Liberty Award
The Reemtsma Liberty Award ( German: "Freedom Prize" or "Independence Prize") was donated from 2007 to 2018 by Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH, a subsidiary of the British Imperial Brands . According to the statute, this should honor foreign correspondents and reporters who “do extraordinary things for freedom - the freedom of the media, society and thus for the freedom of every individual”. The prize was endowed with 15,000 euros and was awarded once a year. A jury made up of journalists and media scholars decided on the winners.
The award ceremony, which only invited guests were allowed to attend, took place in Berlin each spring.
In October 2018, Reemtsma announced that it would stop giving the Liberty Awards after twelve years.
Members of the jury
(As of November 1, 2017)
Günter Bentele , Nikolaus Blome , Gero von Boehm , Ute Brucker , Tita von Hardenberg , Tina Hassel , Helmut Markwort , Evelyn Roll , Majid Sattar , Robert Skuppin and Theo Sommer . Anyone could submit suggestions.
Award winners
- 2007: Georg Blume for reports on human rights violations and environmental scandals in China , which he published in Die Zeit and the taz .
- 2008: Fiona Ehlers for her reports in Der Spiegel and Berliner Zeitung
- 2009: Thomas Roth and Stephan Stuchlik for reporting on the war in Georgia
- 2010: Ina Ruck and Stephan Stuchlik for the article Murder in Moscow - Who Shot Stanislaw Markelow ?
- 2011: Andreas Landwehr for his many years of reporting on the People's Republic of China as dpa office manager in Beijing
- 2012: Konrad Schuller for reporting on Ukraine and the trial of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Julija Tymoshenko
- 2013: Bettina Rühl for her ARD radio feature “Der Anführer” from the Congo
- 2014: Susanne Koelbl for her reports on the civil war in Syria and North Korea
- 2015: Martin Durm for his radio feature "Syrian Inferno - a civil war is escalating", a "mixture of many years of experience, hard on-site research and conscious subjectivity that makes the horror of the Syrian civil war a bit more palpable"
- 2016: Wolfgang Bauer for his reports on Mediterranean refugees
- 2017: Claas Relotius for his Spiegel reports about a Yemeni in the US Guantanamo prison and two Syrian refugee children (Spiegel Online reported at the end of 2018 that Claas Relotius' text was probably a fake).
criticism
The criticism of the Reemtsma Liberty Award was mainly directed against the award- winning company Reemtsma. Critics accused the company of essentially lobbying with this price . The event is aimed at lobbyists , politicians and journalists in order to build appropriate networks. In reporting on the award, it was pointed out several times that Reemtsma did not allow independent film and television teams to attend the awards.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ liberty-award.de Freedom is not a matter of course , accessed on December 27, 2007
- ↑ liberty-award.de award
- ^ Reemtsma Liberty Award. Retrieved October 27, 2018 (German).
- ^ Jury , accessed on November 1, 2017.
- ↑ Conditions of participation , accessed on November 1, 2017.
- ↑ liberty-award.de, Liberty Award 2007
- ↑ www.liberty-award.de , accessed on March 8, 2016.
- ↑ Ullrich Fichtner : SPIEGEL discloses fraud in its own house. In: Der Spiegel. December 19, 2018, accessed December 19, 2018 .
- ^ NDR.de, good contacts - the tobacco industry and the journalists ( memento from September 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), in Zapp , broadcast on March 28, 2007 at 11 p.m.