Ludwig Börne Prize
The Ludwig Börne Prize is an award from the Ludwig Börne Foundation, based in Frankfurt am Main , for outstanding achievements by German-speaking authors in the areas of reportage , essay and criticism .
Objective and procedure
In 1993, the Frankfurt banker and journalist Michael Gotthelf, together with other private individuals who were not mentioned, founded a foundation that has since awarded the Ludwig Börne Prize to German-speaking authors every year. This is intended to commemorate the Frankfurt writer , revolutionary democrat and political journalist Ludwig Börne (1786–1837) and his work.
A judge named by the foundation's board of directors, a so-called juror, decides on the winner under sole responsibility. He also gives the laudation for the winner of the prize, which is endowed with 20,000 euros. The award ceremony will take place in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt .
In 2010, the foundation itself awarded the Börne Medal of Honor to Marcel Reich-Ranicki for the first time for his life's work.
Foundation Board
Michael A. Gotthelf is the founder and chairman of the Ludwig Börne Foundation . Members of the Board of Management are Salomon Korn (Chairman of the Jewish Community in Frankfurt / Main), Peter Feldmann (Lord Mayor of the City of Frankfurt am Main), Klaus-Peter Müller (former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Commerzbank ), Hubert Burda (Hubert Burda Medien) and Thomas Bellut ( Director of the ZDF ).
Award winners
- 1993: Joachim Kaiser , editor (juror and laudator: Marcel Reich-Ranicki , publicist and literary critic)
- 1994: Marie-Luise Scherer , writer (juror and laudator: Monika Maron , writer)
- 1995: Marcel Reich-Ranicki , journalist and literary critic (juror and laudator: Klara Obermüller , journalist, writer and television presenter)
- 1996: Joachim Fest , journalist, author and contemporary historian (juror and laudator: Klaus von Dohnanyi , First Mayor of Hamburg a. D.)
- 1997: Richard Schröder , philosopher and Protestant theologian (juror and laudator: Hans Maier , politician and political scientist)
- 1998: Josef Joffe , journalist, publisher and lecturer (juror and laudator: Hellmuth Karasek , journalist, author and literary critic)
- 1999: Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt , writer and translator (juror and laudator: Peter von Matt , Germanist)
- 2000: Not awarded
- 2001: Rudolf Augstein , journalist, publisher and publicist (juror and laudator: Frank Schirrmacher , co-editor of the FAZ and publicist)
- 2002: Hans Magnus Enzensberger , poet, writer and editor (juror and laudator: Rachel Salamander , editor)
- 2003: George Steiner , writer, philosopher and cultural critic (juror and laudator: Joschka Fischer , Federal Foreign Minister)
- 2004: Daniela Dahn , journalist and writer (juror and laudator: Jorge Semprún , writer)
- 2005: Henning Ritter , editor (juror and laudator: Michael Krüger , publisher and writer)
- 2006: Wolfgang Büscher , journalist and author (juror and laudator: Horst Köhler , Federal President)
- 2007: Henryk M. Broder , journalist and book author (juror and laudator: Helmut Markwort , editor-in-chief of Focus ; Broder announced on June 4, 2013 in the newspaper Die Welt that he would return the award in protest.),
- 2008: Alice Schwarzer , women's rights activist and editor of Emma (juror and laudator: Harald Schmidt , cabaret artist)
- 2009: Frank Schirrmacher , journalist, co-editor of the FAZ and book author (juror and laudator: Necla Kelek , sociologist)
- 2010: Marcel Reich-Ranicki (Medal of Honor for his life's work; laudators were entertainers Thomas Gottschalk and Harald Schmidt , publicist Henryk M. Broder and editor Frank Schirrmacher )
- 2011: Joachim Gauck , civil rights activist, publicist and pastor (juror and laudator: Michael Naumann , Minister of State for Culture)
- 2012: Götz Aly , historian and journalist (juror and laudator: Jens Jessen , head of the feature section of Die Zeit )
- 2013: Peter Sloterdijk , philosopher and essayist (juror and laudator: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht , literary historian, cultural and literary scholar)
- 2014: Florian Illies , journalist and author (juror and laudator: Martin Meyer , editor in chief of the NZZ )
- 2015: Jürgen Kaube , journalist and co-editor of the FAZ (juror and laudator: Dan Diner , historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem )
- 2016: Martin Meyer , editor-in-chief of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from 1992 to 2015 (juror and laudator: András Schiff , Hungarian-Austrian-British pianist and conductor).
- 2017: Rüdiger Safranski , writer and philosopher (juror and laudator: Christian Berkel , actor)
- 2018: Souad Mekhennet , journalist and author (juror and laudator: Maybrit Illner , television journalist and author)
- 2019: Eva Menasse , writer (juror and laudator: Florian Illies , publisher)
- 2020: Christoph Ransmayr , writer (juror and laudator: Frank-Walter Steinmeier , Federal President)
literature
- Georg Stanitzek : Essay - BRD. Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940384-33-1 , pp. 120-122.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personal description on perlentaucher.de
- ↑ Henryk M. Broder, Why I am giving back my Börne Prize , at Welt.de, June 4, 2013
- ↑ see Ludwig Börne Medal for Reich-Ranicki's life's work at focus.de, June 6, 2010 (accessed on June 6, 2010)
- ↑ spiegel.de of January 24, 2011
- ↑ focus.de from February 11, 2014
- ↑ focus.de from February 16, 2015
- ↑ Ludwig Börne Prize for Eva Menasse , report on Deutschlandfunk Kultur from February 5, 2019.
- ↑ Ludwig Börne Prize 2019 - Relentless acceptance speech by Eva Menasse , SWR2 of May 27, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019
- ^ Börne Prize for Christoph Ransmayr . In: faz.net, February 12, 2020 (accessed February 12, 2020).