drupa Prize 2023 awarded to Acelya Bakir
For her outstanding doctoral thesis historian Acelya Bakir receives the drupa Prize 2023. With this award drupa honours and promotes outstanding young academics in the Philosophical Faculty at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf every year.
The drupa Prize comes with prize money of EUR 6,000 and was presented by Wolfram N. Diener, President & CEO of Messe Düsseldorf, Erhard Wienkamp, Managing Director of Messe Düsseldorf, Dr Martin Goch, Chancellor of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Dr Frank Meier, Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, at a ceremony on 28 August 2023 at the Messe Dusseldorf.Dr. Andreas Pleßke, Spokesman of the Board at Koenig & Bauer and Chairman of the drupa committee, congratulated the prize winner on her performance in a personal video message.
Innovative access to the topic
The doctoral thesis rated summa cum laude bears the title “Sehen, Hören, Mitmachen: Die mediale Inszenierung der Moskauer Schauprozesse und die Mobilisierungskampagne in der Sowjetunion, 1936-1938” (See, Hear and Join in: The Media Staging of the Moscow Show Trials and the Mobilisation Campaign in the Soviet Union, 1936-1938” and was supervised by Prof. Dr. Beate Fieseler. Acelya Bakir pursued a particularly innovative approach in her studies: she placed the Moscow show trials centre stage as a mobilisation campaign for the first time and, hence, not only their staging in the court room but also the accompanying media mediation for the local population.
Bakir’s thesis provides not only important and innovative insights into the political communication and mobilisation during the Stalin era but also many an important impulse for better understanding the present, notes the Philosophical Faculty at Heinrich Heine University for her drupa Prize nomination.
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