Karl Wilhelm Fricke Prize
The Karl Wilhelm Fricke Prize is awarded to personalities and initiatives "who, with their commitment, strengthen awareness of freedom, democracy and moral courage." The Federal Foundation for the coming to terms with the SED dictatorship is awarded . The award takes place annually.
The aim of the award is to “promote critical discussion of the communist dictatorships , strengthen the anti-totalitarian consensus in society and consolidate democracy and the internal unity of Germany ”.
Projects or works can be awarded for “outstanding scientific work, literary or artistic works, innovative and lively educational projects, documentary films or journalistic works”.
The namesake
The award is named after the journalist and publicist Karl Wilhelm Fricke . The prize was first awarded on June 15, 2017 as a reconditioning prize and will be "henceforth called the Karl Wilhelm Fricke Prize".
The founder
The founder is the publicist, physician and former escape helper Burkhart Veigel . He “wants the confrontation with totalitarian regimes to continue. The award should therefore not only be recognition for outstanding achievements in this field, but also an impetus to deal with these topics further. "
Prize money
The prize is endowed with 20,000 euros and “should at the same time enable the award-winning work to be continued”.
In addition, a special prize worth 5,000 euros will be awarded from 2018.
Award winners
- 2017 Karl Wilhelm Fricke ; Laudator : Rainer Eppelmann ; Handing over: Horst Köhler
- 2018 Advice center “Gegenwind” (Berlin / Germany) as well as the “ Last Address ” initiative (Russia)
- 2019 Initiativgruppe Geschlossener Jugendwerkhof Torgau eV, special prizes: Ines Geipel , Hartmut Büttner , Thuringian quarterly journal for contemporary history and politics "Gerbergasse 18"
- 2020: Freya Klier , special prizes: Camp Mühlberg Initiative Group , Martin Luther King Center Werdau for Nonviolence and Civil Courage e. V. - Archives Citizens Movement, National Human Rights Museum in Taiwan
jury
From 2018, the winners will be selected by a prominent jury. The jury, chaired by Marianne Birthler , the former federal commissioner for the Stasi files , also includes former Federal President Horst Köhler , the Russian human rights activist Irina Scherbakova , the writer Marko Martin , the donor of the Burkhart Veigel award and Anna, the managing director of the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED dictatorship Kaminsky.
Web links
- Karl Wilhelm Fricke Prize. In: bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de
- Illustration of the price. In: bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de
- Prize for GDR processing. Withstood the polemic. (No longer available online.) In: Tagesschau . June 15, 2017, archived from the original on June 15, 2017 .
- Sven Felix Kellerhoff : Eliminated with knockout drops, kidnapped to the GDR. In: welt.de. The world . 15th June 2017
- Claudia van Laak : Karl Wilhelm Fricke receives award for journalistic life's work. In: deutschlandfunk.de. Deutschlandfunk . 15th June 2017
- Karlen Vesper: Yes, times are tough. KW Fricke honored. In: neue-deutschland.de. New Germany . 17th June 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Karl Wilhelm Fricke Prize. In: bundesstiftung-aufteilung.de, accessed on June 24, 2017.
- ↑ Event review: Awarding of the first reprocessing prize by the Federal Foundation on June 15, 2017. In: bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de, accessed on June 24, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d The first award ceremony on June 15, 2017. In: bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de, accessed on June 23, 2017.
- ↑ The first prize winner: Dr. H. c. Karl Wilhelm Fricke. In: bundesstiftung-aufteilung.de, accessed on June 24, 2017.
- ↑ The donor: Dr. Burkhart Veigel. In: bundesstiftung-aufendung.de, accessed on June 23, 2017.
- ↑ a b c State Commissioner of the Free State of Thuringia to come to terms with the SED dictatorship (ThLA): Karl Wilhelm Fricke receives work-up prize from the Federal Foundation for Work-Up . In: thla-thueringen.de. June 19, 2017. Retrieved June 24, 2017.
- ↑ price for GDR processing. Withstood the polemic. (No longer available online.) In: Tagesschau. June 15, 2017, archived from the original on June 15, 2017 ; accessed on June 11, 2019 .
- ^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke Prize 2019: Proposals can be submitted until March 1st. Press release. In: bundesstiftung-aufteilung.de, February 5, 2019, accessed on June 11, 2019.