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The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (German: Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels) is a peace prize given yearly at the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is awarded by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and endowed with 15,000 Euros. The Frankfurt Book Fair (German: Frankfurter Buchmesse) is the worlds largest trade fair for books, held annually in mid-October in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ... The Paulskirche seen from the Maintower The Paulskirche is a church in Frankfurt am Main with important political symbolism in Germany. ... Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city of Germany. ... The Greek name for the rainy, stormy southeast wind. ...

The committee for the prize currently includes members: Wolfgang Frühwald, Gottfried Honnefelder, Michael Krüger, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, Jutta Limbach, Joachim Sartorius, Dieter Schormann (director of the Börsenvereins, Ole Schultheis, and Arnold Stadler.

Recipients

1950 - 1959

1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Albert Schweitzer Albert Schweitzer, Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875 - September 4, 1965) was a German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Martin Buber (8 February 1878 - 13 June 1965) was a renowned Jewish philosopher, story-teller, and pedagogue. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hermann Hesse Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 â€“ August 9, 1962) was a German author, and the winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in literature. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897 â€“ December 7, 1975) was an American novelist and playwright. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Karl Jaspers Karl Theodor Jaspers (February 23, 1883 â€“ February 26, 1969), a German psychiatrist and philosopher, had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Theodor Heuss (January 31, 1884 - December 12, 1963) was a German politician. ...

1960 - 1969

1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Victor Gollancz (April 9, 1893â€“February 8, 1967) was a British publisher, socialist, and humanitarian. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan (September 5, 1888 â€“ April 17, 1975) is best known as the man who introduced the thinking of western idealist philosophers into Indian thought. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 â€“ October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Carl Friedrich von WeizsÃ¤cker (born 28 June 1912) is a German physicist. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Gabriel Marcel (December 7, 1889 - October 8, 1973) was a philosopher and the leading existentialist Christian. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Nelly Sachs, (10 December 1891, Berlin - 12 May 1970, Stockholm) was a German poet and dramatist who was transformed by the Nazi experience from a dilettante into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-BÃ©del Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ernst Simon Bloch (July 8, 1885 - August 4, 1977) was a German Marxist philosopher and atheist theologian. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... LÃ©opold SÃ©dar Senghor (October 9, 1906â€“December 20, 2001) was an Seneglese poet and politician who served as the first president of Senegal (1960â€“1980). ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Alexander Mitscherlich (b. ...

1970 - 1979

1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Alva Reimer Myrdal (January 31, 1902 â€“ February 1, 1986) received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. ... Gunnar Myrdal (December 6, 1898 - May 17, 1987) was a Swedish economist and politician. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Doktor Marion GrÃ¤fin DÃ¶nhoff (Doctor the Countess Marion Doenhoff, 1909-2002) was a German writer and publisher of East Prussian noble extraction. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Janusz Korczak Janusz Korczak, real name Henryk Goldszmit (July 22, 1878 or 1879 â€“ August, 1942) was a Polish-Jewish pediatrician, childrens author and child pedagogist, known as Old Doctor (Stary Doktor). ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... The Club of Rome is a global think tank that deals with a variety of international political issues. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Brother Roger of TaizÃ©, 2003 FrÃ¨re Roger (Brother Roger) (Provence, Switzerland, May 12, 1915 - TaizÃ©, August 16, 2005), baptised Roger Louis SchÃ¼tz-Marsauche, also known as Prior Roger, was the founder and prior of the TaizÃ© Community, an ecumenical monastic community. ... Brother Roger of TaizÃ©, 2003 The TaizÃ© Community is an ecumenical Christian mens monastic order in TaizÃ©, SaÃ´ne-et-Loire, Burgundy, France // Priory It was initiated in 1940 by FrÃ¨re Roger (Brother Roger), who remained its Prior until his death in 2005 and is dedicated to reconciliation. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Max Frisch (May 15, 1911 â€“ April 4, 1991), was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, one of the most representative writers of the German literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of personal identity, morality and political commitment. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Photograph of Leszek Kolakowski. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Astrid Lindgren (November 14, 1907 _ January 28, 2002) was a Swedish childrens book author, whose many titles were translated into over 70 languages and published in more than 100 countries. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Fritz Kreisler (sitting) with Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin, Lord Menuhin of Stoke dAbernon , OM, KBE (April 22, 1916. ...

1980 - 1989

1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Ernesto Cardenal (born January 20, 1925) was one of the most famous liberation theologians of the Nicaraguan Revolution. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lev_Kopelev Lev Kopelev (Russian: Лев Копелев, German spelling Lew Kopelew: April 9, 1912 - June 18, 1997) was a Russian author and a dissident. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 â€“ March 17, 2005) was an American advisor, diplomat, political analyst, and historian, best known as the father of containment and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ManÃ¨s Sperber (* December 12, 1905 in ZabÅ‚otÃ³w near Kolomea, Austrian Galicia (today Sabolotow, Ukraine); â€ February 05, 1984 in Paris) was an austrian-french novelist, essayist and psychologist. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Octavio Paz on the cover of his Selected Poems (1988) Octavio Paz (March 31, 1914 â€“ April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Teddy Kollek in Vienna in 2003 Theodor Teddy Kollek (born May 27, 1911) is a retired Israeli politician. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Bartoszewski WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Bartoszewski (b. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... German-born philosopher Hans Jonas (May 10, 1903 - February 5, 1993) studied under Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann in the 1920s. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Siegfried Lenz (b. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... VÃ¡clav Havel VÃ¡clav Havel (IPA: ) (born October 5, 1936) is a Czech writer and dramatist. ...

1990 - 1999

1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... GyÃ¶rgy (George) KonrÃ¡d (born 1933) is a Hungarian novelist and essayist, known as an advocate of individual freedom. ... 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Amos Oz, November 7, 2004 Amos Oz (born May 4, 1939), birth name Amos Klausner, is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Jorge SemprÃºn (1923 - ) is a Spanish writer and politician. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Annemarie Schimmel (1922-2003) was a well known and very influential German scholar who wrote extensively on Islam. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Mario Vargas Llosa The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa (born March 28, 1936) is one of Latin Americas leading novelists and essayists. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Martin Walser (born March 24, 1927 in Wasserburg) is a German playwright and novelist. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Fritz Stern (1926- ) Fritz Stern is a historian of German history and historiography. ...

2000 - 2009

This article is about the year 2000. ... Assia Djebar is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (born August 4, 1936), an Algerian novelist, translator and filmaker. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Habermas speaking with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, 2004 JÃ¼rgen Habermas (born June 18, 1929 in DÃ¼sseldorf, Germany) is a philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe (born November 16, 1930) is a Nigerian writer. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Susan Sontag Susan Sontag (January 28, 1933 â€“ December 28, 2004) was a well-known American essayist, novelist, left-leaning intellectual and controversial activist. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... PÃ©ter EsterhÃ¡zy (occasionally written EszterhÃ¡zy) is one of the most widely known contemporary Hungarian writers. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Orhan Pamuk Orhan Pamuk (born on June 7, 1952 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a leading Turkish novelist of post-modern literature. ...

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