Max Herrmann Prize
The Max Herrmann Prize is a German library prize that has been awarded by the Association of Friends of the Berlin State Library since 2000 . It commemorates the Berlin theater scholar Max Herrmann , who was deported to Theresienstadt by the National Socialists in 1942.
background
The German State Library had already awarded a “prize named after Max Herrmann to particularly committed employees of the company” between 1979 and 1991. Max Herrmann founded the Library of German Private and Manuscript Prints in the Berlin State Library in 1916. On the initiative of Heinz Knobloch , the Association of Friends of the Berlin State Library donated the new Max Herrmann Prize in 2000 with the aim of honoring personalities "who have made a special contribution to the library system and the Berlin State Library". The award ceremony usually takes place on May 10th to commemorate the day of the book burnings in 1933 in Berlin . It is linked to the presentation of a facsimile from the holdings of the State Library.
Award winners
- 2000 Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel
- 2001 Paul Raabe
- 2002 Wolfgang Frühwald
- 2003 Klaus G. Saur
- 2005 Ekaterina Genieva
- 2007 Bernhard Fabian
- 2008 Karin von Welck
- 2009 Günter de Bruyn
- 2010 Inge Jens
- 2011 Georg Siebeck from Mohr Siebeck Verlag
- 2012 Micha Ullman
- 2013 Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel
- 2014 BH Breslauer Foundation New York
- 2016 Wim Wenders
- 2017 Klaus Wagenbach
- 2018 Working Group of Memorial Libraries (AGGB)
- 2019 Bara'a Al-Bayati, Iraq, and Freshta Karim, Afghanistan
Web links
source
- ^ Heinz Knobloch The Max Herrmann Prize p.51-52 in: Berliner Feuilleton, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin / Weimar 1987 (bb-Taschenbuch 588) ISBN 3-351-00375-7 .
- ↑ buchmarkt.de of September 25, 2019: Max Herrmann Prize 2019 for Freshta Karim and Bara'a Al Bayati , accessed on September 25, 2019.