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Vienna honors creatives: Präauer and Bulbul among the 2025 award winners!
In 2025, Vienna will honor cultural and scientific people, including Teresa Präauer and Bulbul, with award ceremonies in ten categories.
Vienna honors creatives: Präauer and Bulbul among the 2025 award winners!
On May 29, 2025, the City of Vienna announced the winners of the City of Vienna Prizes and the Sponsorship Prizes. These awards, which have been presented since 1947, honor outstanding achievements in the areas of architecture, fine arts, media art, literature, journalism, music, popular education and science. The awards are endowed with 10,000 euros each, while the sponsorship prizes, which have been awarded since 1951 to support young artists and scientists, are worth 5,000 euros. City Councilor for Culture Veronica Kaup-Hasler (SPÖ) emphasized the crucial role of these awards, especially at a time when cultural and scientific achievements are under pressure. According to Vienna.at, this year's winners included the writer Teresa Präauer and the noise rock band Bulbul.
In total, the prizes were awarded in ten categories, with the winners being selected by independent advisory boards. The jury praised Teresa Präauer for her work, which was described as an “echosounder of contemporary phenomena,” while the band Bulbul received recognition for its “unique conglomerate of trashy experiment and excellence.” The architecture prize went to the office of Dietrich Untertrifaller Architekten ZT GmbH (DTFLR) for the successful transfer of Vorarlberg's timber construction culture to Vienna. Werner Würtinger in the visual arts and the Mai Ling platform in media art were also recognized for their significant contributions. The complete result of the award ceremony is summarized in an overview.
Prize winners in detail
| category | Prize winners | Justification |
|---|---|---|
| architecture | Dietrich Untertrifaller Architects (DTFLR) | Transfer of the Vorarlberg timber construction culture to Vienna |
| Fine arts | Werner Würtinger | Influence on several generations of artists |
| Media art | MAY LING | Active against discrimination and sexism |
| literature | Teresa Preauer | Combination of literary and artistic works |
| Journalism | Ernst Strouhal | Cultural scientist with a focus on the cultural history of the game |
| Music | Bulbul | Noise rock band with different musical styles |
| Humanities, social sciences, cultural sciences, law and economics | Bertrand Perz | Contributions to coming to terms with Nazi history |
| Mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, technology | Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern | Research on the use of soils as greenhouse gas storage |
| Medical Sciences | Hans Lassmann | Founding director of the Brain Research Center at Meduni Vienna |
| Popular education | Ulli Fuchs | Interdisciplinary approaches to communicating art and culture |
In addition to these main prizes, a total of 14 people and networks were awarded sponsorship prizes in eight categories. These differ from the main prizes not only in their funding, but also in their focus on young artists and scientists, as OTS reports.
The award winners and sponsorship award winners bring fresh perspectives and innovations to their respective areas and contribute to Vienna's cultural and scientific landscape.