Einhard-Preis

The Einhard Prize for biographical literature since 1999, awarded by the Foundation to Einhard Blessed city, founded in 1998, the Community Foundation.

With this award, the Foundation intends " in the European context, the memory of Einhard and his work to keep alive ". Through the promotion of biographical literature with European reference the historical roots of European unification should be made visible and redeveloped in their meaning for today's political and social developments.

The 10,000 euro prize is awarded every two years in Blessed city, awarded to Einhard's grave. The winners will each selected by an international jury.

  • 3.1 authenticity of the remains of Einhard and Imma
  • 3.2 Seligenstädter Biography discussions
  • 3.3 Contributions to Einhard Symposium

The Einhard Foundation Blessed City

The Einhard Foundation Blessed City is a community foundation in memory of Einhard and for Europe and for the maintenance of the heritage of Einhard. It was decided at the suggestion and under the guidance of the "Order of Brotherhood of the Steyffen spoon " Too Blessed to town and created by a group of Seligenstädter citizens into being in 1998.

It was established as a foundation under civil law on 13 March 1998 and approved by the Regional Council in Darmstadt on 23 April 1998.

The Foundation's mission is worded in the Constitution as follows: The purpose of the Foundation is to make the idea of European integration at the level of a traditional city vividly and the roots of European nations visible. This purpose is realized by:

The Einhardpreis for Biography

With the Einhardpreis the outstanding biography of a personality is excellent, their scientific, religious, political, artistic or economic activity has a close relationship with Europe. Yet Europe is not only politically to understand about the meaning of the EU, but especially history and the history of ideas. The winner of the prize author can also live in a non-European country. So far there are six winners, the Board of Trustees of the international panel ( jury ) were selected. Knowledgeable members are Gustav Seibt (Berlin), Jürg Altwegg ( Geneva ) and Jeremy Adler ( London). The Einhard award will be presented every two years in Blessed City and is endowed with € 10,000. The transfer is in temporal association with Einhard's death, ie to 14 March of the year.

Past winners

2013: John C. G. Röhl

  • Emeritus Professor of European History at the University of Sussex for his three -volume biography of the German emperor Wilhelm II

2011: Hugh Barr Nisbet

  • Holocaust survivors, for their 2008 published autobiography " attempts to make your life"

2007: Eberhard Weis

  • Professor emeritus at the University of Munich: For his two-volume biography of the Bavarian statesman Maximilian Graf von Montgelas

2005: Irène Heidelberger -Leonard

  • Professor at the Free University of Brussels: For " Revolt and Resignation ", the biography of Jean Améry

2003: Joachim C. Fest †

  • Historian, journalist, professor, Doctor hc: For his biographical life-work, taking into account the work of Albert Speer

2001: Brian David Boyd

  • Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand: For his biography of Vladimir Nabokov

1999: Otto plant †

  • Professor emeritus at Indiana University in Bloomington, United States: For his biography of Otto von Bismarck

The scientific care of the memory of Einhard Einhard and research and its time

Authenticity of the remains of Einhard and Imma

At the opening of the sarcophagus on 4 October 2004 in cooperation with the Einhard Association and the Order of the Brotherhood of Steyffen spoon corresponding samples of the bones were removed. Using the radiocarbon dating method, it was found that the man had died around 835, aged about 70 years; he would have to have been born around 765. The man was only 1.62 meters tall. Einhard's date of birth is uncertain, but is estimated at about 760; He died on 14 March 840 in Blessed City. Many documents contain evidence that he was small of stature. There is thus still a good match. The year of death of the woman, the scientists dated to about 840 Imma died around 836 Here is a good match before.

Seligenstädter Biography discussions

For the maintenance of memories Einhard includes the promotion of biographical literature. For this first time author reading was on 14 March 2008, together with the culture Ring Blessed city, carried out. Uwe Wittstock, a doctorate in literary critic and cultural correspondent for the WORLD, presented his biography " Marcel Reich Ranicki - Story of a Life " before. Then the author discussed in a "biography conversation" with Bernt Ture of the mills, author, literary scholar and lecturer at the schools of the German Book Trade, the possibilities and limits of biography.

Contributions to Einhard Symposium

The second international symposium on the life and works of Einhard was conducted in September 2008 in Blessed City. Under the patronage of the then prime minister of Hesse, Roland Koch, this scientific meeting of the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens in Hesse and the City Council of Blessed city, organized jointly with the Einhard Association, the conveyance Historical Blessed City and Einhard Foundation. Hermann Schefers of the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens, which is also a member of the Presidium of Einhard Foundation, was responsible for the scientific management. Furthermore, the Foundation contributed a poster to present their activities.

Bodies

  • Bureau: Peter Hammann (Chairman), Robert Tampé (Deputy Chairman), Hermann Schefers ( scientific advisor ), Thomas Schmidt ( Treasurer), Nicolas Wolz, (public relations ), Karl Wolf (Assessor ), Thomas Laube (Assessor ), Traudel Walter, (Managing Director ), Franz F. Neubauer ( † honorary Chairman ), Peter Laube (member until 2005)
  • Board of Trustees: Robert Tampé, Frankfurt (Chairman and representatives of the donor ), Gustav Seibt, Berlin ( knowledgeable member since 1998 ), Jürg Altwegg, Geneva ( knowledgeable member since 2003), Jeremy Adler, London ( knowledgeable member since 2003), Alexandra Kemmerer, Berlin (representative of the founder ), Jean Favier, Paris ( knowledgeable member until 2003), Roberto Zapperi Rome ( knowledgeable member until 2003)
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