Prize winners include: Andrea Wulf, Paul Theroux, Robert Macfarlane, Wilfried Erdmann, Arnulf Conradi, Robert Bösch, Michael Poliza and Klaus Wolfsperger
Berlin, 20 January 2020 – Every year, ITB Berlin honours the latest and most interesting specialist travel publications from Germany and abroad. The presentation of the ITB BookAwards 2020 will take place at the Palais am Funkturm, Messe Berlin, on Friday, 06 March 2020 at 4 p.m. The ITB BookAwards recognises mainly publications written in German, but also in German translation. Their aim is to focus attention beyond national borders on important intercultural travel and tourism publications. The ITB BookAwards are a cooperation between ITB Berlin and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels.
Traditionally, the judges of the ITB BookAwards also take publications from the official partner country of ITB Berlin into account. Awards in this category went to the latest individual travellers’ guide ’Oman’ by Kirstin Kabasci and Peter Franzisky (Reise Know-How Verlag) and the traditional travel guide ’Oman’ by Gerhard Heck (DuMont Reiseverlag).
This was the third time the jury of the ITB BookAwards bestowed honours in the category ‘Frankfurter Buchmesse Guest of Honour’ (2020: Canada) ahead of the Frankfurter Buchmesse. The ITB BookAwards do not confer prize money.
ITB BookAwards 2020:
Categories, prize winners and their publishers
Destinations Award »Oman«
Kirstin Kabasci, Peter Franzisky | Reise Know-How Verlag
Individual travellers’ guide ’Oman’
Gerhard Heck | DuMont Reiseverlag
DuMont travel guide ’Oman’
Background information: Ethiopia
Christian Sefrin | Trescher Verlag
’Äthiopien – Unterwegs im ältesten Kulturland Afrikas’
Klaus Dornisch | wbg/Philipp von Zabern
’Sagenhaftes Äthiopien – Archäologie, Geschichte, Religion’
Travel destinations in Germany – Lake Constance
Rolf Goetz, Mirko Milovanovic | Bruckmann Verlag
‘Bodensee’
Anette Sievers | Peter Meyer Verlag
‘Bodensee mit Kindern’
Special travel book series:
Publisher Matthias Kröner,
Illustrator Berit Kröner | Michael Müller Verlag
Travel book series ‘Stadtabenteuer’
Special travel books
Exciting journey of discovery
Robert Macfarlane | Penguin Verlag
‘Im Unterland – Eine Entdeckungsreise in die Welt unter der Erde’
Year of Humboldt 2019
Andrea Wulf and illustrator Lillian Melcher | C. Bertelsmann Verlag
Illustrated novel ‘Die Abenteuer des Alexander von Humboldt’
Namibia
Anna Mandus | Palmato Publishing
‘Licht und Schatten in Namibia 2 – Mehr vom Alltag in einem Traumland’
Olympic Games 2020 in Tokyo
Marco Reggiani and illustrator Sabrina Ferrero | Prestel Verlag
‘Japan – Der illustrierte Guide’
Birdwatching
Arnulf Conradi | Verlag Antje Kunstmann
‘Zen und die Kunst der Vogelbeobachtung’
Illustrated travel books
Harald Lydorf, Andreas Klotz, Radmila Kerl, Helmut Büttner
and team of photographers | TIPP 4 Verlag
‘Perle Afrikas – Faszination Uganda’
Travel cookbooks
Jonas Cramby | Christian Verlag
‘Tokio für Foodies – Die kulinarischen Hotspots der Stadt der tausend Dörfer’
Travelling with children
Teddy Keen | Verlag Prestel junior
‘The Big Book of Adventure – So überlebst du in der Wildnis’
Cultures
Susanne Koelbl | Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
‘Zwölf Wochen in Riad – Saudi-Arabien zwischen Diktatur und Aufbruch’
Caitlin Doughty | Malik/Piper Verlag
‘Wo die Toten tanzen – Wie rund um die Welt gestorben und getrauert wird’
Hiking
Christian Hlade | Braumüller Verlag
‘Das große Buch vom Wandern – Alle Tipps & Tricks,
damit die Begegnung mit der Natur, anderen Kulturen und sich selbst gelingt’
Works Award – Sailing
Wilfried Erdmann | Delius Klasing Verlag
for his newly published work ‘Warum wir immer weitersegeln’ and his previously published sailing books
Lifetime Award – Publisher 2020
100 years of Bergverlag Rother
Head of Publishing Klaus Wolfsperger
for his personal lifetime and publishing achievements for Bergverlag Rother
Lifetime Award – Travel writers 2020
Paul Theroux | Hoffmann und Campe Verlag
for his newly published work ‘Auf dem Schlangenpfad – Als Grenzgänger in Mexico’ for his work published to date
Travel calendars
Michael Poliza | Delius Klasing Verlag
‘Island 2020’
Specialist tourism literature
Ronald Moeder | utb/UVK Verlag
‘Tourismusrecht in der Unternehmenspraxis’
Maps
Betsy Mason, Greg Miller | National Geographic Buchverlag
‘Kartenwelten – Fantastische Geschichten und die Kunst der Kartographie’
Management Award by ITB Berlin
Robert Bösch | National Geographic Buchverlag
‘Mountains’
Frankfurter Buchmesse Guest of Honour 2020 – Canada
Hans-R. Grundmann with Eyke Berghahn, Petrima Thomas and Mechtild Opel | Reise Know-How Verlag Dr. Hans-R. Grundmann
‘Kanada Osten – USA Nordosten’
Martin Pundt | Michael Müller Verlag
‘Kanada – der Westen mit Südost-Alaska’
Mechtild Opel and Wolfgang Opel | MANA-Verlag
Country report ‘Kanada – Alles, was Sie über Kanada wissen müssen’
Wall calendar | Ackermann Kunstverlag
‘Kanada 2020 – Unterwegs zwischen Wäldern und Flüssen’
