Cardinal King Prize

The Cardinal König Prize has been awarded since 1991 by the foundation “ Communio et Progressio - New Hope for the Danube Region” founded by the former Archbishop of Vienna , Cardinal Franz König . The prize is awarded to personalities who have contributed to the formation of an alliance of action between science, religion, business and the media in order to contribute to overcoming global problems in the field of freedom of expression and conscience, justice, peace and the preservation of the Creation and the general development of human society.

Award winners

1992: Jerzy Turowicz
1994: Georg Sporschill SJ (Austria) "in recognition of his services to the Caritas youth center in Vienna and the Concordia youth center for the street children of Bucharest"
1997: The "Janineum" institute and its founder Lonny Glaser
1999: Václav Malý , auxiliary bishop in Prague ; Anton Srholec , Salesian of Don Bosco ; both were dissidents
2001: Johannes Poigenfürst , trauma surgeon
2003: Tomáš Halík , former Czech underground priest and student chaplain in the Salvator Church in Prague , sociologist and religious philosopher
2004: Hildegard Teuschl , for the umbrella organization " Hospice Austria"
2005: Pero Sudar , auxiliary bishop in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
2007: Bartholomäus I , His All Holiness Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople based in Fener in Istanbul
2008: Jewish Museum Vienna , for the establishment of a "Cardinal König Department for Jewish-Christian Understanding"
2010: Social organizations Caritas and Diakonie
2012: Schenuda III. , Coptic Pope
2014: Marianne Graf , pedagogue and social manager, initiator of the Albania-Austria partnership
2015: Helmut Krätzl

Meditative art

Before 1991 there was already another Cardinal König Prize, which was awarded by the Archbishop of Vienna in conjunction with the Institute for Sacred Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna to artists who dealt with meditative art:

1966: Hubert Pfaffenbichler , artist, for sacred art

1977: Wolfgang Sinwel , artist, for meditative painting

1976: Peter Hasler , artist, for the design of a meditation room

1975: Martina Funder , artist; Klaus Nötzberger , architect and Richard Frankenberger , artist

1971: Gottfried Helnwein , artist