Award winners have been announced
Dr. Susanne Kirchmeyer received the 20th Jena Prize for Civil Courage this year. At the end of April 2021, images expressing anti-Muslim racism, including a burnt Koran page, were posted in private letterboxes in the Winzerla district for the first time. Dr. Susanne Kirchmeyer was honoured for standing up for those affected by the anti-Muslim postings, empowering them and encouraging them not to remain silent about it.
Dr. Susanne Kirchmeyer acted with civil courage by advising an affected family and informing the Winzerla district office about the incident. She also supported the victims in filing a complaint.
The laudatory speech was given by Friederike Costa, pastor of the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer Evangelical Lutheran parish in the Winzerla district.
The €1,000 prize was donated this year by Christian Otto Grötsch, founder and managing director of the digital agency dotSource GmbH.
Charlotte Figulla Prize 2021
Together with the Jena Prize for Civil Courage , the Thuringia-wide school and youth competition Charlotte Figulla Prizewas awarded. The theme of this year's prize was Wishing Worlds.
This year's winners were
- Mia Gatzemann, 13-year-old pupil at the Karl-Theodor-Liebe-Gymnasium in Gera for the picture View of my dream world
- Year 11 pupils from the Karl-Theodor-Liebe-Gymnasium in Gera for the podcastDerWeltenretter Podcast
- Greta Kalow and Theres Bloch, Year 10 pupils at Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium Eisenberg for the Basic Law of the World project
- Pupils from the Ernst Abbe Gymnasium Jena for the film Wunschwelten
- Pupils in Year 7 at the Pestalozzi School State Regional Support Center in Eisenach for the project 2021 + 20 years = 2041 The school of the future +
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