22nd Viadrina Prize and Sponsorship Award

22nd Viadrina Prize goes to Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz

He is an outstanding expert on German-Polish relations, historian and publicist: Prof. Dr. habil. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, director of the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław. For his outstanding services to German-Polish understanding and the European idea, the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) honors Prof. Dr. habil. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz on Thursday, June 1, with the 22nd Viadrina Prize.

The Board of Trustees of the Viadrina Prize Foundation justifies the decision by saying: "The Viadrina Prize is intended to honor Krzysztof Ruchniewicz as a renowned researcher, committed educator, critical publicist and courageous intellectual, who combines historical experience with current perspective."

Project "Literary Translation in German-Polish Cultural Dialogue" receives funding award

This year's sponsorship award goes to the project "Literary Translation in German-Polish Cultural Dialogue." At the invitation of the Karl Dedecius Archive of the European University Viadrina, the project has been bringing together German students of Polish studies and Polish students of German studies on the Oder every two years since 2016.
www.ub.europa-uni.de/de/benutzung/bestand/kd_stiftung/projekte/literaturuebersetzung-im-dialog

Award ceremony

The award ceremony will begin on Thursday, June 1 at 16:00 o'clock, in the Lodge Hall of the European University, Logenstraße 11 in Frankfurt (Oder).

Followed by a discussion Prof. Dr. habil. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz with other guests about German-Polish relations before the parliamentary elections in Poland. Interested parties are cordially invited to attend the award ceremony, the discussion and a drink afterwards. The event will be interpreted German-Polish and additionally broadcast as livestream.

About the person: Prof. Dr. habil. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz has been involved with German-Polish relations since his student years in Wrocław, Saarbrücken and Marburg. For example, he wrote his master's thesis on the joint German-Polish Textbook Commission; this was followed by a doctoral dissertation on the political relations between Berlin, Bonn, and Warsaw in the period from 1949 to 1958 and a doctoral dissertation on Polish efforts to obtain German reparations. In 2002, Krzysztof Ruchniewicz was the founding director of the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław and has headed it almost continuously since then. He also holds the Chair of Contemporary History at the Willy Brandt Center and is a research associate at the Institute of History at the University of Wrocław.
Krzysztof Ruchniewicz is a recipient of the Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland in gold and the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.