Jury | The jury is an independent consultant to the promoter and is composed of the persons listed below:

Expert Jurors:• | Prof. Danica Dakić, artist, Professor for film and video at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Düsseldorf |
• | Ulrike Kremeier, art historian, Director of the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art, Cottbus |
• | Shermin Langhoff, Director of the Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin |
• | Nhi Le, journalist, speaker, presenter, Hamburg |
• | Marc Pouzol, landscape architect, Berlin |
• | Kjetil Thorsen, architect, Oslo |
• | Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich, art historian and cultural scientist, Leipzig |

Deputy Expert Jurors:• | Prof. Anne Femmer, architect, Visiting professor at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Design at the UdK Berlin, Berlin/Leipzig |
• | János Kárász, landscape architect, Vienna |
• | Greta Taubert, author and journalist, Leipzig |
• | Prof. Can Togay, author, director, multimedia artist, Felsőörs |
General Jurors:• | Markus Franke, Saxon State Ministry for science, culture and tourism (SMWK), Dresden |
• | Burkhard Jung, Mayor of the City of Leipzig |
• | Dr. Anna Kaminsky, Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship, Berlin |
• | Thomas Krüger, President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn |
• | Dr. Thomas Lindner, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media of Germany, Bonn |
• | Dr. Barbara Steiner, Director and board member of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau |
Deputy General Jurors:• | RR Dustin Hoffmann, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media of Germany, Berlin |
• | Dr. Skadi Jennicke, Mayor and Councillor for Culture of the City of Leipzig, Leipzig |
• | Thomas Dienberg, Mayor and Councillor for Urban Development and Construction |
• | Linda Kelch, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn |
• | Dr. Sabine Kuder, Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship, Berlin |
• | Dr. Franziska Kuschel, Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship, Berlin |
• | Gordian Meyer-Plath, Saxon State Ministry for science, culture and tourism (SMWK), Dresden |
• | Franciska Zólyom, Gallery for Contemporary Art GfZK, Leipzig |
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Selection Committee | A selection committee selected the participants in the competition. Its members are:
• | Dr. Mark Escherich, Architectural history, monument and heritage expert Bauhaus University Weimar | |
• | Kaye Geipel, architectural critic, curator of urban planning topics, Berlin | |
• | Ludivine Gragy, landscape architect, Berlin | |
• | Prof. Dr. Michael Hofmann, Professor of Cultural Sociology (retired), Friedrich Schiller University Jena | |
• | Kathrin Luz, PR agency owner in the field of art, architecture, Cologne | |
• | Henrike Naumann, artist, Berlin | |
• | Britta Peters, Artistic Director of Urbane Künste Ruhr, Bochum |
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Selection Group | The task of the selection group was, on the one hand, to appoint the selection committee and, on the other, to appoint the expert jury. The selection group consisted of:
• | Dr. Uta Bretschneider, Forum of Contemporary History Leipzig - Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany, Leipzig | |
• | Anke Hannemann, City of Leipzig, Department of Strategic Cultural Policy | |
• | Lydia Hempel,, Managing Director Landesverband Bildende Kunst Sachsen e.V., Dresden | |
• | Stephan Becker, BauNetz editorial office, Berlin |
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