Hildegard von Bingen Prize for Journalism
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 .
- 2018 Anja Reschke
- 2017 Theo Koll
- 2016 Ulrich Wilhelm
- 2015 July toe
- 2014 Denis check
- 2013 Gustav Seibt
- 2012 Antonia Rados
- 2011 Felicitas von Lovenberg
- 2010 Fritz J. Raddatz †
- 2009 Necla Kelek
- 2008 Henryk M. Broder
- 2007 Giovanni di Lorenzo
- 2006 Maybrit Illner
- 2005 Gerhard Stadelmaier
- 2004 Claus Kleber
- 2003 Harald Schmidt
- 2002 Sandra Maischberger
- 2001 Joachim Kaiser †
- 2000 Joachim Fest †
- 1999 Peter Scholl-Latour †
- 1998 Johannes Gross †
- 1997 Gabriele Krone-Schmalz
- 1996 Helmut Markwort
- 1995 Walter Kannengießer
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
- ↑ a b - Hildegard von Bingen Prize to Anja Reschke . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . Retrieved October 21, 2018.
- ↑ Press release of the BZK Pfalz