Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
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The Geschwister-Scholl-Preis is a literary prize which was initiated in 1980 by the State Association of Bavaria
(Landesverband Bayern e. V.) in the Stock Market Society of the German Book Trade (Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels) and the city of Munich
. Each year, a book is honored, which "shows intellectual independence and supports civil freedom, moral, intellectual and aesthetic courage and that gives an important impulse to the present awareness of responsibility" ("...das von geistiger Unabhängigkeit zeugt und geeignet ist, bürgerliche Freiheit, moralischen, intellektuellen und ästhetischen Mut zu fördern und dem gegenwärtigen Verantwortungsbewusstsein wichtige Impulse zu geben").
The prize is named in memory and honor of Sophie
and Hans Scholl
, who are collectively referred to as the Geschwister Scholl
. It is endowed with 10,000 euros and is presented at a ceremony at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich
.
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
(Landesverband Bayern e. V.) in the Stock Market Society of the German Book Trade (Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels) and the city of Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
. Each year, a book is honored, which "shows intellectual independence and supports civil freedom, moral, intellectual and aesthetic courage and that gives an important impulse to the present awareness of responsibility" ("...das von geistiger Unabhängigkeit zeugt und geeignet ist, bürgerliche Freiheit, moralischen, intellektuellen und ästhetischen Mut zu fördern und dem gegenwärtigen Verantwortungsbewusstsein wichtige Impulse zu geben").
The prize is named in memory and honor of Sophie
Sophie Scholl
Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother Hans...
and Hans Scholl
Hans Scholl
Hans Fritz Scholl was a founding member of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany.-Biography:...
, who are collectively referred to as the Geschwister Scholl
Geschwister Scholl
Die Geschwister Scholl refers to brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl, who were members of the White Rose, a student group in Munich that was active in the non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany, especially in distributing flyers against the war and the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler...
. It is endowed with 10,000 euros and is presented at a ceremony at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
.
Prize Winners
- 2011: Liao YiwuLiao YiwuLiao Yiwu , is a Chinese author, reporter, musician, and poet. He is acritic of China's Communist regime, for which he has been imprisoned...
: Für ein Lied und hundert Lieder. Ein Zeugenbericht aus chinesischen Gefängnissen. - 2010: Joachim GauckJoachim GauckJoachim Gauck is a German politician, journalist and theologian. After a brief political career during Die Wende in Eastern Germany, the co-founder of the New Forum was elected member of the People's Chamber for the Alliance 90 in 1990...
: Winter im Sommer – Frühling im Herbst: Erinnerungen. - 2009: Roberto SavianoRoberto SavianoRoberto Saviano is an Italian writer and journalist.In his writings, articles, television programs, and books he employs prose and news-reporting style to narrate the story of the Camorra , exposing its territory and business connections.Since 2006, following the publication of his bestselling...
: Das Gegenteil von Tod - 2008: David GrossmanDavid GrossmanDavid Grossman is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and have won numerous prizes.He is also a noted activist and critic of Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The Yellow Wind, his non-fiction study of the life of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied...
: Die Kraft zur Korrektur. Über Politik und Literatur - 2007: Anna PolitkovskayaAnna PolitkovskayaAnna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist, author, and human rights activist known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and then-President of Russia Vladimir Putin...
: Russisches Tagebuch (posthumously) - 2006: Mihail SebastianMihail Sebastian-Life:Sebastian was born to a Jewish family in Brăila. After finishing his secondary studies, Sebastian went on to study law in Bucharest, but was soon attracted to the literary life and the exciting ideas of the new generation of Romanian intellectuals, as epitomized by the literary group...
: Voller Entsetzen, aber nicht verzweifelt (posthumously) - 2005: Neclá KelekNecla KelekNecla Kelek is a German feminist and social scientist, holding a doctorate in this field, originally from Turkey. She gave lectures on migration sociology at the Evangelische Fachhochschule für Sozialpädagogik in Hamburg from 1999 until 2004.In 2006, the scientific community distanced itself from...
: Die fremde Braut - 2004: Soazig Aaron: Klaras NEIN
- 2003: Mark RosemanMark RosemanMark Roseman is an English historian of modern Europe with particular interest in The Holocaust. He received his B.A. at Christ's College, Cambridge, M.A at Cambridge, and his PhD at University of Warwick. As of 2007 he holds the "Pat M...
: In einem unbewachten Augenblick. Eine Frau überlebt im Untergrund - 2002: Raul HilbergRaul HilbergRaul Hilberg was an Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the world's preeminent scholar of the Holocaust, and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as a seminal study of the Nazi Final...
: Die Quellen des Holocaust - 2001: Arno GruenArno GruenArno Gruen is a Swiss-German psychologist and psychoanalyst.-Biography:Gruen was born in Berlin in 1923 and emigrated to the United States as a child in 1936 when his parents James and Rosa Gruen fled Germany to save their lives...
: Der Fremde in uns - 2000: Helene HolzmanHelene HolzmanHelene Holzman was a German painter and author. She spent time in a concentration camp and posthumously won the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis....
: Dies Kind soll leben (posthumously) - 1999: Peter GayPeter GayPeter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers . Gay received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004...
: Meine deutsche Frage - 1998: Saul FriedländerSaul FriedländerSaul Friedländer is an award-winning Israeli historian and currently a professor of history at UCLA.-Biography:...
: Das Dritte Reich und die Juden - 1997: Ernst KleeErnst KleeErnst Klee is a German journalist and author. As a writer on Germany's history, he is best known for his exposure and documentation of the medical crimes of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, much of which is concerned with the Action T4 forced euthanasia program.-Life and work:Klee was first trained as...
: Auschwitz, die NS-Medizin und ihre Opfer - 1996: Hans Deichmann: Gegenstände
- 1995: Victor KlempererVictor KlempererVictor Klemperer was a businessman, journalist and eventually a Professor of Literature, specialising in the French Enlightenment at the Technische Universität Dresden. His diaries detailing his life under successive German states—the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and the German...
: Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten. Tagebücher 1933–1945 (posthumously) - 1994: Heribert PrantlHeribert PrantlHeribert Prantl is a German journalist and jurist. He is currently the head of the domestic policy department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.-Early life:...
: Deutschland leicht entflammbar - Ermittlungen gegen die Bonner Politik - 1993: Wolfgang Sofsky: Die Ordnung des Terrors - Das Konzentrationslager
- 1992: Barbara Distel / Wolfgang BenzWolfgang BenzWolfgang Benz is a German historian. He has been the director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism of the Technische Universität Berlin since 1990.-Personal life:...
(Publ.): Dachau Booklet No. 7 Solidarität und Widerstand - 1991: Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt: Die Absonderung
- 1990: Lea RoshLea RoshLea Rosh is a German television journalist, publicist, entrepreneur and political activist. Rosh was the first female journalist to manage a public broadcasting service in Germany and in the 70's the first anchorwoman of Kennzeichen D, a major political television program. She has been a member of...
/Eberhard JäckelEberhard JäckelEberhard Jäckel is a Social Democratic German historian, noted for his studies of Adolf Hitler's role in German history. Jäckel sees Hitler as being the historical equivalent to the Chernobyl disaster.-Career:...
: Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland - 1989: Helmuth James Graf von MoltkeHelmuth James Graf von MoltkeHelmuth James Graf von Moltke was a German jurist who, as a draftee in the German Abwehr, acted to subvert German human-rights abuses of people in territories occupied by Germany during World War II and subsequently became a founding member of the Kreisau Circle resistance group, whose members...
: Briefe an Freya 1939–1945 (posthumously) - 1988: Grete Weil: Der Brautpreis
- 1987: Christa WolfChrista WolfChrista Wolf was a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. She is one of the best-known writers to have emerged from the former East Germany.-Biography:...
: Störfall - 1986: Cordelia Edvardson: Gebranntes Kind sucht das Feuer
- 1985: Jürgen HabermasJürgen HabermasJürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theory on the concepts of 'communicative rationality' and the 'public sphere'...
: Die neue Unübersichtlichkeit - 1984: Anja Rosmus Wenninger: Widerstand und Verfolgung
- 1983: Walter DirksWalter DirksWalter Dirks was a political commentator, theologian, journalist, and noted member of the "Catholic Left." He was a founder of the Bensberger Kreis and was co-editor of the Frankfurter Hefte. He leaned toward Christian socialism and opposed nuclear weapons. He also did much work with Eugen Kogon...
: War ich ein linker Spinner? - 1982: Franz FühmannFranz FühmannFranz Fühmann was a German writer. He lived and worked as a short story writer, essayist and children's book author in East Germany...
: Der Sturz des Engels - 1981: Reiner KunzeReiner KunzeReiner Kunze is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. He had to publish his work under...
: Auf eigene Hoffnung - 1980: Rolf HochhuthRolf HochhuthRolf Hochhuth is a German author and playwright. He is best known for his 1963 drama The Deputy and remains a controversial figure for his plays and other public comments, such as his insinuation of Pope Pius XII's sympathies for Hitler's extermination of the Jews in the 1963 play The Deputy and...
: Eine Liebe in Deutschland
External links
All links are in German- Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
- Prize winners of the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis since its existence
- "Geschwister-Scholl-Preis für Neclá Kelek", NetzeitungNetzeitungNetzeitung was a German online newspaper produced in Berlin until 2009. On 4th January 2010 netzeitung.de had been converted into an automated portal displaying contents from nachrichten.de ....
, September 29, 2005