Villa Ichon Culture and Peace Prize

The Villa Ichon in Bremen (view from the ramparts).

The Villa Ichon Culture and Peace Prize (not to be confused with the Bremen Peace Prize ) has been awarded annually since 1983 by the sponsor of Villa Ichon in Bremen , the association of friends and supporters of Villa Ichon . The award honors a work or activity that "simultaneously represents a clear commitment to peace and is of high cultural importance".

The prize is aimed at cultural workers from Bremen as an individual or cultural group, but has also already been awarded to non- Bremen residents.

History and endowment

The award-giver, the Friends and Patrons Association of Villa Ichon in Bremen e. V. , has been the sponsor of the Villa Ichon in Bremen since 1982, which is now known nationwide as a forum for cultural and peace work . In the listed building in Bremen's Ostertorviertel , Amnesty International , DFG-VK and some other pacifist groups are permanently represented as tenants.

Villa Ichon , threatened with demolition , was preserved by the Bremen building contractor and patron Klaus Hübotter and restored and rebuilt in the early 1980s. Hübotter is the initiator and co-founder of the sponsoring association; he also initiated the Culture and Peace Prize. Luise Scherf is the chairman of the Association of Friends and Patrons of Villa Ichon .

The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros in prize money. The jury consists of the current board of directors.

Quote

"Peaceful cultural work is to be carried out in this villa, or, to put it the other way round, cultural peace work."

- Klaus Huebotter : Bremen, September 24, 1982

Award winners

1983: Bremen theater action But only graves create the home of the Ostertor peace initiative (Peter Abromeit, Helmut Diez and Gustav Gisiger)
1984: Christoph Schminck-Gustavus
1985: Argus group, including Gerburg Rohde-Dahl
1986: Janet Fruchtmann and Willy Hundertmark
1987: Heinrich Hannover
1988: Heinrich Albertz
1989: The prize was donated to the earthquake victims in Armenia
1990: Helmut Donat
1991: Karl Fruchtmann
1992: Will Quadflieg
1993: Bremen initiative "500 years of colonialism - 500 years of resistance"
1994: Arno Peters
1995: the prize was donated to the children in Mostar
1996: Helmut Hafner
1997: Lothar Bührmann
1998: Ivan Illich
1999: State working group for the performing game in schools
2000: Dagmar Gellert
2001: The prize went to all initiatives that have made an artistic, scientific and political contribution to the processing of the history of the submarine bunker "Valentin" in Bremen-Farge
2002: Klaus Huber
2003: Martin Rooney
2004: Richard Modemann (post mortem)
2005: Udo Lindenberg
2006: Dieter Senghaas
2007: Ludwig Baumann
2008: Marco Bode
2009: Blue Caravan and Blue Egg Atelier
2010: Christine Kröger
2011: Willy Schwarz
2012: Halime Cengiz and Jutta Konowalczyk-Schlüter
2013: Rolf Gössner
2014: Kurt Nelhiebel
2015: German Chamber Philharmonic and the Osterholz Tenever Mothers Center
2016: Bernhard Docke
2017: Libuše Černá and Tilman Rothermel
2018: Pago Balke
2019: Jasmina Heritani

Web links

Culture and Peace Prize on the website of Villa Ichon in Bremen

Remarks

↑ The jury subsequently unanimously distanced itself from the award ceremony for the British historian Martin Rooney, who lives in Bremen, and also donated 5,000 euros to UNICEF for the war children in Iraq . The reason for this were statements by Rooney about the emerging Iraq war , which had sparked a heated debate. See e.g. B .: Bremen Peace Prize to supporters of war? , Article on the website of the Peace Research Group at the University of Kassel (accessed on March 13, 2009).
↑ Udo Lindenberg is awarded the Villa Ichon Peace and Culture Prize 2005 , press release of the press office of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen on February 22, 2005 (accessed on May 15, 2009).
^ "Small Islam Conference" in the Bremen Town Hall. Award ceremony of the Villa Ichon to Prof. Dieter Senghaas during a conference , press release of the press office of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen on November 14, 2006 (accessed on March 13, 2009).
↑ Peace Prize for Marco Bode ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article in the FAZ of March 4, 2008, p. 35 (accessed on March 13, 2009).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.faz.net

↑ Blue life in the Überseestadt. The 27th Culture and Peace Prize of Villa Ichon goes to both the Blue Caravan and the Blaumeier Atelier , article by Henning Bleyl in the taz of January 24, 2009 (accessed on March 13, 2009).

[1] The jury subsequently unanimously distanced itself from the award ceremony for the British historian Martin Rooney, who lives in Bremen, and also donated 5,000 euros to UNICEF for the war children in Iraq . The reason for this were statements by Rooney about the emerging Iraq war , which had sparked a heated debate. See e.g. B .: Bremen Peace Prize to supporters of war? , Article on the website of the Peace Research Group at the University of Kassel (accessed on March 13, 2009).

[2] Udo Lindenberg is awarded the Villa Ichon Peace and Culture Prize 2005 , press release of the press office of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen on February 22, 2005 (accessed on May 15, 2009).

[3] "Small Islam Conference" in the Bremen Town Hall. Award ceremony of the Villa Ichon to Prof. Dieter Senghaas during a conference , press release of the press office of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen on November 14, 2006 (accessed on March 13, 2009).

[4] Peace Prize for Marco Bode ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article in the FAZ of March 4, 2008, p. 35 (accessed on March 13, 2009).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.faz.net

[5] Blue life in the Überseestadt. The 27th Culture and Peace Prize of Villa Ichon goes to both the Blue Caravan and the Blaumeier Atelier , article by Henning Bleyl in the taz of January 24, 2009 (accessed on March 13, 2009).