(© Semperoper Dresden/Matthias Creutziger)

The Friends of Dresden and the Semperoper Dresden will present architect Daniel Libeskind with the International Peace Prize “Dresden Prize” on Feb. 19, 2023. He will receive a 10,000 prize.

Other honorees at the event will include politician Gerhart Baum, who will get an honorary award, and lawyer Roger Cox, who was the 2022 winner, will be on hand to receive his statue.

Per the awarding jury, “Libeskind received the ‘Dresden Prize’ for a very special part of his work, which can be called memorial architecture. Like hardly any other architect, the artist has created an appropriate architectural framework for commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, war and terror in recent decades… Libeskind’s approach leaves no room for ignorance and relativization. The form, the architecture itself determine the direction of remembrance.”

Among his major works are the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Imperial War Museum in Manchester, and the Holocaust Memorial in Amsterdam.

Meanwhile, Baum is a 90-year-old politician who has “worked tirelessly for human rights and peace throughout his life.”

Guests of honor at the event will be Dresden’s Lord Mayor Dirk Hilbert, the Director General of the Dresden State Art Collection, Dr. Marion Ackermann, and Helena Marschall, climate activist and spokeswoman for the Fridays for Future Germany movement.

The Dresden Prize is sponsored by the Klaus Tschira Foundation.