ITB BookAwards 2020 winners announced

ITB BookAwards 2020 winners announced
ITB BookAwards 2020 winners announced

Every year, ITB Berlin honors 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 recognizes 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 Bรถrsenverein 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 travellersโ€™ guide โ€™Omanโ€™ by Kirstin Kabasci and Peter Franzisky (Reise Know-How Verlag) and the traditional travel guide โ€™Omanโ€™ by Gerhard Heck (DuMont Reiseverlag).

This was the third time the jury of the ITB BookAwards bestowed honours in the category โ€˜Frankfurter Buchmesse Guest of Honourโ€™ (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 ยปOmanยซ

Kirstin Kabasci, Peter Franzisky | Reise Know-How Verlag
Individual travellersโ€™ guide โ€™Omanโ€™

Gerhard Heck | DuMont Reiseverlag
DuMont travel guide โ€™Omanโ€™

Background information: Ethiopia

Christian Sefrin | Trescher Verlag
โ€™ร„thiopien โ€“ Unterwegs im รคltesten Kulturland Afrikasโ€™

Klaus Dornisch | wbg/Philipp von Zabern
โ€™Sagenhaftes ร„thiopien โ€“ Archรคologie, Geschichte, Religionโ€™

Travel destinations in Germany โ€“ Lake Constance

Rolf Goetz, Mirko Milovanovic | Bruckmann Verlag
โ€˜Bodenseeโ€™

Anette Sievers | Peter Meyer Verlag
โ€˜Bodensee mit Kindernโ€™

Special travel book series:

Publisher Matthias Krรถner,
Illustrator Berit Krรถner | Michael Mรผller Verlag
Travel book series โ€˜Stadtabenteuerโ€™

Special travel books

Exciting journey of discovery
Robert Macfarlane | Penguin Verlag
โ€˜Im Unterland โ€“ Eine Entdeckungsreise in die Welt unter der Erdeโ€™

Year of Humboldt 2019
Andrea Wulf and illustrator Lillian Melcher | C. Bertelsmann Verlag
Illustrated novel โ€˜Die Abenteuer des Alexander von Humboldtโ€™

Namibia
Anna Mandus | Palmato Publishing
โ€˜Licht und Schatten in Namibia 2 โ€“ Mehr vom Alltag in einem Traumlandโ€™

Olympic Games 2020 in Tokyo
Marco Reggiani and illustrator Sabrina Ferrero | Prestel Verlag
โ€˜Japan โ€“ Der illustrierte Guideโ€™

Birdwatching

Arnulf Conradi | Verlag Antje Kunstmann
โ€˜Zen und die Kunst der Vogelbeobachtungโ€™

Illustrated travel books
Harald Lydorf, Andreas Klotz, Radmila Kerl, Helmut Bรผttner
and team of photographers | TIPP 4 Verlag
โ€˜Perle Afrikas โ€“ Faszination Ugandaโ€™

Travel cookbooks

Jonas Cramby | Christian Verlag
โ€˜Tokio fรผr Foodies โ€“ Die kulinarischen Hotspots der Stadt der tausend Dรถrferโ€™

Travelling with children

Teddy Keen | Verlag Prestel junior
โ€˜The Big Book of Adventure โ€“ So รผberlebst du in der Wildnisโ€™

Cultures

Susanne Koelbl | Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
โ€˜Zwรถlf Wochen in Riad โ€“ Saudi-Arabien zwischen Diktatur und Aufbruchโ€™
Caitlin Doughty | Malik/Piper Verlag

โ€˜Wo die Toten tanzen โ€“ Wie rund um die Welt gestorben und getrauert wirdโ€™

Hiking

Christian Hlade | Braumรผller Verlag
โ€˜Das groรŸe Buch vom Wandern โ€“ Alle Tipps & Tricks,
damit die Begegnung mit der Natur, anderen Kulturen und sich selbst gelingtโ€™

Works Award โ€“ Sailing

Wilfried Erdmann | Delius Klasing Verlag
for his newly published work โ€˜Warum wir immer weitersegelnโ€™ and his previously published sailing books

Lifetime Award โ€“ Publisher 2020

100 years of Bergverlag Rother
Head of Publishing Klaus Wolfsperger
for his personal lifetime and publishing achievements for Bergverlag Rother

Lifetime Award โ€“ Travel writers 2020

Paul Theroux | Hoffmann und Campe Verlag
for his newly published work โ€˜Auf dem Schlangenpfad โ€“ Als Grenzgรคnger in Mexicoโ€™ for his work published to date

Travel calendars

Michael Poliza | Delius Klasing Verlag
โ€˜Island 2020โ€™

Specialist tourism literature

Ronald Moeder | utb/UVK Verlag
โ€˜Tourismusrecht in der Unternehmenspraxisโ€™

Maps

Betsy Mason, Greg Miller | National Geographic Buchverlag
โ€˜Kartenwelten โ€“ Fantastische Geschichten und die Kunst der Kartographieโ€™

Management Award by ITB Berlin

Robert Bรถsch | National Geographic Buchverlag
โ€˜Mountainsโ€™

Frankfurter Buchmesse Guest of Honor 2020 โ€“ Canada

Hans-R. Grundmann with Eyke Berghahn, Petrima Thomas and Mechtild Opel | Reise Know-How Verlag Dr. Hans-R. Grundmann

โ€˜Kanada Osten โ€“ USA Nordostenโ€™
Martin Pundt | Michael Mรผller Verlag

โ€˜Kanada โ€“ der Westen mit Sรผdost-Alaskaโ€™
Mechtild Opel and Wolfgang Opel | MANA-Verlag

Country report โ€˜Kanada โ€“ Alles, was Sie รผber Kanada wissen mรผssenโ€™

Wall calendar | Ackermann Kunstverlag
โ€˜Kanada 2020 โ€“ Unterwegs zwischen Wรคldern und Flรผssenโ€™

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