Hugo Junkers Prize

Hugo Junkers (1920)

The Hugo Junkers Prize is a journalist prize in memory of the aviation pioneer Hugo Junkers .

Regulations

The Hugo Junkers Prize has been announced annually by the Luftfahrt-Presse-Club eV (LPC) since 1996 and serves to honor outstanding journalistic work on aerospace. The award is supported by the Hugo Junkers Foundation, the Federal Association of the German Aerospace Industry (BDLI) and the LPC.

Journalists from all media can take part, regardless of whether they are members of the LPC. The authors can apply themselves or be suggested by a member of the LPC.

The prize is endowed with a total of 10,000 euros annually.

The Ministry of Economics, Science and Digitization of the State of Saxony-Anhalt also awards a Hugo Junkers Prize for "pioneering innovations from science, industry and craft".

Award winners

1996 to 1999

1996

Award ceremony on November 22, 1996 in Dessau.

Anatol Johansen, "Phoenix in the Ashes" (Image of Science)
Joachim Bartz, "They always come down" (ZDF)

1997

Award ceremony on November 15, 1997 in Hamburg.

Olaf Stampf , "Departure for the New World" (Der Spiegel)

Special Price:

Georg Scheller and Andreas Bönte , "Space Night" (BR)

1998

Award ceremony on November 21, 1998 in Frankfurt.

Armin Maiwald and his team from FLASH Filmproduktion, Die Sendung mit der Maus (ARD)

1999

Award ceremony on November 13, 1999 in Stuttgart.

Carl-Ludwig Paeschke, "Happy Birthday Tempelhof" (ZDF)
Peter Sartorius , "Fruits of the Moon" (SZ)
Karl Morgenstern, "Where did you go" (AERO International)

2000 to 2009

2000

Award ceremony on November 18, 2000 in Dresden.

Ulli Rothaus and Bodo Witzke , "Frankfurt Airport" (ZDF)
Peter Zerbe, "Hamburg Airport Aviation Series" (Die Welt)
Matthias founder, "SOS in space" (book)

Special Price:

Andreas Spaeth, interviews and reports on the Concorde accident

2001

Award ceremony on November 17, 2001 at Cologne / Bonn Airport.

Gudrun Thoma and Sebastian Schütz, "Millions fly in the air" (WDR)
Thomas Kuschel and Martin Hübner, "The Flight of the 152" (MDR)
Georg Haupt, special series on the expansion of Frankfurt Airport (Frankfurter Neue Presse)

2002

Award ceremony on November 16, 2002 in Berlin

Jochen Missfeldt , "Watch over Washington" (FAZ)
Jan Hinrik Drevs, "Patrouille Suisse" (Start Film + TV)
Oliver Günther, "History of Frankfurt Airport" (hr1)

Recognition award 2002:

Phoenix editorial team, reporting from ILA 2002

2003

Award ceremony on November 8, 2003 in Wiesbaden.

Jens Flottau, "The Fairchild Dornier Story" (Aero International)
Ilona Rothin, "Death over Lake Constance" (WDR)

LPC Honorary Award:

Karl Morgenstern, dpa

2004

Award ceremony on June 5, 2005 in Munich.

Clemens Bollinger, "A Heart for Nicole" (Krüger-Verlag)
Harald Stocker , "Columbia Crash" (Pro 7)

LPC Honorary Award:

Dieter Vogt, FAZ

2005

Award ceremony on June 1, 2006 in Leipzig.

Hans Borchart, for the article "Spaceship A380" in Focus
Hermann-Michael Hahn , author of the book "Outer Space - The Cosmos - Image Atlas of the Solar System"

LPC Honorary Award:

Karl-Dieter Seifert

2006

Award ceremony on June 2, 2007 in Braunschweig.

Hartmut Reichardt, "The War Machine" Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
Conny Czymoch , Michael Krons , Christoph Minhoff and Carl-Ludwig Paeschke (team of authors for the Phoenix report series ALL-Tag - The Thomas Reiter Mission .)

2007

Award ceremony on April 26, 2008 in Bremen.

Evelyn Zegenhagen, book "Dashing German Girls - Aviators from 1918 to 1945"
Dirk Wagner, "Wagner's Space Knowledge" (Hessischer Rundfunk, hr1 )

2008

Award ceremony on May 9, 2009 in Frankfurt.

Stefan Scholl
Jochen Temsch

2009

Award ceremony on April 24, 2010 in Düsseldorf.

Mathias Werth
Lukas Egli, Anja Jardine, Mikael Krogerus, Benno Maggi, Gudrun Sachse, Reto U. Schneider and Daniel Weber

Special price for the 150th birthday of Hugo Junkers:

Sebastian Beck
Martin Prem
Arno L. Schmitz

Since 2010

2011

Award ceremony on November 11, 2011 in Hamburg.

Simon Book, Oliver Sallet and Christian Wermke
Jens Hartmann, Jan Hildebrand, Gesche Wüpper

2012

Award ceremony on November 17, 2012 in Berlin.

Jörg Stolpe, Andreas Kölmel
Alexander forehead

2013

Award ceremony on November 16, 2013 in Munich.

Thorsten Lork and Guido Schmidtke, "The History of the Transall" (N24)
Heiner Siegmund, series of articles on the economic development of CargoLux
Andreas Fecker , book "Aircraft noise - data and facts"

2014

Award ceremony on November 15, 2014 in Leipzig.

Marco Evers, "Crash on board" ( Der Spiegel )
Andreas Spaeth, "Tighter, more uncomfortable, cheaper" ( Die Welt / Welt am Sonntag )

LPC special price:

Michael Immel and Demian von Osten, "Provincial airports - a lot of money for few flights" ( ARD morning magazine )

2015

Award ceremony on November 14, 2015 in Cologne.

Stefan Klein , "Stay on top" ( Süddeutsche Zeitung )
Malte Henk , "Rosetta: The Hunt for 67P / CG" ( Die Zeit )

LPC special price:

Till Bartels, "Follow me" ( Stern.de )

2016

Award ceremony on November 19, 2016 in Frankfurt.

Jürgen Bischoff, "And should we live here?" ( GEO Magazine )

LPC special award “125 years of human flight”

Robert Gast, "Otto Lilienthal and the dream of flying" ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung )
Karl-Dieter Seifert, "125 Years of Otto Lilienthal" (traveling exhibition)

2017

Award ceremony on November 18, 2017 in Munich.

Anja Jardine, "Flight into Nowhere - Stayed Outside" (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
Wolfgang Horch and Michael Rauhe, "Airbus in 24 hours" (Hamburger Abendblatt)

LPC special price:

Ullrich Fichtner , André Geike, Matthias Geyer, Andreas Wassermann, "Made in Germany - How Germany failed to build an airport" (Der Spiegel)

LPC special award for his life's work:

Peter Pletschacher

2018

Award ceremony on November 17, 2018 in Bremen.

Martin Hübner, "The Sputnik Shock" (mdr / ARD)
Handelsblatt team of authors (Markus Fasse, Mona Fromm, Thomas Hanke, Sönke Iwersen, Martin Murphy, Hans-Peter Siebenhaar, Volker Votsmeier), "We're waging a small war again" (Handelsblatt)

2019

Award ceremony on November 23, 2019 in Dresden.

Niels Boeing for the business report "Waiver does not save the world"
Uwe W. Jack for the special publication "Auf zum Mond!", Published in FliegerRevueX.

Web links

Hugo Junkers Prize. Luftfahrt-Presse-Club eV, accessed on December 10, 2018 .

Individual evidence

^ Hugo Junkers Prize for Research and Innovation from Saxony-Anhalt. IMG Investment and Marketing Company Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on July 29, 2017 .

↑ Olaf Stampf: Departure to the New World . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1997, pp. 162-171 ( Online - June 30, 1997 ).

↑ Marco Evers: Crash on board . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 2014, p. 116-119 ( Online - Jan. 6, 2017 ).

↑ Andreas Spaeth: Narrower, less comfortable, cheaper. In: travel. Welt am Sonntag, November 17, 2013, accessed on July 29, 2017 .

↑ Aviation Press Club meets at Leipzig Airport. In the giant shadow of the An-225 . In: General Aviation. Aerokurier , November 17, 2014, accessed on July 29, 2017 : "With an extraordinarily entertaining and amusing pastiche, in the moma reporter series of the ARD morning magazine, you examined the penny grave at Kassel-Calden airport."

^ Prize for Stefan Klein. In: From the editorial office. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 25, 2015, accessed on May 1, 2017 .

↑ Malte Henk: The hunt for 67P / CG. Rosetta. In: Knowledge. Die Zeit , November 11, 2014, accessed on May 1, 2017 .

↑ Till Bartels: Follow Me. Stern , accessed on May 8, 2017 (blog).

↑ Jürgen Bischoff: And should we live here? (PDF) Dream destination Mars. In: GEO 11/2015. Gruner + Jahr , 2015, pp. 46–64 , accessed on April 22, 2017 .

↑ Robert Gast: Otto Lilienthal and the dream of flying. The finest hour of technology. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 16, 2016, accessed on April 22, 2017 .

↑ Marlene Thiele: High-flyer Lilienthal. Exhibition in the Flugwerft. Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 29, 2016, accessed on April 22, 2017 : "The 84-year-old aviation historian has been dealing with Otto Lilienthal for almost his entire life."

↑ Anja Jardine: Flight into nowhere. In: Society. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 3, 2017, accessed on November 21, 2017 : “On March 8, three years ago, a Boeing 777 disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing . The wife and two children of Ghyslain Wattrelos also sat in it. "

↑ Ullrich Fichtner, André Geicke, Matthias Geyer and Andreas Wasserman: How Germany failed to build an airport. In: Economy. Der Spiegel , August 22, 2017, accessed on November 22, 2017 .

↑ Martin Huebner: The Sputnik shock. In: History in the First. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , October 23, 2017, accessed December 10, 2018 .

↑ We're waging guerrilla warfare again. (PDF) In: Companies & Markets. Handelsblatt , January 29, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018 .

[hjp_sachsen-1] Hugo Junkers Prize for Research and Innovation from Saxony-Anhalt. IMG Investment and Marketing Company Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on July 29, 2017 .

[1997_os-2] Olaf Stampf: Departure to the New World . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1997, pp. 162-171 ( Online - June 30, 1997 ).

[2014_me-3] Marco Evers: Crash on board . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 2014, p. 116-119 ( Online - Jan. 6, 2017 ).

[2014_as-4] Andreas Spaeth: Narrower, less comfortable, cheaper. In: travel. Welt am Sonntag, November 17, 2013, accessed on July 29, 2017 .

[2014_ak-5] Aviation Press Club meets at Leipzig Airport. In the giant shadow of the An-225 . In: General Aviation. Aerokurier , November 17, 2014, accessed on July 29, 2017 : "With an extraordinarily entertaining and amusing pastiche, in the moma reporter series of the ARD morning magazine, you examined the penny grave at Kassel-Calden airport."

[2015_sk-6] Prize for Stefan Klein. In: From the editorial office. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 25, 2015, accessed on May 1, 2017 .

[2015_mh-7] Malte Henk: The hunt for 67P / CG. Rosetta. In: Knowledge. Die Zeit , November 11, 2014, accessed on May 1, 2017 .

[2015_tb-8] Till Bartels: Follow Me. Stern , accessed on May 8, 2017 (blog).

[2016_jb-9] Jürgen Bischoff: And should we live here? (PDF) Dream destination Mars. In: GEO 11/2015. Gruner + Jahr , 2015, pp. 46–64 , accessed on April 22, 2017 .

[2016_rg-10] Robert Gast: Otto Lilienthal and the dream of flying. The finest hour of technology. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 16, 2016, accessed on April 22, 2017 .

[2016_kds-11] Marlene Thiele: High-flyer Lilienthal. Exhibition in the Flugwerft. Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 29, 2016, accessed on April 22, 2017 : "The 84-year-old aviation historian has been dealing with Otto Lilienthal for almost his entire life."