Alexandra Rojkov

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Alexandra Rojkov (* 1988 in Leningrad ) is a German journalist .

Career

Rojkov came to Germany together with her parents and her twin brother in the spring of 1992 as part of the admission of a contingent of Russian Jews to protect against discrimination in the Soviet Union. After a year in a refugee home near Ludwigsburg , she grew up in Benningen am Neckar . After graduating from the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium Ludwigsburg , Rojkov began studying business administration and Arabic studies , of which she spent around a year at the University of Cairo . In 2010 she broke off her studies and instead attended the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg. In 2012 she spent four months in Jerusalem and two months in Tel Aviv with a trialogue grant from the BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation . She worked as a Middle East correspondent for the German Press Agency . In 2014 Rojkov received a Seminyak grant from reporter-forum.de , Claus Kleber , Dirk Kurbjuweit and Beate Lakotta , which she used for the report “The Mothers of Human Trafficking” on prostitution and human trafficking . The Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation also awarded Alexandra Rojkov a research grant in 2014. Funded by the Michael-Jürgen-Leisler-Kiep Foundation , Rojkov completed a USA scholarship in 2015. From autumn 2015 Rojkov worked as a freelance journalist for FAZ , NZZ , ZEIT ONLINE , SZ-Magazin and taz, among others . Since June 2019 she has been an editor in Spiegel's international department .

In 2014 Medium Magazin was one of the “Top 30 to 30” German journalists. In 2015 Rojkov was nominated for the Axel Springer Prize for her report “Get me out of here!” . In 2016 Forbes Magazine selected Rojkov as one of the 30 best European journalists under 30 years of age. Rojkov's report “Do you think you can help me?” Was shortlisted for the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in 2016 . In 2019, Rojkov was nominated by Aktion Deutschland Hilft for her three reports from Niger, "When the poorest refugees help", "The woman who is allowed to flee" and "The country of the children in crisis" for the journalists' prize for humanitarian aid. Rojkov's name was to be found twice among the nominees for the Nannen Prize 2019: with the report “Schicksalswahl” in the “Documentation” category and in the “Investigation” category together with journalists from Correctiv , Die Zeit , Republik and Addendum für denforschung zu the CumEx files .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alexandra Rojkov: The homecoming . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ Award ceremony of the Richard Hirschmann Youth Foundation ( Memento from December 11, 2019 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Gemeinde Benningen . January 31, 2008.
  3. ↑ a b Lena Lammers: Alexandra Rojkov: "I interviewed a Hamas leader and had dinner with settlers" . In: Edition F . February 12, 2016.
  4. ↑ Alexandra Rojkov: Studying in Cairo: Clash of Civilizations . In: Café Babel . February 16, 2012.
  5. ↑ Alexandra Rojkov is one of the "Top 30 to 30" . In: dpa . September 8, 2014.
  6. ↑ a b Alexandra Rojkov . In: Der Spiegel .
  7. ↑ Seminyak Scholarship - The 2013 Scholarship Holders . ( Memento from July 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: reporter-forum.de . 5th February 2014.
  8. ↑ Alexandra Rojkov: The mothers of human trafficking . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . March 30, 2015.
  9. ↑ Journalists' grants from the SdpZ were awarded . In: Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation . 2014.
  10. ↑ Previous scholarship holders since 1977 . In: Michael-Jürgen-Leisler-Kiep-Foundation .
  11. ↑ Author's page by Alexandra Rojkov . In: ZEIT ONLINE .
  12. ↑ Author's page by Alexandra Rojkov . In: SZ-Magazin .
  13. ↑ Article by Alexandra Rojkov . In: taz .
  14. ↑ Annette Milz : Top 30 to 30 2014 . In: Medium Magazin July 17, 2014.
  15. ↑ Alexandra Rojkov: Get me out of here! In: Jetzt.de . April 7, 2014.
  16. ↑ National print finalists 2015 . ( Memento from October 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Axel Springer Prize .
  17. ↑ Wow. These 64 talents from Germany made it into Forbes 30 under 30 . In: Edition F . 20th January 2016.
  18. ↑ Nannen Prize 2016 - Juoren, award winners, nominees . In: Nannen price . May 2, 2016.
  19. ↑ Alexandra Rojkov: When the poorest help refugees . In: taz . July 26, 2018.
  20. ↑ Alexandra Rojkov: The woman who is allowed to flee . In: taz . August 14, 2018.
  21. ↑ The nominees 2019 . In: Aktion Deutschland Hilft .
  22. ↑ Nannen Prize 2019 - Short Lists . In: Nannen price . April 11, 2019.
  23. ↑ First reporter award according to Relotius: Report on digital dictatorship in China and exposure of the Ibiza affair awarded . In: Meedia . 3rd December 2016.
  24. ↑ Nannen Prize 2020: These are the winners. April 30, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  25. ^ The winners of the Peter Boenisch Memorial Prize 2019 . In: Petersburg Dialog . July 2019.
  26. ↑ Alexandra Rojkov: Chris' Journey to the Stars . In: Hochschulanzeiger . April 15, 2014.
  27. ↑ Norbert Heimbeck: The other picture of Africa . In: Nordbayerischer Kurier . April 30, 2015.
  28. ↑ Alexandra Rojkov, Jan Ludwig: “Do you think that you can help me?” In: Tagesspiegel .
  29. ↑ Young journalist wins CNN award for "compelling, emotional" Syria reports . In: CNN . March 30, 2015.
  30. ↑ Klaus Nikolei: Duden Journalist Prize goes to Berlin . In: Rheinische Post . January 11, 2016.
  31. ↑ Alexandra Rojkov: The old man, the mountain and me . CORD. November 18, 2017.
    CORD was a men's magazine from Gruner + Jahr and Landwirtschaftsverlag Münster , which was discontinued in 2018.
  32. ↑ The 2017 winners . ( Memento from December 11, 2019 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Bergwelten . 5th December 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Rojkov, Alexandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rojkov, Aleksandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg