger for the poem Mother's Day
- 1983
- Klaus Ebner , recognition award for literature
- Gerhard Krammer , composer
- 1984
- Werner Lemberg for the composition Michael or Once a future and back (musical)
- 1986
- Martin Ludwig Fiala , composer
- 1988
- Klaus Ebner , writer, for the novel Nils
- Michael Celar, writer, for the crime thriller Contact - Landing on Aragon
- Martin Ludwig Fiala , composer
- Iby-Jolande Varga , for the film New Crystals
- 1990
- Iby-Jolande Varga, film
Prize winner in the science and technology category
- 1979
- School group of the Academic Gymnasium Salzburg , 17-18 years, for computer simulation of the waiting times in a bank (computer program)
- Peter Machata , 20 years old, for solar activity 1978 (scientific paper)
- Robert Weinzierl , 17 years old, for chemical synthesis of a gene segment for ocytocin (research project)
- 1988
- Harald Mizerovsky received the main prize for battle rhetoric
Footnotes
- ^ Vg. Haumer, Dr. Hans: Editorial of the brochure The Great Austrian Youth Prize 1983 , p. 2.
- ↑ See Strutzmann, Helmut: Off to France. In: Club 1 Magazin, Issue 1 / January 1983, pp. 10-11.
- ↑ Announcement texts The Great Austrian Youth Prize 1983 , ed. The first.
- ↑ See Club 1 Magazine No. 54 / Dec. 88-Jan. 89, ed. Die Erste, pp. 10–11.
- ↑ See information text on the Lower Austrian Sparkasse RIZ Youth Prize ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
