[1] Since 1995, it is awarded by the Board of Trustees of the Hildegard von Bingen Prize.
[1] Former award winners are members of the Board of Trustees.
[2] The award was founded in 1995 by the biographer and journalist Helmut Ahrens [de].
[2] A publicist is honored "for an outstanding, professionally and culturally important journalistic individual achievement or a life's work.
[5] The award is named after the medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen.