Romantik award for European values and virtues - Prix Romantik Liebold
The prize is awarded across the sectors and internationally to notable individuals whose actions are undertaken based on European values and with a view to the future. Their thinking and acting is defined by tolerance, genuineness, passion, tradition, culture, education, savoir vivre, responsibility, geniality, hospitality, friendship, quality and justice.
'Education, culture and trust in your fellow citizens are the doors to identity and inherent strength.' - Friedwolf Liebold
Friedwolf Liebold, born in 1936 in Memmingen, is an individual with crucial influence on medium-sized hotel service and restaurant businesses. Self-employed for nearly 30 years, he established himself as a successful hotelier in Zweibrücken and was committed to organisations in the industry relating to guest and dining culture as well as young talent. In 1974, Friedwolf Liebold joined Romantik with his 'Fasanerie' hotel operation. First as a country chairman, then as President and Chairman of the Supervisory Board, he steered Romantik toward the path of one of the most profitable hotel alliances in Europe. Beyond Romantik, he extended his sphere to the entire industry. For 12 years, Friedwolf Liebold was the President of the Academy of Gastronomy of Germany (GAD) and the Brillat Savarin Foundation, who have set the goal of promoting table culture such as by presenting highly respected awards in the industry.
Roland R. Zadra, President of Romantik Hotels & Restaurants International says the following about Friedwolf Liebold: 'Friedwolf Liebold's unparalleled way of embodying values and passing them on, meeting the people in his surroundings with tolerance and respect, fostering and supporting them on their paths, fills us at Romantik with the utmost respect for this individual, who despite all recognition has remained entirely modest in his ways. Romantik, an alliance of 205 independent medium-sized hoteliers in 10 European countries, in its present form, was crucially shaped and developed by Friedwolf Liebold. At the same time, he employed his ideas, influence and drive for the benefit of the entire hotel service and restaurant industry and utilized his high-ranking offices to launch future-oriented developments and preserve valuable traditions.'
The Prix Romantik Liebold comes with a cash prize of 5,000 euros. The award winners receive a fountain pen from the Graf von Faber-Castell line made of a combination of stainless steel and brown pernambuco wood - the wood used by violin manufacturers - with an 18 carat bicolour gold nib. In the digital communication age, the fountain pen symbolizes the return to 19th century penmanship.
The Prix Romantik Liebold is an award of Romantik Hotels & Restaurants, an alliance of individual medium-sized hotel and restaurant establishments, which was founded in 1972.
The Prix Romantik Liebold is awarded as part of the General Meeting of Shareholders, which is held every year in spring in a European country with member enterprises of Romantik.
The jury comprises of the patron Friedwolf Liebold, the Board of Directors of the Romantik Hotels & Restaurants AG as well as former awardees.