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Reinhard Schulz Prize
for contemporary music journalism. Awarded to Patrick Becker
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Wed 23 July 2025, 17.00
Lichtenbergschule (Mensa)
Jury: Theresa Beyer, Elisa Erkelenz, Carsten Fastner
Since 2013, the International Music Institute Darmstadt (IMD) has been coordinating call and awarding of the Reinhard Schulz Prize for Contemporary Music Journalism. This important prize for young music journalists in the field of New Music is dedicated to the memory of the music journalist and musicologist Reinhard Schulz (1950 – 2009) and has been awarded for the first time in 2012
in Graz. Laureates were Patrick Hahn (2012), Benedikt Leßmann (2014), Theresa Beyer (2016), Leonie Reineke (2018), Friedemann Dupelius (2020) and Hannah Schmidt (2023). This year, the music journalist Patrick Becker will receive the Reinhard Schulz Prize.
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Kindly supported by the German Section of the ISCM and by the Friends of IMD
Greeting:
Thomas Schäfer, Director of IMD
Interview:
Theresa Beyer & Patrick Becker
Presentation of the certificate to Patrick Becker:
Anke Kies, Initiator of the Prize | Friends and Sponsors of IMD
Acknowledgement Patrick Becker