Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize

The Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize is an ING-DiBa prize awarded annually in autumn for special achievements in the field of critical consumer journalism .

It is named after former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , who was also the patron of the award during his lifetime. Since 1996, the Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize has honored consumer-oriented reporting on economic and financial topics. In the first four years, one prize winner was honored. In 2000 and 2001, a distinction was made between the media genres TV, print, online and, in some cases, radio, and a prize winner was awarded for each genre. Since 2002, 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes have been awarded across all genres. The Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize is currently endowed with a total of 35,000 euros, of which 15,000 goes to first place, 10,000 to second and 5,000 euros to third place. A young talent award endowed with 5000 euros has been awarded since 2017.

jury

As of May 2020, the jury members include:

• Heinz-Roger Dohms (finanz-szene.de)
• Hans Leyendecker (Sueddeutsche Zeitung)
• Max-Valentin Löbing (ING)
• Ulric Papendick ( Cologne School of Journalism , Managing Director)
• Claudia Pörings ( ZDF , head of the "stock exchange and finance department")
• Claudia Schick ( Hessischer Rundfunk )
• Hermann-Josef Tenhagen ( financial tip )
• Uwe Vorkötter ( Horizont , formerly editor-in-chief of Berliner Zeitung and Frankfurter Rundschau )
• Frank-Bernhard Werner ( Euro on Sunday )

former members

• Clarissa Ahlers ( NDR television )
• Arno Balzer ( Manager Magazin )
• Claudia Mast (Chair for Communication Science and Journalism at the University of Hohenheim )
• Berthold Morschhäuser (bank and market)
• Ulrich Ott (Press spokesman ING-DiBa)
• Hubertus Primus ( test )
• Ulrich Wickert (journalist)

criticism

The Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize is aggressively sponsored by the private direct bank ING. High-ranking politicians are also regularly present at the awards ceremony. Various journalists have therefore criticized in the past that the Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize is too closely linked to politics and the private sector. The 2018 young talent, Laura Meschede , rejected the award, justifying this by stating that the award was a "PR machine".

Award winners

• 1996 : Bernd Wittkowski for an article about the advantages and disadvantages of the GeldKarte in the Frankfurter Rundschau
• 1997 : Egon Wachtendorf for two articles about private old-age provision in the DM magazine
• 1998 : Ranga Yogeshwar for Quarks & Co episode Die Börse - simply explained
• 1999 : Stefan Loipfinger for an article on the expected return on closed funds
• 2000
  • TV: Elke Brandstätter for a WDR report on international transfers
  • Print: Dietmar Palan for an article in Manager Magazin about the evaluation of the Neuer Markt
  • Online: Frauenfinanzseite.de
• 2001
  • TV: Olaf Kumpfert for a WISO article on banking practice with transfer orders
  • Print: Stephanie Heise for an article in Wirtschaftswoche about self-interest in analyst recommendations
  • Radio: Bettina Weitz for a BR report about ecological investments.
  • Online: Anlegerschutzarchiv.de
• 2002
  • 1st prize: Renate Daum for Börse-Online -Article about the scandal at Comroad
  • 2nd prize: Wolfgang Reuter for The Battle of Speculators in Der Spiegel
  • 3rd prize: Ursel Sieber and Mathew D. Rose for a contrast contribution through Bankgesellschaft Berlin
• 2003
  • 1st prize: Hauke ​​Reimer for an article on Wirtschaftswoche about the hedge fund manager Florian Homm
  • 2nd prize: Christian Buchholz for the Manager Magazine article Unique case in Germany
  • 3rd prize: Roland Stimpel for DMEuro -Article concrete bubble
• 2004
  • 1st prize: Frank Donovitz , Joachim Reuter and Karin Spitra for the cross-media star series Das 1x1 des Geldes
  • 2nd prize: Thomas Öchsner for the Süddeutsche Zeitung article A bond for life
  • 3rd prize: Ulrich Wolf for the Sächsische Zeitung article The big yield dilemma
• 2005
  • 1st prize: Klaus Martens for the WDR documentary bank secrets
  • 2nd prize: Stefan Schmid for the Deutschlandradio contribution cheap. About the powerlessness of the shareholders
• 2006
  • 1st prize: Hubert Seipel for a WDR documentary about investors at Grohe
  • 2nd prize: Nadine Oberhuber for a Die Zeit article on pension insurance
  • 3rd prize: Thomas Leif for the SWR documentation Read, laughed, punched. From the madness of the advisory republic
• 2007
  • 1st prize: Gabor Steingart for his Der Spiegel cover story World War I for Prosperity
  • 2nd prize (shared): Reto U. Schneider for an article on sales psychology in NZZ Folio
  • 2nd prize (shared): Robert von Heusinger for an open letter "to the dear state" in Die Zeit about the difficulties with retirement provision
• 2008
  • 1st prize: Nikola Sellmair for two star reports on the globalized food market
  • 2nd prize: Michaela Schießl , Steffen Winter and Beat Balzli for an article in Spiegel about the liquidity crisis at Sachsen LB
  • 3rd prize (shared): Wolfgang Hirn and Henrik Müller for a manager Magazin article on the relationship between "super capitalism" and democracy
  • 3rd prize (shared): Britta Buchholz and Michael Scheuch for the ZDF feature Die Macht der Managers
• 2009
  • 1st prize: Alexander Neubacher for an article in Der Spiegel about the health reform of the grand coalition
  • 2nd prize: Kersten Sebastian Schüßler for an arte contribution on the causes of the current financial crisis
  • 3rd prize: Marc Brost and Wolfgang Uchatius for a Die Zeit article about the " child bonus "
• 2010
  • 1st prize: Hans Leyendecker , Klaus Ott and Nicolas Richter for a Süddeutsche Zeitung article about the takeover of Hypo Group Alpe Adria by BayernLB
  • 2nd prize: Joachim Vollenschier for the WDR / NDR / arte co-production Chicken for Africa - on the nonsense of global action
  • 3rd prize: Susanne Meunier and Beate-Kathrin Bextermöller for a financial test article on occupational disability insurance .
• 2011
  • 1st prize: Thomas Katzensteiner and Ulric Papendick for a manager Magazin article about shadow banks
  • 2nd prize: Marcus Rohwetter for a Die Zeit article about high mobile phone charges abroad ( data roaming )
  • 3rd prize: Thomas Tuma and Martin U. Müller for the Spiegel article World Religion Shopping
  • 3rd prize: Katharina Adami and Jutta Himmel-Fricke for their BR broadcast Riesterwahnsinn
• 2012
  • 1st prize: Klaus Stern for the documentation Insurance Agent - The Amazing Career of Mehmet Göker
  • 2nd prize: Silke Gronwald and Rolf-Herbert Peters for a Stern contribution about the increasing discount boom
  • 3rd prize: Christian Esser and Lutz Ackermann for a ZDF documentary about the Karstadt buyer Nicolas Berggruen
• 2013
  • 1st prize: Bastian Brinkmann , Christoph Giesen , Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer for the SZ series Offshore Leaks
  • 2nd prize: Diana Löbl and Peter Onneken for the ARD documentary Delivered! Temporary workers at amazon
  • 3rd prize: Fabian Gartmann for a Handelsblatt article on "professional plaintiffs" at general meetings
  • 3rd prize: Annina Reimann for the Wirtschaftswoche article Do you want an account?
• 2014
  • 1st prize: Bastian Obermayer and Uwe Ritzer for a Süddeutsche Zeitung article about the manipulation of votes at ADAC . This article also received the German Journalist Award 2014 in the Mobility and Logistics category .
  • 2nd prize: Marc Bauder for his documentary Master of the Universe
  • 3rd prize: Stefan Aust and Thomas Ammann for the NDR / arte co-production The plundered state through public-private partnership financing
• 2015
  • 1st prize: Jonas Rest and Eva Roth for the series Outsourced in the Net about the emergence of a "digital proletariat" on the Internet, published in the Berliner Zeitung
  • : 2nd Prize Catherine Henrich and Martin Schulz for their contribution pensioners undesirable in the journal financial test of the difficulties, the provider of a Riester contract change
  • 3rd prize: Carolyn Braun , Marcus Pfeil , Felix Rohrbeck and Christian Salewski for the report, published in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , on the hunt for scrap on the disposal of German electronic waste in Africa
• 2016
  • 1st prize: Frederik Obermaier , Bastian Obermayer and Vanessa Wormer for the publication about the Panama Papers in the spring of 2016 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  • 2nd prize: Kayhan Özgenc and Jan C. Wehmeyer for researching the VW exhaust gas scandal Dieselgate for Bild am Sonntag .
  • 3rd prize: Miriam Oprensik for the Hamburger Abendblatt with the series Swap a bank job for your own shop: Diary of a business start-up .
• 2017
  • 1st prize: Till Krause and Hannes Grassegger for their #insidefacebook report in SZ-Magazin
  • 2nd prize: Lutz Ackermann , Benedikt Becker, Manuel Daubenberger, Philip Faigle, Karsten Polke-Majewski , Felix Rohrbeck, Christian Salewski and Oliver Schröm for their cross-media contribution "Billions from the Treasury: The Tax Robbers " published in Panorama and Die Zeit
  • 3rd prize: Karsten Krogmann for his contribution "Lifted off - the history of the EWE crisis" in the Nordwest-Zeitung as well as Svea Eckert, Jasmin Klofta and Jan Lukas Strozyk for their NDR production "Naked on the net: millions of users spied out"

• 2018
  • 1st prize: Dr. Tilman Achtnich and Hanspeter Michel , SWR for the television documentary Games Without Borders
  • 2nd prize: Investigative team from Süddeutscher Zeitung, NDR and WDR for various reports on the Paradise Papers
  • 3rd prize: Christian Deker and Henning Wirtz , NDR, for CFD Trading: Who are the YouTube types who want to make you rich?
  • 3rd prize: Kerstin Mommsen , Südkurier, for the series Life Without Plastic
  • Young Talent Award: Svenja Beller for her article Leben am Rand . The original laureate Laura Meschede rejected the honor for ethical reasons in a speech during the award ceremony.

• 2019
  • 1st prize: Marta Orosz , Christian Salewski and Oliver Schröm , corrective for the story Grand Theft Europe
  • 2nd prize: Katharina Adami , Uli Köppen , Oliver Schnuck , Robert Schöffel , Josef Streule and Maximilian Zierer , BR as well as Christina Elmer , Alexander Kruse , Marcel Pauly , Philipp Seibt and Patrick Stotz , Der Spiegel for the research and "Blackbox Schufa" - Reporting.
  • 3rd prize: Johannes Edelhoff , Götz Hamann , Karsten Polke-Majewski , Felix Rohrbeck and Christian Salewski , Die Zeit , Zeit Online & Panorama ( NDR ), for the exclusive research on the German truck toll
  • Young Talent Award:
    • 1st prize: Johanne Bischoff , Sabine Cygan , Jana Münkel and Wiebke Schindler , Exakt / Fakt ( MDR ) for hidden among data dealers
    • 2nd prize: Anne Kliem , Stiftung Warentest for clean and legal once, please
    • 3rd prize: Nikolas Golsch , Radio Bremen for our soil - livelihood as an object of speculation?

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Young Talent Award
2. ↑ jury , www.helmutschmidtjournalistenpreis.de, accessed online on September 11, 2012
3. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize - "This is a PR event". Deutschlandfunk, accessed on May 19, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} If everything stays as it is, the future will hit us very hard. Sheets for German and international politics, accessed on May 19, 2020 . 
5. ↑ The Battle of the Speculators
6. ↑ Unique case in Germany
7. ↑ Risk of long life
8. ^ World War for Prosperity
9. ↑ Price war in the Bückzone
10. ↑ Organic apples from the end of the world ( Memento of the original from June 5, 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. 
11. ↑ The short life of piglet 0146
12. ^ Casino provincial
13. ↑ On the dump
14. ↑ The madhouse
15. ↑ Summary burnt money  ( 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.  
16. ↑ A wheel for Germany
17. ↑ Rarely as requested
18. ↑ Dear cutthroats
19. ↑ World religion shopping
20. ↑ Offshore Leaks
21. ↑ Do you want an account
22. ↑ Departed
23. ↑ http://www.djp.de/preisverleihung_gewinner2014.html
24. ↑ The looted state ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
25. ↑ Outsourced in the network
26. ↑ Pensioners undesirable
27. ↑ On the hunt for the junk
28. ↑ Helmut Schmidt Journalist Award 2016 , Kress News from September 28, 2016
29. ↑ Game without limits
30. ↑ Who are the YouTube guys who want to make you rich?
31. ↑ Life without plastic
32. ↑ Life on the Edge
33. ↑ Grand Theft Europe - A European Research
34. ↑ Blackbox Schufa
35. ^ Toll Collect: A cartel against the taxpayers
36. ↑ Hidden among data dealers
37. ↑ Clean and legal - is that possible? Plaster portals put to the test
38. ↑ Our soil - the basis of life as an object of speculation?

Web links

• Official website of the Helmut Schmidt Journalist Award