Esther Schapira

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Esther Schapira (born January 23, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German journalist and filmmaker .

Career

Schapira graduated from the Frankfurt Helmholtz School in 1982 and then studied German , English and theater , film and television studies. Schapira has been an editor for politics and society at Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt since 1995, where she is head of the contemporary history department. Schapira appeared as the producer of the documentary film “… I'm sorry, I'm alive” by Andrzej Klamt , which was co-produced by the Hessischer Rundfunk , and which focuses on the fate of Jewish people.

Her ( documentary ) films have won the Elisabeth Selbert Prize (1987), the German Critics Prize (1996), the Civis Prize (2002), the Rias TV Prize (1995) and two first prizes at the “International Festival Law and Society “in Moscow (2003 for Three Bullets and a Dead Child , 2008 for The Day When Theo van Gogh was murdered ). In 2007 she received - together with Georg M. Hafner , Frankfurt - the Buber Rosenzweig Medal 2007. For the film The Day Theo van Gogh Was Murdered , she was awarded the 2007 Prix ​​Europa with co-author and director Kamil Taylan .

In November 2007, there was a public controversy between Esther Schapira and the German-Turkish pop singer Muhabbet , who is said to have approved the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh to her and Kamil Taylan . The singer has "completely" rejected these allegations.

Publications

  • Georg M. Hafner , Esther Schapira: The Alois Brunner files. Why one of the biggest Nazi criminals is still at large. Campus, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-593-36569-3 .
  • Georg M. Hafner, Esther Schapira: The child, death and the media battle for truth. The case of Mohammed al-Durah. Edition Critic, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-9814548-7-1 .
  • Georg M. Hafner, Esther Schapira: Israel is to blame for everything. Why the Jewish state is so hated. Eichborn, Cologne 2015, ISBN 3-8479-0589-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HR Chronicle 2003:  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) April 26th price for HR documentation@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hr-online.de
  2. ↑ hr press release:  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) hr documentary awarded in Moscow , April 23, 2008.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hr-online.de
  3. ↑ Hessischer Rundfunk:  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Two hr journalists are honored with the Buber Rosenzweig Medal , March 9, 2007.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hr-online.de
  4. ↑ Isabel Schad:  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) We are too naive! , hr television, November 8, 2007.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hr-online.de
  5. ↑ a b Thorsten Dörting, Reinhard Mohr: Pop singer Muhabbet: model boy under suspicion of Islamism. In: Spiegel Online. November 13, 2007, accessed December 2, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Schapira, Esther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main