Kurt Schubert Memorial Prize

The Kurt Schubert Memorial Prize for Interreligious Understanding has been awarded since 2010 in memory of the doyen of Austrian Judaic Studies Kurt Schubert . It was initiated by Petrus Bsteh, the founder and director of the Forum for World Religions, and entrusted to a foundation committee. This includes: the forum for world religions. Ecumenical Office for Interreligious Dialogue and Interreligious Cooperation (formerly known as the Contact Point for World Religions - KWR; www.weltreligionen.at), the Ecumenical Council of Churches , the Catholic Academic Association , Klosterneuburg Monastery and the Coordination Committee for Christian-Jewish Cooperation. The award serves on the one hand to carry on Kurt Schubert's intellectual and ideal legacy and to make it fruitful for dialogue, and on the other to promote and spread interreligious understanding in Austria and beyond. The prize is currently endowed with 5,000 euros. A commemorative publication is available in the Forum for World Religions for each award ceremony.

Award winners

2010 Marko M. Feingold , the laudator was Hubert Gaisbauer
2012 Alfred Stingl for his commitment as mayor of the city of Graz, for the rebuilding of the synagogue in Graz, the holding of an ecumenical European assembly, a Buddhist Kalachakra celebration with the Dalai Lama , and the first European imams conference, presented by Diocesan Bishop Egon Kapellari , laudator was Philipp Harnoncourt
2014 Religious Theological Institute St. Gabriel / Mödling of the Societas Verbi Divini and its director Andreas Bsteh (award ceremony on February 6, 2014 in St. Pölten), laudator Adel Khoury
2016 Irmgard Aschbauer and Ruth Steiner
2018 Zekirija Sejdini for his contribution to contemporary research and communication of Islamic beliefs
2019 Ingeborg Fialova for her services to the Center for Judaic Studies in Olomouc / Czech Republic
2020 Eva Grabherr for her work in setting up the Jewish Museum in Hohenems and her diverse commitment to integration and understanding (awarded on February 3, 2020)

Web links

Kurt Schubert Memorial Prize for Interreligious Understanding

Individual evidence

↑ Kurt Schubert Memorial Prize awarded ( Memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Archdiocese of Vienna , article from February 5, 2010.
↑ Tina Walzer: It took me 65 years to become a Salzburg native. An interview with President Marko Feingold. In: DAVID - Jüdische Kulturzeitschrift, issue 84, 04/2010.
↑ Award for former mayor Stingl. In: Small newspaper . February 6, 2012, accessed July 17, 2018 .
↑ Invitation to the 4th award ceremony. (PDF; 656 kB) In: weltreligionen.at. October 9, 2015, accessed July 17, 2018 .
^ The Kurt Schubert Memorial Prize went to Zekirija Sejdini. University of Innsbruck , March 20, 2018, accessed June 9, 2018 .

[1] Kurt Schubert Memorial Prize awarded ( Memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Archdiocese of Vienna , article from February 5, 2010.

[2] Tina Walzer: It took me 65 years to become a Salzburg native. An interview with President Marko Feingold. In: DAVID - Jüdische Kulturzeitschrift, issue 84, 04/2010.

[3] Award for former mayor Stingl. In: Small newspaper . February 6, 2012, accessed July 17, 2018 .

[4] Invitation to the 4th award ceremony. (PDF; 656 kB) In: weltreligionen.at. October 9, 2015, accessed July 17, 2018 .

[5] The Kurt Schubert Memorial Prize went to Zekirija Sejdini. University of Innsbruck , March 20, 2018, accessed June 9, 2018 .