Meyer Struckmann Prize for research in the humanities and social sciences

With the Meyer Struckmann Prize for research in the humanities and social sciences , the Philosophical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (initially in cooperation with the North Rhine-Westphalia Science Center, which was dissolved in 2008 ) has been honoring outstanding achievements in the humanities and social sciences every year since 2006 . For each year, a subject area or subject area is selected from which the jury selects a winner based on suggestions from universities, researchers and scientific institutions. The award is financed by the Meyer Struckmann Foundation and comes with prize money of € 20,000.

Originally, funding from the Meyer Struckmann Foundation was planned for ten years. In 2014 it was decided to extend it for a further ten years, i.e. until 2026.

Previous winners and areas of expertise

2006: Hartmut Böhme ("Memoria: Forms of Collective Memory ")
2007: Shmuel Feiner (" Jewish Traditions in European Culture and Society")
2008: Harald Weinrich (" German-French Relations in Culture and Society")
2009: Herfried Münkler ("Societies of Modernity")
2010: Horst Bredekamp ("Theory and Cultures of the Image ")
2011: Jan-Dirk Müller ( Medieval Research )
2012: Ursula Wolf ( Practical Philosophy )
2013: Ian Kershaw
2014: Alain Schnapp ( Classical Archeology )
2015: Winfried Schulz ( media studies )
2016: Florian Coulmas ( East Asian Studies )
2017: Norbert Finzsch ( North American Studies )

2018: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (History of the Early Modern Age)

2019: Michael Stolleis ( European Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences )

Web links

Presentation of the award on the Meyer Struckmann Foundation website

Individual evidence

↑ Gert Kaiser: Greeting. In: Bruno Bleckmann (Ed.): Classical Archeology, Meyer Struckmann Prize 2014: Alain Schnapp (= speeches on the awarding of the Meyer Struckmann Prize by the Philosophical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Volume 9). Düsseldorf University Press, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-95758-010-8 , pp. 15–17, here p. 17.

[1] Gert Kaiser: Greeting. In: Bruno Bleckmann (Ed.): Classical Archeology, Meyer Struckmann Prize 2014: Alain Schnapp (= speeches on the awarding of the Meyer Struckmann Prize by the Philosophical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Volume 9). Düsseldorf University Press, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-95758-010-8 , pp. 15–17, here p. 17.