Das politische Buch
The political book is the prize awarded annually Literature Prize of the Friedrich -Ebert- Stiftung (FES) to promote important political literature.
Idea
Since 1982, the SPD Foundation awards close to the 10,000 Euro prize annually. The award ceremony takes place on the 10th of May or in temporal proximity to this anniversary of the Nazi book burning in 1933. As an institution that is committed to the ideas and basic values of social democracy, the FES is distinguished from political literature. Current topics that it will specifically address are:
- Social Cohesion,
- Democratic culture,
- Innovation and participation,
- Globalization based on solidarity.
Selection and jury
Applications and proposals for award winners are possible in each case to October 15. Here, the proposed book in German translation in the book market must be for foreign authors. The actual selection of the prize winner by a jury, which also compiles a list of other recommended values political books.
2010 was the jury of
- Horst Baraczewski (* 1954), bookseller, an Executive Member of the Bremen Literature Foundation. Member of the jury since 1997.
- Wolfgang Budde -Roth ( born 1939 ), retired librarian in the library of the Friedrich -Ebert -Stiftung. Member of the jury since 1983.
- Klaus Hohlfeld ( b. 1939 ), Director A.D. the public library Mannheim. From the beginning, a member of the jury, since 1990, their spokesman.
- Jens Hundrieser (* 1940), lecturer for the training of library assistants in Göttingen.
- Annette Kasper ( born 1953 ), head of Ernst Abbe Jena library.
- Barbara Lison ( born 1956 ), Director of the Bremen Public Library. Executive Director of the Rudolf Alexander Schröder Foundation for the award of the Bremen Literature Prize.
- Dieter Schuster ( * 1927), former head of the archives, the library and the documentation of the Federal Executive Committee of the DGB.
- Werner Stephan ( b. 1947 ), director of the Stuttgart University Library, including Participation in the International Federation of Library Associations ( IFLA)
- Beate Tröger ( b. 1961 ), director of the University and Regional Library Münster. Member of the Board of DINI ( German Initiative for Network Information ).