About us

Emmanuel Jal, laureate 2014

About us

The association „Friends of Dresden Deutschland e.V.“, which has initiated and offered the Dresden Peace Prize as a prize, was founded in 2009.

Association members

Heidrun Hannusch, chairperson of the association
Jens Drews, vice chairman of the association
Dr. Sabine Rudolph
Dr. Jürgen Müller
Torsten Klaus
Will Clapp
Knut Geng
Gerhart Baum, Former Federal Minister of the Interior, is honorary member of „Friends of Dresden Deutschland“
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Heidrun Hannusch
Gerhart Baum
Gerhart Baum
Dresden Peace Prize

Since 2010, the Dresden Peace Prize has been awarded annually in the Semperoper. Previous laureates are Nobel Peace Prize laureate Michail Gorbachev, pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim, war photographer James Nachtwey, former Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov, former child soldier and present-time peace activist and musician Emmanuel Jal, HRH the Duke of Kent, as well as the forefather of all whistle-blowers Daniel Ellsberg, Domenico Lucano and Dr. Tommie Smith.

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