Arne Semsrott

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Arne Semsrott (* 1988 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and activist .

Life

Arne Semsrott attended the Catholic high school Sophie-Barat-Schule in Hamburg. During this time he initially wrote for the school newspaper Sophies Welt and, together with his older brother Nico Semsrott , today's cabaret artist and Die PARTTEI member of the European Parliament , co-founded the counter-newspaper Sophies Unterwelt , which was banned by the school administration. Sophie's underworld was voted the best school newspaper in Hamburg and the second best school newspaper in Germany in the Spiegel school newspaper competition. He passed his Abitur in 2007 at a state high school and has been working as a freelance journalist since 2008. Between 2010 and 2015 Semsrott studied political science in Berlin and Istanbul . From 2013 to 2017 he was head of the Hochschulwatch project at Transparency Germany . Since 2014 he has been project manager for FragDenStaat at the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany . For these projects, he received the Otto Brenner Prize in the media project category in both 2015 and 2016 . He is co-initiator of the OpenSCHUFA initiative , which was nominated for the Grimme Online Award, and has been on the board of LobbyControl since October 2018 .

Semsrott is also an author at netzpolitik.org .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Eberspächer: 21 under 21 - Arne Semsrott, do-gooder with a bite. Spiegel Online , October 22, 2007, accessed July 20, 2017 .
  2. ↑ author page. In: netzpolitik.org . Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Otto Brenner Prize - Media Project Prize. endowed with 2,000 euros. Otto Brenner Prize , accessed June 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ OpenSCHUFA. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Three for one: LobbyControl elects new board. In: LobbyControl. October 19, 2018, accessed on June 23, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Semsrott, Arne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg