History Award
The History Award is a history competition for students of all ages and types of school from Germany, Austria and Switzerland that has existed since 2005. The competition entries are videos ; The organizer is the pay TV broadcaster History Deutschland .
background
The prize was awarded annually until 2013; since then the competition has been held every two years. It has a different motto, which should have social relevance. Previous topics were, for example, “Jewish life in Germany - yesterday and today”, “Man and the environment - a relationship with history”, “Across borders” or “Equal rights - how equal is equal?”.
Each history award has a prominent patron who is related to the motto. Previous patrons have included Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Marcus H. Rosenmüller , Wladimir Kaminer , Charlotte Knobloch , Cosma Shiva and Eva Maria Hagen and Auma Obama .
The award is recommended by the Association of History Teachers in Germany (VGD); In a speech on the occasion of the 2012 annual conference on "Archeology, schools and museums in the field of tension between cultural education" by the German Society for Pre- and Protohistory, for example, Peter Lautzas from the VDG suggests cooperation with the History Award.
Topics & winners
| year | motto | Winning video | winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | "One small step for you, one giant leap for humanity" | "Rosa Parks - Silent Protest on the Bus" | Lukas Hein, Maria-Sophia Neef, Leo Beyer |
| 2017 | "How is the same?" | "Suffragettes? Suffragettes! - The dawn of a new era" | Robert Jungk Comprehensive School, Krefeld (students in grades 11–13) |
| 2015 | "Regional, global, digital - where is your home?" | "Do Swídanja Heimat - The History of the Volga Germans" | Robert Jungk Comprehensive School, Krefeld |
| 2013 | "Finds with history" | "The Tacker" | Stephanus School, Krefeld |
| 2012 | "People and the environment. A relationship with history" | "The Unit" | Trave Community School, Lübeck |
| 2011 | "Beyond the borders" | "Friedrich II. - Stupor Mundi - The wonder of the world" | Stephanus School, Krefeld |
| 2010 | "Grandma, Grandpa - what was it like back then?" | "Memory - Sandman's Heirs" | Humboldt Gymnasium, Eichwalde |
| 2009 | "November 9, 1989. How the fall of the Berlin Wall changed our history" | "The double wall" | Humboldt-Gymnasium, Eichenwalde |
| 2008 | "1968-2008 - Youth between Politics and Lifestyle" | "Münster - a provincial capital in the 68s" | Pascal High School, Münster |
| 2007 | "Jewish Life in Germany - Yesterday and Today" | "W. Michael Blumenthal. A life story between exile and return " | Regine-Hildebrandt School, Birkenwerder |
| 2006 | "Personalities - Cities - History" | "Navajos and Edelweiss Pirates - Inappropriate youth behavior in Cologne 1933-1945" | Cologne |
| 2005 | "The history city of reunification" | Chemnitz |
Web links
- Official website of the History Award
- Article about the winner of the History Award 2017
- Press release on Collien Ulmen-Fernandes as patron of the History Award 2017
- Article on the winner of the History Award 2019
- Report from münchen.tv about the presentation of the History Award 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Lautzas: The archeology in education in Germany. Questions and requests to archeology from practice. In: Archäologische Informations , Vol. 35, 2012, German Society for Prehistory and Early History, pp. 235–236, online (PDF)
- ↑ HISTORY. Retrieved June 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Press release History Award 2019. Accessed on June 22, 2020 .