Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal

Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal

The Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal (until 2002 named Friedrich Torberg Medal) is an award given by the Vienna Israelite Community. It is awarded to personalities and initiatives campaigning against antisemitism, racism, and the strengthening of the national socialism.

The Award

The Marietta and Friedrich Torberg medal honors the remembrance of a renowned author, a great humanitarian, and a dedicated fighter against national socialism, communism and totalitarian systems. This medal also honors Torberg’s legacy, the remembrance of those Jewish people who perished and who shaped Vienna so decisively. The Marietta and Friedrich Torberg medal is given to personalities who dedicatedly fight for an open and vibrant democracy in Austria, who fight against an awakening of the past, and that the past cannot be forgotten.

Recipients

1987
  • Peter Huemer
1990
  • Siegfried Reingruber and Hermann Reitmajer
1995
  • Students and teachers of Gymnasium Friesgasse
1997
  • Josef Broukal
1999
  • Primavera Gruber, Käthe Kratz, Hans Litsauer, Werner Rotter, Karin Schön, Georg Schönfeld
  • Hubert Steiner
2000
2001
  • Marianne Enigl
  • Hans Rauscher
  • Joachim Riedl
  • Günter Traxler
2002
2003
  • Ute Bock
  • Heinz Katschnig
  • Alexander Potyka
2005
  • Waltraud Klasnic
  • Clemens Jabloner
  • Wolfgang Neugebauer
2007
2008
  • Georg Haber
2010
  • Lena, Franziska und Franz Müllner
  • Martina Enzmann
  • Werner Sulzgruber
2011
  • Thomas Haffner
  • Gerhard Zatlokal
2012
2013
2015
2016
  • Andreas Mailath-Pokorny[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Verleihung der Marietta und Friedrich Torberg-Medaille 2012 an Clemens Hellsberg, Wolfgang Schütz OTS, 21. Mai 2012
  2. ↑ "Mailath mit Torberg-Medaille ausgezeichnet" (Press release) (in German). City of Vienna. 21 May 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

See also

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