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Dresden (dpa) - Sabine Schubert from Pulsnitz (Bautzen district), who has been committed to culture in Lusatia for decades, has been awarded the Maecenas award by the Working Group of Independent Cultural Institutes (AsKI) in 2021.
With this, the jury recognized “for the first time outstanding cultural commitment that achieves and causes something unique without great fortune”.
Schubert stands "exemplary for patronage in Saxony, for creativity and drive," congratulated Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) according to the announcement on the award on Monday in the State Chancellery.
Schubert founded the Ernst-Rietschel-Kulturring in 1991, which awarded the art prize named after the sculptor from 1991 to 2013. In 2005 the house where the artist was born, who also created the Goethe-Schiller memorial in Weimar and the Luther memorial in Worms, was acquired and a museum was set up. Schubert also saved the city museum and gingerbread museum. She turned a former supermarket into the East Saxon Art Association. And even in retirement, she works with a foundation to promote sustainable culture in her home country.
The AsKI, which comprises 38 nationally important cultural institutions, has honored patronage in the present with the undoped prize since 1989.
Every two years personalities are honored who promote art and culture in a special way.
Those who have received awards so far include the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, the publisher Henri Nannen (1913-1996) and the banker Friedrich von Metzler and his wife.
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