Alice Bota

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Alice Bota (born December 15, 1979 in Krapkowice , Poland ) is a German journalist , political editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and a book author.

Live and act

Bota spent her early childhood in Upper Silesia and in 1988 emigrated with her family from Poland to Germany, where they settled in Hamburg . After graduating from high school in Pinneberg in 1999 , she first studied modern German literature, political science and sociology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 2001 she went to Poland on a scholarship to study international relations at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan . She continued her studies in literature and political science in Berlin and Potsdam . She wrote part of her master's thesis in Warsaw .

In 2005 she went to the German School of Journalism in Munich. During her time at this school, Bota did an internship at the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , where she has worked as a political editor since 2007. Her main focus is on reporting on East Central and Eastern Europe . For the Tagesschau she reports as Zeit correspondent from Ukraine . She was several times a guest at the political talk show Press Club with moderator Jörg Schönenborn , among other things on the subject of “ Calm after the storm - does Ukraine have a future? ".

In 2012 Bota published the book “ We New Germans ” together with her colleagues Khuê Pham and Özlem Topçu . The book coined the term “New Germans”. Anna Reimann wrote in Spiegel Online : “ 'We new Germans' is not a sensitive description of the search for home, it is a very serious but never self-pity report about German lives that are still not allowed to feel like such ” and “ We new Germans ”shows that the hybrid identity of the authors not only makes life sometimes more difficult, but can also lead to more reflection on the other - to a more position, to more attitude. The authors provided the motivation for the book under the theme “ Our parents are foreigners, we are not. We are the new Germans. But what does that mean? " in front.

Bota lives in Hamburg.

Awards and nominations

  • For the article "Where Birth and Death Meet":
  • For the article "Ivan the Fitter"
    • Nomination for the Nannen Prize 2009 in the "Documentation" category
  • For her reports “A state is falling apart”, “Look what they did” and “In the Republic of Lies” during the time she mingled with the pro-Russian demonstrators in Ukraine:
  • For the contribution "The most powerful prize in the world"
    • German Journalism Prize Economy | Stock exchange | Finance (djp) 2016 in the "Open Topic" department
  • For the article "This man wants to go to prison"
    • n-ost Report Award 2017 in the "Text" category
    • Nomination for the German Reporter Award 2016 in the category "Best Reportage"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Award-winning work in print, Alice Bota , Axel Springer Prize for young journalists ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Alice Bota. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Alice Bota, Press Club , ARD, broadcast on February 8, 2015
  4. ^ Entry at the German National Library .
  5. ↑ Felix Stephan, You want to be perceived as German , Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 10, 2015.
  6. ^ Debate about integration: Die neue Deutschen , Spiegel Online, September 8, 2012.
  7. ↑ Alice Bota, Khuê Pham and Özlem Topçu, Home is a thing full of longing , Die Zeit No. 36/2012 of September 6, 2012.
  8. ↑ Alice Bota: Where Birth and Death Meet . In: The time . No. 40/2008, September 25, 2008.
  9. ↑ Alice Bota, Kerstin Kohlenberg , Heinrich Wefing : Ivan, the adjustor . In: The time . No. 28/2009, July 2, 2009.
  10. ^ The shortlist of the Henri Nannen Prize 2010 . ( Memento from August 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Henri Nannen Prize .
  11. ↑ Alice Bota, Reemtsma Liberty Award 2015
  12. ↑ Mark Schieritz , Alice Bota, Kerstin Kohlenberg , Michael Thumann and Wolfgang Uchatius : The most powerful prize in the world . The time . No. 7/2016, February 11, 2016.
  13. ↑ Winner 2016 . In: djp.de .
  14. ↑ Alice Bota: This man wants to go to jail . In: The time . No. 25/2016, June 9, 2016.
  15. ↑ n-ost Reportage Prize ( Memento from September 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: n-ost . June 29, 2017.
  16. ↑ German Reporter Award 2016 . In: reporter-forum.de .

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personal data
SURNAME Bota, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, political editor and author of Polish origin
DATE OF BIRTH 15th December 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Krapkowice , Upper Silesia , Poland