XY prize for moral courage

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The XY Prize for Civil Courage , which was awarded to Manuela Droste in 2015

The XY Prize - Together Against Crime is a German award which, under the patronage of the Federal Minister of the Interior, has been awarded once a year in autumn by the ZDF television search program Aktenzeichen XY ... unresolved to people who “are exemplary in protecting life , the health or property of fellow citizens. "

History and selection criteria

The XY Prize was launched in 2002 by Eduard Zimmermann , the long-time moderator of the wanted program Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved , now supervised by Rudi Cerne , and the XY team in the German crime department of ZDF. The XY Prize is intended to honor people who have shown moral courage in everyday life , for example by preventing a crime, helping to solve a crime or helping the victim of a crime. On the one hand, the prize is intended as a reward and recognition; on the other hand, it is intended to give people a positive example and show that help against violence is possible with prudent action. "Nobody should put themselves in danger," said Zimmermann in 2002 when presenting the award, "but without courageous cooperation among citizens, we will leave the field to the wrong people."

Candidates for the XY Prize can be proposed by any private person, organization or police force. The “cases” of selected candidates are presented in the context of the XY broadcast with short cinematic reconstructions, in which, however, other people are shown again and again who did not help. The winners are selected by an expert jury in cooperation with the investigative authorities.

The XY Prize is endowed with 10,000 euros each, which until 2010 was donated by the insurance group HDI-Gerling . The award has been sponsored by the security software manufacturer Kaspersky Labs GmbH since 2012 . As a rule, three awards are given each year to individual persons, two persons or groups of persons; the award ceremonies usually take place in Berlin in September. In 2002, the then incumbent Otto Schily presented the first XY prizes; since then, the award has been under the patronage of the respective federal interior minister .

In 2007 the XY special award was introduced, which honors particularly outstanding courageous achievements. The XY Special Prize has already been awarded three times (2007, 2009 and 2011). In 2009, the award was presented to Dominik Brunner for the first time posthumously and under the name XY Honorary Prize.

Award winners

So far, 79 people have been awarded the XY Prize (as of 2019).

Year of
award		 Award winners source
2002 Lisa Huebner Christina Malerwein Lothar Heppner
2003 Hannelore Klausutis Christine Heinrich and Holger Hoyer Eric Eisner
2004 Yasmin Henne and Banu Hasesen Biniam Muhur Günter Bertele and Janina Heubel Nabila Djouadi and Lilia Frick
2005 Christine and Andreas Preussinger Dominic Schüler and Timo Weil Falk Glemnitz and Susann Kuschmierz Gabriele Mester
2006 Sonja and Wolfgang Radecker Torben Marwede Kerstin Schwalm
2007 Pia Michels Mohamed Iraki, Walid Iraqui and Khalil Sabra Petar Link Oxana and Ingo Schröder
2008 Michael Pieper and Peter Dahnke Irene Durukan Daniela Hoff
2009 Dominik Brunner A1 Kerstin Friedrich Moein Ramezani and Marc Kohlert Alexander Karamanlaki Kaspar Krebbers
2010 Sonia Idir and Oliver Düll Özlem Sibein and family Caroline Küchle-Maas
2011 Georg Baur Jörg Hufmann Miroslaw Strecker Marcel Gleffe
2012 Anke Heilbronner Cedric Kelleners Jan Gaetcke
2013 Paulina Hoppe Tim Conrady Christian Thöne
2014 Mara Hoffmann Michele and Fabio D'Amico Nicholas Martin and Markus Knobloch
2015 Manuela Droste Manfred Berger Michael Horst Dißmer
2016 Carsten Roeder Frank Wolfgang Schmidt and Raphael Soler-Lopez Stefan Tommek
2017 Kevin Batzler and Marcel Märkisch Marie-Isabel fair Saskia Juergens
2018 Marie German Ugur Altun Jörg Neubauer
2019 Werner and Kevin Rast Georg Köttner Karsten Weisgut

Awarding of the XY honorary award. Awarding of the XY special award


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A1The award was made posthumously because Dominik Brunner died as a result of the perpetrators' violence. In addition, the award was made retrospectively, as the act occurred only a few days after the official award ceremony.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The XY Prize 2009 - The Prize Winners ( Memento of April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), ZDF press release (accessed on September 11, 2010)
  2. ↑ Take a look and help - civil courage par excellence ( Memento from January 22, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ The XY Prize 2002: The Prize Winners , report on presse-partner.de (accessed on September 11, 2010)
  4. ^ The XY Prize 2003: The Prize Winners , report on presse-partner.de (accessed on September 11, 2010)
  5. ^ The XY Prize 2004: The Prize Winners , report on presse-partner.de (accessed on September 11, 2010)
  6. ^ The XY Prize 2005: The Prize Winners , report on presse-partner.de (accessed on September 11, 2010)
  7. ^ The XY Prize 2006: The Prize Winners , report on presse-partner.de (accessed on August 20, 2012)
  8. ↑ The XY Prize 2007: The Prize Winners , report on presse-partner.de (accessed on September 11, 2010)
  9. ↑ The XY Prize 2008: The Prize Winners , report on presse-partner.de (accessed on August 20, 2012)
  10. ↑ The XY Prize 2009: The Prize Winners , report on presse-partner.de (accessed on August 20, 2012)
  11. ^ The XY Prize 2010: The Prize Winners , report on presse-partner.de (accessed on September 30, 2010)
  12. ↑ The XY Prize 2011: The Prize Winners , report on presse-partner.de (accessed on November 7, 2011)
  13. ↑ The XY Prize 2012: The Prize Winners , report on presse-partner.de (accessed on September 21, 2012)
  14. ↑ The XY Prize 2013: The Prize Winners , report on presse-partner.de (accessed on November 8, 2013)
  15. ↑ XY Prize 2014 - Five brave fellow citizens honored ( memento from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), website of file number XY ... unsolved (accessed on October 10, 2014)
  16. ↑ XY Prize 2015 awarded - Courageous everyday heroes honored ( memento from July 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), website of Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved (accessed on November 15, 2015)
  17. ↑ XY Prize 2016 - Together against crime , ZDF press portal (accessed on November 1, 2016)
  18. ↑ Federal Minister of the Interior de Maizière awards "XY Prize 2017" , ZDF press portal (accessed on October 27, 2017)
  19. ↑ XY Prize 2018: Horst Seehofer honors three citizens for moral courage , report on presseportal.de (accessed on November 4, 2018)
  20. ↑ XY Prize 2019: Horst Seehofer honors citizens for moral courage , report on presseportal.de (accessed on November 22, 2019)
  21. ↑ XY honorary award for Dominik Brunner , report on presse-portal.de (accessed on April 13, 2014)