Vanessa Vu

Vanessa Vu (2019)

Vanessa Vu (* 1991 in Eggenfelden ) is a German journalist .

Life

Vanessa Vu, born as Vũ Hồng Vân, is a child of Vietnamese parents and has two younger siblings. She lived in a home for asylum seekers for the first few years of her life and her family was threatened with deportation. After graduating from high school, she studied ethnology and international law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (Bachelor) and Southeast Asian studies with a focus on ethnicity and conflict in London (Master). She then did her Masters in Journalism at the German School of Journalism in Munich.

She addresses her childhood in her article "Meine Schrottkontainerkindheit", for which she was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize in 2018 . She was a scholarship holder of the Heinrich Böll Foundation . She is currently working as an editor in the politics and society department at Zeit Online . Her focus areas include racism , migration and feminism . Together with Minh Thu Tran she runs the podcast " Rice and Shine ".

Awards and nominations

2017: Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize . For: " Isolation 4.0 " (young talent award)
2018: Theodor Wolff Prize . For: " My Scrap Container Childhood " (Topic of the Year: Home and the Strangers)
2018: Medium Magazin Top 30 under 30 . For: Vanessa Vu as a journalist
2019: Grimme Online Award . Nominated for: " Rice and Shine Podcast " (culture and entertainment)

Individual evidence

↑ Shitstorm, what to do? How Vanessa defended herself against the anger of the net - Medianauten - The magazine for young media makers . In: Medianauten - The magazine for young media makers . February 24, 2016 ( medianauten.net [accessed July 14, 2018]).
↑ Vanessa Vu | Heinrich Böll Foundation . In: Heinrich Böll Foundation . ( boell.de [accessed on July 14, 2018]).
↑ Vanessa Vu . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on July 14, 2018]).
↑ Minh Thu Tran & Vanessa Vu: Rice and Shine. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
↑ Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize. Retrieved on July 14, 2018 (German).
^ BDZV: Vanessa Vu . In: Theodor Wolff Prize . ( bdzv.de [accessed on July 14, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Vu, Vanessa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1991
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eggenfelden

[1] Shitstorm, what to do? How Vanessa defended herself against the anger of the net - Medianauten - The magazine for young media makers . In: Medianauten - The magazine for young media makers . February 24, 2016 ( medianauten.net [accessed July 14, 2018]).

[2] Vanessa Vu | Heinrich Böll Foundation . In: Heinrich Böll Foundation . ( boell.de [accessed on July 14, 2018]).

[3] Vanessa Vu . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on July 14, 2018]).

[4] Minh Thu Tran & Vanessa Vu: Rice and Shine. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .

[5] Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize. Retrieved on July 14, 2018 (German).

[6] BDZV: Vanessa Vu . In: Theodor Wolff Prize . ( bdzv.de [accessed on July 14, 2018]).