Steiger Award
The Steiger Award or Der Steiger is an international award established in 2005 and presented annually by the award organization based in Bochum, Germany. The title refers to steiger, reflecting the qualities of responsibility, honesty, openness and hard work valued in the Ruhr region where the award is presented.
The award was created by private initiative and is presented annually to individuals who are notable for accomplishments in charity, music, film, media, sports, the environment and building of the European community.
Past winners include Nena, Egon Bahr, Udo Jürgens, Jean-Claude Juncker, Boris Becker, David Frost, Bob Geldof, Maximilian Schell, Richard Chamberlain, Stefanie Powers, Robin Gibb, Christopher Lee, Mark Knopfler, Klaus Meine, Roger Daltrey, Jean Michel Jarre, Bonnie Tyler and Peter Lindbergh.
Laureates
2000s
- 2005
- Charity : Farah Pahlavi
- Tolerance : Shimon Peres
- Music : Robin Gibb
- Media : Friedrich Nowottny
- Environment : Franz Alt
- Film : Pierre Brice
- Art : Otmar Alt
- Young : Liel Kolet
- Lifetime Achievement : Bonnie Tyler
- Charity : José Carreras
- Music : Peter Maffay
- Media : Sabine Christiansen
- Environment : Mohamed El Baradei
- Film : Friedrich von Thun
- Art : James Rizzi
- Sport : Boris Becker
- Europe : Jean-Claude Juncker
- Young : Tokio Hotel
- Lifetime Achievement : Heinz Sielmann
- Charity : Rupert Neudeck
- Tolerance : Hamid Karzai
- Music : Wolfgang Niedecken
- Media : Peter Scholl-Latour
- Environment : Achim Steiner
- Film : Manfred Krug & Iris Berben
- Art : Franz Beckenbauer
- Sport : Hans-Dietrich Genscher
- Europe : US5
- Young : Joachim Fuchsberger
- Political courage : Gabriele Pauli
- Charity : Claudia Cardinale
- Tolerance : Hans Küng
- Music : Udo Jürgens
- Media : Maybrit Illner
- Environment : Erivan Haub
- Film : Dieter Pfaff
- Art : Aliza Olmert
- Sport : Jens Lehmann & Egidius Braun
- Europe : Edmund Stoiber
- Young : Jimi Blue & Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht
- Entertainment : Hape Kerkeling
- Special Price : Hélène Grimaud
- Charity : Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
- Tolerance : Roman Herzog
- Music : Bob Geldof
- Media : David Frost
- Film : Veronica Ferres
- Art : Gottfried Helnwein
- Sport : Klaus Steilmann
- Europe : Romano Prodi & Aleksander Kwaśniewski
- Lifetime Achievement : Maximilian Schell
- Entertainment : Dieter Hallervorden
2010s
- Charity : Eva Luise Köhler
- Music : Marius Müller-Westernhagen
- Media : Alfred Biolek
- Environment : Claus Hipp
- Film : Armin Mueller-Stahl
- Art : Robert Wilson
- Sport : Princess Haya bint Hussein
- Europe : Boris Tadić
- Young : Christopher Lee
- Charity : Cherie Blair
- Tolerance : Egon Bahr
- Music : Mark Knopfler & Roger Daltrey
- Media : Reinhold Beckmann
- Environment : Stefanie Powers
- Film : Klaus Maria Brandauer
- Art : Frank Gehry
- Sport : Vitali & Wladimir Klitschko
- Europe : José Manuel Barroso
- Lifetime Achievement : Richard Chamberlain
- Charity : Queen Silvia of Sweden
- Tolerance : Horst Köhler
- Music : Lou Reed
- Media : Peter Kloeppel
- Environment : Hannes Jaenicke
- Film : Christine Neubauer
- Art : Wolfgang Joop
- Europe : Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
- Young : Tim Bendzko
- Lifetime Achievement : Christiane Hörbiger
- Ruhr Prize : Steven Sloane
- Tolerance : Kurt Masur
- Music : Scorpions
- Environment : Michael Otto
- Film : Jürgen Prochnow
- Art : Albert Watson
- Sport : Rudi Völler
- Europe : Kurt Biedenkopf & Alfred Grosser
- Young : Liselotte Pulver
- International Music : Jean-Michel Jarre
- Charity : Queen Sofía of Spain
- Tolerance : Karl Kardinal Lehmann
- Music : Ute Lemper
- Media : Johannes B. Kerner
- Film : Hannelore Hoger
- Sport : Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund
- Lifetime Achievement : Buzz Aldrin
- Ruhr Prize : Hans-Joachim Watzke
- Special Price : Quincy Jones
- Charity : Uschi Glas
- Music : Joris & Santiano
- Media : Anne Will
- Film : Senta Berger & Michael Mendl
- Sport : Andrej Plenkovic
- Europe : Lukas Rieger
- Young : Heino
- Ruhr Prize : Jürgen Grossmann