Committee to the Goethe Medal
Once a year, the Goethe-Institut awards the Goethe Medal, an official decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Committee to the Goethe-Medal consisting of persons from the fields of science, literature, art and theatre pre-selects the awardees which have to be affirmed by the Board of Trustees.
Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz, department of literature studies/anglistics
Dr. Franziska Augstein, publicist and essayist, München
Prof. Dr. Christina von Braun (chairwoman to the committee), cultural scientist, writer, film-maker, Humboldt University in Berlin
Prof. Dr. Heinrich Detering, Georg August University Seminar for German Philology, Göttingen
Navid Kermani, writer and orientalist, Köln
Katja Lange-Müller, writer, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Raulff, Director of the German Literature Archive, Marbach am Necker
Dr. Nike Wagner, Artistic Director of Kunstfest Weimar GmbH, Weimar
Dr. Hans-Georg Knopp, Secretary General of the Goethe-Institut
Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz, department of literature studies/anglistics
Dr. Franziska Augstein, publicist and essayist, München
Prof. Dr. Christina von Braun (chairwoman to the committee), cultural scientist, writer, film-maker, Humboldt University in Berlin
Prof. Dr. Heinrich Detering, Georg August University Seminar for German Philology, Göttingen
Navid Kermani, writer and orientalist, Köln
Katja Lange-Müller, writer, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Raulff, Director of the German Literature Archive, Marbach am Necker
Dr. Nike Wagner, Artistic Director of Kunstfest Weimar GmbH, Weimar
Representative of the Federal Foreign Office
Wiltrud Kernts, Federal Foreign Office, Division German as a second language, BerlinRepresentative of the Board of Trustees
Volker Doppelfeld, 1st Vice-President of the Goethe-Institut e.V., MunichRepresentatives of the Goethe-Institut
Johannes Ebert, President of the Goethe-InstitutDr. Hans-Georg Knopp, Secretary General of the Goethe-Institut
