The Heinrich Böll Foundation is a German, legally independent political foundation. Affiliated with Alliance 90/The Greens, it was founded in 1997 when three predecessors merged. The foundation was named after German writer Heinrich Böll (1917–1985).
Headquarters of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin
Heinrich Böll Foundation headquarters, entrance
Seminar at the Heinrich Böll Foundation's Southeast Asia office in Bangkok, Thailand, November 2012
Bastian Hermisson, former Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation North America, moderates an event with Annette Maennel, Head of the Communications Department in Berlin.
Heinrich Theodor Böll was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers, Böll is a recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972).
Böll in 1981
Book cover Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum