国际文化交流基金会获2006欧洲文获奖
奖项简介：
这一奖项始于1993年，每年评选一次。2006年的得主是国际文化交流基金。以往的得主都是在文化领域作出突出贡献的名人和单位，包括德国前总统劳，德国第三电视台（3SAT），维也纳的约瑟夫市歌剧院，伊斯坦布尔文化艺术基金会，欧洲广播联盟，布达佩斯春节，德国前外长根舍等。
2006欧洲文获奖
“Culture creates Tolerance – Using Culture to spread Peace”. To serve
this motto by creating an opportunity for choirs from all over the world
to meet and compete in peace and harmony is a remarkable accomplishment.
And it is an achievement to which the INTERKULTUR Foundation, which has
been organising such events for well over a decade now, can rightly lay
claim.
This achievement includes the initiation and organisation of the
Olympics of Choral Music, the WORLD CHOIR GAMES, an event which has grown
in stature and importance over the years and continues to do so. Culture,
including music, is something that can transcend borders and bring people
of different nationalities and cultures together. It represents a stone in
the colourful mosaic of world cultures and is truly worthy of promotion.
Music is a valuable element in the overall cultural and social heritage of
each and every individual state and it is vital that we integrate and use
it, especially at a time when intellectual, cultural and social aspects
that contribute to the realisation of this idea are under threat from
nationalistic tendencies that overlook the value of this community as a
whole.
It is both a privilege and a pleasure for me to announce,
that the INTERKULTUR Foundation, represented by its president Günter
Titsch, has been awarded the KulturPreis Europa 2006 (European Culture
Award 2006).
The KulturPreis Europa has been awarded every year since 1993. The
2006 winner is a worthy and natural successor to the previous laureates,
Annemarie Renger, former president of the German Bundestag, Prof. Dr.
Helmut Zilk, mayor and state governor of Vienna, Prof. Dr. Dr. Dimitris
Th. Tsatsos, a specialist in international law from Greece, Johannes Rau
(former state Premier of North-Rhine Westphalia and former President of
the Federal Republic of Germany), 3sat, the international public
broadcaster run in co-operation by ZDF, ORF, SRG and ARD, (D,A,CH),
Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna, and the American author Jeff Baron, the
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (Turkey), the European
Broadcasting Union/EUROVISION (CH), the Budapest Spring Festival (HU) and
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, former German Foreign Minister (D).
This award is presented by the KulturForum Europa to people who
devote their energies to making sure that other people realise that the
European idea provides a chance to set an example of peaceful co-existence
by different peoples, whose diversity is viewed as a welcome virtue, a
valuable contribution, an opportunity to help solve the many continuing
problems we face today, and not as something terrible, something alien,
that needs to be destroyed.
Europe and the Olympic ideal of peace go hand in hand and the
INTERKULTUR Foundation has a vital role to play in achieving this European
goal for the world.
Dieter Topp
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