Honors come with age: In any case, Peter Maffay could hardly have dreamed in the last century that he would one day be awarded the Frankfurt Music Prize at the historic location, in the venerable Paulskirche - as happened on Friday evening.

Guido Holze

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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The 72-year-old singer, who changed from pop singer to German rocker and patron of the Tabaluga Foundation, who has also been showered with medals and decorations for his social commitment, admitted, however, that the joy of the award on the eve of a possible third world war was badly clouded for him may be.

Children should not be left with a pile of rubble.

The prize money of 15,000 euros is intended to benefit Maffay and his band, who performed with him and performed at the award ceremony, for his foundation and thus for mothers and their children who are currently fleeing Ukraine.

Since the music prize initiated in 1982, which was otherwise traditionally awarded at the opening of the Musikmesse, is sponsored by the Musikmesse Foundation and the Federal Association of German Musical Instrument Manufacturers, the award will continue to exist after the Frankfurt Musikmesse has ended.

Earlier winners included the conductors Georg Solti and Michael Gielen, but also Udo Lindenberg, who was briefly connected live.