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The Aschaffenburg Courage Award is a biannual regional and national award for moral courage in the Lower Franconian city ​​of Aschaffenburg . It sees itself as a “citizen's prize” that is not awarded by an institution or organization. The sponsor is the Jugend mit Zukunft non-profit GmbH in Aschaffenburg. The initiator in 2004 was the managing director of the award Wolfgang Gärthe (* 1950 in Bonn) from a preparatory group with Harald Maidhof and Father Felix Kraus. The prize is intended to encourage reflection and public debate about and for moral courage.

history

The Aschaffenburg Courage Award, initiated by Wolfgang Gärthe in 2004, is inspired and takes place in memory of Father Bernhardt (Bernhard von Trier) , Guardian of the Aschaffenburg Capuchin Monastery , who on November 25, 1631 - requested by Aschaffenburg citizens - the city of Aschaffenburg in the turmoil of the thirty year old War is said to have saved from harm through courageous personal efforts. Around 2005, lively discussions in Aschaffenburg revealed whether this corresponds exactly to the historical truth, which is based on the sources of the Capuchin monastery (1703 and 1735) and a legend written down by Adalbert von Herrlein (1798–1870) in 1851 .

From 2006 onwards, the Courage Award and its work was also received nationwide.

motivation

The Courage Award aims to promote courageous behavior - it honors positive examples, in this respect, alongside other initiatives, it is also a compensation in a world in which negative, egoistic acts are more worth reporting and attracting attention. The Courage Award aims to show that there are always courageous people. He wants to motivate not to look the other way and to be courageous on appropriate occasions and to prevent social indifference.

criteria

The criterion for a nomination can be an act or an oral or written statement which, according to the initiators, is more than self-evident and which goes beyond common practice. The act should not have been undertaken for immediate personal gain and should motivate people to emulate.

Award

Awards are given in two categories:

  • Nationwide award winners: the jury decides on this
  • Regional award winners: there is a public call for this and the jury decides on the award winner. The regional award is endowed with 2000 euros.

The award winners receive a silver tray as a reminder and symbolization. Father Bernhard is said to have offered or handed over the city ​​keys to the King of Sweden on a tray .

Democracy needs discourse

Another special feature is that the national prize winners are in Aschaffenburg from the Thursday before the awards weekend and that at least four events with young people and adults take place on Saturday before the festive event.

Requirements for courageous behavior

Wolfgang Gärthe has published seven requirements for courageous behavior on the homepage :

  • Your own self-confidence to act
  • Empathy for the situation of others and compassion in order to help
  • The ability to self- reflect to think about yourself and the situation
  • the ability to respond appropriately
  • the ability to articulate and argue in order to cope with conflicts without violence
  • Expertise on general rights, duties and rules of living together
  • Assessment of the situation: own physical dexterity and strengths in relation to the other person (become active yourself or get help)

They are intended as suggestions for everyone, but also for those responsible in kindergartens, schools, families, in the world of work , in politics and the media.

Award winners

Vytautas Landsbergis
Franjo Komarica
Kurt Masur
Liao Yiwu
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Luigi Ciotti

Previous winners are:

  • 2004:
    • Vytautas Landsbergis , former Lithuanian President , was the first supraregional award winner. Landsbergis had been at the forefront of the preparation and implementation of the independence process in Lithuania; Together with others, he had ensured that this goal would be achieved, assuming personal risk and an unclear outcome was a prerequisite for this. The award is also a recognition of the many people in Lithuania who courageously participated in the independence process. Friedrich Magirius , Superintendent (1982–1995) at the Leipzig Nicolaikirche gave the laudatory speech.
    • Michael Allig was the first regional winner to receive the Courage Award on November 27, 2004. The then 23-year-old from Aschaffenburg didn't look away when a man brutally beat up his girlfriend on May 1, 2003 in front of a disco in Niedernberg . He tried to help her and intervened to protect her. A friend of the thug's ambush inflicted serious injuries with a razor blade that almost cost him his life
  • 2006:
    • Franjo Komarica , Bishop from Banja Luka , was the winner of the 2006 award. During the war, he helped all those in need - Catholics, Muslims and Serbs - with the Caritas humanitarian organization he had set up. In spite of the greatest danger to life and limb, he stayed in Banja Luka, "because he knew that he was the only moral support for many people," said the jury in its reasoning.
    • He was awarded to the Miltenberg city ​​pastor Ulrich Boom , auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Würzburg since December 8, 2008 . Ulrich Boom has “sent a positive signal in the right place at the right time” . With a 20-minute bell in his parish church St. Jakobus Miltenberg , he blew up a demonstration by the youth organization of the NPD . The cleric was concerned with "transforming delusion and aberration into pause and reflection". It was considered to punish this with a fine for violating the freedom of assembly , but the proceedings were discontinued without conditions. Der Spiegel reported on the action and the Berlin Tagesspiegel christened Boom the "bell ringer from Untermain" ; even Vatican Radio mentioned the courageous prize.
  • 2008:
    • The Somali-born Jawahir Cumar received the 2008 Courage Prize . Since 1996 she has been fighting against the circumcision of girls in Europe and Africa with her association "STOP Mutilation" . She herself experienced circumcision as a young girl in Somalia . At the age of eleven she came to Germany with her family.
    • Marcus Diller and Axel Dehler were awarded the 2008 regional prize . They ensured that a criminal could be arrested in the Aschaffenburg pedestrian zone in August 2004 . The 43-year-old kicked the exterior mirror of a car out of “personal frustration ”. Diller confronted him, whereupon he was attacked and injured with fist blows in the face. The other passers-by just watched; the Dehler who had just arrived called the police on his mobile phone. They pursued the escaping perpetrator and arrested him; he was later sentenced to probation .
  • 2010:
    • Kurt Masur (†) received the Courage Award in 2010 for his peaceful engagement at the Leipzig Monday demonstration on October 9, 1989. His calls over loudspeakers would have prevented an escalation at the time . Kurt Masur traveled from New York with his wife Tomoko Sakurai, talking to young people. “I'm honest, it takes courage” and further, “I didn't stand at the head of a procession with a waving flag, but instead supported what people wanted in my own way.” At the courageous price: he himself understands as an honor for helping prevent the catastrophe. Laudator Wolfgang Tiefensee , ex-Mayor of Leipzig and former Federal Minister of Transport D .: Masur's name is "inseparable from the concept of peaceful revolution".
    • Regional prize winners were Moein Ramezani from Aschaffenburg and Marc Kohlert from Haibach , who uncovered a serious case of child abuse and reported it. The two electronics store sellers noticed an apathetic two-year-old boy who, as it turned out later, was beaten and mistreated several times by his mother's partner.
  • 2013:
    • Liao Yiwu : With his courageous advocacy for the dignity of people in his native China, he risked personal disadvantage and was imprisoned for four years. He has lived in Berlin since 2011. The personal award for Yiwu Liao took place on November 9, 2013. The laudator was Peter Sillem, editor at S. Fischer Verlag . In his thanks, Liao didn't just talk about freedom - "he made it sound". Together with Marcus Hagemann, ( violoncello ) from Berlin , the writer, musician and poet thanked them with two pieces of music.
    • Roselinde Mirkovic and Isolde Gerlach from Mainaschaff received the regional prize for their courageous intervention to prevent a crime when an attempt was made to deprive an elderly woman (83 years of age) with dementia due to her savings.
  • 2015:
    • Reporters Without Borders received the award in 2015 for their fight against violations of press freedom and for human rights and for supporting reporters in need.
    • The 2015 regional award went to Berthold Holzschuh , who stood by a woman who had been beaten up by her husband in a threatening everyday situation , even though he himself suffered life-threatening injuries.
  • 2017
    • Don Luigi Ciotti was awarded the supraregional 2017 prize on December 2, 2017 for his selfless action against corruption, illegality and injustice, his work for a fairer and better world, and his advocacy and work with disadvantaged people in Italy.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ www.innenministerium.bayern.de .
  2. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Aschaffenburger Wolfgang Gärthe receives "Star of Security" .
  3. ^ Aschaffenburg: Doubts about the heroic deed on the Main Bridge , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 7, 2005; accessed on December 13, 2017
  4. ↑ Ascheberger Features , website of the city of Aschaffenburg; accessed on December 13, 2017
  5. ↑ Königsscheibe from 2002 , background information on a website of the Royal Privileged Shooting Society 1447 Aschaffenburg ; accessed on December 13, 2017
  6. ↑ a b Heavenly noise . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 2006 ( online ).
  7. ↑ In the press , on the website Aschaffenburger Mutig-Preis ; accessed on December 11, 2017
  8. ^ Bavarian Lower Main and the Main-Spessart district and neighboring towns
  9. ↑ 7 Requirements for courageous action , on the Aschaffenburger Courage Award website of October 10, 2013; accessed on December 11, 2017
  10. ↑ Prize winners , on the Aschaffenburger Mutig-Preis website , as of November 27, 2017; accessed on December 11, 2017
  11. ↑ Main-Echo No. 179 of August 3, 2004
  12. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 279 of November 29, 2004
  13. ↑ Main-Echo No. 120 of May 25, 2006
  14. ↑ Main-Echo No. 273 of November 27, 2006
  15. ↑ Main-Echo No. 272 ​​of November 22, 2008
  16. ↑ Main-Echo No. 273 of November 24, 2008
  17. ^ "Masur receives Courageous Prize" ( Memento from May 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: BR-online, March 8, 2010
  18. ↑ Main-Echo No. 252 of 30./31. October / 1. November 2010
  19. ↑ Main-Echo No. 253 of November 2, 2010
  20. ↑ Fischer publishers
  21. ↑ Main-Echo No. 260 of November 11, 2013
  22. ↑ Main-Echo No. 260 from November 11, 2013 TS.1
  23. ↑ Aschaffenburger Courageous Prize 2019 for Dr. Jan-Robert by Renesse Richter