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Foundations Board of Trustees

All candidates are chosen by the foundations board of trustees

The Board of Trustees accepts nominations for election from anyone; self-proposals are not permitted. Proposals must be accompanied by a detailed statement of reasons, stating the achievements and publications which identify the nominee as a candidate for the Peace Prize.

The Board of Trustees consists of three members from the Executive Board of the Börsenverein and six additional members. The Executive Board appoints the President and two other members. The other six members are elected by the Executive Board for three years. They have the possibility to extend for additional three years. These members do not need to be members of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association.

 

Klaus Brinkbäumer

Born in 1967 in Münster, is an award-winning journalist and author. Since April 2019 he has been working for the weekly magazine "Die Zeit". Prior to this, he was editor-in-chief of the news magazine "Der Spiegel" from 2015 to 2018, for which he has also worked since 2007, first as a foreign correspondent in New York, and from 2011 as deputy editor-in-chief. In 2016, Klaus Brinkbäumer founded the Europe-wide investigative network European Investigative Collaborations. For his journalistic work, Klaus Brinkbäumer received the Egon Erwin Kisch Award, the Henri Nannen Award and the German Reporter Award.Klaus Brinkbäumer has published numerous books including "Obituary on America", "Under the Sand" and "The Last Journey - The Case of Christopher Columbus".

Klaus Brinkbäumer has been a member of the foundation board since 2019.

Raphael Gross

Prof. Dr. Raphael Gross, born 1966 in Zurich, is a historian and has been President of the Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum ("German Historical Museum Foundation") in Berlin since 2017. He directed the Leo Baeck Institute in London (2001 - 2015) as well as the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt am Main (2006 - 2015) and the Fritz Bauer Institute (2007 - 2015).Until 2017 he was director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig and held the chair of Jewish history.  He was then appointed President of the German Historical Museum in Berlin. The historian, who also studied literature and philosophy, was awarded the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal in 2013 for his work on intellectual history, German-Jewish history and the Holocaust, among other things.

Raphael Gross has been a member of the Foundation Board since 2020.

Moritz Helmstaedter

Professor Dr. Moritz Helmstaedter, born 1978 in Berlin, has been a scientific member of the Max Planck Society since 2014 and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main. His research aims to comprehensively map the neuronal networks in the brain in order to clarify fundamental questions of natural and artificial intelligence as well as possible pathological network changes. After studying medicine and physics and completing his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Moritz Helmstaedter first joined the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology in Munich as a research group leader before accepting a position at the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt. Since 2016 he has also been Professor of Neural Networks at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. For his work he has received, among others, the Otto Hahn Medal, and in 2013 he was awarded the Bernard Katz Lecture.

Moritz Helmstaedter has been a member of the foundation board since 2020.

Nadja Kneissler

Dr. Nadja Kneissler, born in Stuttgart in 1959, has been publishing director at the Hamburg publishing house Delius Klasing since 2008. From 1991 to 2007, she was programme manager and publishing director for the book division of the Ulm publishing house. Since 2009, she has been a volunteer at the Börsenverein, among other things as spokesperson for the Arbeitskreis Ratgeberverlage and member of the copyright and publishing rights committee. In 2018, she was elected chairman of the publishers' committee and is thus automatically a member of the board of the Börsenverein, which Nadja Kneissler represents on the foundation board of trustees.

Nadja Kneissler has been a member of the foundation board since 2019.

Ethel Matala de Mazza

Prof. Dr. Ethel Matala de Mazza, born in Unkel am Rhein in 1968, took over the chair of Modern German Literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2010, after her habilitation and the first professorship for Cultural Theory and Cultural Studies Method in Constance. Her research focuses on cultural theory and the literary history of the political imaginary. Since 2008, she has also been involved in the editorial work of the "Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte" (Journal for the History of Ideas) in order to contribute to its publications (e.g. "Der fiktive Staat. Konstruktionen des politischen Körpers in der Geschichte Europas" (2007, co-author) and "Der populärer Pakt. Verhandlungen der Moderne zwischen Operette und Feuilleton" (2017)), to gain new perspectives on historical facts with an interdisciplinary approach.

Ethel Matala de Mazza has been a member of the foundation board since 2016.

Bascha Mika

Bascha Mika, born 1954 in Komprachcice, Poland, was editor-in-chief of the "Frankfurter Rundschau" from 2014 to 2020. Before that, she was editor-in-chief of the "taz" from 1998 to 2009. Since 2007, the studied philosopher, Germanist and ethnologist has been honorary professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin, where she was co-director of the cultural journalism course from 2007 to 2014. Bascha Mika has published several books, including "Alice Schwarzer – eine kritische Biographie" ("Alice Schwarzer - a critical biography") (1998) and "Freiheit. Wo unsere Freiheit beginnt und wer sie bedroht" ("Freedom. Where our freedom begins and who threatens it") (2016, with Arnd Festerling). For her work as a journalist she received the Emma Prize for Women Journalists (1994), the Luise Büchner Prize for Journalism (2012) and the Hedwig Dohm Certificate (2017).

Bascha Mika has been a member of the foundation board since 2018.

Karin Schmidt-Friderichs

Karin Schmidt-Friderichs founded the publishing house Hermann Schmidt together with her husband in 1992. She is responsible for marketing and sales. Together with her husband, she is responsible for program planning. She has been involved in the book industry on a voluntary basis since 2003, initially as chairwoman of the vocational training committee of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association and from 2011 to 2016 as chairman of the board of Stiftung Buchkunst. From 2018 to 2019, she represented the Börsenverein at the German Literature Conference and was delegated from there to the German Cultural Council as deputy spokesperson. At the 2019 Book Days, Karin Schmidt-Friderichs was elected president of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association.

Karin Schmidt-Friderichs has been chairwoman of the foundation board since 2020.
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