The jury for the program Geisteswissenschaften International announced im mid-April 2011 that a book published by Hamburger Edition is among the award winners for spring 2011. »Krieger und Gelehrte: Herbert Marcuse und die Denksysteme im Kalten Krieg« [Warriors and Scholars: Herbert Marcuse and Cold War Culture] by Tim B. Müller is a well-researched and fascinating study of the careers of left-liberal intellectuals during the Cold War.

The author previously won, in 2009, the Fraenkel Prize of the Wiener Library, London, and the Humboldt Prize awarded by the Humboldt University in Berlin. The latest prize will ensure payment of the German-to-English translation costs and thus facilitate publication of the historical study by an English language publishing house.

Geisteswissenschaften International is a collaborative program of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, the German Federal Foreign Office, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and VG Wort. Since 2008, it has promoted the international dissemination of innovative German scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

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