The Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award is a German award for excellence in journalism. It was first awarded in 1995. The award is named for the German journalist Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, who died in the year before the awards had established. The winners of the award are journalists who have achieved exceptional results in their work. The prize money is €5,000.
Winners
| year | name | function |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Thomas Roth | Foreign correspondent for ARD in Moscow |
| 1996 | Petra Gerster | Host of ZDF magazine ML mona lisa |
| Maria von Welser | Host of ZDF magazine ML mona lisa | |
| 1997 | Christoph Maria Fröhder | Crisis reporter for ARD |
| 1998 | Hans-Josef Dreckmann | Africa correspondent for ARD (studio Nairobi) |
| Carla Kniestedt | ||
| 1999 | Wolf von Lojewski | Host of ZDF news magazine heute journal |
| Tina Hassel (Förderpreis) | ARD correspondent in France (ARD studio Paris) | |
| 2000 | Gabi Bauer | Host of Tagesthemen on ARD |
| Maybrit Illner | Host of ZDF talk show MAYBRIT ILLNER | |
| Sandra Maischberger | Host of talk show maischberger on n-tv | |
| 2001 | Gerd Ruge | Lifetime achievement award |
| Alexander Kluge | Lifetime achievement award | |
| Günter Gaus | Lifetime achievement award | |
| 2002 | Dirk Sager | ZDF correspondent Russia (studio Moscow) |
| 2003 | Antonia Rados | Correspondent for RTL and n-tv, reporter from Bagdad |
| Ulrich Tilgner | ZDF correspondent Bagdad | |
| Eric Friedler | Film Konvoi in den Tod | |
| 2004 | Annette Dittert | ARD correspondent Poland (studio Warsawa) |
| 2005 | Frank Plasberg for Hart aber fair | Journalist and host, together with team for Hart aber fair (WDR) |
| Horst Königstein [de] | NDR, author and director (Die Manns, Speer und Er) | |
| Britta Hilpert | ZDF studio in Moscow | |
| 2006 | ZDF program Frontal21 | Claus Richter and host Theo Koll |
| 2007 | Anne Will | |
| 2008 | Eric Friedler | NDR television reporter and documentary producer (for example "The Silence of the Quandts") |
| Christina Pohl | Spiegel TV reporter | |
| 2009 | Nikolaus Brender | ZDF reporter |
| Astrid Randerath and Christian Esser | Writers of ZDF television documentary Das Pharmakartell | |
| 2010 | Claus Kleber | Host of ZDF news program heute journal |
| Team of WDR documentary Die Story (special award) | Team with signification of Gert Monheim | |
| 2011 | Johannes Hano | ZDF studio Peking |
| Ariane Reimers | ARD correspondent in Peking | |
| Nasser Hadar (special award) | Libyan reporter | |
| 2012 | Oliver Welke together with heute-show team | TV host for heute-show |
| Denis Scheck | Literature journalist for Deutschlandfunk and host of ARD program Druckfrisch | |
| 2013 | Jörg Armbruster | ARD correspondent in the Middle East |
| Marcel Mettelsiefen | Photographer, camera, TV journalist, publisher and author | |
| Eva Müller | Reporter for WDR and author | |
| 2014 | Golineh Atai | ARD correspondent in Arabia and Ukraine |
| Stephan Lamby | TV author and producer | |
| 2015 | Marietta Slomka | ZDF host |
| Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat | Investigative team | |
| 2016 | Hajo Seppelt | ARD sports journalist |
| Armin Wolf | ORF journalist | |
| 2017 | Hans-Ulrich Gack, Luc Walpot, Frederik Pleitgen | Middle East correspondents |
| Isabel Schayani | WDR journalist | |
| 2018 | Anja Reschke | ARD journalist |
| Kulturzeit | 3sat magazine | |
| 2019 | Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim | Quarks, WDR, and YouTube Kanal maiLab |
| 2019 | Harald Lesch | ZDF |
| 2020 | Emily Maitlis | BBC journalist |
| 2020 | Ulf-Jensen Röller [de] | ZDF correspondent |
| 2021 | Katrin Eigendorf | ZDF |
| 2021 | Carl Gierstorfer | Documentary film director |
| 2022 | Christoph Reuter | Reporter Der Spiegel |
| 2022 | OstWest [de] | Private television station |
| 2023 | Ina Ruck [de] | Correspondent for Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln |
| Elmar Theveßen | Head of ZDF's Washington, D.C. studio | |
| Sevgil Musaieva (special award) | Editor-in-Chief, Ukrainska Pravda | |
| Nataliya Gumenyuk (special award) | CEO, Public Interest Journalism Lab, and co-founder, Hromadske | |
| Olga Rudenko (special award) | Editor-in-Chief, The Kyiv Independent. |
References
- ^ "Kulturpreise.de : Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis für Fernsehjournalismus". Handbuch der Kulturpreise – Handbook of Cultural Awards (in German). Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- "Enthüllungsjournalist – Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis für Hajo Seppelt". Deutschlandfunk (in German). 21 March 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- "Fernsehjournalismus: Anja Reschke erhält Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis". Handelsblatt (in German). 29 November 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- "Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis für Anja Reschke". Volksstimme (in German). 28 November 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- "Vietnamese-German Dr. wins Hanns Joachim Friedrichs award". Vietnam Times. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- "Harald Lesch wird mit Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis ausgezeichnet". Prisma (in German). 13 May 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- "Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis an Ulf Röller". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 11 November 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- "Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis für ZDF-Korrespondent Röller". ZDFmediathek (in German). 11 November 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- "Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis für ZDF-Reporterin Eigendorf". ZDFmediathek (in German). 15 September 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
Further reading
- "Mit keiner Sache gemein? Die Wahrheit über das Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Zitat". Übermedien (in German). 2 November 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2022.