Marion Samuel Prize
The Marion Samuel Prize has been awarded annually since 1999 by the Lindau Remembrance Foundation, established by the couple Ingrid and Walther Seinsch, to people or institutions that “work in a particularly effective way against the forgetting, repressing and relativization of Germans in the Turn around crimes committed during the National Socialist era and / or advance the scientific analysis of this time ”. The price was originally 25,000 German marks and is currently endowed with 15,000 euros. The first prize winner was the historian Raul Hilberg .
When the political scientist and publicist Götz Aly was awarded the Marion Samuel Prize in 2003 for his studies on the extermination of European Jews in World War II, he researched who gave the prize its name and in 2004 published the biography Im Tunnel. The short life of Marion Samuel 1931–1943 .
Marion Samuel was born on July 27, 1931 in Arnswalde in Brandenburg and lived in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin in 1939 . She was deported to Auschwitz on March 3, 1943 and has been considered missing ever since. According to the wish of the foundation, Marion Samuel stands on behalf of all those people who shared their fate during the Nazi era .
Award winners
- 1999: Raul Hilberg
- 2000: Gerhard Hoch
- 2001: Action atonement
- 2002: Volker Issmer
- 2003: Götz Aly
- 2004: Wolfgang Palm
- 2005: Michael Verhoeven
- 2006: Michael von Cranach
- 2007: Imre Kertész
- 2008: Ingeborg Hecht-Studniczka
- 2009: Georg Elser Initiative Munich
- 2010: Robert Domes
- 2011: Carl Hanser Verlag
- 2012: Beate Lehr-Metzger
- 2013: Theater EUKITEA
- 2014: Barbara Fenner
- 2015: Wolf Biermann
- 2016: Vladimir Danovsky
- 2017: CONTACTS-KOHTAKTbI
- 2018: Documentary film group Rothenburg
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.kulturpreise.de
- ↑ Augsburg: Beate Lehr-Metzger receives this year's Marion-Samuel-Preis ( Memento of the original from March 6th, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , pressemeldung-bayern.de, November 8, 2012
