Hermes Baby (collective of authors)
Hermes baby | |
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legal form | GbR |
founding | 23rd November 2019 |
Seat | Hamburg , Marktzeuln |
Number of employees | 8th |
Branch | journalism |
Website | hermes-baby.de |
Hermes Baby is an independent community of journalists .
It was founded in Hamburg on November 23, 2019 by the seven journalists Manuel Stark, Jonas Seufert, Alexander Rupflin, Gabriel Prödl, Lisbeth Schröder, Nele Rößler and Ruth Fulterer .
The self-proclaimed “Community for Good Stories” derives its name from the legendary Hermes Baby portable typewriter. The owners of a Hermes Baby include Ernest Hemingway , John Steinbeck , Peter Härtling and Friederike Mayröcker . The latter author is said to have said that she was "married" to her typewriter.
Publications of the community appear regularly in national media such as Zeit , Spiegel , Stern , Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Deutschlandfunk .
Foundation and goal
The community was founded a year after the scandal surrounding the Spiegel editor and forger of journalistic texts, Claas Relotius, became known . In the course of the excitement about made-up stories in a journalistic medium, the use of storytelling and dramaturgy in the creation of journalistic content was also increasingly criticized. The term "beautiful writer" came up as a derogatory term, which was mainly directed against authors from corporate departments who gained their prestige primarily through a precise and sonorous language and as authors were mainly representatives for the well-told story.
The members of Hermes Baby oppose this view. Instead, they call for the means of storytelling to be seen as an opportunity to convey information in an understandable, exciting and appealing way. They counter the criticism of seduction through narratives that only knowledge of the same instruments would help to expose falsifications or kitsch . They also want to rethink journalistic publication channels in order to find their audience not only in an already established readership or audience. To this end, they are experimenting with the presentation of journalism in new forms, such as: on the theater stage, as a comic , exhibition or song.
The community is involved in youth work and designs projects together with the youth press . Individual members take on mentoring for young authors or hold seminars at universities, colleges and other educational institutions - for example the Goethe Institute , the University of Bamberg , the Reutlingen Reportage School , the State Center for Political Education Rhineland-Palatinate or the International Press Club Munich .
List of members
member | nationality | status | focus | medium | education |
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Manuel Stark | Germany | Founder, active 2019 - | Society, science | Magazine , newspaper , online | German School of Journalism |
Alexander Rupflin | Germany | Founder, active 2019 - | Crime, culture, society | Magazine , newspaper , theater | Reportage school Reutlingen |
Gabriel Prödl | Austria | Founder, active 2019 - | Culture, fashion, religion | Magazine , newspaper | Reportage school Reutlingen |
Lisbeth Schröder | Germany | Founder, active 2019 - | Science, society | Magazine , newspaper , online , film & television | German School of Journalism |
Nele Roessler | Germany | Founder, active 2019 - | Science, politics | Radio , podcast | Deutschlandfunk |
Jonas Seufert | Germany | Founder, active 2019 - | Investigatives, social criticism | Magazine , newspaper , online | German School of Journalism |
Ruth Fulterer | Italy | Founder, active 2019 - | Economy, sustainability | Magazine , newspaper , theater | Reportage school Reutlingen |
Benedict Herber | Germany | Member, active 2020 - | Culture, society, politics | Magazine , newspaper , online | German School of Journalism |
Awards (selection)
- Manuel Stark won the Helmut Stegmann Prize in 2018 for the best work submitted by all graduates of journalism schools in Germany. In 2020 he was voted one of the top 30 to 30 in German journalism by Medium Magazin
Projects
- Exhibition " Faces and Stories " on the German psychiatry reform in the rooms of the KulturAmbulanz in Bremen, February to June 2020 - author Manuel Stark with photographer Rafael Heygster
- Journalistic play " I had nothing and wanted a lot " by Alexander Rufplin and Ruth Fulterer on the cum-ex scandal
- Newspaper course for juvenile offenders, Jonas Seufert develops a magazine with inmates of a prison in Berlin
- Editorial collaboration of Manuel Stark for the specialist magazine Columba (mourning, death and dying) and co-founder of the children's palliative magazine Columbina
Individual evidence
- ↑ NEW FOUNDATION: Authors' community - Hermes Baby - Manuel Stark. Retrieved on August 7, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Hermes Baby | Community for good stories. Retrieved on August 7, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Hermes baby . In: Wikipedia . February 15, 2020 ( wikipedia.org [accessed August 7, 2020]).
- ↑ Relotius & Co - What damage does storytelling do? Retrieved on August 7, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Does fictionality fit into journalism? Retrieved on August 7, 2020 (German).
- ↑ ZEIT ONLINE | Read zeit.de with advertising or with a PUR subscription. You have the choice. Retrieved August 7, 2020 .
- ↑ About Hermes Baby. In: Hermes Baby. Retrieved on August 7, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Manuel Stark - Focus pe Germana - Goethe-Institut. Retrieved August 7, 2020 .
- ^ Workshop "Media & Politics". July 8, 2019, accessed on August 7, 2020 (German).
- ^ Bavarian Journalists Association. Retrieved August 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Press release: Medien-Fachverlag Oberauer. In: Medium magazine. Medien-Fachverlag Oberauer, June 30, 2020, accessed on August 7, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Press release : Faces and Stories - An exhibition in text and images on the German form of psychiatry. In: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ns1PFPOkpcAJ:https://www.kulturambulanz.de/galerie/ausstellungen/ausstellung_gesichter_allg.php+&cd=1&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=de&client=firefox- bd . KulturAmbulanz Bremen, June 14, 2020, accessed on August 7, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Alexander Rupflin. Retrieved on August 7, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Hermes Baby on Facebook Watch. Retrieved August 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Yumpu.com: COLUMBA Magazin 3-2017. Retrieved August 7, 2020 .