Caroline Walter

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Caroline Walter is a German journalist . From 1999 to 2019 she was a permanent writer for the ARD television magazine “ Kontraste ”. In September 2019 she switched to the ARD magazine Panorama as editor .

Life

Walter, born in Bavaria, studied journalism , German and political science at the Free University of Berlin and graduated in 1995 with a Magister Artium . She has been working as a television journalist since 1996, a. a. for the culture magazine " Aspects " ( ZDF ). Since 1999 she has worked for the ARD political magazine “Kontraste” at the Berlin-Brandenburg broadcasting company . In September 2019 she switched to the ARD magazine PANORAMA as an editor. Her focus is on investigative reports in the fields of health, right-wing extremism and asylum policy.

In 2010 she researched the pharmaceutical industry and published her results in the book Patient in Sight . In 2012 she made a self-experiment in an asylum shelter and lived under the same conditions as the refugees. Since then she has dealt continuously with refugee policy. As early as 2013, in the program Menschen bei Maischberger, she demanded that one should seriously deal with “fear of foreigners”. In 2017 she was a member of the jury for the German Human Rights Film Award . In July 2018, she exposed the scandal surrounding the smuggling of medicines from Greece to Germany and the trade in these medicines by the Brandenburg company Lunapharm. The reporting led to the resignation of the Brandenburg Minister for Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family, Diana Golze , in August 2018 .

In July 2019, her report in contrasts on statements by Pegida supporters in Dresden about the murder of Walter Lübcke caused a sensation and numerous reactions from politicians and public prosecutor's investigations.

Awards

  • 2004: European CIVIS television award for the film for NPD on the rise
  • 2007: Prix ​​Europa Award: 2nd place for hazardous recycling of single-use instruments - a hidden risk for patients
  • 2008: European CIVIS TV Award : Special Mention for the sustained reporting on right-wing extremism
  • 2013: "AMIKO rbb media award for diversity" and nomination for the European CIVIS television award for four weeks of asylum - a self- experiment with the right to return (documentation)
  • 2014: German Human Rights Film Award for Yussuf - The Story of an Escape
  • 2014: Nomination for the Berlin Journalists' Prize Long Breath for reporting on refugee policy with a self-experiment
  • 2016: Nomination for the European CIVIS TV Prize / Magazine for Chaos at the Berlin Refugee Office
  • 2017: Nomination for the Berlin Journalism Award for Long Breath for reporting on right-wing extremism in the Bundeswehr
  • 2017: Marl Media Prize Human Rights , Category Magazine / Abroad, for the European Union, thousands of refugees are denying the promised help
  • 2018: Nomination of the Juliane Bartel Prize for how a paramedic with a headscarf prevails
  • 2018: Nomination for the Berlin Journalism Prize for Long Breath for Corrosive Alternative Medicine: The business with the "miracle drug" MMS

Filmography (selection)

  • 2002: ARD-Exclusiv: When the social welfare office rings twice
  • 2004: NPD on the advance (Kontraste article)
  • 2004: Wrong role models - Bundeswehr honors Nazi hero Werner Mölders (Contrast article)
  • 2006: Nobody wants to talk about it - right-wing extremism in Saxony-Anhalt (Kontraste article)
  • 2005: False promises - the deadly danger of Germanic New Medicine (Kontraste article)
  • 2007: Mügeln - a city washes itself clean (Contrasts article)
  • 2008: The patient in sight - the tricks of the pharmaceutical industry (Kontraste article)
  • 2010: German Armed Forces deployed in the war - soldiers complain about training deficiencies (contrasts contribution)
  • 2011: Sieg Heil in the Province - A Politics of Looking Away (Contrasts)
  • 2011: Right-wing extremism: Investigation mishap at Saxony's constitution protection (Kontraste article)
  • 2012: Unfortunate maintenance of tradition in the Bundeswehr (Contrast article)
  • 2012: ARD-Exclusiv: "Four weeks asylum - a self-experiment with the right to return"
  • 2013: "Yussuf - The story of an escape" (Kontraste article)
  • 2013: ARD-Exclusiv: I won't say anything anymore! - The normal madness at the district court
  • 2013: Mission to Afghanistan: How the German Armed Forces and Politics Taint the Readiness of the Afghan Armed Forces (Contrasts)
  • 2014: Deportation to Afghanistan despite security concerns (Kontraste article)
  • 2014: MMS - Corrosive Alternative Medicine (Contrast Article)
  • 2015: Everyday Racism in Saxony (Contrasts)
  • 2015: With the broomstick into the maneuver - the fast NATO reaction force not ready for action (Kontraste article)
  • 2015: The alleged G36 affair (Kontraste article)
  • 2016: How dangerous are the citizens of the Reich? (Contrasts contribution)
  • 2017: Right-wing extremists and Wehrmacht traditions in the Bundeswehr (Contraste article)
  • 2018: Dangerous quacks - How the state fails to protect patients (Kontraste article)

Fonts

  • Patient in sight. The new strategy of the pharmaceutical companies. Hoffmann and Campe 2010, ISBN 978-3-455-50151-3 .
  • Extreme security: right-wing extremists in the police, constitution protection, armed forces and justice. Edited by Matthias Meisner / Heike Kleffner . Herder Verlag 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Zähringer: Covered advertising of the pharmaceutical lobby. August 30, 2010, accessed July 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Arno Frank : ARD documentary Four weeks asylum: They are not worth it to us. September 13, 2012, accessed July 5, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Karin Janker: The core of the problem remains unaffected. August 28, 2013, accessed July 5, 2016 .
  4. ^ German Human Rights Film Prize: Juries have been determined . In: Cameraman . August 22, 2016 ( kameramann.de [accessed November 30, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Risk to patients. In: rbb-online.de. Kontraste, July 12, 2018, accessed April 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Woidke pays Golze "great respect" for his resignation. In: rbb24.de. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , August 28, 2018, accessed on April 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Caroline Walter: Pegida and the murder of Walter Lübcke. In: rbb-online.de. July 4, 2019, accessed July 13, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Pegida demonstrators horrify with statements about the Lübcke murder. In: derstandard.at. Der Standard , July 5, 2019, accessed July 13, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Felix Hackenbruch: Reports where it gets confusing. In: Tagesspiegel. November 14, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Nominees for 2018 television and radio. Juliane Bartel Media Prize, October 9, 2018, accessed on February 1, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Nominations 2018 - JVBB - Journalists Association Berlin-Brandenburg. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century