Willi Bleicher Prize
The Willi Bleicher Prize is the journalism prize of IG Metall Baden-Württemberg . It is named after the trade unionist Willi Bleicher , who was district manager of IG Metall in Baden-Württemberg from 1959 to 1972.
According to IG Metall Baden-Württemberg, the competition is intended to encourage media professionals to report vividly, profoundly and critically on the world of work. The prize has been awarded annually since 2012.
Awarding
According to information from IG Metall, the award is given to journalists who, with their contributions, “make the working world tangible for readers, listeners and viewers”.
The Willi Bleicher Prize is awarded in the categories of television, radio and print / online and (since 2017) short articles. The prize money is 3,000 euros each. A young talent award is endowed with 2000 euros.
The winners are selected by an independent jury made up of scientists, journalists and authors.
Award winners
2019
- Category Print / Online: Henning Sußebach / Stefan Willeke , Die Zeit, for "Die Fee von Fulda"
- Category Print / Online: Roland Muschel, Südwest Presse, for "No wages for integration"
- Television category: Hermann G. Abmayr, SWR / SR, for "Fit until you retire? When work makes you sick ..."
- Radio category: Johannes Lenz , Bayerischer Rundfunk, for "Digital Impact: The Future of Work"
- Young talent category: Melisa Lota, ARD-alpha / Bayerischer Rundfunk, for "Work - Earning a living or calling?"
2018
- Category Print / Online: Caterina Lobenstein , Die Zeit, for "Why doesn't Ms. Noe earn more?"
- Category print / online: Markus Dettmer / Cornelia Schmergal, Der Spiegel, for "Half job, whole guy"
- Television category: Stefan Tiyavorabun, ARD / SWR, for "Power e mobile? How the auto industry wants to overcome its crisis"
- Radio category: Thilo Schmidt , Deutschlandfunk Kultur, for "Who owns dad on Saturdays?"
- Young talent category: Laura Meschede , Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, for "The Human Machine"
2017
- Category Print / Online: Bernd Kramer ( Fluter ) for "Appschuften" - Topic: Working as a crowdworker: Self-determined and flexible or exploited?
- Television category: Frido Essen ( ARD ) for "(Alb-) dream job pilot" - Topic: Becoming a pilot is expensive - and working conditions are not always rosy
- Television category: Edgar Verheyen ( SWR ) for "REWE & EDEKA. Good business - fair wages?" - Topic: How the retail sector is gradually saying goodbye to the area tariff
- Radio category: Nicole Graaf ( Deutschlandfunk Kultur ) for "Exploitation at home - shoe production in India" - Topic: Seamstresses in India also produce for Germany - for starvation wages
- Young generation category: Moritz Aisslinger ( Die Zeit ) for "The Poor Children from Silicon Valley" - Topic: The middle class is fighting for survival in the supposedly bright future laboratory
2016
- Category Print / Online: Philipp Alvares de Souza Soares and Astrid Maier ( manager magazin ) for “Capitalism on Coke” - Topic: New business models in the course of digitization and the on-demand economy
- Radio category: Caspar Dohmen ( DLF ) for “Im Gegenwind. The global struggle for wages and better working conditions ”- Topic: On the power and powerlessness of trade unions
- Television category: Thomas Hoeth (SWR) for “Refugees - can we really do it?” - Topic: Integration of refugees in Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Category television: Dr. Christine Schönfeld and Anja Neubert ( MDR ) for "Works Councils" - Topic: How works councils are hindered at work
2015
- Television category: Susanne Babila (ARD) for “work contract workers” Topic: Abuse of work contracts
- Television category: Hanspeter Michel (SWR) for "Silverware, tradition and tears - WMF in Geislingen is rebuilding" - Topic: Change in a traditional company under the influence of financial investors
- Category Print / Online: Manfred Stockburger ( Heilbronner Voice ) for “The Long Struggle for Work - 40 Years of the March on Heilbronn” - Topic: Series of articles on the history of the Audi Neckarsulm site
- Category Print / Online: Maria Wetzel ( Stuttgarter Nachrichten ) for “Slowed down in parental leave” - topic: How employers try to prevent their employees from taking parental leave
- Young talent category: Eva-Maria Peter ( Schwäbische Zeitung ) for “Standstill im Weberland” - Topic: A chapter of industrial history ends with the closure of a weaving mill
2014
- Category Print / Online: Sabine Marquard (Stuttgarter Nachrichten) for “The Caretaker and the Landesbank” - Topic: Dispute about temporary work
- Print / Online category: Walther Rosenberger (Stuttgarter Nachrichten) for “Employees turn Festo upside down” - Topic: New working rules for top people
- Television category: Claus Hanischdörfer (ARD) for “Germany Unjust - What Voters Would Change” - Topic: Meat Industry
- Radio category: Anna Koktsidou ( SWR2 ) for “Aging with dignity, caring for with dignity?” - Topic: Foreign women in German households
- Young talent category: Lara Fritzsche ( Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin ) for “Step by Step” - Topic: Schlecker women set up their own drugstore chain
2013
- Television category: Jürgen Rose and Claus Hanischdörfer (SWR) for the ARD film "Hunger wages on the assembly line - how tariffs are levered out"
- Television category: Heike Scherbel (SWR television) for "" Airport employees "
- Category Print: Christine Keck (Stuttgarter Zeitung) for "Forced to be happy at 57"
- Print category: Hermann G. Abmayr (freelance journalist), for “Emmas Enkel bei Tante Verdi”, published in the weekly KONTEXT
2012
- Radio category: Sina Rosenkranz and Franziska Roth (SWR radio) for "Wrong placement - employment agencies send job seekers to temporary work"
- Television category: Thomas Eberding (SWR television) for "GLS parcel delivery service"
- Category Print / Online: Petra Otte (Stuttgarter Nachrichten) for "The money rain doesn't hit everyone by a long way"
- Category Print / Online: Flora Wisdorff ( World ) for "Temporary Work Forever"
- Young talent category: Katrin Pribyl ( Südkurier ) for the series of articles "Faces of the craft"