drupa Prize 2017 awarded to Anne Sokoll

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The drupa Prize 2017 has gone to Anne Sokoll from the Faculty of Philosophy of Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. The German scholar was awarded the prize for her doctoral thesis on the ‘Die Zirkel schreibender Arbeiter in der DDR. Geschichte, Ästhetik und Kulturpraxis einer Bewegung’ (The Circle of Writing Workers in the GDR. History, Aesthetics and Cultural Practice of a Movement).

The award comes with prize money of €6000 and was presented by Claus Bolza-Schünemann (chairman of the Board at Koenig & Bauer AG and Chairman of the drupa committee), Werner M Dornscheidt (president and CEO of Messe Düsseldorf) and Professor Doctor Anja Steinbeck (rector of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) at the Industrie-Club Düsseldorf on 31 May 2017.

Pictured (left to right)l Claus Bolza-Schünemann, Anne Sokoll, and Werner M Dornscheidt.