International Albert Schweitzer Prize

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The International Albert Schweitzer Award (Prix International Albert Schweitzer, International Albert Schweitzer Award) has been awarded every three years since 2011 in Königsfeld in the Black Forest , the temporary residence of the married couple Albert Schweitzer and Helene Bresslau (1923–1933), “for outstanding humanistic commitment in the spirit of Albert Schweitzer ”.

Prize winners are individual or several natural persons "who, with their scientific, social, humanitarian, socio-political, musical or literary work, have or are doing outstanding work for the maintenance or further development of humanistic thinking and acting in the spirit of Albert Schweitzer."

The selection is made by a committee made up of members of the Schweitzer family and 14 national and international Albert Schweitzer associations, foundations, societies and institutes. The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros. The initiator was the mayor of Königsfeld, Fritz Link, with the support of the Sparkasse Schwarzwald-Baar as a donor.

Prize winners

2011

  • Eugen Drewermann (Germany), "for his - always explicitly referring to Albert Schweitzer - intellectual work"
  • Raphaela and Rolf Maibach ( Ilanz , Switzerland), "for their many years of service in and for the Albert Schweitzer Hospital (www.hashaiti.org) in Deschappelle on Haiti "

2014

  • Daniel Roth ( Paris , France), for the "connection of organ music, organ playing to ethics" [...] and "the inner collection" [...], "as a mediator between the spiritual content of the music and [the] listener"
  • Jo and Walter Munz ( St. Gallen , Switzerland), medical director of the Lambaréné Hospital in Gabon (1964–1971), "for outstanding humanistic commitment in the spirit of Albert Schweitzer"

2017

  • Harald Steffahn , publicist and Schweitzer biographer
  • Willy Randin , former director of the Schweitzer Hospital in Lambarene (1970–1971) and Schweitzer's documentary filmmaker

Prize Committee

The award committee consists of 14 national and international associations, foundations and societies:

  • Association Internationale pour l'Oeuvre du Docteur Albert Schweitzer de Lambaréné / International Albert Schweitzer Association (AISL), Günsbach / Münster
  • Albert Schweitzer House - Forum for Information and Communication, Königsfeld in the Black Forest
  • German aid association for the Albert-Schweitzer-Spital in Lambaréné e. V. (DHV), Frankfurt am Main
  • Albert Schweitzer Committee e. V., Weimar
  • Association Française des Amis d'Albert Schweitzer (AFAAS), Strasbourg
  • Swiss aid association for the Albert-Schweitzer-Spital in Lambaréné e. V., Sumiswald
  • Nederlands Albert Schweitzer Fund, Utrecht
  • Austrian Albert Schweitzer Society, Vienna
  • Reverence for Life, London
  • The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, Boston
  • Albert Schweitzer Center Foundation, Günsbach-Bern
  • German Albert Schweitzer Center Foundation, Frankfurt am Main
  • The Albert Schweitzer Institute of Humanities, Quinnipiac University, USA
  • Fondation Internationale de l'Hôpital Albert Schweitzer à Lambaréné (FISL), Gabon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Award of the “2nd International Albert Swiss Prize “17. – 19. May 2014 in Königsfeld in the Black Forest ( Memento from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: albertschweitzer-haus.de, accessed on February 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ Königsfeld website on the price. In: koenigsfeld.de, accessed on February 4, 2016.
  3. ^ A b Einhard Weber: International Albert Schweitzer Prize. In: Albert-Schweitzer-Rundbrief No. 103, yearbook 2011 for the friends of Albert Schweitzer. Edited by the German Albert Schweitzer Center, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811079-6-8 , p. 89 ( PDF; 1.5 MB ( memento from September 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )).
  4. ^ A b Stefan Walther: International Albert Schweitzer Prize. Eugen Drewermann and Albert Schweitzer. In: Albert Schweitzer Aktuell 2011. Information sheet from the Albert Schweitzer Center Foundation. Frankfurt am Main, September 2011, p. 3 ( PDF; 1.2 MB ( memento from October 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).
  5. ↑ a b International Albert Schweitzer Prize 2014, laudation for Daniel Roth by Dr. Harald Schützeichel ( Memento from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: albert-schweitzer-news.blogspot.de, accessed on February 4, 2016.
  6. ↑ Awarding of the “3. International Albert Schweitzer Prize “October 1st to 3rd, 2017 in Königsfeld in the Black Forest. In: koenigsfeld.de, accessed on April 20, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b press information. Award of the "3. International Albert Schweitzer Prize ”. In: albertschweitzer-haus.de. BMA Königsfeld, June 22, 2017, accessed on April 20, 2018 (PDF; 280 kB; with brief profiles of the award winners).