# Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal

The Buber-Rosenzweig-Medaille is an annual prize awarded since 1968 by the Deutscher Koordinierungsrat der Gesellschaften für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit (DKR; German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation) to individuals, initiatives, or institutions, which have actively contributed to Christian–Jewish understanding. Forty-four different societies belong to the DKR. The name of the prize honors the memory of the Austrian-Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator Martin Buber (1878–1965) and the German-Jewish theologian Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929). In its inaugural year, the prize was granted to both the historian Friedrich Heer (Gottes erste Liebe; God's First Love) and the Protestant theologian Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt (Die Entdeckung des Judentums für die christliche Theologie: Israel im Denken Karl Barths; The Discovery of Judaism for Christian Theology: Israel in the Thought of Karl Barth).

## Recipients

* 1968 Friedrich Heer, Vienna / Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt, Berlin
* 1969 Ernst Simon, Jerusalem
* 1970 Eva Gabriele Reichmann, London / Rabbi Robert Raphael Geis, Düsseldorf
* 1971 Bishop Kurt Scharf, Berlin
* 1972 Monsignor Antonius Cornelis Ramselaar, Utrecht
* 1973 Helmut Gollwitzer, Berlin
* 1974 Hans G. Adler, London
* 1975 Archbishop George Appleton, Jerusalem and Wantage / Abbot Laurentius Klein, Jerusalem
* 1976 Ernst-Ludwig Ehrlich, Basel
* 1977 Friedrich Dürrenmatt
* 1978 Grete Schaeder, Göttingen / Albrecht Goes, Stuttgart
* 1979 Manès Sperber, Paris / James Parkes, Southampton
* 1980 Eugen Kogon, Königstein / Gertrud Luckner, Freiburg im Breisgau
* 1981 Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York
* 1982 Schalom Ben-Chorin, Jerusalem
* 1983 Helene Jacobs, Berlin
* 1984 Siegfried Theodor Arndt, Leipzig / Helmut Eschwege, Dresden
* 1985 Franz Mußner, Passau
* 1986 Heinz Kremers, Duisburg
* 1987 Neve Shalom, Israel
* 1988 Israel Studies Working Group
* 1989 Yehudi Menuhin
* 1990 Charlotte Petersen, Dillenburg
* 1991 Leo Baeck Education Center, Haifa
* 1992 Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, Munich / Annemarie Renger, Bonn
* 1993 Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste (ASF) (Action Reconciliation/Service For Peace, ARSP)
* 1994 Jakob Petuchowski, Cincinnati) / Clemens Thoma, Lucerne)
* 1995 Richard von Weizsäcker, Berlin
* 1996 Franklin Hamlin Littell, United States / Joseph Walk, Jerusalem
* 1997 Hans Koschnick
* 1998 Leah Rabin
* 1999 Archbishop Henryk Muszyński, Gniezno
* 2000 Johannes Rau
* 2001 Schule ohne Rassismus - Schule mit Courage (School without Racism - School with Courage)
* 2002 Edna Brocke, Essen / Rolf Rendtorff, Karben / Johann Baptist Metz, Münster
* 2003 Joschka Fischer
* 2004 Daniel Barenboim
* 2005 Peter von der Osten-Sacken
* 2006 Leon de Winter and the Show Your Face! Association
* 2007 Esther Schapira and Georg M. Hafner
* 2008 Stef Wertheimer
* 2009 Erich Zenger
* 2010 Daniel Libeskind
* 2011 Navid Kermani
* 2012 Nikolaus Schneider
* 2013 Mirjam Pressler, Landshut / Fritz-Bauer-Institut, Frankfurt a.M.
* 2014 Gyorgy Konrád, Budapest
* 2015 Hanspeter Heinz, Augsburg / Gesprächskreis "Juden und Christen" beim Zentralkomitee der deutschen Katholiken, Bonn
* 2016 Micha Brumlik