Prizes and Awards

Two Visuelle Kommunikation (Visual Communication) students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar are being recognised for their submissions to the renowned »100 Beste Plakate« competition for the 100 best posters in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Helene Dennewitz and Ossian Osborne were each awarded one of the coveted prizes. Competition was fierce again this year: A total of 2509 posters from 711 entrants were submitted to the competition.

For his script »Ha-Neu / Berlin«, which he developed together with Duc-Thi Bui, Media Art and Design graduate Duc Ngo Ngoc received the Golden Lola for the best unfilmed screenplay at the Berlinale. The prestigious award is endowed with 10,000 euros. We congratulate our alumnus and are delighted with this great success!

Lola Behrens' bachelor's thesis has been recognised in the young talent category of the Hessian State Prize for Universal Design. The award-winning »LAVA« care shower chair was specially designed by the product designer to meet the needs of people with age-related physical limitations. With her work, Lola Behrens shows how clever design can improve the living conditions of many people and counter demographic change with good solutions.

Felix Stockhausen has been honoured with a recognition at the Mia Seeger Prize 2024 for his bachelor's thesis in product design at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Under the title »Velocity«, he designed a bicycle compartment including a guidance system to make taking bicycles on commuter trains easier and more attractive.

A project in the Faculty of Art and Design is working on digitally customised, 3D printed foot orthoses. The project will make everyday life easier for affected patients. Researchers on the »Digitale Orthetik« project were awarded a gold medal at the international »Ideen, Erfindungen, Neuheiten« (iENA) trade fair. The project was funded by the Thuringian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Science and Digital Society.

For the second year in a row, the outstanding achievements of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Faculty of Art and Design students have secured third place for the State of Thuringia in the »ADC Hochschul-Kreativindex«. Ranking in the index is based on awards received over the last three years.

Product design alumna Lola Behrens has been honoured with a University Prize for students for her final thesis ‘Inclusive product design in the context of demographic change’. Pio Rahner, Artistic Associate at the Professorship of Photography, was awarded one of the University Prizes for early-career scientists and artists.

Die emeritierte Professorin der Freien Kunst, Barbara Nemitz, wird von der Stiftung Kunstfonds bei der Sicherung ihres künstlerischen Werkes unterstützt. Insgesamt 25.000 Euro aus dem »KUNSTFONDS_Werkverzeichnung« stehen zur Verfügung, um ein digitales Werkverzeichnis zu erstellen.

Gabriella Parra Sánchez, a student at at the Faculty of Art and Design, was selected as the winner of this year’s Beatrice Warde Scholarship, sponsored by Monotype. The $5,000 scholarship recognizes a female-identifying college student globally in their next-to-last year of undergraduate study whose work demonstrates exceptional talent, sophistication, and skill in the use of typography across current media.

Isaac Chong Wai, a graduate of the international Master's degree programme »Public Art and New Artistic Strategies«, has been awarded the City of Nordhorn Art Prize 2024. The prize has been awarded annually since 1979 to artists who have currently attracted attention with a fresh and nationally significant work.