Darmstadt Press Club
The Darmstadt Press Club is a registered association from Darmstadt . Every two years the press club praises the journalists' prize Der Niebergall, endowed with a total of 6,000 euros .
history
Since it was founded on January 17, 2005, the members of the press club have met monthly for seminars, lectures and advanced training events, regularly with the participation of external speakers and guests, in the Künstlerhaus Ziegelhütte in Darmstadt. Club goals are those
- Promotion of international sentiment, culture and understanding between peoples, with publications that promote tolerance in all areas of human coexistence,
- Information and opinion-forming, especially in the interests of promoting young journalists,
- the design of the model for the City of Science Darmstadt,
- as well as the professional training of domestic and foreign journalists, such as through scholarships. The scholarship for the next generation of journalists at the Darmstadt Press Club, worth 250 euros per month, went to the Darmstadt University student Kerstin Pasemann for the years 2014 and 2015 .
The spirit of the association becomes clear in a speech of thanks given by Lars Oliver Hennemann when he took over the chairmanship of the association in 2016:
“The press club exemplarily embodies the importance of a democratic social discourse and is open to everyone who is concerned with the maintenance and further development of this discourse in Darmstadt and the surrounding area. The last few weeks and months have shown how important the objective and balanced exchange of arguments are for our country. "
Members
The Darmstadt Press Club has seventy personal members, mainly journalists, ten corporate members and guest members. The corporate members are the companies and entities Darmstadt private brewery , Entega AG , HEAG , Hochschule Darmstadt , Chamber of Commerce Darmstadt , Klinikum Darmstadt , Merck KGaA , social security of Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture , Sparkasse Darmstadt , Darmstadt .
Board
The board of the Press Club Darmstadt eV, which is elected for two years until 2018, consists of the chairman Lars Oliver Hennemann, the deputy chairman Gerd G. Fischer and the treasurer Michael Spankus, as well as the assessors Petra Lochmann-Wilhelm, Eva Bredow-Cordier, Birgit Femppel and Harald Pleines.
The Niebergall
Every two years the press club praises the journalists' prize Der Niebergall , endowed with a total of 6,000 euros , in memory of the Darmstadt writer Ernst Elias Niebergall , who died at the age of 28 and whose dreary childhood was marked by material shortages. He tried to improve his living situation with literary products and gained notoriety, but only after his death, beyond his hometown, especially the dialect comedy Datterich .
Prize winner 2006
The first prize, which was still awarded 1000 euros, went to the local editorial team of the Frankfurter Rundschau in Darmstadt for their series We open doors , which was published in the pre-Christmas period in 2005 . The two second prizes, endowed with 750 euros, went to the editor of the Darmstadt Echo Paul-Hermann Gruner for his series My Favorite Place and Rainer Hein from the Rhein-Main-Zeitung of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for five articles on various local topics.
2008 award winners
In 2008, the 2500 Euro prize went to the Darmstadt journalist Frank W. Methlow for his Good Bye Gis series, which appeared in the local section of the Frankfurter Rundschau .
Award winner 2010
The features team of Stefan Benz, Johannes Breckner, Annette Krämer-Alig and Klaus Trapp of the Darmstädter Echo was awarded first prize for the eleven-part series leading actors from the domestic cultural scene . The second prize was awarded to the journalist Klaus Honold, whose contributions in the local section of the Darmstädter Echo deal with the city as a phenomenon, as a structurally successful or unsuccessful development and as an everyday environment .
Prize winner 2012
Correspondent Rainer Hein of the FAZ-Rhein-Main-Zeitung was awarded first prize for his two-year reporting on the Sander Museum. The newly created young talent award for the work of Kerstin Schumacher for the report on Darmstadt street prostitution in Kirschenallee, which she wrote as a volunteer at the Starkenburger Echo, was recognized with prize money of 2000 euros.
2014 award winners
Florian Karlein, local editor at Bergsträßer Anzeiger, received the first prize with a monetary bonus of 4,000 euros for his double-page doctor shortage in the country published in September 2012 . Mona Jaeger received the young talent award as a volunteer at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for her article Die in der Provinz , published in August 2014 , in which she presented the situation of palliative medicine in rural regions.
Prize winner 2016
The journalist Daniel Baczyk was awarded first prize for the two-part series published in 2015 about the Darmstadt SS general Karl Wolff . The second prize, endowed with 2000 euros, went to Marcella Märtel for a double page on the subject of sexting in the Bergsträßer Anzeiger . Andel Müller received the special prize, with a donation of 1000 euros, for his ten-page series on World War I published in Darmstädter Echo in 2014.
Web links
Website of the Darmstadt Press Club
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scholarship for young journalists. Retrieved March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Darmstadt Press Club with new management
- ^ Members of the press club. Retrieved March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Board of the Darmstadt Press Club. Retrieved March 8, 2018 .
- ^ Winner: The Niebergall. Retrieved March 8, 2018 .