Susanne Lenz-Gleißner

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Susanne Lenz-Gleißner

Susanne Lenz-Gleißner , (born August 21, 1962 in Luxembourg ) is a German journalist.

Life and work

After studying teaching and doing an internship at the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart, Lenz-Gleißner worked as a reporter, editor and presenter for the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt (Main). Here she moderated 1989-1992 a. a. the weekly youth program “Radio Unfrisiert”, which has received numerous awards. Lenz-Gleißner made his first experiences in the field of television at ZDF in Mainz. She moderated the program "Colon demanded", which was broadcast on 3Sat. Lenz-Gleißner has been with Deutsche Welle in Berlin since 1993, and has headed the Kultur Aktuell department since June 2019. She has been the Deputy Head of DW's Culture and Life Department since February 2017. Before that, she was editor and author for the programs KULTUR.21 and KINO and worked as a reporter in the DW newsroom. From 1993 to 1997 she was an editor, then head of DW's youth department. Here she was u. a. responsible for the weekly live broadcast “100 GRAD”, a co-production with the ORB , which was also broadcast on ARD at times. Moderators from 100 DEGREES were u. a. Götz Alsmann and Steffen Hallaschka , whom Lenz-Gleißner brought from radio to television. Lenz-Gleißner also worked as an author and editor for numerous international television productions. She has directed documentaries such as “Gutenberg im Cyberstorm. On the value of the book in the digital age ”,“ Afro.Deutschland ”(co-director) or“ Udo Lindenberg - Godfather of German Rock ”(director). In Germany, the USA, the Netherlands, South Africa, Morocco, Brazil, France, Turkey, Azerbaijan and the like. a. Lenz-Gleißner produced television reports, reports and TV programs. Celebrities like Leonard Cohen , Willy DeVille, Martin Luther King III , Andrzej Wajda , Lana and Lilly Wachowski, Andrucha Waddington, José Padilha, Hanna Schygulla, Nina Hagen and Martin Schoeller were among her interviewees. She conceived TV broadcast formats like “Paules Blind Date” with Ina Paule Klink or “Arts and Culture” as well as multimedia projects like “Sehnsucht nach Europa” and “Art of Freedom”. Freedom of Art. ". Her journalistic work has been nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize and has received several awards, including a. with the Kurt Magnus Prize, the RIAS TV Prize, the CIVIS Prize, the Dietrich Oppenberg Media Prize and the Axel Springer Prize.

Susanne Lenz-Gleißner is the daughter of Ursula Lenz geb. Heinrich and Carl Otto Lenz , who was a member of the German Bundestag (CDU) and advocate general at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Lenz is the son of the lawyer Otto Lenz , who supported the resistance against the Nazi dictatorship and co-founded the CDU in Berlin.

Susanne Lenz-Gleißner is married to the press spokesman Thomas Gleißner and has two grown children.

Awards (selection)

  • 2020 WorldFest Houston - Platinum Remi Award (Director) "Udo Lindenberg - Godfather of German Rock"
  • 2018 World Media Festival Hamburg - intermedia-globe GOLD (Idea / Script / Editing) Web clip "Bikini or Burkini? A Time Journey in 100 Seconds"
  • 2018 Worldfest Houston - Platinum Remi Award (Co-Director / Co-Script) "Afro.Germany"
  • 2017 International Black Film Festival Nashville - Official Selection (Co-Director / Co-Script) "Afro.Germany"
  • 2017 San Francisco Black Film Festival - Official Selection (Co-Director / Co-Script) "Afro.Germany"
  • 2016 The New York Festivals 2016 - Silver World Medal (Director) "Gutenberg in the Cyberstorm"
  • 2016 German-French Journalism Award nomination "Multimedia" (project management) for "Art of Freedom.Freedom of Art"
  • 2015 Dietrich Oppenberg - Media Prize for Documentary Film (Director) "Gutenberg in Cyberstorm"
  • 2015 Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards - Silver Winner - (Director) "Gutenberg in the Cyberstorm"
  • 2014 WorldMediaFestival Hamburg - intermedia-globe Silver for TV magazine (editor / author) KINO - Brazil Special
  • 1998 CIVIS - Prize for 100 DEGREE production (management) on the topic of xenophobia
  • 1996 nomination for the Adolf Grimme Prize (project management / editing / directing) series "NLD-TV - the German-Dutch youth magazine" (co-production Deutsche Welle / Veronica)
  • 1995 RIAS - TV award for 100-DEGREE production (editor) "Germany, Amiland?"
  • 1995 Axel Springer Prize 1995 for "NLD-TV - the German-Dutch youth magazine" (co-production Deutsche Welle / Veronica)
  • 1992 Kurt Magnus Prize Hessischer Rundfunk (moderation / editing / author) "Radio unfrisiert", (author) series of features "worth knowing", among others

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dw.com/de/themen/gutenberg-im-cyberstorm/s-101300
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcfPVj5qR1E
  3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7054575/?ref_=tt_ov_dr
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3U8eH8LTp0&t=146s
  5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHNrzKDhCrk
  6. ↑ http://www.dw.com/de/on-tour-deutsche-filme-in-brasilien/a-17249786
  7. ↑ https://www.dw.com/en/tv/arts-and-culture/s-47176598
  8. ↑ http://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/art-of-freedom-freedom-of-art/s-32539
  9. ↑ http://www.dw.com/de/themen/afrodeutschland/s-37071793
  10. ↑ https://worldfest.org/2020-remi-winners/
  11. ^ WorldMedia Festival: Gold Prize Winner. In: World Media Festival. World Media Festival, May 16, 2018, accessed on June 19, 2018 (German).
  12. ↑ WorldFest Houston: WorldFest Houston. In: WorldFest Houston. WorldFest Houston, April 20, 2018, accessed 2018 .
  13. ↑ https://www.ibffevents.com/2017documentarynarrative
  14. ↑ http://sfbff.org/wordpress/afro-germany
  15. ↑ http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/winners/2016/pieces.php?iid=495378&pid=1
  16. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sr.de
  17. ↑ https://www.stiftunglesen.de/presseservice/pressemitteilungen/724
  18. ↑ https://www.cannescorporate.com/en/winners2015.php#cat_B13
  19. ↑ http://archive.worldmediafestival.org/2014/en/winners?SessID=6624966_1456239022_3699555
  20. ↑ http://riasberlin.org/en/awards/archive/19-95/
  21. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanne-lenz-gleißner-82552731/
personal data
SURNAME Lenz-Gleißner, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg