On 11 April 2011, Montblanc awarded the Couple of the Year 2011 in cooperation with GALA, the German premium people magazine and HOTEL LOUIS C. JACOB, Hamburg's luxury hideaway on the River Elbe.
The winners of this year's Couple of the Year Award are Vitali and Natalia Klitschko. The jury also voted in three additional categories, honouring Johannes B. Kerner and Britta Becker as Family-Couple of the year 2011, HSV soccer player Piotr Trochowski and Melanie Tiburtius as Wedding-Couple of the Year 2011 and Olivia Palermo and Johannes Huebl as International-Couple of the Year 2011