Theodor Haecker Prize
The Theodor Haecker Prize has been awarded by the city of Esslingen am Neckar every two years since 1995 and every three years since 2017 to people who are characterized by “special political courage and sincerity”. It is named after the German writer Theodor Haecker and is currently endowed with € 10,000.
The prize has so far been awarded to the following people:
- 1995 - Sergei Kovalev , Russian dissident and politician
- 1997 - Jehan Sadat , Egyptian first wife, for political courage and sincerity
- 1999 - Salima Ghezali , Algerian journalist
- 2000 - Wiktar Hantschar , disappeared Belarusian opposition politician (extraordinary award ceremony)
- 2001 - Vesna Pesić , Serbian human rights activist and peace researcher
- 2003 - Laurien Ntezimana , theologian from Rwanda
- 2005 - Eren Keskin , Turkish human rights activist
- 2007 - Judith Galarza , Mexican human rights activist
- 2009 - Kitwe Mulunda Guy , a human rights activist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 2011 - Shiva Nazar Ahari , a human rights activist from Iran .
- 2013 - Leyla Yunus , civil rights activist from Azerbaijan
- 2015 - Laísa Santos Sampaio , environmental activist from Brazil
- 2017 - Urmila Chaudhary , human rights activist from Nepal
- 2020 - Rugiatu Neneh Turay , human rights activist from Sierra Leone
On the basis of the 2011 award to Shiva Nazar Ahari, the Esslingen municipal council unanimously passed a resolution on the following day in which it asked the German government to influence the Iranian government to suspend the imminent punishment for Ahari - 74 lashes and 4 years in prison. Ahari could not accept the human rights award in person.
In addition to the main prize, a person or a group can be awarded the “Theodor Haecker Gift of Honor”. So far, these have mostly been scientists or private individuals who have made a contribution to researching the life and work of Theodor Haecker. For the first time as a group, the SV Babelsberg 03 fan project was given the honorary gift in 2007 . The reason given was the outstanding example of successful work with young people against violence, racism and neo-Nazi tendencies. Further award winners were the youth theater Stage Divers (e), the local club of Soroptimist International , and Heroes (projects for violence prevention) . In 2001 a schoolgirl received the gift of honor for her story about the deportation of a Jewish girl to a concentration camp.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Laurien Ntezimana: Feeling, Conscience and Understanding , accessed February 27, 2020
- ^ Theodor Häcker Prize of the City of Esslingen for Mexican human rights activist In: Terre des Femmes of July 22, 2007, accessed on February 27, 2020
- ↑ Kitwe Mulunda Guy is Theodor Haecker Prize Winner 2009 , accessed on February 27, 2020
- ↑ Human rights prize awarded to Shiva Nazar Ahari , press release of the city of Esslingen from April 17, 2011, accessed on February 27, 2020
- ↑ Human rights award for Azerbaijanis In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated May 5, 2013, accessed on February 27, 2020
- ↑ Wolfgang Berger: A stone house for Laísa Santos Sampaio. In: Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de. June 21, 2016. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Ulrich Stolte: The slave from the Ganges plain. In: Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de. July 1, 2017, accessed June 28, 2018 .
- ^ Esslingen: Theodor Haecker Prize for Rugiatu Neneh Turay. In: Esslinger-Zeitung.de. February 3, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020 .
- ↑ TOP resolution of the municipal council on April 18, 2011 , accessed on February 27, 2020