With its Anne Klein Women’s Award, the Heinrich Böll Foundation honours women who courageously and perseveringly advocate human rights, equality and sexual self-determination. The award includes prize money of EUR 10,000 and has been bestowed since 2012. The awardees are from Germany and abroad.
Through this award, the Heinrich Böll Foundation also commemorates Anne Klein (1950 – 2011), a woman, lawyer and politician who dedicated her life to fighting for women’s rights and civil liberties.
The award ceremony will take place on 06 March 2026 in Berlin. These first Fridays in March, when we welcome and celebrate the awardee in Berlin, are very special evenings. There are great speeches and touching moments. Together with the awardees, we take a look at their challenging work and the situation in their countries, in Syria, Colombia, India, Serbia, Mexico, South Africa, Germany and Turkey – to name but a few. For some, the publicity the award creates is almost like life insurance and protection for their courage. For the 10th anniversary, we visited the women. Here they explain what the Anne Klein Women's Prize means to them.
We hereby announce the Anne Klein Women's Prize 2026!
We invite you to nominate candidates for the 2026 Anne Klein Women’s Award. Please use no more than three A4 pages to present your candidate and also provide reasons for your choice.
Further details and nomination criteria can be found here:
http://www.boell.de/en/anne-klein-womens-award
The closing date for submissions is 15th September 2025. | 
