World Award

As World Awards are three private Awards summarized, which were awarded from 2000 to 2009 on the initiative of the Austrian journalist, entrepreneur and PR professional Georg Kindel together with the Austrian entrepreneur Christian Baha ( managing director of the hedge fund Superfund ) as a sponsor: the World Award (2000-2004), the Women's World Award (2004-2009) and the Save the World Award (only 2009).

  • 3.1 History
  • 3.2 Awards
  • 3.3 Prize winners
  • 4.1 history
  • 4.2 Awards
  • 4.3 Prize winners

Organizers and partners

All three awards were creations Kindels who called them together with Baha to life. The first of these prices the World Award was initiated in 2000, 2004 sparked the Women's World Award the previously awarded only to men from World Award. 2009 awarded Kindel and Baha also the Save the World Award.

Kindel also launched the event organization World Awards Media, based in Vienna and New York, which specialized planning exclusively on the production of national and international awards and the World Awards and produced. In November 2009, the liquidation of the company was decided.

Besides Kindels company the award of prizes by supporting various company was allowing the main sponsor of all three prizes was the Superfund Asset Management GmbH. The organizers won for awarding their prices by sponsoring a composed of well-known persons jury, as its President Mikhail Gorbachev acted as chairman acted Georg Kindel itself for the World Award, the Women's World Award and the Save the World Award was this body of the same people. Names that have been mentioned in this context by Kindel as jury members were from the fields of art, culture, business, sports, media and the business world, including Michael Douglas, Richard Branson, Waris Dirie and Stella Deetjen.

World Award

History

The World Award was the first award of Kindel and Baha Prize in 2000. It was launched with the support of the Peace Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev to life. At the same time the Men Against Violence Initiative was founded.

The World Award was awarded by the organizers to men who stand up for the values ​​of freedom, tolerance and peace, and had done in their own profession of importance. 2004 dissolved the Women's World Awards, the hitherto assigned only to men from World Awards.

Award winners

  • 2001 Men of the Year: New York Firefighters
  • World Achievement Award: Hans -Dietrich Genscher
  • World Health Award: Prof. Robert Charles Gallo
  • World Social Award: Luciano Pavarotti
  • World Tolerance Award: Steven Spielberg
  • World Actor Award: Alain Delon
  • World Artist Award: Sir Paul McCartney
  • World Business Award: Sir Richard Branson (Virgin )
  • World Entertainment Award: Günther Jauch
  • World Future Award: Prof. Anton Zeilinger
  • World Media Award: Ted Turner ( CNN)
  • 2002 in Vienna Man of the Year: Rainer Heise
  • World Achievement Award: Roman Polanski
  • World Health Award: J. Craig Venter
  • World Social Award: Karlheinz Böhm
  • World Tolerance Award: John Paul II
  • World Actor Award: Jeremy Irons, Christopher Lee
  • World Artist Award: Michael Jackson, Herbert Grönemeyer
  • World Business Award: Bernie Ecclestone
  • World Entertainment Award: Thomas Gottschalk
  • World Future Award: Kurt Wüthrich
  • World Media Award: Kai Diekmann ( image )
  • 2003 on 22 October in the music hall in Hamburg Men of the Year: Doctors in Iraq
  • World Achievement Award: Plácido Domingo
  • World Social Award: Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
  • World Tolerance Award: Lech Wałęsa
  • World Actor Award: Michael Douglas
  • World Artist Award: Morgan Freeman
  • World Arts Award: Pet Shop Boys
  • World Business Award: Heinrich von Pierer (Siemens)
  • World Connection Award: Jan Ullrich
  • World Entertainment Award: Siegfried and Roy
  • World Fashion Award: Karl Lagerfeld
  • World Future Award: Dietrich Grönemeyer
  • World Media Award: Larry King ( CNN)
  • Live Time Achievement Award: Christopher Reeve
  • World Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement Award: Bee Gees

Women's World Award

History

The Women's World Awards were initiated in 2004. The creation of this prize for women followed the contracts awarded since 2000 World Awards for men.

So that should be honored women who stand up for equality, self-determination, freedom and social justice and, each done in their field, significant and had a role model.

Award

The assignment of the Women's World Awards took place as part of gala events that were recorded for television and marketed internationally. According to the organizers, Kindel and Baha the Women's World Awards around 500 million people worldwide each event reached via TV, print media, radio and internet. The award in 2006 in New York City has been implemented by "The Grammy Awards " producer John Cossette for television. Around 500 journalists from around the world, including 26 TV crews, reported on-site from the event. As part of the program Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan and Il Divo occurred, were among the presenters Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Kyle MacLachlan and Christopher Lee; Teri Hatcher was a co - host of the show.

Prizewinners

  • World Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement: Whitney Houston and Dionne Warwick
  • World Artist Award: Nena
  • World Arts Award: Cher
  • World Achievement Award: Bianca Jagger
  • World Business Award: Katarina Witt
  • World Charity Award: Ute -Henriette Ohoven
  • World Entertainment Award: Oprah Winfrey
  • World Fashion Award: Vivienne Westwood
  • World Fashion Icon Award: Naomi Campbell
  • World Media Award: Christiane Amanpour
  • World Social Award: Waris Dirie
  • World Style Award: Nadja Auermann
  • World Tolerance Award: Iris Berben
  • World Connection Award: Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova
  • Women of the Year: Agnes Wessalowski representing the athletes of Special Olympics
  • World Lifetime Achievement Award: Susan Sarandon
  • World Charity Award: Sharon Stone
  • World Social Award: Lucy Liu
  • World Tolerance Award: Queen Noor of Jordan
  • World Artist Award: Mary J. Blige
  • World Entertainment Award: Whoopi Goldberg
  • World Style Award: Claudia Schiffer
  • World Achievement Award: Shana Dale
  • World Athlete Award: Billie Jean King
  • World Business Award: Miky Lee
  • World Hope Award: Stella Deetjen
  • Woman of the Year: Robin Herbert
  • Woman of the Year: Íngrid Betancourt
  • World Achievement Award: Betty Williams
  • World Actress Award: Monica Bellucci
  • World Artist Award: Anastacia
  • World Business Award: Marilyn Carlson Nelson
  • World Career Award: Elle Macpherson
  • World Entertainment Award: Kelly Clarkson
  • World Fashion Award: Angela Missoni
  • World Hope Award: Nojoud Ali
  • World Lifetime Achievement Award: Marianne Faithfull
  • World Social Award: Esther Mujawayo
  • World Style Award: Bar Refaeli
  • Benazir Bhutto World Tolerance Award: Claudia Cardinale

Claudia Cardinale, Benazir Bhutto World Tolerance Award 2009

Betty Williams, World Achievement Award 2009

Esther Mujawayo, World Social Award 2009

Marianne Faithfull, World Lifetime Achievement Award 2009

Elle Macpherson, World Career Award 2009

Save the World Award

History

Before the Save the World Award Kindel and Baha had already created the World Award and the Women's World Award. According to organizers, should be honored by the award of the Save the World Award persons and NGOs presented their work, so that the gala event the award of the Save the World Award also could serve to collect donations for their funding.

With the price individuals and companies should be honored, who advocated for the following topics: climate change, poverty reduction, water conservation, tolerance, energy security, peace and security, health, democracy and human dignity, nutrition, education, pollution control and conservation.

Award

The only award of the Save the World Award took place on 24 July 2009 against the previous non- operating nuclear power plant Zwentendorf in Lower Austria. Also, this award was presented during a lavish open-air gala event, which was recorded for television and marketed internationally. The event was hosted by actress Andie MacDowell, among the guests from politics and culture included the Governor of Lower Austria Erwin Pröll and representatives of EVN, Wien Holding and Verbund.

Same time as the awards ceremony was a World Congress Defining Our Future on Grafenegg - instead Visions For A Sustainable World.

Award winners

  • Karlheinz Böhm received the award for his life's work, the action People for People
  • Greenpeace, received by Thomas Henningsen, head of climate projects of the organization
  • Michael Jackson ( posthumously ) received by Jermaine Jackson
  • International Green Cross, answered by Alexander Likhotal, President of Green Cross International
  • SOS Children's Village, accepted by Helmut Kutin, president of SOS Children's Villages
  • Vandana Shiva, Indian physicist and environmental activist
  • Freda Meissner-Blau, for their environmental policy commitment, which helped with the non- commissioning of the nuclear power plant Zwentendorf
  • Carl Lewis, American athlete, for he initiated Carl Lewis Foundation for Children in Need
  • Renée Ernst, for the Millennium Summit

Thomas Henningsen for Greenpeace

Alexander Likhotal for Green Cross International

Kutin for SOS Children's Villages

Vandana Shiva

Carl Lewis for the Carl Lewis Foundation

Renée Ernst, Representative of the UN Millennium Campaign

Criticism

In the criticism Kindel and Baha came especially 2009, when the Save the World Award was awarded. Since the gala event in Zwentendorf was occupied with striking many prominent international guests, it is not but came to a ceremony in 2009 again, got the Save the World Award rapidly in reputation, more likely to have served the commercial interests of the organizers and sponsors instead of by Kindel and Baha motives officially mentioned as motivations for the creation of the Save the World Award. Event organization was the World Awards Media GmbH, whose liquidation was adopted in November 2009.

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