Wolfgang Uchatius

Wolfgang Uchatius (* 1970 in Regensburg ) is a German journalist .

Life

Uchatius studied economics as well as political science, sociology and communication science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at De Montfort University in Leicester ; In 1995 he spent several months in Asia on a scholarship from the Carl Duisberg Society . In addition to his studies, Uchatius completed training as an editor at the German School of Journalism in Munich ; he sat in on the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Free Press , the Saxon Newspaper and the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

After completing his studies, Wolfgang Uchatius worked as a freelance journalist in Berlin in 1999, primarily for Die Zeit , SZ-Magazin and the Berliner Zeitung . In early 2000, he moved to time to Hamburg, first as an editor in the economic departmental . From 2007 to 2012 Uchatius was a department-independent reporter of the time , since the end of 2012 he has been heading the Dossier department.

Prizes and awards

• 2004: Friedrich Vogel Prize for Business Journalism
• 2005: Dr. Georg Schreiber Media Prize for social and health policy reporting
• 2005: Catholic Media Prize
• 2006: Media Prize Development Policy (together with Bartholomäus Grill , Petra Pinzler and Ralf Südhoff)
• 2009: Herbert Riehl Heyse Prize (together with Kerstin Kohlenberg)
• 2009: German Red Cross Media Prize
• 2009: Ernst Schneider Prize (together with Kerstin Kohlenberg)
• 2009: Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize (together with Marc Brost)
• 2009: German Reporter Award in the Best Text of the Year category
• 2010: Herbert Quandt Media Prize
• 2011: German Reporter Award in the Best Report category
• 2013: German Reporter Award in the Best Essay category
• 2013: 3rd prize of the Otto Brenner Prize (together with Marc Brost and Mark Schieritz)
• 2013: Keynes Society Prize
• 2014: Henri Nannen Prize in the Best Essay category
• 2014: 1st prize of the Otto Brenner Prize (together with Kerstin Kohlenberg and Petra Pinzler )

literature

• Wolfgang Uchatius: When the ego dissolves. In: Die Zeit , No. 30/2008.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Uchatius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article by Wolfgang Uchatius in Die Zeit

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographies Laureate Katholischer Medienpreis 2005  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)  
2. ↑ Wolfgang Uchatius on reporter-forum.de
3. ↑ Catholic Media Prize for Wolfgang Uchatius ( Memento of the original from January 10, 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. 
4. ^ Awarded the Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize 2009
5. ↑ Wolfgang Uchatius: We could also do otherwise . Reporter Forum e. V.