April 1st, 2009
Gottfried Helnwein receives the Steiger Art Award
Jahrhunderthalle Bochum, 28. March 2009
The Steiger Award honours personalities for directness, openness, humanitarianism and tolerance.
Further prize winners this year were Sir Bob Geldof (music), Maximilian Schell (life’s work), former president of Germany Prof. Dr. Roman Herzog (tolerance), Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxemburg (charity), Veronica Ferres (film), Sir David Frost (media), former prime minister of Italy Romano Prodi and former president of Poland Aleksander Kwasinewski (Europe).
Dr. Antje Vollmer, former speaker of parliament, gave the laudation for Gottfried Helnwein .
Previous award winners include the Nobel Peace Prize winners Shimon Peres and Mohamed El-Baradei, State President Hamid Karzei, former Federal foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, Iris Berben, Franz Beckenbauer, Josè Carreras, Sabine Christiansen, Peter Maffay, Tokio Hotel, former Persian empress Farah Diba-Pahlavi, journalist Dr. Franz Alt, UNEP – general director Achim Steiner, Wolfgang Niedecken, Prof. Peter Scholl-Latour, musician Robin Gibb from the BEE GEES, former director general of the WDR television channel Friedrich Nowottny, Manfred Krug, Friedrich von Thun and Joachim Fuchsberger, US5, Prof. Heinz Sielmann, Boris Becker and the prime minister of Luxembourg Dr. Jean-Claude Juncker.
