Jury members Elke Büdenbender (lawyer and wife of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier), Joe Chialo (former State Senator), Arne Friedrich (former national football player, podcast host and founder), Anahita Thoms (lawyer), Gonca Türkeli-Dehnert (State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia), Dr Heike Maria von Joest (entrepreneur); as well as Wolfgang Fürstner and Prof. Dr Karsten Dreinhöfer (Chair of the Board of the Margot Friedländer Foundation).
