Viktor Frankl Prize

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The Viktor Frankl Prize was founded in 1999 in cooperation between the Viktor Frankl Fund of the City of Vienna and the Viktor Frankl Institute . From 2000 to 2015, the fund awarded prizes and grants to recognize outstanding achievements and to promote research projects.

The exact name is the Viktor Frankl Prize of the City of Vienna for excellent performance in the field of meaning-oriented humanistic psychotherapy . The following price categories were advertised:

  • Honorary award
  • Grand Prize of the Viktor Frankl Fund of the City of Vienna
    awarded for the entire work / life's work in the field of meaning-oriented humanistic psychotherapy. The award is given to personalities who have made outstanding achievements in this area in science, teaching and therapy and who have received international acclaim.
  • Promotional prizes from the Viktor Frankl Fund
    for outstanding work done so far in the field of meaning-oriented humanistic psychotherapy. The award is given to achievements that have been made in this area in the fields of scientific work, teaching and therapeutic work and that have been received internationally.
  • Science grants from the Viktor Frankl Fund
    for the implementation of small scientific projects that have a clear connection to the psychotherapy city of Vienna, to the approaches developed in Vienna and to the important players in meaningful humanistic psychotherapy.

The Board of Trustees of the Viktor Frankl Fund of the City of Vienna decided on the awarding of the prizes and scholarships. A complete list of the prizes awarded can be found on the Viktor Frankl Institute website.

Award winners

year Honorary award Grand Prix
2019 Margit Fischer -
2015 Hugo Portisch -
2014 P. Georg Sporschill -
2013 Giselher Guttmann -
2012 Helmut Krätzl -
2011 Jürgen Habermas -
2009 Hans-Georg Zapotoczky Wolfram Kurz
2008 Eric Richard Kandel Siegfried Kasper
2007 Óscar Andrés Maradiaga Eugene T. Gendlin
2006 Cecily Corti Katsutaro Nagata
2005 Johannes Poigenfürst Giosch Albrecht
2004 Erwin Kräutler Géronimo Acevedo , Jürgen Kriz
2003 Cicely Saunders David Guttmann
2002 Franz Cardinal König Eugenio Fizzotti
2001 Paul Watzlawick Elisabeth Lukas
2000 Heinz von Förster Kazimierz Popielski

Individual evidence

  1. Overview of the prices of the Viktor Frankl Institute
  2. Margit Fischer awarded the Viktor Frankl Prize . OTS announcement of May 22, 2019, accessed May 22, 2019.

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