Karsten Polke-Majewski

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Karsten Polke-Majewski (born around 1972) is a German journalist and author . From July 2008 to February 2014 he was deputy editor-in-chief of Zeit Online , since then he has headed the Investigative / Data department at Zeit Online .

Career

Polke-Majewski graduated from the Rhein-Wied-Gymnasium Neuwied , where he spent nine school years up to his Abitur in 1991 in the same year as the right-wing populist Björn Höcke , six of them in a joint Latin class. He then studied German , history and geography at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . After an internship at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , he worked as a political editor for the online service faz.net . In the meantime, a journalism scholarship took him to the Netherlands. As an alumni he was part of the German-American Editors Program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung . From 2003 Polke-Majewski wrote as a freelance journalist a. a. for Die Zeit and the Frankfurter Allgemeine . From July 2008 he was deputy editor-in-chief at Zeit Online . Since February 2014 he has been head of the Investigative / Data department at Zeit Online , where a. the journalists Kai Biermann and Astrid Geisler are also active.

Polke-Majewski's research together with u. a. Lutz Ackermann and Oliver Schröm on Cum / Ex deals were published almost simultaneously across the media as a panorama broadcast on ARD and in an extensive print article in Die Zeit and Zeit Online in June 2017 . The panorama broadcast was awarded the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism, the Zeit-Artikel u. a. with the Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize . In 2016 he was nominated for the Grimme Online Award with his article "Money attracts doctors" .

Awards

  • 2014 Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for business journalism in the online category for the series “Großstadtärzte”.
  • 2015 Ernst Schneider Prize for the series "Deadly Germs".
  • 2016 German Reporter Award in the data journalism category for “It burns in Germany”.
  • 2017 Helmut Schmidt journalist award for "CumEx - the largest tax robbery in German history"
  • 2017 Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism for "Billions from the Treasury: On the Trail of Tax Robbers"
  • 2017 German Journalism Prize Economy | Stock exchange | Finances (djp) for "CumEx - the biggest tax robbery in German history"
  • 2017 Kinderothilfe media award for "Who protects Rana?"

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karsten Polke-Majewski: My classmate, the right agitator . In: Zeit Online . February 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ Christoph Dowe and Karsten Polke-Majewski new deputy editors-in-chief . In: Zeit Online . July 8, 2008.
  3. ↑ Imprint Zeit Online , accessed on March 23, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Lutz Ackermann , Manuel Daubenberger, Philip Faigle, Karsten Polke-Majewski, Felix Rohrbeck, Christian Salewski, Oliver Schröm : Billions from the state treasury: The tax robbers . In: Panorama . June 7, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b Lutz Ackermann , Benedikt Becker, Manuel Daubenberger, Philip Faigle, Karsten Polke-Majewski, Felix Rohrbeck, Christian Salewski, Oliver Schröm : The greatest tax robbery in German history . In: Zeit Online . June 7, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b Excellent business journalism . In: Handelsblatt . 29th November 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Helmut Schmidt Journalist Award 2017.
  8. ↑ Grimme Online Award 2016 .
  9. ↑ Paul Blickle, Karsten Polke-Majewski, Julian Stahnke, Sascha Venohr: Money attracts doctors . In: Zeit Online . 23rd July 2015.
  10. ↑ Outstanding business journalism: Dieter von Holtzbrinck Medien awards Georg von Holtzbrinck prizes for business journalism 2014 In: Handelsblatt Media Group . November 28, 2014.
  11. ^ Series "Großstadtärzte" . In: The time . 2014.
  12. ^ Winner of the Ernst Schneider Prize . 2015.
  13. ↑ Series "Deadly Germs" . In: The time . since 2014.
  14. ^ Reporter Forum eV: German Reporter Award . 2016.
  15. ↑ Paul Blickle, Kai Biermann , Philip Faigle, Astrid Geisler , Götz Hamann , Lenz Jacobsen, Anna Kemper , Martin Klingst, Karsten Polke-Majewski, Stefan Schirmer, Hannes Soltau, Julian Stahnke, Toralf Staud , Tilman Steffen, Sascha Venohr: It burns in Germany . In: The time . 3rd December 2015.
  16. ^ The Early Editors Club: German Journalist Award . 2017.
  17. ↑ 19th Kindernothilfe Media Prize awarded . In: Kindernothilfe . 3rd November 2017.
  18. ↑ Karsten Polke-Majewski: Who is protecting Rana? In: Zeit Online . September 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Polke-Majewski, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH around 1972