Viadrina Prize
Award winners since 1999
With the Viadrina Prize, the university has been honoring outstanding personalities and important initiatives from all areas of social life for their commitment to cooperation and reconciliation between Germany and Poland since 1999. The Viadrina Prize stands for international understanding, peace and freedom in a common European house and thus for the values that form the foundation of the Viadrina, which was founded in 1991 as European University. The prize is awarded annually and is endowed with 5,000 euros.
Until 2021, the prize was awarded by the board of trustees of the support group of the European University in Frankfurt (Oder). Since 2022, the Board of Trustees of the Viadrina Prize Foundation has been deciding on the prizewinners.
1st June 2023 – Prof. Dr habil. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz (historian and publicist) |
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Video recording of the award ceremony of the 22nd Viadrina Prize on 1st June 2023 (in German) Picture Gallery from the award ceremony (in German)
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13th October 2022 – Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein (Member of the European Parliament) |
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Video recording of the award ceremony of the 20th Viadrina Prize on 5 October 2021 Picture Gallery from the award ceremony (in German) Encouragement award: |
5th October 2021 – Twinning Gdansk - Bremen |
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Video recording of the award ceremony of the 20th Viadrina Prize on 5 October 2021 (in German and Polish) Picture Gallery from the award ceremony
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9th May 2019 – Agnieszka Holland (Director and script editor) |
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Picture gallery from the award ceremony
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9th June 2017 – German-Polish Textbook Commission |
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Picture gallery from the award ceremony
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9th May 2016 – Prof. Dr. Anna Wolff-Powęska (Polish historian and political scientist) |
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Picture gallery from the award ceremony
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4th May 2015 – Wolfgang Templin (Civil rights activist and publicist) |
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Picture gallery from the award ceremony
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12th May 2014 – Prof. Dr. Irena Lipowicz (Former polish ombudsman and Commissioner for Human Rights) |
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Picture gallery from the award ceremony
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7th May 2013 – Hans-Dietrich Genscher (†) (Former german federal minister) |
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7th May 2012 – Krzysztof Penderecki (†) (Polish composer and conductor) |
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1st December 2010 – Volker Schlöndorff (Film director, screenwriter, filmmaker) |
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30th November 2009 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki (†) (Former prime minister of Poland) |
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26th November 2008 – Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth (Former President of the Bundestag & President of Deutsches-Polen-Institut) and to "polenplus" (German-Polish magazine) |
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30th November 2007 – The Copernicus Group (a joint project of the German Institute for Polish Culture in Darmstadt and the Germany and Northern Europe Institute in Szczecin) |
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16th November 2006 – Adam Krzemiński (Polish journalist and publicist) |
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21st November 2005 – Prof. Dr. Rudolf von Thadden (†) (German historian) |
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14th Dezember 2004 – Prof. Dr. Włodzimierz Borodziej (†) (Polish publicist and historian) |
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18th Dezember 2003 – Markus Meckel (German politician, SPD party, and former member of the German Bundestag) |
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19th November 2002 – Janusz Reiter (Former Polish ambassador in Germany) |
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13th July 2001– Günter Grass (†) (German author and Nobel laureate) |
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22nd June 2000 – Adam Michnik (Polish political publicist and chief editor of "Gazeta Wyborcza") |
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8th July 1999 – Karl Dedecius (†) (German translator of Polish and Russian literature) |
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