2011
Prof. Dr. Jacek Purchla
Director of the International Cultural Centre, Krakow
The Central Europe Prize has been awarded annually by the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe since 1994 and was endowed with EUR 7,200 by the Federal Ministry of Science and Research until 2010.
For 2011, Erste Group Bank AG thankfully took over the endowment of the prize.
The prize is awarded to personalities who have rendered outstanding services to the idea of Central Europe.
Prof. Dr. Jacek Purchla
Director of the International Cultural Centre, Krakow
Dr. Ján Čarnogurský
Former Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of the Slovak Republic
Karl Schwarzenberg
Former Chairman of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, former Chancellor of President Václav Havel, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Botschafter Dr. Dragan Velikic
Writer, journalist, Serbian Ambassador to Austria since 2005
Mag. Dr. h.c. Karl-Markus Gauß
Writer and editor of the magazine “Literatur und Kritik”
Univ. Prof. Dr. Irena Lipowicz
Former Polish Ambassador to Austria
Doraja Eberle
Salzburg Provincial Councillor, initiator of the project “Farmers help farmers”
Andrei Marga
President of the Danube Rectors’ Conference and President of the University of Cluj-Napoca, former Romanian Minister of Education
Christoph Zielinski
Initiator of a Central European Oncology Research Group
Christine von Kohl
Southeast Europe Publicist
Andrei Plesu
Minister of Culture and Foreign Affairs of Romania, founder of the New Europe College in Bucharest
Dana Nemcova
last spokesperson of “Charter 77”
Rainer Rosenberg
ORF journalist, initiator of the program “Neighbor in Need”
Juraj Stern
Rector of WU Bratislava
György Konrad
President of the Berlin Art Academy
Wolfgang Kraus
Merits of Central European literature
Veno Taufer
Slovenian writer
Wladislaw Bartoszewski
poln. Ambassador in Vienna, Foreign Minister