Viktor Frankl Award

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Between 2000 and 2020 the Viktor Frankl Fund of the City of Vienna awarded prizes and grants to honor outstanding achievements and to promote research projects in the field of a meaning-oriented humanistic psychotherapy.
The recipients of the prestigious award included Heinz von Förster, Paul Watzlawick, Cicely Saunders and Elisabeth Lukas.

 

Committee

Prof. Alexander Batthyany, Ph.D.
Ursula Baatz, Ph.D.
Matthias Beck, DD.
Eleonore Frankl, Hon.DD.
Prof. Marianne Gruber
Prof. Susanne Heine, Ph.D.
Prof. Peter Kampits, Ph.D.
Prof. Siegfried Kasper, M.D., hon.D.
Prof. Ulrich Körtner, Ph.D.
Elisabeth Lindner, M.A.
Daniel Löcker MA
Harald Mori, M.Sc.
Katharina Ratheiser, LL.M.
Prof. Brigitte Rollett, Ph.D.

 

Award Winners

Year Honorary Award Grand Award Promotional Award Scholarships
2000 Heinz von Förster Kazimierz Popielski Jerry Long
Elisabeth Lindner
Simone Klein
Christian Gold
2001 Paul Watzlawick Elisabeth Lukas Risto Nurmela
Otto Zsok
Helena Bedenicec
Helmut Niederhofer
Robert Waldl
2002 Cardinal Franz König Eugenio Fizzotti Sociedad Mexicana de Analisis Existencial y Logoterapia
Viktor-Frankl-Schule Frankfurt
Helga Ploner
Simone Klein
2003 Dame Cicely Saunders David Guttmann Oskar Spiel-Schule
Fundación Argentina de Logoterapia
Pater Jeremias Marseille
Peter Sarkany
Judith Fink
Julia Hickel
2004 Erwin Kräutler Geronimo Acevedo
Jürgen Kriz
Boglarka Hadinger
Dmitry A. Leontiev
Kanita Dervic
Stefana Holocher-Ertl
2005 Johannes Poigenfürst Giosch Albrecht James Dubois
Rainman's Home
Elisabeth Hinterholzer
Barna Konkoly Thege
Uta Schmidtblaicher
2006 Cecily Corti Katsutaro Nagata Réseau de Logothérapie
Stefan E. Schulenberg
Viktor Frankl-Zentrum
Nadja Palombo
2007 Óscar Andrés Maradiaga Eugene T. Gendlin Harald Mori
Péter Sárkány
Rachel Asagba
Daniel C. Crosby
Theresia M. Leitner-Schweighofer
Sergei Pankov
2008 Eric Richard Kandel Siegfried Kasper Simone Klein
Alicia y Gustavo Berti / Grupos Renacer
Lilia Suchocka
2009 Hans-Georg Zapotocky Wolfram Kurz Asociación Española de Logoterapia Joanna Rutkowska-Hajduk
2011 Jürgen Habermas
2012 Helmut Krätzl
2013 Giselher Guttmann
2014 Georg Sporschill
2015 Hugo Portisch
2018 Margit Fischer
2019 Hans-Jürgen Möller