Ruth (music award)
RUTH - The German World Music Prize has been awarded annually since 2002 on the Saturday of the first weekend in July during the Rudolstadt Festival . Starting in 2020, the festival's ten-person organizational team will be awarding this award, which is endowed with 5,000 euros. Until 2019, the MDR Kultur award was primarily awarded to other radio stations involved, together with the Rudolstadt Festival and the creole support group . Until 2006, Profolk , the association for folk , song and world music in Germany, was one of the promoters. The predecessor was the Folk Promotion Prize awarded from 1992 , a prize for promising young musicians. The name of the award is a play on words with root , the English word for root and roots music as a term for traditional folk and world music. The prize was endowed with a total of 11,500 euros until 2019. Deviating from the official designation of the price, the RUTH is usually used like the female first name Ruth, together with a female article.
Goal setting
Concerns the price is outstanding achievements in world music - genre to appreciate and make this music genre to get more attention, and both the domestic and international reputation of the winners and beyond to the entire German folk, song and world music scene strengthen.
Until 2012, the RUTH was awarded annually in the categories:
- "Deutsche RUTH" - for artists with roots in German musical traditions,
- "Globale RUTH" - for artists with roots in regional music traditions of the world,
- "Ehren-RUTH" - for people or institutions who have made a great contribution to promoting world music.
- "Newcomer" (until 2006)
"Ehren-RUTH" and "Newcomer" were awarded several times.
After the new jury found the categories to be too rigid, they were subjected to a “general revision” in 2013. Since this year, the prize has therefore been awarded in the following categories:
- "RUTH" (main prize)
- "Funding RUTH"
- "Honor RUTH"
- "Rudolstadt Festival RUTH"
From 2020, the RUTH will no longer be allocated according to categories.
Selection process
RUTH is a nomination price, personal applications are not possible. An advisory board nominates the potential award winners.
In the categories German RUTH and Globale RUTH, the advisory board primarily assessed the artistic activity in the previous year for its proposals to the jury . It was expressly not stipulated that "native" Germans should refer to German RUTH and immigrants to global RUTH. Nominees must be available for a live performance at the Rudolstadt Festival.
The advisory board and jury are made up of experts in the field of the sponsors (specialist journalists, publishers , organizers , record dealers, musicians ).
Award winners
- 2020
- Jan Krauthäuser and the Cologne Carnival and Music Association Humba eV Due to the cancellation of the Rudolstadt Festival 2020, the RUTH 2020 will be awarded at the Rudolstadt Festival 2021.
- 2019
- RUTH: Rudi Zapf
- Funding RUTH: The Sephardics
- Ehren-RUTH: Siegfried Maeker (music agent)
- Festival RUTH: Gankino Circus
- 2018
- RUTH: Cymin Samawatie
- Funding RUTH: Dine Doneff & Maria Dafka
- Ehren-RUTH: Michael Kleff
- Festival-RUTH: Gisbert zu Knyphausen
- 2017
- RUTH: Georg Ringsgwandl
- Funding RUTH: Banda Internationale (Dresden)
- Ehren-RUTH: Max Peter Baumann (ethnomusicologist)
- RUTH special award: The Austrian quintet Alma
- 2016
- RUTH: Stefan Stoppok
- Funding RUTH: Royal Street Orchestra (Wuppertal)
- Ehren-RUTH: Andrea Hotzko (music teacher)
- TFF-RUTH: Matthias Schriefl
- 2015
- RUTH: Eurasians Unity ( Simin Tander , Negar Bouban , Veronika Todorova , Cynthia Zaven , Feruza Ochilova , Caroline Thon , Alexander Morsey , Bodek Janke )
- Funding RUTH: Masaa
- Honorary RUTH: Cornelia Rost (HR2)
- Honorary RUTH: Werner Fuhr (WDR3)
- TFF-RUTH: Funny van Dannen
- 2014
- RUTH: Alpen Klezmer ( Andrea Pancur and Ilja Shneyveys )
- Funding RUTH: Liloba
- Honor RUTH: Barbara Boock
- TFF-RUTH: Rainald Grebe
- 2013
- RUTH: Mariana Sadovska
- Funding RUTH: Lao Xao Trio
- Ehren-RUTH: Eva Sollich
- TFF-RUTH: Jazz canteen
- 2012
- Global RUTH: Al Andaluz Project
- German RUTH: The Strottern
- Honorary RUTH for the musical life's work: Hannes Wader
- Ehren-RUTH for the special expertise: Gertrude Degenhardt and Jürgen B. Wolff
- 2011
- Global RUTH: Fjarill (Hamburg)
- German RUTH: Hubert von Goisern
- Ehren-RUTH for the musical life's work: Klaus the violinist
- Ehren-RUTH for the special expertise: Hanni Bode
- 2010
- Global RUTH: Red Front (Germany)
- German RUTH: Kwart
- Ehren-RUTH for the musical life's work: Bayon
- Ehren-RUTH for the special expertise: Malzhaus Plauen
- 2009
- Global RUTH: Aly Keïta (Ivory Coast)
- German RUTH: Hans Söllner and Bayaman Sissdem
- Ehren-RUTH for the musical life's work: Alan Bern & Brave Old World
- Ehren-RUTH for the special expertise: Günther Gretz
- 2008
- Global RUTH: Ensemble Sarband (Munich)
- German RUTH: Bobo (Leipzig) for songs of love and death
- Ehren-RUTH for the musical life's work: Embryo (Munich)
- Ehren-RUTH for the special expertise: Christoph Borkowsky Akbar (Berlin)
- 2007
- Global RUTH: Etta Scollo (Italy) for Canta Rò - homage to Rosa Balistreri
- German RUTH: Achim Reichel for Volxlieder
- Honorary RUTH for the musical life's work: Charlie Mariano (USA)
- Ehren-RUTH for 30 years of journalistic work: Mike Kamp
- 2006
- Global roots: Rüdiger Oppermann Karawane (Alsace) for the Silk Road project
- Deutsche RUTH: Konstantin Wecker for the Baghdad-Kabul project
- Honorary Ruth: Hartmut Franz
- Newcomer I: Ohrbooten (Berlin)
- Newcomer II: Duo Bögeholz & Mosalini (Argentina / Chile)
- 2005
- Global roots: Rabih Abou-Khalil (Lebanon)
- German RUTH: Biermösl Blosn (Upper Bavaria)
- Honorary Ruth: Jan Reichow (Cologne)
- Newcomer I: Tango Crash (Argentina / Switzerland)
- Newcomer II: Malbrook (Northern Germany / Scandinavia)
- Newcomer III: Nomad Sound System (Berlin)
- 2004
- Global roots: Wu Wei (China)
- German Roots: HISS (Stuttgart)
- Honor Ruth: Walter Mossmann
- Newcomer I: Yallo Babo Express Orchestra (Hessen)
- Newcomer II: Zoriya (Israel)
- 2003
- Global roots: Urna (Mongolia)
- German Roots: Wenzel (Berlin)
- Honorary Ruth: TRIKONT & Achim Bergmann (Munich)
- Newcomer: Mohammad Reza Mortazavi (Iran)
- 2002
- Global Roots: Di Grine Kuzine (Berlin)
- German roots: Daniel Kempin & Dimitry Reznik (Frankfurt / Main)
- New roots: Törnmeister (Cologne)
- Folk sponsorship award: Rakatak (Berlin)
German Folk Promotion Prize (until 2001)
- 2001
- Toni Geiling (Halle / Saale)
- Ilki Dünya
- Ecco Meineke (Munich)
- 2000
- 1999
- Robert Zollitsch (Munich / Beijing)
- Nassler & Schneider
- The Blue Unicorn (Dresden)
- 1998
- 1997
- Trio keychain
- Aquabella
- Schnaftl Ufftschik
- 1996
- 1995
- 1994
- Johannes & Andreas Uhlmann (now four: ULMAN )
- Werner Vonberg
- Thalassa from Greece
- 1993
- 1992
Web links
- Internet presence RUTH - The German World Music Prize ( Memento from August 19, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c City of Rudolstadt: World Music Prize RUTH for Humba eV from Cologne. February 19, 2020, accessed August 18, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Press release on the award of the World Music Prize RUTH 2014, from March 4, 2014 ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Melanie Strauss: Individual price for creative artists. In: Hersbrucker Zeitung , July 13, 2012. In the N-Land portal , accessed on July 8, 2016.
- ↑ a b Sieger 2016 , Ostthüringer Zeitung , accessed July 15, 2016
- ↑ Call for applications for Ruth 2020 ( Memento from July 21, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Program of the TFF 2013, page 31
- ^ City of Rudolstadt: Rudolstadt Festival and bird shooting canceled. April 17, 2020, accessed August 18, 2020 .
- ↑ RUTH 2019 - Comments of the jury ( Memento from July 21, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ RUTH 2018 - Comments of the jury ( Memento from July 21, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ RUTH 2017 - Comments of the jury ( Memento from October 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ RUTH 2015 - Comments from the jury ( Memento from July 21, 2019 in the Internet Archive )