Axel Springer Prize for young journalists

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The Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalists is an annual journalist prize . It is awarded by the Axel Springer Academy to young journalists in the categories of print , television , radio and internet .

History and endowment

The prize was awarded for the first time in 1991. It is named after the founder and owner of today's Axel Springer AG , the publisher Axel Springer (1912–1985). The award ceremony takes place annually on his birthday, May 2nd, in Berlin . In the meantime, the price modalities have been changed and updated. There was no award ceremony in 1999. Since 2001, awards have been made in the four categories of print, radio, television and internet. Because of the corona crisis, the prize was awarded digitally for the first time in its history in 2020.

Works can be submitted for the award that were published in a German-language medium for the first time in the respective previous year or that were broadcast by a German-language broadcaster or published on the Internet and whose authors were not older than 33 years at the time of publication. This age limit also applies to co-authors who were significantly involved in the creation of the work. One work per author can be submitted in each category and one work per author in the three categories in the Print category.

The contributions should be dedicated to “current political, economic, cultural, sporting and / or social issues”.

Until 2016, the award sponsor, the Axel Springer Academy , awarded a total annual prize money of 54,000  euros . The award was endowed with 6,000 euros in the Print category for the best work in three different categories (three first prizes). In the other three categories of television, radio and internet, three prizes were awarded per category, each endowed with 6000 euros (1st prize), 4000 euros (2nd prize) and 2000 euros (3rd prize).

The awarding body, the Axel Springer Academy , is currently awarding a total of 28,000 euros in prize money. Since 2016, the prizes are no longer awarded according to media categories - instead three main prizes in bronze, silver and gold as well as two excellence awards for “Investigative Research” and “Creative Visualization” are given. The main prizes are endowed with 10,000 euros, 5,000 euros and 3,000 euros as well as 5,000 euros each for the excellence awards.

Jury and Board of Trustees

Jury members so far have included Gabor Steingart and Nina Grunenberg (print), Axel Buchholz , Rainer Cabanis , Mercedes Riederer and Carmen Thomas (radio), as well as Heinz Klaus Mertes , Gerd Ruge , Steffen Seibert , and Maria von Welser (TV). Claus Strunz , Hans-Dieter Degler , Carola Ferstl , Jan-Eric Peters (also print), Rowan Barnett and Sebastian Turner were part of the internet jury.

The board of trustees includes the formerly distinguished Mathias Döpfner and Friede Springer .

Award winners

1993-1994

Laureate 1993
1994 award winner

1995-2000

1995 award winner
Prize winner 1996
1997 award winner
1998 award winner
Laureate 1999 (not awarded)
Prize winner 2000

2001-2010

2001 award winner
2002 award winner
2003 award winner
2004 award winner
Award winner 2005
Prize winner 2006
2007 award winner
2008 award winners
Prize winner 2009
Award winner 2010

2011-2020

Award winner 2011


Prize winner 2012


Prize winner 2013


2014 award winners


Award winner 2015


Prize winner 2016


Award winner 2017


Prize winners 2018
  • Gold: Barbara Bachmann for "Sex, Lies and YouTube" ( reports , April 6, 2017)
  • Silver: Ann-Katrin Müller for "Our Father" ( Der Spiegel , December 30, 2017)
  • Bronze: Nora Gantenbrink for “A Whole Life” ( Stern , August 17, 2017)
    Johannes Böhme for “Problem Children” ( SZ-Magazin , July 7, 2016)
  • Creative implementation category: Team 22 of the Axel Springer Academy for "Alyom, Syria's children, the poison gas & we"
  • Investigative research category: Stefanie Dodt for “Accomplices? VW and the Brazilian military dictatorship "( ARD , July 24, 2017)
  • international special award: Ján Kuciak


Prize winners 2019
  • Gold: Anna Feist for "People Smuggler - The Business with Refugees" ( ZDFinfo , August 24, 2018)
  • Silver: Paul Middelhoff for "What became of you?" ( Die Zeit , No. 31/2018, July 26, 2018, pp. 8–9)
  • Bronze: Elisa Britzelmeier for "The Dead Boy in the Tree" ( Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 2, 2018)
  • Category entertainment and humor: Daniel Sprenger for several articles in the category "Realer Irrsinn" in Extra 3 ( NDR )
  • Creative implementation category: Christina Metallinos, Helene Reiner, Tobias Schiessl, Sophie von der Tann and Ann-Kathrin Wetter for "Die News-WG" ( Bayerischer Rundfunk on Instagram )
Prize winners 2020

literature

  • Axel Springer Prize. In: Program report on the situation and development of television in Germany. , Working Group of the State Media Authorities in the Federal Republic of Germany, Ullstein, 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Current - Axel Springer Prize for young journalists. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 23, 2017 ; accessed on January 23, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.axel-springer-preis.de
  2. ↑ Award ceremony 2008 ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.axel-springer-preis.de
  3. ↑ Award ceremony 2009 ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.axel-springer-preis.de
  4. ↑ Award ceremony 2012. (No longer available online.) Axel Springer Prize, archived from the original on July 3, 2017 ; accessed on June 12, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.axel-springer-preis.de
  5. ↑ Awards 2013. (No longer available online.) Axel Springer Prize, archived from the original on June 9, 2013 ; Retrieved May 11, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.axel-springer-preis.de
  6. ↑ Prize Winner 2014. (No longer available online.) Axel Springer Prize, archived from the original on November 13, 2016 ; accessed on November 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.axel-springer-preis.de
  7. ↑ Prize Winner 2015. (No longer available online.) Axel Springer Prize, formerly the original ; accessed on November 13, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.axel-springer-preis.de  
  8. ↑ Prize Winner 2016. Axel Springer Prize, accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Prize Winner 2017. Axel Springer Prize, accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Prize winners 2018. Axel Springer Prize.
  11. ↑ Prize Winner 2019. Axel Springer Prize.