René Marcic Prize
The René Marcic Prize has been awarded annually by the State of Salzburg since 1979 (with a few suspensions) for outstanding journalistic achievements.
The award, named after the publicist and legal philosopher René Marcic , has been endowed with 6,100 euros since 2012.
Award winners
- 1979 Oskar Schatz
- 1980 Gerhard Neureiter
- 1982 Clemens M. Hutter
- 1983 Max Kaindl-Hönig
- 1985 Karl Heinz Ritschel
- 1986 Kurt Wessely
- 1987 Heide Gottas
- 1988/89 Alfons Dalma , Ilse Leitenberger , Viktor Reimann
- 1990 Eberhard Zwink
- 1991 Kurt Vorhofer
- 1992 Friedrich Urban
- 1994 Franz Mayrhofer
- 1995 Gerd Bacher
- 1997 Helmut Lenhardt
- 1998 Waltraud Langer
- 1999 Sepp Forcher
- 2000 Heinz Nussbaumer
- 2002 Hubert Feichtlbauer
- 2003 Michael Schmolke
- 2004 Karl-Markus Gauß
- 2005 Werner Mück
- 2007 Thomas Wizany
- 2009 Michaela Gründler, Anja Pia Keglevic (street newspaper Apropos )
- 2010 Herbert Dachs : Political scientist and journalist
- 2012 Andreas Koller : Head of Domestic Policy and the Viennese editorial team of Salzburger Nachrichten
- 2013 Siegbert Stronegger
- 2014 Heidemarie Klabacher and Reinhard Kriechbaum , founders, publishers and editors-in-chief at DrehPunktKultur
- 2016 Hedwig Kainberger , Head of Culture at the Salzburger Nachrichten
criticism
The award ceremony in 1988/1989 met with criticism , among other things, because of the winners' Nazi past. In the discussion, statements by René Marcic to Peter de Mendelssohn from 1949 that were judged to be anti-Semitic also emerged . The SPÖ faction in the Salzburg state parliament therefore called for the award to be renamed.
swell
- Thomas Wizany Marcic Prize Winner 2007 ( Memento from March 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Fritz Hausjell: Brown feathers - At the end of the commemorative year: How Nazi journalists were able to make amazing careers in Austria after the war . The time 50/2005.
- Gert Kerschbaumer : The white vest. For the René Marcic Prize 1988/89 of the Salzburg state government. Media & Time , 1/1989.
- Roland Floimair (Ed.): René Marcic Prize: Prize winners from 1988/1989 to 2009 . Publication series of the state press office, series “Salzburg Documentations”, No. 118. (PDF; 1.4 MB) Salzburg (State of Salzburg, state press office) 2009. ISBN 978-3-85015-237-2