Sönke Iwersen

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Sönke Iwersen (born April 9, 1971 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and works as a department head for the Handelsblatt . The investigative team built up under his leadership received numerous awards. Iwersen himself has also received numerous awards for his journalistic work.

Live and act

Iwersen is the son of a painter and a children's nurse. In 1984 he began to work as a newspaper boy for the Hamburger Abendblatt . In mid-1987 he went to the USA for a student exchange year . After his return he worked alongside school for the scientific publishing house Dr. Kovač in Hamburg. Iwersen is married and has two sons.

Iwersen began his journalistic career in the sports department. He has mainly written articles on basketball for the German, British and US media . Before he was admitted to the Axel Springer School of Journalism in 2000 , he wrote about sports and business topics for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Berliner Zeitung and other media. In 2002 he became a business editor at the Stuttgarter Zeitung . In Stuttgart he was responsible for the consumer goods industry. With numerous exclusive stories, he described the decline of the Salamander shoe company . His background reports on the mini locomotive manufacturer Märklin and the constant changes in the board of directors at the robot manufacturer IWKA attracted nationwide attention .

In 2006 Iwersen moved to the Handelsblatt. In 2014 he took over the editor-in-chief of the Handelsblatt Live App with 15 editors in Germany, the USA and Japan. Handelsblatt Live was later integrated into the overall editorial team. Since 2012, Iwersen has headed the investigative department he set up, which under his leadership has developed into an important corrective in the German media landscape and has received numerous awards.

Iwersen reported on spectacular cases like in 2010 together with his Handelsblatt colleague Jürgen Flauger about the Teldafax scandal and in 2011 about the sex party scandal in the insurance group Ergo . He also researched and reported on sales payments from Debeka insurance to so-called tipsters in the civil service. He also reported on the subsidy scandal surrounding the German solar manufacturer Q-Cells, a committee of inquiry was then set up in Saxony-Anhalt in this matter.

In 2015 the financial investor Peter Löw tried in vain to arrest Iwersen for reporting on Löw's insider trading. In 2016, Iwersen revealed unknown details about Edward Snowden's escape route . For this report he received the Kurt Tucholsky Prize for literary journalism .

Iwersen also wrote numerous reports on the Cum-Ex tax-saving model. He and his colleagues were awarded the Hugo Junkers Prize in 2018 for his report on an Airbus armaments business .

Iwersen reported on numerous other dubious machinations and cases of national and international white-collar crime as well as affairs and scandals in finance, banking and the insurance industry. He has been honored many times, including as business journalist of the year 2011, with the Henri Nannen Prize 2013 and three Guardian Awards . Iwersen also received the Kurt Tucholsky Prize for literary journalism in 2017.

Trivia

Together with his colleague Felix Holtermann , Iwersen received the German Journalist Award 2019 in the asset management category for the article "Chaos in the crypto realm". On the basis of intensive research, the processes and backgrounds in the Envion scandal should have been presented transparently in an exemplary manner. The article references the coverage of Envion originally published in May 2018 as true. In a press release about a presumed overproduction of EVN tokens, Envion AG referred to the Handelsblatt reporting, as well as a presumed report by the Blockchain Intelligence Group , which should prove the guilt of the Envion founding team.

In December 2019, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung found incorrect conclusions in the original reporting. The Blockchain Intelligence Group distanced itself from information provided by Envion AG on its own website. In addition, the regional court and the Berlin Higher Regional Court held that no illegal tokens were produced at the ICO.

Awards (selection)

  • 2010: Friedrich Vogel Prize for Business Journalism , for a report about the entrepreneur Lars Windhorst
  • 2011: German Journalist Award , for the report “Herr Kaiser auf Lustreise” about the sex party scandal within the Ergo insurance group
  • 2011: Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize , for uncovering the Teldafax scandal (together with Jürgen Flauger)
  • 2011: Business Journalist of the Year from the trade magazine Der Wirtschaftsjournalist
  • 2012: Journalism Prize Gravenbrucher Kreis (together with Fabian Gartmann) for the article "Shop closing" in the Handelsblatt about the entrepreneur Anton Schlecker
  • 2012: Wächterpreis of the German daily press (together with Martin Buchenau and Jürgen Flauger) for reporting on the business of Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Stefan Mappus and the investment banker Dirk Notheis
  • 2013: Henri Nannen Prize in the Documentation category (together with Fabian Gartmann ) for the article “Shop closing” in the Handelsblatt about the entrepreneur Anton Schlecker
  • 2015: Wächterpreis of the German daily press (together with Jan Keuchel ), for his article about the justice affair surrounding the laboratory entrepreneur Bernd Schottdorf
  • 2016: Business Journalist of the Year of the trade magazine Der Wirtschaftsjournalist , Finance category (together with Yasmin Osman and Volker Votsmeier)
  • 2017: Kurt Tucholsky Prize for literary journalism for his report on Edward Snowden's Guardian Angels in Handelsblatt
  • 2017: Sigma Delta Chi Awards, Society of Professional Journalist (USA), for the English version of his report on Edward Snowden's Guardian Angels in Handelsblatt Global Edition
  • 2018: Hugo Junkers Prize (together with Markus Fasse, Mona Fromm, Thomas Hanke, Martin Murphy, Hans-Peter Siebenhaar and Volker Votsmeier), for the article “We are once again conducting a small war” in the Handelsblatt about an Airbus armaments business
  • 2019: Guardian Award of the German daily press (together with René Bender, Markus Fasse, Mona Fromm, Jan Keuchel, Alina Liertz, Stefan Menzel, Martin Murphy and Volker Votsmeier), for reporting on the diesel scandal in the Handelsblatt
  • 2019: German Journalist Award , for the report "Chaos in the crypto-realm" about the Envion scandal (with Felix Holtermann)

Publications

  • with Jürgen Flauger: The big electricity rip-off. The Teldafax scandal and what consumers can learn from it. ISBN 978-3-8442-8519-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sönke IWERSEN - anstageslicht.de. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Kurt Tucholsky Prize for Literary Journalism 2017 to Sönke Iwersen In: Kurt Tucholsky-Gesellschaft , September 18, 2017, accessed on October 4, 2017.
  3. ^ Kurt Tucholsky Prize for Literary Journalism 2017 to Sönke Iwersen In: Kurt Tucholsky-Gesellschaft , September 18, 2017, accessed on October 4, 2017.
  4. ↑ Handelsblatt: Awards
  5. ↑ Handelsblatt Teldafax trial: criminal proceedings against ex-managers stopped
  6. ↑ Ozan Demircan, Sönke Iwersen: The Chronicle of the Debeka Affair - and the documents. In: Handelsblatt . December 4, 2013, Retrieved February 17, 2020 (Last updated February 27, 2014).
  7. ↑ Data protection officer info
  8. ↑ Handelsblatt insider scandal at Q-Cells
  9. ↑ Landtag Saxony-Anhalt IBG affair: Committee presents report
  10. ↑ Media ex-dapd boss Peter Löw wants to bring Handelsblatt editors to prison
  11. ↑ Handelsblatt Guardian Angel - at the bottom
  12. ↑ Deutschlandfunk Nova Snowden's Guardian Angel: The helpers need help
  13. ↑ Handelsblatt How banks reached into the tax coffers, cum-ex deals and the consequences
  14. ↑ WDR Cum-Ex tax scandal: Bonn district court plans to summon banks
  15. ↑ Sönke IWERSEN - anstageslicht.de. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .
  16. ↑ a b Press release German Journalist Prize for Die Zeit, WirtschaftsWoche, Handelsblatt, Spiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung and brand eins
  17. ↑ Chaos in the crypto realm
  18. ↑ Press release Suspicion of unauthorized token issuance and unclear transactions characterize envion-ICO Forensic investigation by the Canadian Blockchain Intelligence Group (BIG) confirms these assumptions
  19. ↑ Much of the Envion scandal ICO in Zug is different than originally reported
  20. ↑ Journalist Awards : Winner
  21. ↑ Press portal
  22. ↑ Journalist Awards : Winner
  23. ↑ The business journalist of the year. Retrieved August 14, 2019 .
  24. ↑ RWS-Verlag Journalist and Science Award
  25. ↑ Newsroom.de Guardian Award
  26. ^ G + J: Henri Nannen Prize 2013
  27. ↑ Handelsblatt Handelsblatt awarded the Guardian Prize
  28. ↑ Handelsblatt Triple for the Handelsblatt
  29. ^ Tucholsky Society Kurt Tucholsky Prize for literary journalism goes to Sönke Iwersen
  30. ^ Society of Professionel Journalists Announcing the 2016 Sigma Delta Chi Award winners
  31. ^ Aviation Press Club Germany eV, Hugo Junkers Prize of the German Aerospace Press, all award winners. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .
  32. ↑ A portrait of the "Diesel Team" of the Handelsblatt - anstageslicht.de. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Iwersen, Sönke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg