The secret is out: The European Culture Awards 2025 will be received by the cult band Alphaville and Purple Disco Machine. Fashion icon Wolfgang Joop will receive the award for his life's work. A Chemnitz legend will also be celebrated: figure skating star Katarina Witt. Her laudation will be given by US star Brian Boitano. Conductor Anna Rakitina and the Robert Schumann Philharmonic will also be honored in the Chemnitz Opera.
Further award winners and information can be found here.

Spots on! Next year, the whole of Europe will be looking to Chemnitz: With the awarding of the European Culture Awards on May 9, 2025, an important and glamorous highlight of the Capital of Culture year has already been set. The first prize winners for 2025 have already been announced: In addition to the city's great son Matthias Schweighöfer, the Dresden Kreuzchor will be honored.

Happy faces among the prizewinners, thunderous applause and standing ovations in front of a sold-out audience: Two days before the European elections, the gala for the award of the European Culture Prizes in the Luxembourg Philharmonie became a great triumph of culture and European understanding alike. In the presence of Their Royal Highnesses, the Grand Ducal couple Henri and Teresa of Luxembourg, and the main partner Klemens Hallmann, owner of the Vienna-based HALLMANN HOLDING, a total of

Who doesn't know this face? He is a legend and a veteran, a figurehead for radio, a revolution for television: Frank Elstner has probably been a guest in every living room, and always on the most prominent broadcast slots. Even in times of streaming services and an oversupply of entertainment, his legendary formats stand out like beacons in people's collective memory. The television star is being honored for his life's work.

In Luxembourg, too, one can say: nobility obliges. Her Royal Highness Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, married to Grand Duke Henri since 27, has been a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for 1981 years and is selflessly committed to development cooperation. For this, the Cuban exile is being honored with the European Culture Prize in her adopted homeland. With her tireless efforts, the Grand Duchess gives hope to children in need and fights for equal rights.

Many celebrities have already taken to the stage at our festive galas, but even here, for the first time, a former President of the European Commission is visiting us to receive the European Culture Prize: Jean-Claude Juncker. This great office was only the high point of his 40-year career. The 69-year-old Luxembourger, who headed the Commission from 2014 to 2019, had long before made an outstanding contribution not only to his

He has the sun in his heart and always has the audience's sympathy on his side: Rolando Villazón is considered by many to be the ideal prototype of a singer-actor with character, who is absorbed in his roles in the best sense of the word. The star tenor with many talents stands - not least as the director of the Salzburg Mozart Week - like no other for music without borders and lives the diversity of genres

Pop meets classical: Luxembourg's great ESC hope Tali Golergant will bring her contest song "Fighter" to the gala stage of the Luxembourg Philharmonie on June 7th. With this song, TALI will ensure that her home country will be represented at the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in over 30 years in May in Malmö. Across genres, she will be praising another strong woman at the prominently attended gala for the European Culture Awards

The Irish singer Ronan Keating will be honored with the European Culture Prize on June 7, 2024 in the Luxembourg Philharmonie. In the presence of the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Keating will receive the award from the hands of the German pop icon Jeannette Biedermann. Both artists lead the line-up of famous guests who will meet in the front row of the star-studded gala to present the prestigious awards. "Ronan is

On June 7, 2024, the European Cultural Prize Gala will be held at the Philharmonie Luxembourg for the first time. In times like these, what could be a better place than this country in the middle of Europe, bordering Belgium, France and Germany? The European spirit of free culture, humanity, humanism and cosmopolitanism lives here once again.

Great atmosphere in the hall, happy faces among the award winners, thunderous applause in front of a sold-out house: the big gala for the presentation of the European Culture Awards 2022 in the Tonhalle Zurich last night only knew winners and thus became a triumph of culture. Eleven European culture prizes went to great personalities,