Özlem Gezer

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Özlem Gezer (* 1981 in Hamburg-Eppendorf ) is a German journalist .

Life

Gezer grew up in the St. Pauli district . She first began studying law at the University of Hamburg , but dropped out in favor of a journalism course at the Henri Nannen School . From the age of 18 she took her first journalistic steps as a freelancer for Stern magazine and for ZDF in Istanbul . After completing her apprenticeship, she became editor in the Germany section of the news magazine Der Spiegel in January 2012 and moved to the company section in 2014.

So far, Gezer has reported, among other things, on the Gölcük earthquake in 1999 , researched the case of the Austrian Josef Fritzl , who held and abused his daughter in an underground apartment for decades, the Winnenden rampage , the Islamist terrorist cell in the Sauerland and the immigration of poor people from Southeast Europe to the EU enlargements to the east . In 2014 she was awarded the Henri Nannen Prize in the “Best Report” category - for an article in the magazine “Der Spiegel” about the art collector Cornelius Gurlitt , whom she accompanied on a train journey for several days.

In the 3/2016 issue of January 16, 2016, Der Spiegel published a review of the book Inside IS - 10 days in the “Islamic State” by Jürgen Todenhöfer , written by Gezer, under the title Der Märchenonkel . After the latter then initiated legal action against the article, in August 2016 the Spiegel issued declarations of cease and desist in all 14 places that it had described as untrue and removed the article from the Internet.

In January 2017, Gezer became deputy head of the corporate division of Spiegel. After the department head Matthias Geyer left the mirror as a result of the forgery scandal surrounding Claas Relotius , she became the head of the department in October 2019. As a reaction to the scandal, the department was renamed the reporter department and the pages in the magazine were opened to editors from other departments.

Awards

  • 2011: Helmut Stegmann Prize for a report about a Bulgarian human trafficker and the day laborers he places in Germany
  • 2013: “Journalist of the Year” in the Newcomer category (in equal shares with Anita Zielina ), awarded by Medium Magazin
  • 2014: Henri Nannen Prize in the "Best Reportage" category (formerly known as the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize)

"Hate Poetry"

Since 2013, Gezer has performed with the journalists Deniz Yücel , Yassin Musharbash , Mely Kiyak , Özlem Topçu , Hasnain Kazim , Doris Akrap and Ebru Taşdemir as part of the “anti-racist reading show” Hate Poetry , in which they read racist letters to the editor in the style of a poetry slam . “Rarely has racism been so entertaining,” said Die Welt , while the taz spoke of a “ cathartic reading”. In 2014 the founding team of Hate Poetry was named Journalist of the Year in the “Special Prize” category.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Press release Henri Nannen Prize
  3. Jump up ↑ Legal dispute over "abusive article": The "Spiegel" deletes text on Jürgen Todenhöfer ksta.de, August 30, 2016
  4. ↑ "Arrogant and unjournalistic" - Jürgen Todenhöfer wins legal dispute with Spiegel, his son expects meedia.de, August 30, 2016
  5. ↑ Does he want to be president or does he not want to? wiwo.de, September 9, 2016
  6. ↑ The "Spiegel" renames its corporate department at zeit.de, October 2, 2019
  7. ↑ Özlem Gezer awarded the Helmut Stegmann Prize 2011
  8. ^ Self-presentation of Hate Poetry ( Memento from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 20, 2014
  9. ↑ "Go back to Fickdeppenarschland" , Die Welt from February 1, 2013
  10. ↑ "Laughter in Fickdeppenarschland", the daily newspaper of April 2, 2012
  11. ↑ The jury's statement on December 19, 2014 , accessed on December 20, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Gezer, Özlem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Eppendorf