Prix de l'Académie de Berlin

In 2008, the Académie de Berlin awarded the “Prix de l'Académie de Berlin” for the first time and, in doing so, introduced itself to the public. Since then, the academy prize is awarded yearly to people or projects that, in a special way, have contributed to the enlivening and deepening of the cultural relationships between Germans and French. The prize is endowed with €20,000 and is funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

2011 prize winner
is Stéphane Hessel, writer, former diplomat, and resistance fighter.
2010 prize winners
were the publishing houses Matthes & Seitz Berlin and L'Arche Éditeur.
2009 prize winner
was the German historian and publicist Johannes Willms.
2008 prize winner
was the French graphic artist, illustrator, and author Tomi Ungerer.

Académie de Berlin was founded in June 2006. In the sense of Voltaire, it has set its goal to promote the intellectual exchange and dialog between Germany and France as it pertains to language and culture. Its members are France connoisseurs who come from various social, cultural, and scientific areas.

The honorary president of Académie de Berlin is Dr. Richard von Weizsäcker, its patron is the French diplomat Bernard de Montferrand, and its perpetual secretary is Ulrich Wickert. Its members include: Professor Thomas Gaehtgens, Professor Detlev Ganten, Anselm Kiefer, Karl Kardinal Lehmann, Professor Wolf Lepenies, Lothar Menne, Nils Minkmar, Professor Jobst Plog, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Scholl-Latour, Professor Gesine Schwan, Alice Schwarzer, Professor Spiros Simitis, Professor Werner Spies, Patrick Süskind, Erika Tophoven, Dr. Nike Wagner, Professor Christina Weiss, Wim Wenders.

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