Gruner + Jahr | Hamburg, 04/12/2018

Nannen Prize 2018: Awards Presented in Six Categories

The Nannen Prize, presented by the G+J magazine “Stern” and Gruner + Jahr, is considered Germany’s foremost award for journalists. It has honored outstanding journalistic achievements in words and pictures since 2005. Yesterday, this year’s Nannen Prize was awarded in six categories in Hamburg. “Stern” also awarded a special prize in recognition of “extraordinary journalistic achievement.”

At the invitation of the Gruner + Jahr magazine “Stern,” around 500 guests from the media, cultural, political and business community came to Hamburg yesterday evening for the Nannen Prize awards ceremony. The event was emceed by Caren Miosga, a well-known journalist from the news show “Tagesthemen.” Every year, the Nannen Prize recognizes the best articles in German-language journalism in the fields of print, digital and photography. This year’s Nannen Prize went to six outstanding works, which were honored at an award ceremony yesterday at Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie. A special award went to the German journalist and author Souad Mekhennet.

Historic Category

In the first of the six categories, the historic “Best Report” category (aka Egon Erwin Kisch Prize), Markus Feldenkirchen won with his article “Mannomannomann,” which appeared in the news magazine “Spiegel.” The jury awarded the team of the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit” – Mohamed Amjahid, Daniel Müller, Yassin Musharbash, Holger Stark, Fritz Zimmermann and Sebastian Mondial – the “Investigative Achievement” prize for their article “Ein Anschlag ist zu erwarten” (An attack is to be expected). Caterina Lobenstein won the “Documentary” award for her contribution “Warum verdient Frau Noe nicht mehr?” (Why doesn’t Frau Noe earn/deserve more than this?)

The Nannen Prize 2018 in the “Web Project” category went to Marc Brupbacher, Kaspar Manz, Christian Mülhauser, Dominik Osswald and Urs Wyss for their article “In eisigen Tiefen – Expedition in einen Gletscher” (Icy depths - Expedition into a Glacier), published online at tagesanzeiger.ch. Pablo Ernesto Piovano won the Nannen Prize for “Photography Reportage” with his photo essay “In einem vergifteten Land” (In a Poisoned Country) published in the G+J magazine “Stern.” In the “Staged Photography” category, Adam Ferguson won a Nannen Prize for his piece entitled “Dem Jenseits entkommen” (Escaping the Beyond), published in “Stern.”

In addition to the six regular competition categories, “Stern” magazine awarded a special prize to the German journalist and author Souad Mekhennet, honoring her reporting on terrorism as an extraordinary journalistic achievement.

1,000 Works Submitted

Editors, authors and readers had submitted around 1,000 entries for this year's Nannen Prize by the Jan 6 deadline. The works were published last year in daily and weekly newspapers, German magazines, and online media. In addition, there were texts, photo galleries and web projects from a number of newcomer magazines and new social-media formats.

The Nannen Prize is seen as the foremost award for journalists in Germany. It has been presented in recognition of outstanding journalistic achievements in words and pictures annually since 2005. The Nannen Prize aims to strengthen quality journalism in German-speaking countries and emphasize the social significance of sophisticated print and online journalism. The award is sponsored by “Stern” magazine and the Gruner + Jahr publishing house. The independence of the award is ensured by an elaborate screening process and renowned judging panels composed of journalists, authors, editors-in-chief, and photographers from nearly all of Germany’s major publishing houses.