Sonya Winterberg

Sonya Winterberg (2019)

Sonya Winterberg (* 1970 ) is a Finnish-Swedish journalist , photographer and author .

Live and act

Sonya Winterberg's ancestors come from Germany. In 1989 she graduated from Borgå Gymnasium, a Swedish high school in Porvoo, Finland . After studying Scandinavian Studies , German Studies and Philosophy at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau , she worked, among other things, as a press spokesperson for an international environmental organization in Brussels . A stay of several years in the USA followed . From 2005 to 2012 Winterberg lived and worked in the Soldiner Kiez, a social hotspot in Berlin .

Her work focuses on war , trauma , social justice and integration. From 2011 to 2016 she worked with the Dutch photographer Claudia Heinermann under the Heinermann & Winterberg label in the field of long-term documentation. Winterberg sees herself as a representative of so-called decelerated journalism , which is dedicated to carefully researched long-term discussions of topics.

In addition to exhibitions of her own photojournalistic work, she curates exhibitions on contemporary history. In 2015 there was an exhibition for the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne about the life of the artist Käthe Kollwitz , in 2016 a traveling exhibition on behalf of the Kulturforum Ostliches Europa in Potsdam about the East Prussian wolf children and in 2019 the first posthumous retrospective of the photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2014 .

Winterberg is a trained community organizer of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) and a member of the German Institute for Community Organizing (DICO). From 2009 to 2012 she was a member of the church leadership of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Schlesische Oberlausitz ( EKBO ). In June 2013 she was elected to the board of the Association of Women Journalists .

She is married to the Dresden writer and screenwriter Yury Winterberg , with whom she has adopted two children.

reception

The newspapers in Medienhaus Bauer write about their publication Occupation Children: “Using touching individual fates, Winterberg draws attention to the difficult situation of these children, who often came from fleeting love affairs (...) Little is known that many occupation children were illegally adopted by Danish families. The author was able to find many contemporary witnesses, some of whom are still looking for their fathers today. "

The reviewer of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie eV writes about the exhibition catalog Anja Niedringhaus - Bilderkriegerin : "The book is a real photographic discovery of the photographer's oeuvre and an important contribution to the evaluation of the daily news from the crisis regions of the world."

Publications

• with Yury Winterberg : Children of War. A generation memories. Rotbuch, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86789-071-7 ; Piper Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-25800-5
• We are the wolf children. Left in East Prussia. Piper Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-05515-4 The book deals with the fate of the orphaned wolf children in the former East Prussia.
• with Yury Winterberg: Small hands in the great war. Children's fates of the First World War. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-351-03564-8
• Occupation children. The forgotten generation after 1945. Rotbuch, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86789-199-8 .
• with Yury Winterberg: Kollwitz. The biography. Bertelsmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-10202-2 .
• Like no other. The Dresden Cross School in the GDR . Bild & Heimat, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-959580-67-0 .

Anthologies

• Käthe Kollwitz in Berlin: A Search for Clues , contains: "Kollwitz and the Jews" and "Karl Kollwitz - more than just the man at your side", Berlin 2017.
• Käthe Kollwitz and her friends , contains: "Marianne Fiedler", Berlin 2017.
• Anja Niedringhaus. Image warrior , contains: “The work of Anja Niedringhaus”, “Balkan War - In the Middle of Europe”, “Iraq - Scenes of an Invasion”, “There is no democracy without good photos”, “Afghanistan - The great love”, “Portraits - snapshots "," Sport - The decisive second and biography ", Cologne 2019.

Exhibitions

• How passionate my life was - Käthe Kollwitz in photographs and self-testimony. Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne , 2015.
• Wolf children - lost between East Prussia and Lithuania. Various exhibition locations in Germany, 2016.
• Anja Niedringhaus - image warrior . Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne , 2019.

Filmography

• 2016: Kollwitz - A life of passion (ARTE / RBB, 52 minutes), screenplay
• 2018: child trafficking. In the middle of Europe (ARTE / NDR, 52 minutes), script, direction and production with Sylvia Nagel
• 2018: Parents behind bars (ARD / WDR, 45 minutes), co-producer, script and direction with Sylvia Nagel
• 2019: Medical experiments in Auschwitz - Clauberg and the women of Block 10 (ARTE / ZDF, 52 minutes; international theatrical version 72 minutes), co-producer, script and direction with Sylvia Nagel
• In production: Anja Niedringhaus - Bilderkriegerin (working title) for Ziegler Film on behalf of ZDF.

Awards (selection)

Nominated:

• Journalism Award of the European Parliament 2010
• German-French Journalism Award 2018
• 37th International URTI Grand Prix for Author's Documentary 2018

Receive:

• Käthe Kollwitz Medal of the Friends of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin 2017
• Alternative media award 2019
• Kinderothilfe 2019 media prize "Children's Rights in One World"
• Journalist Award of the White Ring 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Sonya Winterberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Journalist Sonya Winterberg - On the trail of the dark side of history , contribution from the series In Conversation , Deutschlandradio Kultur

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Interview with west.art Talk on WDR on April 27, 2012
2. ^ Ostpreussisches Landesmuseum Lüneburg: "Wolf Children - Abandoned Between East Prussia and Lithuania". In: www.ostpreussisches-landesmuseum.de. Retrieved December 7, 2016 . 
3. ↑ newsroom.de on June 17, 2013: Journalistinnenbund: Andrea Ernst remains chairwoman. Retrieved June 23, 2013 . 
4. ^ Marl, including Marler Zeitung from December 3, 2014
5. ↑ Current books in April 2019 | German Society for Photography. Accessed June 1, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Press kit special exhibition. Retrieved December 7, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Anja Niedringhaus. Retrieved June 1, 2019 . 
8. ^ ZDF press portal: ZDF is planning a docu-drama about the photo journalist Anja Niedringhaus: ZDF press portal. Retrieved June 1, 2019 . 
9. ↑ National winners nominated for European journalism award | News | European Parliament. October 6, 2010, accessed June 1, 2019 . 
10. ↑ admin: Nominations 2018. In: DFJP. Accessed June 1, 2019 (German). 
11. ↑ News | URTI. Retrieved June 1, 2019 . 
12. ^ The association of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin e. V. Accessed June 1, 2019 (German). 
13. ↑ May 24th: 20th Alternative Media Prize - audience celebrated the winners. In: Academy of Journalists. May 26, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019 (German). 
14. ↑ https://www.kinderothilfe.de/%C3%9Cber+uns/Presse/Pressemmeldung/Pressemitteilungen+2019/Kinderrechte+in+der+Einen+Welt_+21_+Kinderothilfe_Medienpreis+verliehen-p-8168.html
15. ^ The WHITE RING journalists' award. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .