page_title: Franz Werfel Human Rights Award
section_title: Laureates
hierarchical_section_title: Franz Werfel Human Rights Award / Laureates
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Herta Müller signiert bei der 1. SWR-Literaturnacht in der Mainzer Buchbar Lomo ihren Roman "Atemschaukel"
context_page_description: The Franz Werfel Human Rights Award is a human rights award of the German Federation of Expellees' Centre Against Expulsions project. It is awarded to individuals or groups in Europe who, through political, artistic, philosophical or practical work, have opposed breaches of human rights by genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the deliberate destruction of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups.
context_section_description: 2003
  Mihran Dabag (Germany), "for his scientific work in the field of genocide research, on the history of the persecution of Armenians and its current implications"
  The initiators of the "Cross of Reconciliation" (Kříž smíření in Czech) in Teplice nad Metují, the Czech Republic (Wekelsdorf), for "inaugurating the cross for the Sudeten Germans murdered on the Buková hora (Buchenberg) in 1945 and for all the victims of national conflicts from this region and for making a courageous gesture of dialogue between Germans and Czechs".
  Věra Vítová, the mayor of Teplice nad Metují
  Petr Kulíšek, a political activist
  Jan Piňos, a political activist
  2005 Franjo Komarica, bishop (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  2007 György Konrád
  2009 Herta Müller in particular for her novel Everything I Possess I Carry With Me
  2010 David Vondráček
  2012 Karl Schlögel
  2014 Rick Ostermann, film director
  2016 Freya Klier
  2018 Michael Wolffsohn
caption: Herta Müller, the 2009 laureate, received the award in particular recognition of her novel Everything I Possess I Carry With Me
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