WALTER BENJAMIN AWARDS ANGELUS NOVUS FOUNDATION
Art, Thought, Memory
17.09.2025
Wednesday 17 September at 7 pm
Espai 4. Limited capacity
Please notify us of your attendance at: info@fundacioangelusnovus.org or tel.: +34 660 827 023.
The Walter Benjamin Awards have been launched by the Angelus Novus Foundation, which is responsible for promoting and safeguarding the intellectual legacy of this thinker and writer. The awards aim to highlight initiatives and works published in the last three years in the field of research, interpretation, dissemination and translation of Walter Benjamin’s work, as well as in the field of contemporary thought and memory in various languages.
They include eight prizes for intellectual endeavours dedicated to strengthening contemporary European critical thinking. The categories cover the following areas: research; dissemination; translation; authorial essays; editorial lines in philosophy, aesthetics and contemporary thought; essays or literary works on memory and exile; research careers, and artistic creation.
7 pm
Radio programme: Walter Benjamin—Experiencia en tiempos sombríos. Escenas radiofónicas (Walter Benjamin—Experience in Sombre Times: Radio Scenes). Idea and text: Claudia Kalász. Sound engineering and control: Detlef Jesgarz. Radio Contrabanda 91.4 FM, a free radio station in Barcelona. Duration: 45 minutes.
7.45 pm
1st Walter Benjamin Awards Ceremony.
Opening act by the Foundation’s president, Pilar Parcerisas.
The prizes will be presented to the winners by members of the Foundation’s board of trustees, who served as the jury. The prize was created based on the work of the artist Gonzalo Elvira.
Detlef Jesgarz (Bonn, Germany, 1952) has lived in Barcelona since 1996. He is an economist, translator, language teacher and writer. Since 1998, he has presented the Niemandsland programme on Radio Contrabanda FM, a show that covers politics and culture in German. He is the author of the book Contrabanda FM: Una radio libre en un mundo poco libre (Barcelona, 2023).
Claudia Kalász (Mönchengladbach, Germany, 1953) has lived in Barcelona since 1988. She holds a PhD in Philosophy, having written her thesis on Friedrich Hölderlin. She has taught at the Goethe-Institut in Barcelona and is also a literary translator and essayist.