Cologne Culture Prize

The Cologne Culture Prize has been awarded annually in two categories since 2010 by the Kölner Kulturrat eV, which unites the development associations and institutions of the cultural sector in the city of Cologne. The prize is intended to honor outstanding achievements and pioneering developments in culture in Cologne. It is awarded in the categories of cultural manager of the year and cultural event of the year . The prize for the best cultural event of the year consists of prize money of 5,000 euros. In addition, an honorary award can be given to people or institutions who have made a special contribution to Cologne's culture and who are not included in the other two categories. In 2016, a "Young Initiative" was awarded for the first time as part of the Cologne Culture Prize, which has made a contribution to promoting, presenting and networking young cultural workers. This new award is endowed with prize money of 5,000 euros, donated by DEG Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH.

Award winners

• 2010
  • Andreas Blühm , director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , as best cultural manager of the year 2009
  • Lit.Cologne as the best cultural event of 2009
• 2011
  • Karin Beier , director of the Schauspiel Köln , as best cultural manager of 2010
  • Opening of the cultural center on Neumarkt with the Schnütgen Museum and the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum as the best cultural event of 2009 , 5,000 euros
  • Irene Ludwig , patron of the arts, (posthumously) as honorary award of the jury
• 2012
  • Sabine Voggenreiter as best cultural manager of 2011 for her commitment to events such as the Passagen design festival , the Architekturforum Plan and the Design Quartier Ehrenfeld project
  • Art Cologne art fair as the best cultural event of 2011
  • Navid Kermani , writer, as an honorary award of the jury for his social engagement with the religions as well as the dialogue of cultures he pursued
• 2013
  • Jochen Heufelder as cultural manager of the year 2012 for his commitment to new talents
  • lit.COLOGNE as a cultural event of the year 2012 (as part of a population survey)
  • Kasper König , director of the Museum Ludwig from 2000 to 2012 , as an honorary award
• 2014
  • Bettina Brokemper , film producer of the films Bal - Honig and Hannah Arendt , as cultural manager of the year 2013
  • Exhibition Not yet tiltled - New and forever in the Museum Ludwig as a cultural event of the year 2013 (as part of a population survey)
  • Bookseller Hildegund Laaff for her lifetime achievement as an honorary award
• 2015
  • Louwrens Langevoort , artistic director of the Cologne Philharmonic , as cultural manager of the year 2014
  • Solidarity festival " Birliche - standing together, living together" as a cultural event of the year 2014 (as part of a population survey)
  • House of Architecture Cologne as an honorary award
• 2016
  • Hannelore Vogt , Director of the Cologne City Library , as cultural manager of the year 2015
  • lit.COLOGNE as a cultural event of the year 2015 (as part of a population survey)
  • Project and culture initiator Baustelle Kalk in the Young Initiatives category
  • Werner Jung , head of the Nazi Documentation Center , as an honorary award
• 2017
  • Management team of the Stadtgarten venue ( Reiner Michalke , Matthias von Welck , Gerhard Veeck and Norbert von der Grün ) as cultural manager of the year 2016
  • Festival Eight Bridges as a cultural event of the year 2016 (as part of a population survey)
  • Stefanie Klingemann for her commitment to the projects of the magazine MOFF Artists in Conversation - Scene Rhineland and the art action 10qm in the category Young Initiatives
  • Bookseller and publisher Walther König as an honorary award
• 2018
  • Hanna Koller (dance curator of the Städtische Bühnen) as cultural manager of the year 2017
  • Children's film festival Cinepänz as a cultural event of the year 2017 (as part of a population survey)
  • Kick-off festival for scenic texts by the theater initiative Cheers for Fears and the Cologne literary series LAND IN SICHT in the Young Initiatives category
  • Anna Friebe-Reininghaus (collector and patron) as an honorary award
• 2019
  • Madhusree Dutta (artistic director of the Akademie der Künste der Welt ) as cultural manager of the year 2018
  • the production The Soldiers of the Cologne Opera and the Africa Film Festival of the FilmInitiativ Köln eV as cultural event of the year 2018 (as part of a population survey)
  • the LTK4 sound-based arts project in the Lutherturm in the Young Initiatives category
  • Helge Malchow (former publishing director of Kiepenheuer & Witsch ) as an honorary award

Web links

• Cologne Cultural Council

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Suggestions are welcome , from March 12, 2012, accessed on December 4, 2017
2. ↑ First Cologne Culture Prize goes to Andreas Blühm and lit.Cologne , accessed on May 26, 2012
3. ^ Cologne Culture Prize , accessed on May 26, 2012