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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - The Marion Dönhoff Prize for international understanding and reconciliation will be awarded this Sunday to the EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager and the Hamburg association Viva con Agua.
Due to the corona pandemic, the award can only take place online and not as usual in the Hamburger Schauspielhaus.
ECB boss Christine Lagarde and the singer Joy Denalane give the laudation.
The award ceremony is to be broadcast on the live stream of “Zeit online” and on the Zeit Foundation's social media channels.
According to the jury, the main prize winner Vestager will be honored because, as Vice-President of the European Commission, she stood up for an open and fair market with all her strength and thus made a significant contribution to the implementation of the principles and laws of the EU.
The St. Paulian non-profit organization Viva con Agua received the sponsorship award because, since it was founded in 2005, with its diverse projects for better drinking water and basic sanitation, it has been drawing attention to the fact that water supply is a human right.
The Marion Dönhoff Prize is named after the former "Zeit" editor, who was born in Königsberg in 1909 and died in Hamburg in 2002.
The award has been presented annually since 2003 on the first weekend of Advent by the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”, the “Zeit” Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius and the Dönhoff Foundation.