Sunday, 28 June 2026
14:00 - 15:00 CEST

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Inselhalle

Main Hall

A Welcome to Lindau
Countess Bettina Bernadotte
President of the Council

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String quartet in D major (“The Lark”), op. 64 no. 5
Allegro moderato

Welcome Address
Frank Walter Steinmeier
President of the Federal Republic of Germany

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String quartet in D major (“The Lark”), op. 64 no. 5
Adagio

A Welcome to Bavaria
Markus Söder
Minister-President of the Free State of Bavaria

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String quartet in D major (“The Lark”), op. 64 no. 5
Menuetto. Allegro – Trio

Greetings from Stockholm
Astrid Söderbergh Widding
Chairwoman of the Board, The Nobel Foundation, Sweden

Laureates’ Greetings
Hartmut Michel
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988 and Member of the Council

Bestowal of the Lennart Bernadotte Medal to Peter Badge
Countess Bettina Bernadotte
President of the Council

Peter Badge
Nobel Laureates in Portrait, Germany

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String quartet in D major (“The Lark”), op. 64 no. 5
Finale. Vivace

Minister’s Congratulations
Dorothee Bär
German Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space

Introducing the Scientific Programme
Scientific Chairs of the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Rainer Blatt
University of Innsbruck, Austria

Peter Brzezinski
Stockholm University, Sweden

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany

Heiner Linke
Lund University, Sweden

Thomas Perlmann
Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede
Rice University, United States of America

Ensemble of the Vienna Philharmonic
Katharina Engelbrecht, Violin
Martin Kubik, Violin
Georg Wimmer, Viola
Raphael Flieder, Violoncello

Master of Ceremonies: Adam Smith
Nobel Prize Outreach, Sweden