Empress Farah Pahlavi at Bochum, Germany Der Steiger Award 2010
March 13, 2010

          The Empress delivers an allocution in Bochum - She received the "Steiger Award" back in 2005

       Click this link to see and hear the Empress receiving the Steiger  Award in 2005.

The prize is given yearly since 2005 in different categories to personalities of the public life for their outstanding contribution
to tolerance, charity, music, film, media, sports, environment and the growing together of the European Union.

           All photos are courtesy: Photo-Journalist Guido Frebel

Empress Farah Pahlavi delivers the Steiger Award to Robert Wilson
American avant-garde stage director and playwright

    
Empress Empress Farah Pahlavi with Princess Haya Al-Hussein of Jordan and British actor Sir Christopher Lee
Princess Haya, the wife of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai,
was honoured with the award for her work in the field of sports.
The Steiger Award is named after ‘Der Steiger’ (The Miner), it stands for reliability, loyalty and cooperation.
 

Mrs. Eva Luise Kohler, The Honorable Federal President Horst Köhler, Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi

From left to right: H.E. Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert ,President of the Bundestag,
Empress Farah pahlavi,
Journalist Sascha Hellen, creator of the Steiger Award,
 Actor Armin Mueller-Stahl an Oscar nominee  who was also a noted concert violinist while still in his teens.

 

Empress with President of the Bundestag Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert

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