Zeitenspiegel photographer Kathrin Harms won the competition of the “The Market” photography festival, and with it three thousand euros, with her photo essay on dementia patients who are being cared for in Thailand. More »
2010 Hansel Mieth Prize jury demands better quality in German journalism More »
Kathrin Harms’ photographs of an Alzheimer’s care unit in Thailand (Chrismon magazine, September 8, 2009) have been shortlisted for the prestigious Henri Nannen Prize 2010 in the category photojournalism. More »
The 2010 Hansel Mieth Prize and Gabriel Grüner Grant have been awarded. More »
Immediately after news of the earthquake hit, Zeitenspiegel reporters were on their way to Haiti. Cecibel Romero, Julian Hillebrand and Oliver Reinhardt generated reports for Stern while Christoph Püschner took pictures on assignment for Focus magazine. Bernd Hauser of Zeitenspiegel spoke with Püschner on day 15 after the earthquake. More »
By Bernd Hauser. Appeared on ZEIT Online, Dec. 16, 2009
The Danish police was ill prepared for the events surrounding the UN climate conference. Nonviolent demonstrations were treated like nascent insurrections, surprising many Danes. More »
As a professional ecologist, Simon Mmakasa could have led an easier life – perhaps in a government ministry in Daressalam. But he insisted on staying in northeastern Tanzania, near Kilimanjaro, to fight the destruction of forests in his home region, the Pare mountains. “God gave us this paradise,” he liked to say, “and we are destroying it out of ignorance, greed, and hunger.” More »
This year Zeitenspiegel will award the Hansel Mieth Prize for the 12th time. With the award of 6,000 Euros, the agency recognizes outstanding socially concerned print feature reporting. The award is given for the feature as a whole, with both text and photos. The feature should have been produced between January 1, 2009 and mid-January of 2010. It need not have been published. Only digital submissions will be accepted. The winning submission and the ten runners-up will be featured in a book and exhibition. More »
With writer Annette Leyssner, photographer Kathrin Harms of Zeitenspiegel was recognized by the Ravensburger Media Awards 2009 for the year’s best series: The two observed an extended family over the course of a year, portraying their daily struggles in the Munich street newspaper BISS (“People in Trouble”). The award was presented on November 16, 2009 in Berlin. More »
“Life and Its Shadow” is the title of a one-man show by Zeitenspiegel photographer Ivo Saglietti on view in Sienna, Italy through the end of December. With 90 black and white images, the show document the connection infection with malaria, HIV, or tuberculosis and poverty. The pictures were taken during the last four years in Uzbekistan, Russia, Italy, and the Congo. More »
REPORTER REISEN is a travel magazine that breaks new ground: Writers trained in investigative journalism descend en masse on places you may never have considered worthy of a visit, digging below the surface to reveal unexpected sources of fascination. The first issue focuses on the city of Pistoia in Tuscany, famous for its proximity to the road connecting Florence to Pisa. The reporters discover all manner of pleasure, charm, decadence, and danger in an oft-overlooked region and its medieval walled capital. RAMBLING REPORTERS (tentative English title) is the first venture of Zeitenspiegel Editions. The Zeitenspiegel Agency has 25 years’ experience in foreign reporting. Its tradition of in-depth research combined with readability and professional photography make for a high entertainment factor. Further issues are in planning. More »
Peace Counts joins “Peace Week” in Bogotá More »
White pride can be a trap – especially when it prompts violent perpetrators to post explicit films of their crimes on the web. More »
The Peace Counts project, in cooperation with Zeitenspiegel, to bring stories of peacemaking to the people of Ivory Coast was a roller-coaster ride of emotions and a resounding success. More »
Every summer, the same pressing issue: where to go on vacation. Water is a must, but the Canary Islands are too warm, the Baltic is too bleak, and Venice is far more bearable in the spring. More »
On June 21, 2008, Stanislav Krupar of Zeitenspiegel was photographing a neonazi March in Dresden when he was attacked and injured. On August 11, 2009, two of the suspects appeared in court for the first time, and Krupar described his experience to the judge and jury. More »
On presenting the Gabriel Grüner Grant, Thursday, May 27, 2009 in Hamburg More »
The sixth day of the week inspires mixed emotions: Some relax and pursue their hobbies, others work their way down shopping lists. Thirteen Zeitenspiegel photographers sought to capture the essence of a German Saturday on film. Despite their diversity, every image goes to show how this day differs from other days. More »
On May 12, 2009, the German Red Cross (DRK) awarded its special prize for media to Carsten Stormer in absentia (he was in the Philippines). Zeitenspiegel board member Uli Reinhardt traveled to Bremen to accept the award in his place. More »
Zeitenspiegel has once again awarded the annual Gabriel Grüner Grant of six thousand Euros toward research and production of a feature story to writer Amrai Cohen, 22, and photographer Fabian Brennecke, 24. More »
Once again it was standing room only in Fellbach city hall: On May 7, 2009, Zeitenspiegel awarded the Hansel Mieth Prize for socially conscious feature reporting. More »
The traveling Peace Counts exhibition once again visits a German educational institution: “The Successes of the Peacebuilders” will be on display in Ludwigsburg’s teachers’ college from July 15 through September 30, 2009, with an opening reception on at 7:00 p.m. on July 15 in Studiengalerie, Reuteallee 46, 71634 Ludwigsburg. More »
Zeitenspiegel’s Carsten Stormer received a special jury prize in the annual journalism awards of the German Red Cross. The jury recognized his work on “Her Last Day,” which appeared in the Frankfurter Rundschau. The feature portrays the last hours in the life of a little girl who got caught between the front lines in the embattled southern Philippines. More »
The Culture Counts Baden-Württemberg project is being presented in a traveling exhibition that makes the state’s cultural diversity visible and tangible as a positive value. The exhibit documents examples of intercultural coexistence through both text and large-format photos and is accompanied by a program of events for teachers and students.
The exhibition continues through May 22, 2009 More »
Ingrid Eissele of Zeitenspiegel has focused in her reporting on the themes of education, childhood and adolescence in our society for many years. A book summing up her recent work has just appeared in German (Herder, 19 Euros): More »
Zeitenspiegel writer Bernd Hauser was recognized for his work in Ethiopia by the German Foundation for World Population (DSW). The World Population Award for Journalism is intended to call greater public attention to “the close link between fast population growth, poverty, reproductive health, and environmental conservation in developing countries,” Renata Bähr, the foundation’s executive director, explained. “We want to make clear that population growth in developing countries must be slowed through educational and family planning projects if the millennium goals of the United Nations are to be reached.” More »