카이로스 프라이즈 KAIROS Prize

The KAIROS Prize is honouring European artists and academics from the fields of the fine and the performing arts, music, architecture, design, film, photography, literature and journalism. The award is designed to be given to individuals for artistic achievements, but also to producers, festival directors, publishers or gallery owners and other personalities who give important impulses to art and culture in Europe. The KAIROS Prize is endowed with the amount of 75.000 € and aims to honour outstanding individuals working with entrepreneurial spirit, persistence and creativity in the field of European culture and intercultural understanding. The prize is named after the Greek god KAIROS – the god for “the right moment” –as it seeks to encourage and promote people at “the right time in their career”. It is neither an award for life time achievement nor a singular project, but rather seeks to identify early achievement, special work in progress as well as potential for future sucess. The KAIROS Prize is awarded annually in Hamburg by the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. An independent committee decides on the awarding.

The current members of the committee are: Christoph Stölzl (President Liszt School of Music, Weimar) Christine Eichel (author and journalist) Shermin Langhoff (artistic director Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin) Heike Catherina Mertens (executive director Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House) Monika Sandhack (ZDFkultur / 3Sat Kulturzeit) Nike Wagner (artistic director Internationales Beethovenfest, Bonn)

The above content has been excerpted from https://www.toepfer-stiftung.de/en/kairos-prize/