Martin Durm

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Martin Durm (born July 9, 1959 in Rodalben ) is a German radio reporter and foreign correspondent . He has received several awards for his reports from the Middle East.

Life

Durm studied politics and German in Freiburg . After an internship at the Rheinpfalz daily newspaper , he moved to the Süddeutscher Rundfunk Regionalstudio Heidelberg in 1986 as a reporter, in 1988 to the SDR 1 state editorial office, and in 1999 to the Zeitfunk editorial team for the political magazine “Südfunk aktuell”. From 1996 to 2001 Durm worked as an ARD radio correspondent in Cairo.

He then became deputy editor-in-chief at SWR1 until, from 2006, he reported on the EU as a correspondent from the ARD studio in Strasbourg. In 2011 Durm moved to SWR2 as a reporter and moderator.

Arabic spring

Since 2011 Durm has repeatedly reported on the revolts and civil wars in the Arab world for ARD, especially from Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Iraq and Syria. He received the prestigious Liberty Award for his radio feature "Syrian Inferno - A Civil War Escalated". Against the background of the escalating civil war, Durm described the fate of his local contact, with whom he and the ARD television correspondent Jörg Armbruster were traveling in Aleppo in the spring of 2013 during the Syrian war. The Liberty Award is endowed with 15,000 euros. It is intended to honor reporters and correspondents who go to crisis areas to provide first-hand information about grievances and who set standards with their reports.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait on SWR2, accessed on October 28, 2015
  2. ^ SWR report on the Liberty Award
  3. ↑ German Radio Prize, awarded in 2012
  4. ↑ Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig "Prize for the freedom and future of the media: Prize winners 2013: Jörg Armbruster and Martin Durm" Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig. (No longer available online.) In: www.leipziger-medienstiftung.de. Archived from the original on November 9, 2016 ; Retrieved November 9, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leipziger-medienstiftung.de
  5. ^ Liberty Award, excerpt from the laudation
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 13, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marler-fernsehpreis-fuer-menschenrechte.de
personal data
SURNAME Durm, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio reporter and foreign correspondent
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Rodalben