Margravine Wilhelmine Prize of the City of Bayreuth
The Margravine Wilhelmine Prize of the City of Bayreuth (in detail: Margravine Wilhelmine Prize of the City of Bayreuth for tolerance and humanity in cultural diversity ) is an international human rights award that the City of Bayreuth has been awarding since 2008. The winners are proposed by the University of Bayreuth .
background
With the award donated in 2008, the city of Bayreuth is commemorating the Enlightenment period in the 18th century, which was significantly shaped in Bayreuth by Margravine Wilhelmine . Also since 2008, the interdisciplinary University of Bayreuth has hosted the Bayreuth Future Forum, which has taken place annually since then . The Margravine Wilhelmine Prize is awarded “in the context of the public conferences of the Future Forum to personalities or groups who have rendered outstanding services to critical reflection on European values and intercultural understanding in the international field in the cultural, social, political or scientific fields”. Initially the prize was awarded annually, since 2012 only every second year. The award is endowed with 10,000 euros.
Award winners
- 2008 Wole Soyinka for his committed advocacy for humanity and tolerance
- 2009 Daniel Barenboim for his exemplary peace-making work with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
- 2010 Hassan ibn Talal for his commitment to the dialogue between the religions and the promotion of understanding and harmony between the Islamic and non-Islamic world
- 2011 Madjiguène Cissé
- 2012 Klaus Töpfer
- 2014 Christian leader
- 2016 Code Pink
Award ceremony to Code Pink
On April 15, 2016, the American civil rights movement Code Pink received the award. After the movement, which was primarily supported by women, became aware of possible tendencies towards Israel criticism, the upcoming award ceremony was initially controversial. The city's mayor, Brigitte Merk-Erbe , suggested that the award ceremony should not take place. On February 23, 2016, however, the city council decided with a narrow majority not to withdraw the award. The actress Jasmin Tabatabai , who was to be the laudator , canceled her participation.
Brigitte Merk-Erbe, who presented the award, spoke of a "painful award ceremony". The Bayreuth dean Hans Peetz, who instead of Jasmin Tabatabai gave a speech that was expressly not described as a laudation, said Code Pink's position of comparing the Israeli occupation policy with apartheid in South Africa was dangerous . He criticized statements that Bayreuth had become a “stronghold of modern anti-Semitism” as a result of the award ceremony. A counter rally organized by the German-Israeli Society Bayreuth took place at the location of the award ceremony, the Audimax of the University of Bayreuth.
outlook
In June 2018 it was announced that an award ceremony will no longer take place in the previous form. The prize was not awarded in 2019, and - contrary to a request submitted by the CSU, SPD and FDP - no award is planned for 2020.
Web links
- The award and the previous award winners . In: Bayreuth.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tolerance price before the end in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from June 30th / 1st. July 2018, p. 12.
- ↑ a b City Council in der Zwickmühle in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of February 17, 2016, p. 9.
- ^ Ceremony with undertones in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from 16./17. April 2016, p. 11.
- ↑ Merk-Erbe: No price for Code Pink. Nordbayerischer Kurier, February 11, 2016, accessed on February 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Code Pink receives Tolerance Prize in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from February 25, 2016, p. 1
- ↑ No laudation for "Code Pink" at: nordbayerischer-kurier.de, accessed on April 16, 2016
- ^ A painful award ceremony in: Frankenpost from April 18, 2016, p. 2.
- ^ No Wilhelmine Prize in: Nordbayerischer Kurier, December 9, 2019, p. 9.