Prix Mychkine

The Prix Mychkine (German transcription method Myschkin ) is an international culture and ethics prize that was launched in 2012.

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The award is intended to honor exemplary behavior in the field of social commitment, the arts and ethics. The award will be given to personalities who contribute to a climate of tolerance, who have achieved extraordinary cultural and ethical achievements and who have distinguished themselves through their work and an exemplary life in the sense of ancient Greek ethics and modern humanistic "greatness of soul" as well as generosity. The award was named after the title hero ( Prince Myshkin ) of the novel The Idiot by Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski . It is intended to award the award in two categories:

once for the life's work of a personality,
on the other hand to personalities who are still in a creative stage (“work in progress”).
A special prize ( Prix spécial ) can also be awarded.

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The host of the newly founded award is the Karlsruhe State University of Design . It is donated and financed by a private circle of friends in which other contributors are welcome on the basis of shared values and goals. The founding committee, to which six people belong, also forms the award jury:

Peter Sloterdijk ( Karlsruhe ),
Peter Weibel (Karlsruhe),
Joszef Bugovics (computer entrepreneur , Leipzig ),

René Gude (publicist and editor, Amsterdam ),

Regina Haslinger-Sloterdijk (cultural scientist and freelance writer, Vienna ) and

Maren Sell (author, Paris ).

The main prize has the status of an ideal prize, the "work in progress prize" is endowed with 50,000 euros. The prize will be awarded at a public ceremony, for the first time on January 30, 2012 in the Parisian Theater Odéon , then alternately in Amsterdam, Karlsruhe and Leipzig. The prize is awarded in the form of a sculpture created by the Leipzig artist Neo Rauch .

Award winners

2012:
1. The Italian psychotherapist Gaetano Benedetti received a special prize ( Prix spécial ) for his groundbreaking work with schizophrenic patients.

The prizes were awarded on January 30, 2012 in the Théâtre National de l'Odéon (Paris). The laudation for Stéphane Hessel was given by the European politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit , the Austrian philosopher Thomas Macho spoke to Martin Bullach , and the French psychoanalyst Élisabeth Roudinesco spoke to Benedetti.

2014:
1. The first prize winner is Jetsun Pema , the sister of the Dalai Lama .
2. The two honorary prizes were awarded to the American linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky and the Swiss entrepreneur and ex-banker Konrad Hummler .

The prizes were awarded on May 29, 2014 in the Gewandhaus Leipzig. The laudation for Jetsun Pema was given by the actress Martina Gedeck , the writer Ilja Trojanow spoke to Noam Chomsky , and the publicist Frank A. Meyer spoke about Konrad Hummler.