Joseph E. Drexel Foundation

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The Joseph E. Drexel Foundation was established in 1956 on the occasion of the 60th birthday of the publisher of the Nürnberger Nachrichten , Joseph E. Drexel . It awarded the Joseph E. Drexel Prize in the field of press and journalism.

Purpose of the foundation

According to its statutes, its purpose was to award "outstanding work in the field of press in the broadest sense" with the Joseph E. Drexel Prize . The foundation counts the entire area of journalism , picture reporting, artistic, photographic and typographic design of a publication organ in the press .

Board of Trustees of the Foundation

The Joseph E. Drexel Prize was awarded by the Foundation's Board of Trustees. In 1966 it included:

  • Joseph E. Drexel, publisher, Nuremberg
  • Heinrich G. Merkel , publisher, Nuremberg
  • Hans Wolf, publisher, Nuremberg
  • Heinrich Bechtoldt, Stuttgart
  • Hanns Erich Köhler , Herrsching
  • Max von Brück, Rome

When awarding the prizes, the board of trustees should disregard the ideological or political location of the person concerned. Only performance aspects should decide for the judgment. This particularly included "the precision of a statement, its intellectual foundation and the intellectual incorruptibility expressed in it".

Winner of the Joseph E. Drexel Prize

  • 1957 Karl Heinrich Silex (born July 6, 1896 in Stettin; † May 18, 1982 in Cologne), editor-in-chief of Tagesspiegel , Berlin
  • 1957 Helmut Lindemann (* 1912 in Kiel; † 1998), lawyer, journalist, political publicist, radio commentator, writer and translator, Lindau
  • 1957 Herbert Scheurich (* 1919 in Berlin), graphic artist and caricaturist, Hamburg
  • 1958 Olaf Gulbransson (* 1873 in Christiania (later Oslo), † 1958 at the Schererhof near Tegernsee), draftsman and caricaturist
  • 1958 Ernst von Khuon-Wildegg (* 1915 in Pasing, † 1997 in Munich), radio and television reporter, master of documentary reporting, chief reporter of the Südwestfunk for radio and television, Deisenhofen near Munich
  • 1958 Friedl Volgger (* 1914 in Ridnaun near Sterzing, South Tyrol, † 1997 in Bozen), journalist and politician, 1943–1945 Dachau, Bozen
  • 1959 Herbert von Borch (* 1909 in Swatau, China; † 2003 in Munich), journalist, foreign correspondent for leading German daily newspapers, Washington
  • 1959 Josef Hegenbarth (* 1884 in Böhmisch-Kamnitz, † 1962 in Dresden), graphic artist, draftsman, Dresden
  • 1959 Kurt Wagenführ (* 1903 in Schönebeck, † 1987 in Gauting), freelance radio and television journalist, Sürth near Cologne
  • 1960 Robert Jungk (* 1913 in Berlin; † 1994 in Salzburg), journalist, freelance writer, Vienna
  • 1960 Walter Fabian (* 1902 in Berlin; † 1992 in Cologne), freelance journalist and editor of the trade union monthly books , Cologne-Mülheim
  • 1960 Hanna Nagel (* 1907 in Heidelberg; † 1975 there), graphic artist, draftsman, Heidelberg
  • 1961 - no award ceremony -
  • 1962 Margret Antonie Boveri (* 1900 in Würzburg, † 1975 in Berlin), journalist and writer, Berlin
  • 1962 Heinrich Bechtoldt (* 1911 in Frankfurt am Main), journalist, political publicist, editor of the journal Foreign Policy , Geschingen-Bergwald (Württemberg)
  • 1962 Edgar Traugott (* 1912 in Straßwalchen / Austria), journalist, Rückersdorf near Nuremberg
  • 1963 Hanns Erich Köhler (* 1905 in Tetschen-Bodenbach, † 1983 in Herrsching am Ammersee), professor of fine arts, draftsman and caricaturist, Herrsching am Ammersee
  • 1963 Conrad Ahlers (* 1922 in Hamburg; † 1980 in Bonn), journalist, Hamburg
  • 1963 Jürgen Neven-du Mont (* 1921 in Munich; † 1979 ibid), radio and television reporter, chief reporter at Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg
  • 1964 Marion Countess Dönhoff (* 1909 in Friedrichstein near Löwenhagen / East Prussia; † 2002 at Crottorf Castle), journalist, political publicist, Hamburg
  • 1964 Erich Helmensdorfer (* 1920 in Nuremberg; † 2017 in Vienna), journalist, reporter at the Nuremberg Trials, foreign correspondent and television commentator, Munich
  • 1964 Josef Sauer (* 1893 in Bamberg, † 1967 in Munich), draftsman and caricaturist, Munich
  • 1965 Peter Bender (* 1923 in Berlin; † 2008 ibid), journalist, political publicist, Liblar near Cologne
  • 1965 Gustl Müller-Dechent (* 1915 in Munich; † 2016 in Salzgitter), journalist, Bad Vilbel
  • 1965 Eugen Kusch (* 1905 in Danzig; † 1981), freelance writer (author of cultural-historical images), Schwarzenbruck near Nuremberg
  • 1966 Klaus Harpprecht (* 1927 in Stuttgart; † 2016 in La Croix-Valmer), television journalist, writer and head of the S. Fischer publishing house in Frankfurt am Main
  • 1966 Christoph Freiherr von Imhoff (* 1912 in Nuremberg), journalist, deputy editor-in-chief and writer, Düsseldorf
  • 1966 A. Paul Weber (* 1893 in Arnstadt / Thuringia; † 1980 in Schretstaken near Mölln), graphic artist, draftsman, Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp, Schretstaken near Hamburg
  • 1967 Hans Dohrenbusch , journalist
  • 1967 Hans Lamm (* 1913 in Munich; † 1985 ibid), journalist, book publications
  • 1967 Eberhard Schlotter (* 1921; † 2014 in Altea, Alicante province), prize for “bibliophile illustration”, painter and graphic artist
  • 1968 Karl Heinz Bohrer (* 1932 in Cologne), journalist
  • 1968 Ansgar Skriver (* 1934 in Ockholm; † 1997), journalist
  • 1968 Eberhard Wachsmuth , draftsman
  • 1969 Walter Methlagl (* 1937 in Feldkirch), philologist
  • 1969 Wigg Siegl (* 1911; † 1994), graphic designer
  • 1969 Alfred Püllmann , journalist
  • 1970 Kurt Halbritter (* 1924 in Frankfurt am Main; † 1978), caricaturist, publications of caricature volumes
  • 1970 Kosmas Ziegler , writer and translator
  • 1970 Rudolf Kriesch (* 1904 in St. Pölten, † 1992 in Munich), graphic artist
  • 1970 Jörg Wohlhüter , radio journalist
  • 1971 Hans Max von Aufseß , lawyer and writer, book publications
  • 1971 Otto E. Ifland , journalist
  • 1971 Friedrich Hagen (* 1903 in Nuremberg; † 1979 near Paris), painter, draftsman, actor, mediator between German and French intellectual life
  • 1971 Wilhelm Puff (* 1889 in Mülheim an der Ruhr; † 1983), art writer
  • 1972 Georg Schreiber (* 1921 in Münster; † 1996), doctor and journalist
  • 1972 Günther Strupp (* 1912 in Johannisburg; † 1996 in Augsburg), draftsman and set designer
  • 1972 Horst Wolter, journalist
  • 1972 Rudolf Hartung (* 1914 in Munich, † 1985 in Berlin), literary critic
  • 1972 Walter Henkels (* 1906 in Höhscheid; † 1987 in Bonn), publicist, book and illustrated book publications
  • 1973 Michael Mathias Prechtl (* 1926 in Amberg; † 2003 in Nuremberg), draftsman, painter, illustrator and caricaturist
  • 1973 Karl Rössing (* 1897 in Gmunden; † 1987 in Wels), professor of free graphics
  • 1973 Max von Brück , journalist
  • 1973 Hans Schwab-Felisch (* 1918 in Dresden; † 1989 in Herdecke), publicist, vice-president of the PEN Club
  • 1974 Gustav Peichl (* 1928 in Vienna; † 2019 ibid.), Architect and caricaturist
  • 1974 Anton Dieterich (* 1908 in Schwäbisch Gmünd; † 2002 in Madrid), journalist, book publications
  • 1974 Hilde Fürstenberg (* 1902 in Bonn, † 2005 in Mölln), writer
  • 1975 Bert Reuvers , publicist
  • 1975 Adrien Finck (* 1930 in Hagenbach (Sundgau); † 2008), lecturer and translator
  • 1975 Friedrich Bohne , publicist
  • 1975 Hans Dahmen (* 1929 in Schiedam, † 1989 in Innsbruck), publicist
  • 1976 no prizes awarded
  • 1977 April 21st Ruprecht Skasa-Weiss , journalist
  • 1977 April 21st Martin Niemöller (* 1892 in Lippstadt, † 1984 in Wiesbaden), pastor / publicist
  • 1977 April 21st Joseph Heinrich Darchinger , photo journalist
  • 1978 March 13th Werner A. Perger , journalist
  • 1978 March 13th Hansjakob Stehle (* 1927 in Ulm; † 2015 in Grünwald), journalist
  • 1979 March 22nd Wolfgang Venohr (* 1925 in Berlin; † 2005 there), long-time television editor-in-chief; successful film and book author; TV series Documents German Daseins
  • 1979 March 22nd Peggy Parnass (* 1927 in Hamburg), journalist
  • 1980 April 10th Franz Josef Bautz (* 1925 in Augsburg; † 2011 in Bad Endorf), radio journalist
  • 1981 March 19th Axel Eggebrecht (* 1899 in Leipzig; † 1991 in Hamburg), journalist
  • 1983 May 19th Karsten De Riese , journalist
  • 1983 May 19th Franz Alt (* 1938 in Untergrombach), journalist, publicist
  • 1985 April 2nd Werner Müller, journalist
  • 1986 April 10th Klaus Bednarz (* 1942 in Falkensee; † 2015 in Schwerin), journalist, award also went to members of the editorial team
  • 1986 Gabriele Krone-Schmalz (* 1949 in Lam), journalist and Moscow correspondent for WDR
  • 1989 November 24th Isolde Ohlbaum (* 1953 in Moosburg an der Isar), photographer, award also went to editors, photo journalists and freelancers of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung , Regensburg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Joseph E. Drexel Prize 1956–1966. Nuremberg Press, Nuremberg 1966.
  2. ^ Press archive of the Nürnberger Nachrichten

literature

  • The Joseph E. Drexel Prize 1956–1966. Nuremberg Press, Nuremberg 1966.

See also