Margot Overath

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Margot Overath (* 1947 in Krefeld ) is a German feature writer .

Career

Overath studied social sciences and has worked for radio since 1980, as a feature writer since 1984.

Honourings and prices

In 1997 she was awarded the Civis Media Prize for Deported (RB) and On the Run. How the young Koudjo from Togo got asylum in Germany after all (DLR-B / RB). In 1998 she received a prize from the International Federation of Journalists for On the Run . Furthermore, Margot Overath is the winner of the Feature Prize Bremer Hörkino for her contribution Burned in Police Cell No. 5 - The Death of the Asylum Seeker Oury Jalloh in Dessau . In 2011 she received the Radio Prize of the Robert Geisendörfer Prize , the Regino Prize for excellent judicial reporting and the Marl Media Prize for Human Rights for the same contribution . For Oury Jalloh - The contradicting truths of a death (MDR / WDR / NDR 2014) she was awarded the civis honorary award 2015. This show was also awarded the Feature Prize of the Bremer Hörkinos and the dokKa Prize 2015 and was nominated for the Prix Europa 2015 in the Radio Current Affairs category. In 2016 Margot Overath was awarded the Axel Eggebrecht Prize for her life's work .

Works

  • In my imagination I could fly. The abduction of composer Isang Yun in the 1967 Cold War. Feature. Director: Beate Rosch . Prod .: SFB, 1997.
  • The sleep cure. Protocol of a psychiatry error based on documents and original sound certificates. Feature. Director: Wolfgang Bauernfeind . Prod .: SFB-ORB / NDR / WDR, 1999. (Nomination for the Prix ​​Europa ).
  • Burned in police cell number 5. The death of the asylum seeker Oury Jalloh in Dessau , MDR / DLF / NDR 2010.
  • “I can't forget that for a day.” The new life of Mouctar Bah , DLF 2011.
  • Oury Jalloh - The contradicting truths of a death , Feature - Director: Nikolai von Koslowski , Prod .: MDR, NDR WDR 2014.
  • WDR5 Podcast: Oury Jalloh and the dead of the Dessau police station

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Feature Prize Bremer Hörkino: Prize Winner 2011. on: bremer-hoerkino.de , December 22, 2010.
  2. ↑ Burned in police cell number 5: The death of the asylum seeker Oury Jalloh in Dessau.
  3. ^ Margot Overath: Oury Jalloh - The contradicting truths of a death , MDR, NDR WDR 2014,
personal data
SURNAME Overath, Margot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld