Minh Thu Tran

Minh Thu Tran (2019)

Minh Thu Tran (* 1993 ) is a German journalist and podcaster .

Life

Tran grew up as a child of former Vietnamese contract workers in Bavaria. Her mother worked as a cleaner, her father as a restaurateur. She studied political science in Munich and Aix-en-Provence . She completed an apprenticeship as a multimedia journalist at the German School of Journalism (DJS) in Munich . There she met the journalist Vanessa Vu , also of Vietnamese origin . With her, she launched the podcast Rice and Shine in February 2018 . The podcast about Vietnamese identity was discussed by the Süddeutsche Zeitung of the taz and Vice , among others .

Tran lives in Cologne and works as a freelance journalist mainly for Deutschlandfunk Nova and Cosmo .

Awards and nominations

2019: Medium Magazin Top 30 under 30 as a journalist
2019: Grimme Online Award (nomination) for the "Rice and Shine Podcast" (culture and entertainment)
2019: Plan Media Prize for Children's Rights for "Two Child Soldiers and the International Criminal Court"

Individual evidence

↑ Lin Hierse: Podcasters on Identity - “We want to fill a gap”. In: taz . March 8, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 .
↑ Tweet from Minh Thu Tran. November 11, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .
↑ Lioba Werrelmann: "Rice and Shine" - a Vietnamese podcast. In: WDR5. September 24, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 .
↑ Minh Thu Tran's schedule for nr19. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b Ornella Cosenza: Neuland - Rice and Shine. In: SZ Young People. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 5, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2019 .
↑ Awarding of the “Plan Media Prize for Children's Rights” today in the Federal Chancellery. In: ots.at. October 7, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .
↑ Elsbeth Bräuer and Minh Thu Tran: Two child soldiers and the International Criminal Court - two victims, one perpetrator. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. March 23, 2020, accessed July 25, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tran, Minh Thu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1993

[1] Lin Hierse: Podcasters on Identity - “We want to fill a gap”. In: taz . March 8, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 .

[2] Tweet from Minh Thu Tran. November 11, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .

[3] Lioba Werrelmann: "Rice and Shine" - a Vietnamese podcast. In: WDR5. September 24, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 .

[4] Minh Thu Tran's schedule for nr19. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .

[SZ-5] Ornella Cosenza: Neuland - Rice and Shine. In: SZ Young People. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 5, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2019 .

[6] Awarding of the “Plan Media Prize for Children's Rights” today in the Federal Chancellery. In: ots.at. October 7, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .

[7] Elsbeth Bräuer and Minh Thu Tran: Two child soldiers and the International Criminal Court - two victims, one perpetrator. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. March 23, 2020, accessed July 25, 2020 .