The Anne Klein Women’s Award

In honour of Anne Klein the Heinrich Böll Foundation has created the Anne Klein Women’s Award. Anne Klein, a dedicated lawyer and openly lesbian politician, has been a pioneer of feminist causes. She served as the first feminist Women’s Senator in Berlin’s state government.

The prize is annually awarded to women who have shown exemplary commitment for making gender democracy a reality. The award is endowed with 10.000 €.

The Anne Klein Women's Award was made possible by a generous donation from Anne Klein. Many thanks for this!

Anne-Klein-Frauenpreis mit englischem Untertitel - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

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Anne Klein Women's Award 2026

Announcement

The next award ceremony will take place on 06 March 2026 in Berlin. These first Fridays in March, when we welcome and celebrate the awardee in Berlin, are very special evenings. There are great speeches and touching moments. Together with the awardees, we take a look at their challenging work and the situation in their countries, in Syria, Colombia, India, Serbia, Mexico, South Africa, Germany and Turkey - to name but a few. For some, the publicity the award creates is almost like life insurance and protection for their courage. For the 10th anniversary, we visited the women. Here they explain what the Anne Klein Women's Prize means to them.

We hereby announce the Anne Klein Women's Prize 2026!

We invite you to nominate candidates for the 2026 Anne Klein Women’s Award. Please use no more than three A4 pages to present your candidate and also provide reasons for your choice.
Further details and nomination criteria can be found here below.

The closing date for submissions is 15th September 2025.

Contact: Heinrich Böll Foundation | Anne Klein Women’s Award | Schumannstr. 8 | 10117 Berlin
Ulrike Cichon, cichon@boell.de, T +49 (0)30 285 34-112

Anne Klein Women's Award 2025

Anne Klein Women's Award 2024

Anne Klein Women’s Award 2023

The award winners 2012 - 2021

Cânân Arın

Anne Klein Women's Award 2021 to Cânân Arın

Anne Klein Women's Award 2019 to Kristina Hänel, Natascha Nicklaus and Nora Szász

Anne Klein Women's Award 2018 to Jineth Bedoya and Mayerlis Angarita

Anne Klein Women's Award 2017 to Nomarussia Bonase

Anne Klein Women's Award 2016 to Gisela Burckhardt

Anne Klein Women's Award 2015 to Nebahat Akkoc

Anne Klein Women's Award 2014 to Imelda Marrufo Nava

Lepa Mlađenović - winner of the Anne Klein Women's Award 2013

Nivedita Prasad - Winner of the Anne Klein Women's Award 2012

Nomination and Award Criteria

Jury

Dr. Imme Scholz, Chairman of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Chairwoman of the Jury

Renate Künast, Member of the German Parliament, Bündnis90/Die Grünen

Sylvia Löhrmann, Minister of State (ret.)

Prof. Dr. Michaele Schreyer, former Vice President of the European Movement Germany

Jutta Wagner, lawyer, former President of the German Women Lawyers' Association

 

Anne Klein (1950 - 2011)

Support the Women's Award

Contact


If you share the cause of the Anne Klein Women's Award, we would be delighted to receive further donations:

Subject „Anne Klein“
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft
IBAN: DE15 3702 0500 0003 0767 02
BIC: BFSW DE 33 XXX

Ulrike Cichon
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Schumannstraße 8
10117 Berlin
T 030-28534-112
F 030-28534-5112
E cichon@boell.de

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