Regino Prize

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The Regino Prize for Outstanding Justice Reporting is a journalist prize awarded annually from 2000 to 2015 for reports on the judiciary , everyday judicial life, those involved in the judicial process and processes. The journalist prize is awarded by the Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) and the initiator of the prize, the Koblenz defense lawyer Wolfgang Ferner. The prize is endowed with 750 euros per category. It was awarded for the last time in 2015.

Task and criteria

The award is aimed at court reporters from all media. Outstanding submissions will be awarded in the categories: print media , radio reports , television reports and new media (web productions). The work must have been published within a year between August 1st and July 31st of the award year.

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The name of the award commemorates Regino , a medieval abbot of the Prüm monastery. It was brought into being by the lawyer Wolfgang Ferner and is supported by the NJW. According to the website, the jury in 2005 included Wolfgang Ferner, the journalist Bernhard Toepper from ZDF , the Chief Public Prosecutor Becker-Toussaint, and two members of the NJW editorial team . The Minister of Justice of Rhineland-Palatinate was involved as patron .

The part of the Regino Prize ceremony, which goes beyond everything that is current on the day, is the celebratory speech, which is usually given by celebrities and trendsetters among court reporters. This is not to be confused with the reasons for the award and the laudation for the individual award winners. Most of the time, the content is about the fundamentals of ethics, practice and problems of contemporary justice.

Award winners

  • 2015 Georgios Gounalakis lecture
    • Print: Thomas Sigmund ( Handelsblatt ) for In the Name of the People? . In his 8-page article he dealt with the question "How fair is the rule of law".
    • Television: Dagmar Gallenmüller and Julia Albrecht ( Westdeutscher Rundfunk ) for The Consequences of the Act . The processing of the RAF attack by Susanne Albrecht, who was involved in the murder of Jürgen Ponto.
    • Television: Christoph Weber ( ARD ) for Files D - The Failure of Post-War Justice . The author asked what the German judiciary was doing in the post-war decades and why so many Nazi perpetrators were neither caught nor convicted.
  • 2014 lecture by Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem , former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
    • Print: Elisabeth Raether and Tanja Stelzer ( Die Zeit ) for The Lie of Her Life . It was about the family and judicial drama of a young girl and her father.
    • Radio: Ina Krauss, Tim Assmann, Thies Marsen and Matthias Reich ( Bayerischer Rundfunk ) for their radio feature Many questions, few answers for the judicial review of the NSU murders.
    • Television: Sigrid Born and Nicole Würth ( Saarländischer Rundfunk ) for “Achtung Erbschleicher! The Struggle for Grandma's House ”, a 45-minute TV documentary.
  • 2013 - three award winners, celebratory speech by Tobias Freudenberg , editor-in-chief of the NJW
    • Print: Jost Müller-Neuhof ( Der Tagesspiegel ), the observation of the legal / procedural and media background of the circumcision debate in Germany after the judgment of the Cologne Regional Court.
    • Radio: David Hecht ( Deutschlandfunk ), for his contribution Africa's rags - Germany's justice .
    • Television: Alexander Harbi ( Stern TV ), for his contribution The Peggy case .
  • 2006 - three award winners, internet not included, speech of judge Gerda Müller
    • Print: Bernd Hauser von Stern , Sie & Er für Ein Volk is in court
    • Television: Christel Schmidt (HR) for family ties
    • Broadcasting: Horst Meier (Deutschlandfunk) for enemy criminal law
  • 2005 - five winners, internet not included, speech by Gisela Friedrichsen
    • Print: Nicola de Paoli and Kirsten Bialdiga from Financial Times Deutschland for The Mannesmann Trial : In the field of tension between law and morality
    • Radio: Doris Simon (DeutschlandRadio) for One country holds its breath: Belgium before the Dutroux process
    • Television: Samuel Schirmbeck and Henning Burk (HR) for The Story of a Test Driver - The Day I Became a Death Razor
  • 2004 - dropped, merged with the following year
  • 2002 - full range of media almost realized,
    • Print: Cornelia Schwenkenbecher (monthly magazine Das Magazin , Berlin) for her court report column, submitted by her: What does a lifelong person have to lose?
    • Print: Lorenz Hofstädter ( Die Rheinpfalz ) for his series of court reports
    • Radio: Petra Klostermann-Groß (Hessischer Rundfunk) for trial against young blackmailers
    • Television: Bernhard Töpper and Joachim Pohl (ZDF) for their report 50 years of the Federal Constitutional Court
  • 2001 - Aimed for expansion to audio-visual media, keynote speech by Gerhard Mauz
    • Print: Peter Holenstein ( Tages-Anzeiger ) for his report Der Verdacht (false suspicion of sexual abuse)
    • Print: Sabine Rückert (Die Zeit) for the process reporting on the Reemtsma proceedings
    • Television: Sascha Becker (SWR) special price
  • 2000 - at the beginning only newspaper reporters in view
    • Print: Jutta Behr-Groh and Gertrud Glössner-Möschk ( Fränkischer Tag ) for reports on the OLG Bamberg
    • Print: Reinhard Breidenbach ( Allgemeine Zeitung ) for a report on the Engelmann murder trial
    • Print: Jürgen Gückler ( Göttinger Tageblatt ) for a series over 50 years of the Basic Law

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