Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade ( _de. Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels) is an international peace prize given yearly at the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It has been awarded by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels since 1950 and is endowed with €25,000.

Traditionally, the President and leading political, cultural and diplomatic persons will attend the ceremony and ZDF TV will cover the event.

The committee for the prize currently includes the following members: Wolfgang Frühwald, Gottfried Honnefelder, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, Jutta Limbach, Heinrich Riethmüller, Werner Spies, Uwe Timm, Christina Weiss and Karl-Peter Winters.

Recipients (laudators)

2000 - 2009

*2008 - flagicon|Germany Anselm Kiefer (Werner Spies)
*2007 - flagicon|Israel Saul Friedländer (Wolfgang Frühwald)
*2006 - flagicon|Germany Wolf Lepenies (Andrei Pleşu)
*2005 - flagicon|Turkey Orhan Pamuk (Joachim Sartorius)
*2004 - flagicon|Hungary Péter Esterházy (Michael Naumann)
*2003 - flagicon|USA Susan Sontag (Ivan Nagel)
*2002 - flagicon|Nigeria Chinua Achebe (Theodor Berchem)
*2001 - flagicon|Germany Jürgen Habermas (Jan Philipp Reemtsma)
*2000 - flagicon|Algeria Assia Djebar (Barbara Frischmuth)

1990 - 1999

*1999 - flagicon|USA Fritz Stern (Bronisław Geremek)
*1998 - flagicon|Germany Martin Walser (Frank Schirrmacher)
*1997 - flagicon|Turkey Yaşar Kemal (Günter Grass)
*1996 - flagicon|Peru Mario Vargas Llosa (Jorge Semprún)
*1995 - flagicon|Germany Annemarie Schimmel (Roman Herzog)
*1994 - flagicon|Spain Jorge Semprún (Wolf Lepenies)
*1993 - flagicon|Germany Friedrich Schorlemmer (Richard von Weizsäcker)
*1992 - flagicon|Israel Amos Oz (Siegfried Lenz)
*1991 - flagicon|Hungary György Konrád (Jorge Semprún)
*1990 - flagicon|Poland Karl Dedecius (Heinrich Olschowsky)

1980 - 1989

*1989 - flagicon|Czechoslovakia Václav Havel (André Glucksmann)
*1988 - flagicon|Germany Siegfried Lenz (Yohanan Meroz)
*1987 - flagicon|Germany Hans Jonas (Robert Spaemann)
*1986 - flagicon|Poland Władysław Bartoszewski (Hans Maier)
*1985 - flagicon|Israel Teddy Kollek (Manfred Rommel)
*1984 - flagicon|Mexico Octavio Paz (Richard von Weizsäcker)
*1983 - flagicon|Austria Manès Sperber (Siegfried Lenz)
*1982 - flagicon|USA George F. Kennan (Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker)
*1981 - flagicon|USSR Lev Kopelev (Marion Gräfin Dönhoff)
*1980 - flagicon|Nicaragua Ernesto Cardenal (Johann Baptist Metz)

1970 - 1979

*1979 - flagicon|USA Yehudi Menuhin (Pierre Bertaux)
*1978 - flagicon|Sweden Astrid Lindgren (Gerold Ummo Becker and Frederik Hetmann)
*1977 - flagicon|Poland Leszek Kolakowski (Gesine Schwan)
*1976 - flagicon|Switzerland Max Frisch (Hartmut von Hentig)
*1975 - flagicon|Germany Alfred Grosser (Paul Frank)
*1974 - flagicon|Switzerland Frère Roger, prior of Taizé (nobody)
*1973 - Club of Rome (Nello Celio)
*1972 - flagicon|Poland Janusz Korczak (posthumous) (Hartmut von Hentig)
*1971 - flagicon|Germany Marion Gräfin Dönhoff (Alfred Grosser)
*1970 - flagicon|Sweden Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal (together) (Karl Kaiser)

1960 - 1969

*1969 - flagicon|Germany Alexander Mitscherlich (Heinz Kohut)
*1968 - flagicon|Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor (François Bondy)
*1967 - flagicon|Germany Ernst Bloch (Werner Maihofer)
*1966 - flagicon|Germany Augustin Bea and flagicon|Netherlands W. A. Visser 't Hooft (together) (Paul Mikat)
*1965 - flagicon|Germany Nelly Sachs (Werner Weber)
*1964 - flagicon|France Gabriel Marcel (Carlo Schmid)
*1963 - flagicon|Germany Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (Georg Picht)
*1962 - flagicon|USA Paul Tillich (Otto Dibelius)
*1961 - flagicon|India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Ernst Benz)
*1960 - flagicon|UK Victor Gollancz (Heinrich Lübke)

1950 - 1959

*1959 - flagicon|Germany Theodor Heuss (Benno Reifenberg)
*1958 - flagicon|Germany Karl Jaspers (Hannah Arendt)
*1957 - flagicon|USA Thornton Wilder (Carl Jacob Burckhardt)
*1956 - flagicon|Germany Reinhold Schneider (Werner Bergengruen)
*1955 - flagicon|Germany Hermann Hesse(Richard Benz)
*1954 - flagicon|Switzerland Carl Jacob Burckhardt (Theodor Heuss)
*1953 - flagicon|Austria Martin Buber (Albrecht Goes)
*1952 - flagicon|Germany Romano Guardini (Ernst Reuter)
*1951 - flagicon|Germany Albert Schweitzer (Theodor Heuss)
*1950 - flagicon|Norway Max Tau (Adolf Grimme)


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