Walter and Marianne Dirks Prize
The Walter and Marianne Dirks Prize , until 1999 the Frankfurt Walter Dirks Prize , later the Walter Dirks Prize , honors people and institutions whose lives and work are characterized by building bridges between denominations, social forces and parties. It stands in the social-ethical tradition of Catholicism. It is named after the Catholic publicist Walter Dirks and his wife, the Catholic women's rights activist Marianne Dirks .
Until 2004, the award was given by Pastor Franzwalter Nieten (1941–2008), St. Gallus - Frankfurt, Karl Koch, Katholisches Bildungswerk - Frankfurt, and Thomas Seiterich, editor of the Publik-Forum newspaper . From 2010 onwards, the Dirks Prize, endowed with 2,500 euros, will be awarded every two years by two institutions of the Catholic Church in Frankfurt am Main, the Haus am Dom education center and the Haus der Volksarbeit . An independent jury will decide on the winner. The jurors come from the journalistic, political, trade union and church sectors.
Prize winners
- 1995 - Alois Schardt (1926–1998), most recently program director of ZDF
- 1996 - Joachim Garstecki (* 1942), General Secretary of the German Section of Pax Christi
- 1997 - Rita Süssmuth , President of the Bundestag
- 1998 - Herbert Leuninger (* 1932) and Ernst Leuninger (1933–2018), theologian
- 1999 - Rupert Neudeck (1939–2016), journalist, founder of Cap Anamur / German emergency doctors
- 2000 - Harald Pawlowski (born February 26, 1930), co-editor of Publik-Forum
- 2002 - Ursula Trautwein (* 1932) and Dieter Trautwein (1928–2002)
- 2003 - Wolfgang Thierse (* 1943), President of the Bundestag
- 2010 - Friedhelm Hengsbach SJ (* 1937), Catholic social ethicist
- 2012 - Karin Kortmann (* 1959), German politician (SPD)
- 2014 - Norbert Arntz (* 1943), pastor
- 2016 - Anne Frank Education Center ( Meron Mendel , Director)
- 2018 - Willy Praml (* 1941), director
- 2020 - Wolfgang Kessler (* 1953), journalist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unconventional forging bridges in vigilant contemporaneity. Diocese of Limburg , April 14, 2010, accessed on April 18, 2010 . ; see. Press release Haus am Dom
- ↑ The 2003 prize was awarded on January 24, 2004. Germany: Prize for Thierse. Vatican Radio , January 25, 2004, accessed April 18, 2010 .
- ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 3, 2012
- ↑ The 2014 prize was awarded on May 24, 2014. With passion for a church for the poor: Walter Dirks Prize for Pastor Norbert Arntz. April 29, 2014, accessed May 26, 2014 .
- ↑ Invitation to Walter Dirks Day 2016