Hildegard von Bingen Prize for Journalism

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The Hildegard von Bingen Prize for Journalism is awarded annually by the Hildegard von Bingen Prize Board of Trustees . An author is honored for an outstanding, professionally and culturally important, journalistic individual achievement or a life's work. The prize is dedicated to linguistic, clairvoyant and meaningful quality journalism and is endowed with 10,000 euros (as of 2018).

The award is named after Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) because - according to the board of trustees - the Benedictine and universal scholar was one of the first in the Mainz area to show herself convinced that writing and word had their own effect. The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Journalism and Contemporary History e. V.

The award winners and members

The members of the Board of Trustees are the personalities who have been awarded the Hildegard von Bingen Prize for Journalism. Another member is the founder of the award and board of trustees, Helmut Ahrens .

The price

The prize is extensively devoted to the entire field of journalism and brings together personalities who act as moderators, interviewers, essayists, newspaper makers and founders, commentators, reporters, book authors, talk show leaders, satirists, business journalists or correspondents for the wide range of the profession and their impact in the Public. Whether it is a newspaper publisher, public broadcasting company, private television, whether in-house production, product distributed by printing or electronically, it is about clever, lively quality journalism in all its shades and with the variety of its possibilities.

The award ceremony

The award ceremony for the Hildegard von Bingen Prize for Journalism takes place in the Erbacher Hof (Mainz) , the academy of the Catholic diocese of Mainz . The laudatory speech is traditionally held by Helmut Ahrens, Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b - Hildegard von Bingen Prize to Anja Reschke . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  2. Press release of the BZK Pfalz