Prize ceremony 2012

On 12 June 2012 the Karl H. Ditze Foundation held their eleventh festive ceremony to award outstanding degree and doctoral theses in the humanities and education departments at Universität Hamburg.

  The following nominees received the Karl H. Ditze Prize 2012:

• Dr. Sönke Ahrens for his doctoral dissertation: Experiment and exploration. Education as an experimental form of revealing the world (Experiment und Exploration. Bildung als experimentelle Form der Welterschließung)
• Dr. Peter Salden for his doctoral dissertation:  Russian literature in Poland (1864 - 1904) [Russische Literatur in Polen (1864–1904)]
• Hanna Klimpe for her master's thesis: "Theatricality and the construction of reality in 'Le Rouge et le Noir'" („Theatralität und Realitätskonstruktion in Stendhals 'Le Rouge et le Noir'")
•  Judith Zimmer for her Diplom thesis: "Subjective motivations in learning. Analyses of the meaning of individual motivations based on interviews about learning biographies" („Subjektive Lernbegründungen. Bedeutungs-Begründungs-Analysen lernbiographischer Interviews")

From left to right: Dr. Sönke Ahrens, Hanna Klimpe, Dr. Peter Salden (Judith Zimmer is not shown in the photo) with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Dalheimer, honorary board member of the Karl H. Ditze Foundation Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Dalheimer

 

This year's award winners were delighted with the recognition of their work. Dr. Peter Salden emphasized that the prizes not only represent financial support, but also have a "high intrinsic value."

 

The prize winners were congratulated by: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kaiser, Prof. Dr. Christoph Koller, Prof. Dr. Hannelore Faulstich-Wieland, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Dalheimer, Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Mielke, Prof. Dr. Martin Neumann, Prof. Dr. Marion Krause, Prof. Dr. Michael Wimmer (from left to right)

 

Their jazz sound created a festive atmosphere: the Gastl-Buchberger Duo

 

Photo copyright: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Arvid Mentz