Bastian Obermayer

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Bastian Obermayer (born December 10, 1977 in Rosenheim ) is a German journalist ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ) and author . He was instrumental in the journalistic processing of the ADAC scandal as well as the affairs of the Panama and Paradise Papers and the Ibiza affair .

He has won numerous awards for his reporting and investigative work, including the Pulitzer Prize as a member and co-author of the Panama Papers team of the International Network of Investigative Journalists .

Life and work

Bastian Obermayer was born in Rosenheim in 1977 and graduated from high school there. He studied political science, history and American studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 2002 to 2003 he attended the German School of Journalism .

From 2005 to 2012 he was editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin . There he wrote long reports, including about a heart transplant, the status of justice in Germany, abuse at Ettal Abbey and a large portrait of Lothar Matthäus. His reports have received numerous awards, and some of them have resulted in books.

Since 2012 Obermayer has been an editor in the Investigative Research section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung; In 2015 he became deputy head of department. At the beginning of 2018 he was promoted to head of department; he leads the department with Nicolas Richter . In 2014, together with Uwe Ritzer, he uncovered tampering with the awarding of the ADAC “Yellow Angel” prize and other irregularities at the German automobile club, for which he received several awards.

In the following years he worked repeatedly on international collaborations of the International Network of Investigative Journalists and coordinated these together with Frederik Obermaier for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, for example offshore leaks , Luxembourg leaks and Swiss leaks in the summer of 2012 . The projects won numerous international awards.

Obermayer achieved international fame primarily through his participation in the Panama Papers published in April 2016 . Media such as the New York Times , the Washington Post , CNN or The New Yorker reported on or interviewed Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier about how the leak had ended up with them. The two researchers were at the center of the global investigation as the ones who shared the 11.5 million files with the ICIJ . Almost 400 reporters from around 80 countries spent a year researching the mountain of data. As a result of the publications, the Prime Minister of Iceland and the Prime Minister of Pakistan, among others, lost their offices.

In the summer of 2016, the streaming platform Netflix claims to have acquired the rights to Obermayer's book Panama Papers. The story of a worldwide unveiling .

This was followed in November 2017 by the publication of the Paradise Papers , a second global investigation that was again based on data that had been leaked to Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier . Again it was about the role of the offshore world and the letterbox companies, again numerous politicians, celebrities and large multinational companies were to be found in the data leak. In addition to The Guardian and the BBC, the Paradise Papers also included the New York Times as research partners for the first time .

After the murder of the Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in October 2017, Obermayer, together with Laurent Richard and the organization Forbidden Stories, set up the “Daphne Project” to continue investigating the murdered people. In the end, teams from the Guardian, Reuters , Le Monde and the weekly newspaper Die Zeit also took part . For it was Forbidden Stories , where Obermayer holding the office of the Secretary General in May 2019 the European Press Prize .

In May 2019, Bastian Obermayer again triggered the so-called Ibiza affair with Frederik Obermaier and Leila Al-Serori , Oliver Das Gupta and Peter Münch , and thus a state crisis in Austria . The SZ team, together with the news magazine Der Spiegel, published the research on a secretly recorded video that forced the then Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache to resign within less than 24 hours. Strache had fallen into a trap: in a villa on Ibiza, he had promised a supposed niece of a Russian oligarch that he would get government contracts against campaign support and explained an apparently illegal party donation system. In the course of the Ibiza affair, the Austrian government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz broke up within a few days . New elections took place on September 29, 2019 .

Awards

Otto Brenner Prize 2016

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Negative price for ADAC: "Defensive information policy" . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on May 7, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Florian Klenk , Josef Redl: "We are not the extended arm of the public prosecutor's office". Falter.at , accessed on May 3, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Nicola Clark: How a Cryptic Message, 'Interested in Data ?,' Led to the Panama Papers . In: The New York Times . April 5, 2016 (English, nytimes.com [accessed May 7, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Elizabeth Zerofsky: How a German Newspaper Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like the Paradise Papers . In: The New Yorker . November 11, 2017 (English, newyorker.com [accessed December 3, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Julia-Marie Schüßler: Talk at “Markus Lanz”: This is how SZ journalists saw the Ibiza video for the first time. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
  6. ^ Bastian Obermayer - Journalist Profile. International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, accessed May 3, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Lemons click well. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  8. ^ Journalist Obermaier receives Pulitzer Prize . In: Schwäbische.de . ( schwaebische.de [accessed on May 7, 2017]).
  9. ↑ The Pulitzer Prize - official site: Winners 2017 - ICIJ - Miami Herald - McClatchy. Retrieved December 3, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Bastian Obermayer: Until the last blow. Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on May 3, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Bastian Obermayer: Do we live in an unjust country? Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on May 3, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Bastian Obermayer: Walls without end. Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on May 3, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Bastian Obermayer: Lothar, c'est moi. Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on May 3, 2016 .
  14. ↑ From the editor: Everything is new. www.sueddeutsche.de, December 29, 2017, accessed on January 14, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Bastian Obermayer, Uwe Ritzer: Wrong numbers in the readers' choice - manipulation of the Yellow Angel? Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 14, 2014, accessed on May 3, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Offshore Leaks - the secret data from the offshore paradises. Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on May 3, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Bastian Brinkmann, Christoph Giesen, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer, Klaus Ott: Luxembourg Leaks - Trouble in the tax fairytale land. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 7, 2014, accessed on May 3, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer, Gerard Ryle: Swiss Leaks - In the safe of the mighty. Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 9, 2015, accessed on May 3, 2016 .
  19. ↑ The Ibiza Affair. Inside views of a scandal . With a foreword by Armin Wolf . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-462-05407-1 , pp. 44 .
  20. ↑ Nicola Clark: How a Cryptic Message, 'Interested in Data ?,' Led to the Panama Papers . In: The New York Times . April 5, 2016 (English, nytimes.com [accessed December 3, 2017]).
  21. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/paul.farhi : 'Hello. This is John Doe ': The mysterious message that launched the Panama Papers. Retrieved December 3, 2017 .
  22. ↑ The journalists who broke 'Panama Papers' - CNN Video. Retrieved December 3, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Elizabeth Zerofsky: How a German Newspaper Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like the Paradise Papers . In: The New Yorker . November 11, 2017 (English, newyorker.com [accessed December 3, 2017]).
  24. ↑ Jon Henley: Iceland PM steps aside after protests over Panama Papers revelations . In: The Guardian . April 5, 2016 ( theguardian.com [accessed December 3, 2017]).
  25. ^ Sune Engel Rasmussen: Pakistani court removes PM Nawaz Sharif from office in Panama Papers case . In: The Guardian . July 28, 2017 ( theguardian.com [accessed December 3, 2017]).
  26. ↑ Netflix Unfolds The Panama Papers. Retrieved December 3, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Michael Forsythe: Paradise Papers Shine Light on Where the Elite Keep Their Money . In: The New York Times . November 5, 2017 (English, nytimes.com [accessed December 3, 2017]).
  28. ↑ Interview on the 'Paradise Papers' scandal: 'We are only at the beginning' . In: www.t-online.de . ( t-online.de [accessed on December 3, 2017]).
  29. ↑ Mike McIntire, Sasha Chavkin, Martha M. Hamilton: Commerce Secretary's Offshore Ties to Putin 'Cronies' . In: The New York Times . November 5, 2017 (English, nytimes.com [accessed December 3, 2017]).
  30. ↑ Michael Forsythe: Paradise Papers Shine Light on Where the Elite Keep Their Money . In: The New York Times . November 5, 2017 (English, nytimes.com [accessed December 3, 2017]).
  31. ^ These are the winners of the European Press Prize 2019. In: European Press Prize. May 23, 2019, accessed on May 28, 2019 .
  32. ↑ Leila Al-Serori, Oliver Das Gupta, Peter Münch, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer: Secret recordings burden Vice Chancellor of Austria difficult . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2019 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 28, 2019]).
  33. ↑ tagesschau.de: Video scandal: Austria's Vice Chancellor resigns. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
  34. ↑ Leila Al-Serori, Oliver Das Gupta, Peter Münch, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer: Secret recordings burden Vice Chancellor of Austria difficult . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2019 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 28, 2019]).
  35. ↑ http://www.djp.de/preisverleihung_gewinner2008.html
  36. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  37. ↑ Nina Kirst: Henri Nannen Prize 2010: busts for "Geo", "Spiegel", "stern". kressNews , May 27, 2010, accessed May 3, 2016 .
  38. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  39. ↑ http://www.ire.org/awards/ire-awards/winners/2013-ire-award-winners/
  40. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  41. ↑ https://netzwerkrecherche.org/stipendien-preise/leuchtturm/
  42. ↑ http://www.mediummagazin.de/aktuelles/die-journalistin-des-jahres-2014-golineh-atai-wdrard/
  43. ↑ http://www.djp.de/preisverleihung_gewinner2014.html
  44. ↑ http://www.djp.de/preisverleihung_gewinner2015.html
  45. ↑ Marc Bartl: For their research on the ADAC manipulations: "SZ" journalists Obermayer and Ritzer receive Guardian Award 2015. kressNews , April 24, 2015, accessed on May 3, 2016 .
  46. ↑ Winner 2016 . In: Ernst Schneider Prize . October 17, 2016 ( ernst-schneider-preis.de [accessed May 7, 2017]).
  47. ↑ https://www.presseportal.de/pm/106578/3451588
  48. ↑ ING-DiBa is awarding the Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize for the 21st time. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  49. ^ Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism 2016 ceremoniously awarded - Handelsblatt publishing group. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  50. ↑ Bernd Wilken - adminion: Reporter-Forum: 2016. Retrieved on May 7, 2017 .
  51. ↑ Getting the scoop: Q&A with Bastian Obermayer of The Panama Papers . In: Reynolds Center . December 6, 2016 ( businessjournalism.org [accessed May 7, 2017]).
  52. ↑ Media: Title “Journalists of the Year” goes to the “SZ” team . In: The time . December 24, 2016 ( zeit.de [accessed May 7, 2017]).
  53. ↑ Award: Turkish journalist honored with Nannen Prize . In: The time . April 28, 2017 ( zeit.de [accessed May 7, 2017]).
  54. ↑ International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and Miami Herald. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  55. ^ These are the winners of the European Press Prize 2019. In: European Press Prize. May 23, 2019, accessed on May 28, 2019 .
  56. ↑ First reporter award after Relotius: Report on digital dictatorship in China and disclosure of the Ibiza affair awarded ›Meedia. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  57. ↑ Nannen Prize 2020: These are the winners. April 30, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Obermayer, Bastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenheim