Advisory Boards

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

Representative of the Federal Foreign Office

MinDir Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Ulrich Seidt, Federal Foreign Office, Head of the Department for Culture and Communication, Berlin

Representative of the Board of Trustees

Volker Doppelfeld, 1st Vice-President of the Goethe-Institut e.V., Munich

Representatives of the Goethe-Institut

Prof. Dr. h.c. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Goethe-Institut

Johannes Ebert, Secretary General of the Goethe-Institut