Otto von der Gablentz Prize

The Otto-von-der-Gablentz price (Dutch: Otto von der Gablentz-prijs ) is a Dutch award that since 1994 every two years from the-Gablentz Prize Von (Stichting From Gablentz Prijs) Foundation awarded . The award honors a personality or organization that has made a special contribution to promoting good relations between the Netherlands and Germany or to a united Europe.

The prize money is 7,500 euros, and the winner is also presented with a work of art. The name of the award is reminiscent of the German diplomat Otto Martin von der Gablentz (1930–2007).

From 2009 on, the Otto von der Gablentz Study Prize (Otto von der Gablentz Study Prize) will also be awarded with prize money of 5,000 euros. In addition, since 2014 there has been the Otto von der Gablentz script award ( Otto von der Gablentz scriptieprijs ) for students for the best master's thesis on a European or German topic. The prize money for this is 2,500 euros.

Laureate of the Otto von der Gablentz Prize

2017: Johan Simons (1946) Dutch actor, director and theater manager.
2014: Ulrich Beck (1944–2015), German sociologist and university professor
2012: Herman Van Rompuy (* 1947), Belgian politician, Prime Minister, Head of Government
2009: Rita Süssmuth (* 1937), German CDU politician
2009: Geert Mak (* 1946), Dutch lawyer, journalist and author
2007: Mom Wellenstein (1919–2016), top Dutch official
2003: Wolfgang Clement (* 1940), German SPD politician
2001: the German helpers in the fireworks accident in Enschede (May 2000)
1998: Rob Meines (* 1945), Dutch journalist and lobbyist
1996: Kathinka Dittrich van Weringh (* 1941), German cultural politician, journalist, author
1994: Tessa de Loo (* 1946), Dutch writer

Laureate of the Otto von der Gablentz Study Prize

2009: Luuk van Middelaar , philosopher and historian, for his dissertation De passage naar Europa. Geschiedenis van een begin

Laureate of the Otto von der Gablentz script award

2014: Katie Digan , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Web links

Press article about the 2014 award ceremony [8] , from: duitslandinstituut.nl, November 27, 2014.
Press release Prinses Laurentien 2 november 2009 bij uitreiking From Gablentz Prijs 2009 [9] , by: koninklijkhuis.nl, October 12 of 2009.
For Rob Meines, see: [10] .

Individual evidence

↑ On Ulrich Beck's prize win, see: [1] , from: duitslandinstituut.nl.
↑ See: Europa moet weer symbool van hoop sein [2] , from: duitslandinstituut.nl, April 23, 2012.
↑ On the award ceremony for Rita Süssmuth and Geert Mak, see: [3] , from: koninklijkhuis.nl, October 12, 2009.
↑ See: Mak: Pas op voor normalisering van racisme. From the Gablentzprijs uitgereikt aan Mak en Süssmuth [4] , from: duitslandinstituut.nl, November 3, 2009.
↑ See: [5] , from: meinesholla.de.
↑ See: Luuk van Middelaar wint Von Der Gablentzprijs [6] , from: schrijvenonline.org, October 31, 2009.
↑ The award-winning book reads: Luuk van Middelaar: De passage naar Europa. Geschiedenis van een begin , Verlag Historische Uitgeverij Groningen 2009, 531 pages, ISBN 978-90-655-4236-6 .
↑ See: FGW alumna Katie Digan wint Otto von der Gablentz-scriptieprijs [7] , from: fgw.vu.nl.

[1] On Ulrich Beck's prize win, see: [1] , from: duitslandinstituut.nl.

[2] See: Europa moet weer symbool van hoop sein [2] , from: duitslandinstituut.nl, April 23, 2012.

[3] On the award ceremony for Rita Süssmuth and Geert Mak, see: [3] , from: koninklijkhuis.nl, October 12, 2009.

[4] See: Mak: Pas op voor normalisering van racisme. From the Gablentzprijs uitgereikt aan Mak en Süssmuth [4] , from: duitslandinstituut.nl, November 3, 2009.

[5] See: [5] , from: meinesholla.de.

[6] See: Luuk van Middelaar wint Von Der Gablentzprijs [6] , from: schrijvenonline.org, October 31, 2009.

[7] The award-winning book reads: Luuk van Middelaar: De passage naar Europa. Geschiedenis van een begin , Verlag Historische Uitgeverij Groningen 2009, 531 pages, ISBN 978-90-655-4236-6 .

[8] See: FGW alumna Katie Digan wint Otto von der Gablentz-scriptieprijs [7] , from: fgw.vu.nl.