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Hannah Arendt Prize

German human rights award

Summary

German human rights award

The Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought () is a prize awarded to individuals representing the tradition of political theorist Hannah Arendt, especially in regard to totalitarianism. It was instituted by the German Heinrich Böll Foundation (affiliated with the Alliance 90/The Greens) and the government of Bremen in 1994, and is awarded by an international jury. The prize money is €10,000.

Laureates

YearPersonCountryRef.
1995Ágnes HellerHungary
1996François FuretFrance
1997Freimut DuveGermany
Joachim GauckGermany
1998Antje VollmerGermany
Claude LefortFrance
1999Massimo CacciariItaly
2000Yelena BonnerRussia
2001Germany
Daniel Cohn-BenditFrance, Germany
2002Gianni VattimoItaly
2003Michael IgnatieffCanada
2004Ernst-Wolfgang BöckenfördeGermany
2005Vaira Vīķe-FreibergaLatvia
2006Julia KristevaBulgaria, France
2007Tony JudtUnited Kingdom
2008Victor ZaslavskyRussia
2009Kurt FlaschGermany
2010François JullienFrance
2011Navid KermaniGermany, Iran
2012{{illYfaat WeissbgИфат Вайсdeheיפעת וייס}}Israel
2013Timothy SnyderUnited States
2014Nadya TolokonnikovaRussia
Maria AlyokhinaRussia
Yurii AndrukhovychUkraine
2016Christian TeichmannGermany
2017Étienne BalibarFrance
2018Ann PettiforSouth Africa, United Kingdom
2019Roger BerkowitzUnited Stateslast=first=title=Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thoughturl=https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/hannah-arendt-award-for-political-thought-2019-07-13access-date=2023-12-20website=Bard Collegelanguage=enarchive-date=12 December 2023archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231212184446/https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/hannah-arendt-award-for-political-thought-2019-07-13url-status=live }}
Jerome KohnUnited States
2021Jill LeporeUnited States
2022Serhiy ZhadanUkraine
2023Masha GessenRussia, United Statesdate=16 June 2021title=Masha Gessen erhält den Hannah-Arendt-Preis für politisches Denken 2023url=https://www.suhrkamp.de/nachricht/masha-gessen-erhaelt-den-hannah-arendt-preis-fuer-politisches-denken-2023-b-4132access-date=3 August 2023website=Suhrkamp Verlaglanguage=de}}
2025Seyla BenhabibUnited States, Turkey

Controversy

In 2023, the German-Israeli Society Bremen chapter chair Hermann Kuhn wrote an open letter calling for a suspension of Masha Gessen's prize out of objection to their essay "In the Shadow of the Holocaust" in The New Yorker. Gessen compared the Blockade of the Gaza Strip to Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany, stating “the ghetto is being liquidated” in the context of the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. The Heinrich Böll Foundation initially announced it would not sponsor the award, then later announced that the award would be presented in a smaller ceremony.

In response to criticisms, Gessen said "Hannah Arendt wouldn’t have gotten the Hannah Arendt prize if you applied those kinds of criteria to it," and referenced Arendt's frequent comparisons of Israeli policies and ideologies to Nazi Germany. In The New Yorker essay they quoted Arendt's 1948 letter that compared Menachem Begin's Herut party to the Nazis.

References

References

  1. (11 December 2017). "Hannah Arendt". Deutsche Welle.
  2. (2018). "Hannah Arendt-Preis für politisches Denken". kulturpreise.de.
  3. "Hannah Arendt Award For Political Thought". Heinrich Boell Foundation.
  4. Henkenberens, Carolin. (6 December 2019). "Arendt-Preis verliehen". Weser Kurier.
  5. (1 December 2017). "Hannah-Arendt-Preis für politisches Denken". Die Tagespost.
  6. (27 August 2013). "Timothy Snyder has been awarded the 2013 Hannah Arendt Prize".
  7. (24 July 2014). "Pussy Riot für politische Aktionen ausgezeichnet". [[Stuttgarter Zeitung]].
  8. (19 July 2018). "Ökonomin Ann Pettifor erhält Hannah-Arendt-Preis 2018". [[Süddeutsche Zeitung]].
  9. "Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought".
  10. (2022-07-14). "Serhiy Zhadan receives Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought 2022".
  11. (16 June 2021). "Masha Gessen erhält den Hannah-Arendt-Preis für politisches Denken 2023".
  12. Schaub, Michael. (2023-12-18). "Masha Gessen Receives Prize Despite Controversy".
  13. Lapin, Andrew. (2023-12-15). "Masha Gessen will receive Hannah Arendt Prize after all, following controversy over Gaza essay".
  14. (2023-12-16). "Author receives German prize in scaled-down format after comparing Gaza to Nazi-era ghettos".
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