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A team of journalists has been awarded the Sternpreis 2022 in the category "Story of the Year" for the research "Why Julian Reichelt had to go" published in SPIEGEL.
This was announced by the publishing house Gruner + Jahr, which awards the prize together with the magazine »Stern«.
The group includes Daniel Drepper, Marcus Engert, Isabell Huelsen, Alexander Kühn, Katrin Langhans, Juliane Löffler, Martin U. Müller and Anton Rainer.
The "Egon Erwin Kisch Prize" for the best report went to SPIEGEL editor Özlem Gezer and her colleague Timofey Neshitov for the Hanau minutes, in which survivors of the attack report on their alienation from Germany.
Read the winning stories here:
Why Julian Reichelt had to go
The Hanau Protocols
A team from Radio Bremen Fernsehen received an award in the “Local” category for their contribution “Discrimination when looking for a flat”.
This year, the prize in the »Investigation« category went to a group of journalists for research on »Slahi and his torturers«.
The »Stern« editors-in-chief awarded the »Republic Prize« to journalist, author and producer Stephan Lamby for his overall journalistic achievements.
Publisher and magazine consider renaming
The Star Prize is the former Nannen Prize, which has been awarded for outstanding achievements in words and pictures since 2005 and was renamed once this year.
The background is the debate about the »Stern« founder and namesake Henri Nannen.
According to recent research into the NDR format »STRG_F«, Nannen is said to have been involved in spreading anti-Semitic propaganda during the Second World War.
A debate then broke out on social networks as to whether the award for outstanding journalistic achievements should still bear his name.
However, it was already known that Nannen had been a member of a war correspondent company at the end of the Second World War.
As early as 2014, the journalist Jacob Appelbaum, who was awarded the prize, threatened to melt down the prize in protest.
Appelbaum explained at the time that Nannen was not a role model because he had carried out Nazi propaganda.
In addition to the one-time renaming of the prize, the publisher and Stern want to convene a committee that will advise on the future use of the name for the prize and also for the Henri Nannen School, it said.
On this basis, the publisher and magazine want to decide by the end of the year how they will proceed in the future.
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