The KAIROS Prize has been awarded to European artists and scholars from the fields of visual and performing arts, music, architecture, design, film, photography, literature and journalism since 2007 by the

Alfred Toepfer Foundation The Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. is a German foundation established in 1931 by the Hamburg merchant Alfred Toepfer. The foundation is committed to promoting European unification and ensuring cultural diversity and understanding between the count ...

in Hamburg. It is endowed with a sum of 75,000 Euro.

Winners

Source: *2007:

Albrecht Dümling Albrecht Dümling (born 1949) is a German musicologist and music critic. Biography Born in Wuppertal, Dümling studied musicology in Essen, Vienna and Berlin and earned a Ph.D. with an interdisciplinary study on Arnold Schönberg and Stefan Georg ...

, German musicologist *2008: Tímea Junghaus, Hungarian art historian *2009:

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (born 1976) is a Belgian dancer and choreographer and director. He has made over 50 choreographic pieces and received two Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, three Ballet Tanz awards for best choreographer ...

, Belgian choreographer *2010:

Andri Snær Magnason Andri Snær Magnason (born 14 July 1973) is an Icelanders, Icelandic writer. He has written novels, poetry, Play (theatre), plays, short stories, and essays. Andri is also a director and producer of three documentary films that have premiered in ...

, Icelandic writer *2011:

Şermin Langhoff 2017 Şermin Langhoff (born in 1969) theater producer based in Germany who immigrated from Turkey as a child. She is director of the Maxim Gorki Theater The Maxim Gorki Theatre (german: Maxim Gorki Theater) is a theatre in Berlin-Mitte named af ...

, Turkish-German theatre director *2012: Katell Gélébart, French fashion designer *2013:

Paweł Althamer Paweł Althamer (born 12 May 1967, Warsaw) is a Polish contemporary sculptor, performer, collaborative artist and creator of installations, and video art. Life and work In the years 1988-1993, he studied sculpture at the Warsaw Academy of Fin ...

, Polish sculptor and video artist *2014:

Jasmila Žbanić Jasmila Žbanić (; born 19 December 1974) is a Bosnian film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for having written and directed '' Quo Vadis, Aida?'' (2020), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Lan ...

, Bosnian film director *2015:

Eike Roswag Eike is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Eike Batista (born 1956), entrepreneur * Eike Bram (born 1965), handball player * Eike Duarte (born 1997), actor * Eike Duckwitz (born 1980), field hockey playe ...

, German architect *2016:

Teodor Currentzis Teodor Currentzis ( el, Θεόδωρος Κουρεντζής ; born 24 February 1972) is a Greek-Russian conductor, musician and actor. Biography Currentzis was born in Athens, and at age 4 began to take piano lessons. At age 7, he began vio ...

, Greek-Russian conductor and musician *2017:

Inci Bürhaniye The International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients, abbreviated INCI, are the unique identifiers for cosmetic ingredients such as waxes, oils, pigments, and other chemicals that are assigned in accordance with rules established by the Personal ...

and

Selma Wels Selma may refer to: Places * Selma, Algeria *Selma, Nova Scotia, Canada * Selma, Switzerland, village in the Grisons United States: *Selma, Alabama, city in Dallas County, best known for the Selma to Montgomery marches *Selma, Arkansas *Selma, Ca ...

*2018:

Jan Gerchow Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Numb ...

*2019:

Nihad Kreševljaković Nihad Kreševljaković (born 24 February 1973) is a Bosnian historian, producer, screenwriter and director of the Sarajevo War Theatre. Biography Kreševljaković was born in Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia. He enrolled at the University of Sarajevo, F ...

, Bosnian historian and director *2020:

Agnes Meyer-Brandis Agnes Meyer-Brandis (born 1973) is a German installation artist, known for her Moon Goose Colony, an internationally exhibited artwork and film in which (inspired by a story by Francis Godwin) she raises a flock of geese and teaches them to become ...

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