Beate Lakotta

Beate Lakotta (* 1965 in Kassel ) is a German journalist and book author.

Life

Beate Lakotta is the daughter of the ceramicist Peter Lakotta . Lakotta studied German and political science at the University of Heidelberg . After a traineeship in television, she initially worked as a freelance journalist. In 2000, Lakotta started working for the science department of Der Spiegel magazine . There she dealt with topics from medicine , medical ethics, neurosciences and psychology . Since 2011 she has been a justice and crime reporter for the news magazine.

Awards

In 2000 she won the Schizophrenia Reintegration Award given by Lilly Deutschland GmbH in the journalism category for her article Orders from the Cat.

Lakotta and Schels were awarded the Hansel Mieth Prize , the German Social Prize and the German Photo Book Prize 2004 for the book Another life before death, which Lakotta published in collaboration with her partner, the photographer Walter Schels .

In 2007 the Association of German Medical Journalists (VDMJ) and Bayer HealthCare AG awarded her the European Journalism Prize in the Print category for Alexander's farewell article published in Spiegel magazine . In 2010, the magazine Emma Lakotta awarded for her report, Der Ludwig laughs, on the subject of late abortion , which was published in Spiegel , with 3rd place in the Emma Journalist Prize . In 2011, Lakotta received the German Reporter Award for the Spiegel interview A Life Like in Purgatory with Richard Taylor, a psychology professor who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease . The report I just wanted to survive on Somali pirates brought to justice in Germany was nominated in 2012 for the Henri Nannen Prize in the category of best reportage.

criticism

In December 2012, Lakotta defended the proceedings of the Bavarian judiciary in the Gustl Mollath case in several articles and was criticized for this by the blogging lawyers Oliver García, Thomas Stadler and Gabriele Wolff . Expert Hans Simmerl contradicted Lakotta's account that he had considered Mollath to be "clearly disturbed".

Magazine articles

• Orders from the cat . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 2000, pp. 156-159 ( Online - Jan. 10, 2000 ).
• Alexander's farewell . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 2006, p. 170-178 ( Online - Nov. 13, 2006 ).
• Ludwig laughs. In: Der Spiegel . No. 26, 2009, p. 128 ff. (September 22, 2009, online )
• A life like in purgatory. In: Der Spiegel . No. 9, 2010. (September 22, 2009, online )
• I just wanted to survive . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 2011, p. 52-58 ( online - 4 April 2011 ).

Books + exhibition

• with Walter Schels : Live again before death. When people die. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-421-05837-7 (audio book read by Beate Lakotta & Matthias Brandt : Live again before death. When people die. Roof Music, Bochum 2005, ISBN 3-936186-98- 7 )
• The exhibition Nochmal Leben / Life Before Death , which is part of the book , was first shown in 2004 in the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden. Other stations included: Art Museum Thurgau, 2006 ; Museu de Agua, Lisbon; 2006, Wellcome Collection, London, 2008 ; Westlicht - scene for photography, Vienna, 2009 ; Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo, 2014 ; Limmat-Hall, Zurich, 2016 .
• with Walter Schels : hands. Verlag S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-002547-0 .
• The last picture . Saarbrücken City Gallery

Web links

• Literature by and about Beate Lakotta in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Beate Lakotta at perlentaucher.de
• Beate Lakotta in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Awards . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . March 2, 2001
2. ↑ Bayer AG : Award from the Association of German Medical Journalists (VDMJ) and Bayer HealthCare AG: European Journalist Award goes to Beate Lakotta and Dr. Tim Freyer . June 22, 2007
3. ↑ The 11th Journalist Prize: The Prize Winners . In: Emma . Summer 2010
4. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany: SPIEGEL TALK: “A life like in purgatory” - DER SPIEGEL 9/2010. Retrieved April 12, 2017 . 
5. ^ Henri Nannen Prize : Nominations: 2012 / Reportage ( Memento of May 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Beate Lakotta: Gustl Mollath case: Why the judicial scandal isn't one . In: Spiegel Online . December 13, 2012
7. ↑ Beate Lakotta: Schizo protest citizens . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 2012, p. 19 ( online ).
8. ↑ Beate Lakotta: No remote diagnostics, but research . In: Spiegel Online . December 21, 2012
9. ↑ Oliver García: Mollath case - When the wave of journalism breaks . In: De legibus blog. December 14, 2012
10. ↑ Thomas Stadler: Mollath case: Is it all just hot air? In: Internet Law. December 14, 2012
11. ↑ Gabriele Wolff : Case Gustl Mollath: War of the Roses and Failure of Justice & Psychiatry IV . In: gabrielewolff - Useless comments on the world. December 21, 2012
12. ↑ Technical analyzes: Statement by Dr. Hans Simmerl / Mainkofen on the quality journalistic claims of Beate Lakotta in the Spiegel blog . In: gustl-for-help.de. December 2012
13. ^ Website of Live Again
14. ^ Deutsches Hygiene-Museum : Live again: A photo exhibition about dying ( Memento from April 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). 2004
15. ^ Wellcome Collection: Life Before Death ( Memento June 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). 2008 (video; 9:27 min)
16. ^ Art: art edition March-April ISSN  1866-542X p. 9.