Axel-Springer-Preis

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The Axel-Springer-Preis is an annually awarded prize.^[1] The Award is given to young journalists in the categories Print Journalism, TV Journalism, Radio Journalism and Online Journalism due to the decisions of the Axel-Springer-Akademie.

History[]

The prize was awarded for the first time in 1991. It is named after the founder and owner of today's Axel Springer AG, publisher Axel Springer (1912–1985). The award ceremony will take place on his birthday, May 2, in Berlin annually. Meanwhile, the modalities of the price has been changed and updated. In 1999 no award ceremony took place. Since 2001, an award is presented in four categories: Press, Radio, Television and the Internet.

Prize money[]

From the prize givers of the Axel-Springer-Akademie, a prize of 54,000 Euro is total awarded. The award comes in the print category with 6000 euros for each best work in three different categories (three 1st prizes). In the remaining three categories of television, radio and the Internet three prizes in each category will be awarded, each with 6000 € (1st prize), 4000 € (2nd prizes) and 2000 € (3rd prices).

As of 2021 the total prize money is 38,000 euros for main prizes in gold, silver, bronze (10,000 euros, 5,000 euros, 3,000 euros), excellence awards "local journalism", "entertainment and humor" and "tech in journalism" (each 5,000 euros) and George Weidenfeld Special Prize (5,000 euros)

Award criteria[]

Works which were published for the first time in a German-speaking media broadcast by a German-language station or published on the Internet during the previous year can be submitted. The author should not be older than 33 years of age. This limit also applies to co-authors who were significantly involved in the development work. In each category can be submitted per author a work, in the print category one work per author in the three categories.

Contributions should be devoted to "current political, economical, cultural, sporting and social issues."

Jury and Board of Trustees[]

Jury members were among others Gabor Steingart and (press), , and Carmen Thomas (radio), as well as , Gerd Ruge, Steffen Seibert and Maria von Welser (TV). Claus Strunz, , , (also printed), and belonged to the Internet jury.

The Board of Trustees includes, among others, former award winner Mathias Döpfner and Friede Springer.

Award winners[]

1993–1994[]

Award winners 1993

• , (Journalist)
• Christian Kracht (Author)
• (Author)

Award winners 1994

• (Journalist)
• (WDR-Editor)
• (BR-Correspondent)
• (Journalist)

1995–2000[]

Award winners 1995

• Category Press: (Welt am Sonntag); (Süddeutsche Zeitung); (Der Spiegel)
• Category Radio: (); (); , , , (Radio Hamburg)
• Category Television: Wolfgang Luck; (West 3); (WDR); Antje Schmidt (ZDF)

Award winners 1996

• Category Press: (); (Geo); (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
• Category Radio: (Hessischer Rundfunk); (WDR); , , , (NDR)
• Category Television: (MDR); , (Bayerisches Fernsehen); (Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg)

Award winners 1997

• Category Press: (Der Spiegel); (Süddeutsche Zeitung); (Der Tagesspiegel)
• Category Radio: (); (); (Radio ffn)
• Category Television: (KiKa); (WDR); (RTL)

Award winners 1998

• Category Press: (Die Welt); (Merian); (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
• Category Radio: (); (); , ()
• Category Television: , (ARD); (Arte); (ARD)

Award winners 1999 (not awarded)

Award winners 2000

• Category Press: (Die Welt); (Süddeutsche Zeitung); (Die Zeit)
• Category Radio: (); (); (Radio Bremen)
• Category Television: Arne Birkenstock, (ARD); (WDR); Marcus Vetter ()

2001–2010[]

Award winners 2001

• Category Press: (Süddeutsche Zeitung); (Der Tagesspiegel); (Berliner Zeitung)
• Category Radio: (Deutschlandfunk); (MDR Info); ()
• Category Television: (ZDF); , (WDR); Anja Reschke, (ARD)
• Category Internet: Jutta Heess (3sat); Sybille Klotz (); Ute Schönfelder (Radio Bremen)

Award winners 2002

• Category Press: (Der Tagesspiegel); (Süddeutsche Zeitung); Bas Kast (Der Tagesspiegel)
• Category Radio: (); (); ()
• Category Television: (Arte); (WDR); (ZDF)
• Category Internet: Dara Hassanzadeh ZDF; Roman Mischel (); Alexander Stirn (spiegel.de)

Award winners 2003

• Category Press: (Süddeutsche Zeitung); (Der Tagesspiegel); (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
• Category Radio: (); (); ()
• Category Television: (NDR); , (ZDF); , (SFB1)
• Category Internet: Philipp Müller ()

Award winners 2004

• Category Press: (Der Tagesspiegel); (Die Welt); (Die Zeit)
• Category Radio: (); (WDR); ()
• Category Television: (Deutsche Welle); (ZDF); (ProSieben)
• Category Internet: (ZDF); (WDR); (ZDF)

Award winners 2005

• Category Press: (Die Zeit); (Weltwoche); ()
• Category Radio: (WDR); (); Simone Roßkamp (RBB)
• Category Television: Eric Friedler; (beide ARD); (RTL)
• Category Internet: Sebastian Christ, , Alexander Krauss, Daniel Opper, Christina Stefanescu, Christian Störmer (Redaktion streitBar.org); Boris Inanici (ARD); Steffen Leidel (Deutsche Welle)

Award winners 2006

• Category Press: (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger), (Süddeutsche Zeitung), ()
• Category Radio: (BR), (SWR), ()
• Category Television: (ARD), (WDR), (ZDF)
• Category Internet: Katrin Meyer (ZDF), Christoph Scheuermann (WDR), Helge Bendl/Klaus Kranewitter (Stern)

Award winners 2007

• Category Press: (Berliner Morgenpost), (Bild-Zeitung), Markus Feldenkirchen (Der Spiegel)
• Category Radio: (Deutschlandfunk), (WDR 2), (NRW)
• Category Television: , , (ARD), (arte), (NDR)
• Category Internet: Lars Abromeit (geo.de), Florian Güßgen (stern.de), Redaktionsteam jetzt.de ()

Award winners 2008^[2]

• Category Press: (Berliner Morgenpost); Julian Reichelt (BILD); (Der Spiegel)
• Category Radio: (RBB); (WDR 5); (RBB)
• Category Television: (ZDF); (ARD);
• Category Internet: Sebastian Göllner (); Kathrin Klöpfer und Julia Kiehne (heute.de); Stephanie Lachnit ()

Award winners 2009^[3]

• Category Press: (Stuttgarter Nachrichten), (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Alice Bota (Die Zeit)
• Category Radio: , (WDR 5), (Deutschlandradio Kultur), , (delta radio)
• Category Television: , (WDR), (ARD), , , (ZDF)
• Category Internet: Sebastian Christ (stern.de), Team 4 der Axel-Springer-Akademie (macht-maschine.de), (npd-blog.info)

Award winners 2010

• Category Press: (), (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), ()
• Category Radio: (RBB), (WDR), (RBB)
• Category Television: (), (NDR), Dennis Gastmann, , , (NDR)
• Category Internet: Volker Denkel, Katharina Wilhelm (hr online), Niklas Schenck (faz.net), Jan Hendrik Hinzel, Simon Kremer, Marc Röhling (Souk-Magazin)

2011–2020[]

Award winners 2011

• Category Press: (Stuttgarter Zeitung); (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung); ()
• Category Radio: (Deutschlandradio); (WDR 5); (Deutschlandfunk)
• Category Television: (3Sat); (NDR); (SF1)
• Category Internet: Michael Hauri, Felix Zeltner, Maria Marquart/Ole Reißmann

Award winners 2012

• Category Press: (Die Zeit); (Welt am Sonntag); (Berliner Morgenpost)
• Category Radio: (WDR); (1Live); ()
• Category Television: Marcel Mettelsiefen (SWR); (NDR); (ZDF)
• Category Internet: Julius Tröger and Annika Bunse (Berliner Morgenpost); Marcel Mettelsiefen and Jonathan Stock (spiegel.de); Anna Jockisch ()

Award winners 2013^[4]

• Category Press: (Süddeutsche Zeitung); (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung); (Financial Times Deutschland)
• Category Radio: (); (Bayern 2); ()
• Category Television: , (ZDF); Programmvolontäre des WDR (WDR); (RTL)
• Category Internet: Amrai Coen und Bernhard Riedmann (Vimeo.com/Spiegel), Team 11 der Axel Springer Akademie (zoom-berlin.com), Georg Eckelsberger, Fabian Lang, Paul Pölzlbauer, Florian Skrabal und Sahel Zarinfard (dossier.at)

Award winners 2014^[5]

• Category Press: (Die Zeit); (Der Tagesspiegel); ()
• Category Radio: , (); (WDR5)
• Category Television: , (NDR); (ZDF); , (MDR);
• Category Internet: David Bauer, Amir Mustedanagic, Philipp Loser (tageswoche.ch); Paul Blickle, Christian Groß (zeit.de); Team 13 der Axel Springer Akademie ()

Preisträger 2015^[6]

• Category Press: (), (Handelsblatt), (Die Zeit)
• Category Television: (BR), , (DW), , (WDR)
• Category Radio: (Deutschlandfunk), (Deutschlandfunk), (WDR 5)
• Category Internet: , Christian Werner (sueddeutsche.de), , , (correctiv.org), , (strytv)

Preisträger 2016^[7]

• Gold: (Die Zeit)
• Silver: (Welt am Sonntag)
• Bronze: ()
• Kategorie Investigative Recherche: (Correctiv)
• Kategorie Visualisierung: (bild.de)

Preisträger 2017^[8]

• Gold: (Der Tagesspiegel)
• Silver: & ()
• Bronze: (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
• Kategorie Investigative Recherche: ()
• Kategorie Visualisierung: Team 20 der Axel Springer Akademie ()

Preisträger 2018^[9]

• Gold: Barbara Bachmann für "Sex, Lügen und YouTube" (, 6. April 2017)
• Silver: Ann-Katrin Müller für "Vater unser" (Der Spiegel, 30. Dezember 2017)
• Bronze: für "Ein ganzes Leben" (Stern, 17. August 2017)
  Johannes Böhme for "Sorgenkinder" (SZ-Magazin, 7. Juli 2016)
• Kategorie Kreative Umsetzung: Team 22 der for "Alyom, Syriens Kinder, das Giftgas & wir"
• Kategorie Investigative Recherche: Stefanie Dodt für "Komplizen? VW und die brasilianische Militärdiktatur" (ARD, 24. Juli 2017)
• internationaler Sonderpreis: Ján Kuciak

Preisträger 2019^[10]

• Gold: Anna Feist für "Menschenschmuggler – Das Geschäft mit den Flüchtlingen" (ZDFinfo, 24. August 2018)
• Silver: Paul Middelhoff für "Was ist aus euch geworden?" (Die Zeit, Nr. 31/2018, 26. Juli 2018, S. 8–9)
• Bronze: Elisa Britzelmeier für "Der tote Junge im Baum" (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2. Juli 2018)
• Category Entertainment and Humor: Daniel Sprenger für mehrere Beiträge in der Rubrik "Realer Irrsinn" in Extra 3 (NDR)
• Kategorie Kreative Umsetzung: Christina Metallinos, Helene Reiner, Tobias Schiessl, Sophie von der Tann und Ann-Kathrin Wetter für "Die News-WG" (Bayerischer Rundfunk auf Instagram)

Preisträger 2020^[11]

• Gold: für "Sie ist 13, er 52" (Die Zeit Dossier, Nr. 27/2019, 27. Juni 2019, S. 13–15)
• Silver: für "202499" (, Nr. 35/2019, 29. August 2019, S. 8–15)
• Bronze: für "Doktor Gammel holt ein Kind" (stern Extra. Zeit für Helden. 01/2019. S. 34–49)
• Category Entertainment and Humor: für Karakaya Talk (YouTube-Talkshow von )
• Category Local Journalism: für Beitragsserie "Zeitsprung" der
• George Weidenfeld Special Prize: für den Einsatz von Open-Source-Technologien im Investigativjournalismus

2021–2030[]

Award winners 2021^[12]

• Gold: ()
• Silver: (Die Tageszeitung)
• Bronze: ()
• Category Entertainment and Humor: team of Juliane Wieler, Friederike Schicht and Daniela Woytewicz (WDR and MDR)
• Category Digital Implementation: Sebastian Koch ()
• Category Local Journalism: (Rheinische Post)
• George Weidenfeld Special Prize: Katsyaryna Andreeva and Darya Chultsova (Belsat TV)

Literature[]

• Axel-Springer-Preis. In: Programmbericht zur Lage und Entwicklung des Fernsehens in Deutschland., Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Landesmedienanstalten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Ullstein, 1997

External links[]

• Official website

References[]