Berlin (dpa/mv) - The "Jamel rockt den Förster" festival has been awarded the SPD's Regine Hildebrandt Prize. Horst and Birgit Lohmeyer's project, "who will not give up their home surrounded by Nazis," is fighting loudly for their home village of Jamel, for democracy and an open society, the party announced on Saturday. SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert thanked both of them for their "admirable courage and perseverance".
The association "Miniaturstadt Bützow" received a prize for the year 2020. It combines new perspectives and meaningful tasks for women and men in long-term unemployment with an extraordinary cultural-historical project. The old town of Bützow will be recreated true to the original on a scale of 1:10 as it was in the years 1850 to 1910. This means that 31 women and men have already managed to re-enter the first job market, said Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD).
With the prize, the SPD honors projects that particularly represent the values of the social democrat Regine Hildebrandt, who died in 2001. Prizes for the years 2020 to 2022 also went to the Berlin "Bike Tour for Homeless People", the initiatives "Fulda Stands Across" (Hesse) and "Grandmothers Against the Right" (Rhineland-Palatinate) and the Kulturfabrik Hoyerswerda (Saxony).
