Prix de l'Académie de Berlin
The Prix de l'Académie de Berlin is a Franco-German culture and literature prize .
The prize has been awarded annually by the Académie de Berlin since 2008 "for extraordinary achievements to stimulate and deepen the relationships between French and Germans" and is endowed with 10,000 euros (as of 2016). From 2008 to 2013 the prize was sponsored by the Robert Bosch Foundation , and since 2014 the prize money and the award have been financed by the Würth Group .
“People, groups of people or institutions from France or Germany who are active in the arts, culture, politics, economy, science, education, society or churches and who do not work as professional mediators for Franco-German relations can be considered as award winners. "
Award winners
- 2008: Tomi Ungerer
- 2009: Johannes Willms
- 2010: L'Arche (Paris) and Matthes & Seitz Berlin (publishing houses)
- 2011: Stéphane Hessel
- 2012: Eva Moldenhauer (translator) and Bernard Lortholary (translator)
- 2013: Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt
- 2014: Luc Bondy
- 2015: Bénédicte Savoy
- 2016: Cécile Wajsbrot
- 2017: Étienne François
- 2018: Festival Perspectives
- 2019: Annie Ernaux
Individual evidence
- ↑ “The 2016 award winner is Cécile Wajsbrot” on boersenblatt.net , June 3, 2016, accessed on June 3, 2016
- ^ "Prix" on academie-de-berlin.de , accessed on June 3, 2016
- ↑ Annie Ernaux's books electrified a French and now also a German audience, they recognized something completely new ... ultra-modern, daring, masterfully composed literature that tells of class struggles, the impositions of cultural difference and the emancipation of women. From the jury's statement