Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

Paulskirche in Frankfurt

The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (German: 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 the winner is remunerated with €25,000.^[1]

Traditionally, the President of Germany and leading political, cultural and diplomatic persons attend the ceremony and ZDF TV covers the event.

Recipients (laudators)

Ceremony in 2009

2010 – 2019

• 2014 – Jaron Lanier ^[2] (Martin Schulz)
• 2013 – Svetlana Alexievich (Karl Schlögel) ^[3]
• 2012 – Liao Yiwu (Felicitas von Lovenberg) ^[4]
• 2011 – Boualem Sansal (Peter von Matt) ^[5]
• 2010 – David Grossman (Joachim Gauck)

2000 – 2009

Claudio Magris

• 2009 – Claudio Magris (Karl Schlögel)
• 2008 – Anselm Kiefer (Werner Spies)
• 2007 – Saul Friedländer (Wolfgang Frühwald)
• 2006 – Wolf Lepenies (Andrei Pleșu)
• 2005 – Orhan Pamuk (Joachim Sartorius)
• 2004 – Péter Esterházy (Michael Naumann)
• 2003 – Susan Sontag (Ivan Nagel)
• 2002 – Chinua Achebe (Theodor Berchem)
• 2001 – Jürgen Habermas (Jan Philipp Reemtsma)
• 2000 – Assia Djebar (Barbara Frischmuth)

1990 – 1999

Amos Oz

• 1999 – Fritz Stern (Bronisław Geremek)
• 1998 – Martin Walser (Frank Schirrmacher)
• 1997 – Yaşar Kemal (Günter Grass)
• 1996 – Mario Vargas Llosa (Jorge Semprún)
• 1995 – Annemarie Schimmel (Roman Herzog)
• 1994 – Jorge Semprún (Wolf Lepenies)
• 1993 – Friedrich Schorlemmer (Richard von Weizsäcker)
• 1992 – Amos Oz (Siegfried Lenz)
• 1991 – György Konrád (Jorge Semprún)
• 1990 – Karl Dedecius (Heinrich Olschowsky)

1980 – 1989

• 1989 – Václav Havel (André Glucksmann)
• 1988 – Siegfried Lenz (Yohanan Meroz)
• 1987 – Hans Jonas (Robert Spaemann)
• 1986 – Władysław Bartoszewski (Hans Maier)
• 1985 – Teddy Kollek (Manfred Rommel)
• 1984 – Octavio Paz (Richard von Weizsäcker)
• 1983 – Manès Sperber (Siegfried Lenz)
• 1982 – George F. Kennan (Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker)
• 1981 – Lev Kopelev (Marion Gräfin Dönhoff)
• 1980 – Ernesto Cardenal (Johann Baptist Metz)

1970 – 1979

Janusz Korczak

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

1960 – 1969

Albert Schweitzer

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

1950 – 1959

Hermann Hesse

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

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