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Blog: Peace Counts in Colombia
Together with 16 Colombian journalists and photographers, Zeitenspiegel reporters Tilman Wörtz and Uli Reinhardt will be producing features on “Peacemakers” from mid-October until the end of November. They have chosen the Colombian province of Norte de Santander for this project. The features will be published in the local daily newspaper “La Opinión,” as a radio feature on a network of community radio stations, and in...
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Arbitration talks about S21
Pictures from the start of the first round of arbitration for the Stuttgart 21 project. Demonstrator in front of Stuttgart City Hall Peter Conradi with Egon Hopfenzitz Gangolf Stocker Ingulf Leuschel with Volker Kefer Volker Kefer with Tanja Gönner Stefan Mappus Stefan Mappus with Tanja Gönner Dr. Heiner Geißler Dr. Heiner Geißler welcomes Dr. Brigitte Dahlbender Media scrum around the round...
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Toxic sludge avalanche in Hungary
In the autumn, a chemical accident shook Hungary. Time observer Mathias Becker and photographer Antonia Zennaro were on site. Here is the text: Published in the Frankfurter Rundschau on October 18, 2010 As a child, Adrienn Fuchs played on the dikes of the red mud ponds in Kolontár. When she started asking questions, she hit a wall of silence. Now she lost in...
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The DGE award again for Ingrid Eissele
Ingrid Eißele has won the Journalistenpreis (Journalism Prize) from the German Nutrition Society (DGE) in the popular magazines category for her report on overweight children (“Being Fat? Totally Embarrassing,” “stern” of February 19, 2009) – for the second time since 2008. The story, part of a diet series, describes the suffering of a 15-year-old weighing 114 kilos, who was subjected to ridicule, such as having mandarins...
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Demonstration against Stuttgart 21
Zeitenspiegel reporters were in the thick of it on October 30th when demonstrations surrounding the “Stuttgart 21” rail project escalated. Photographers Christoph Püschner and Oliver Reinhardt, along with author Mathias Rittgerott, witnessed firsthand how police used water cannons against protesters. Püschner was hit by a stream from a water cannon during the events. At one o'clock at night, as the first trees were being felled...
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New Book: The Illusionists
Time reporters Rainer Nübel and Susanne Stiefel have contributed to a new investigative book. Together with a team of journalists led by Josef-Otto Freudenreich, they researched, analyzed, and wrote about malpractices in German business and politics. The range of topics includes Stuttgart 21 and new cover-ups related to the Heilbronn police murder, the Asse nuclear repository, and the Göttingen Group investor scandal…
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„We are Home“ in Berlin
The traveling exhibition “We are Home,” a photography project by the Zeitenspiegel agency in collaboration with the Reutlingen Adult Education Center and the Culture Counts Foundation Munich, was opened in the Baden-Württemberg State Representation in Berlin in the presence of Federal Minister Dirk Niebel (Economic Cooperation and Development) and the Baden-Württemberg Minister for Federal Affairs, Wolfgang Reinhart. The exhibition showcases successful examples of integration in Baden-Württemberg...
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Education for Girls in Afghanistan
Around sixty listeners gathered at the Eyüp Sultan Camii Mosque in Backnang on December 2nd to listen to a Würzburg couple, invited by the Turkish-Islamic Cultural Association and Peace Counts, who have initiated an educational project in Afghanistan.
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Zeitenspiegel celebrates anniversary
With 40 meters of homemade salsiccia sausage, music, and many guests, Zeitenspiegel celebrated its 25th anniversary in Stuttgart on July 31, 2010. At the same time, the agency's members laid new tracks for the future: the reporter cooperative is becoming a partnership company, the members become partners; the solidarity model will be maintained. The guests danced and socialized until the early morning hours...
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Podcast „Ode to Joy“
Download MP3 (24.9 MB) Author Andrea Böhm and photographer Marcus Bleasdale have won the 2010 Hansel-Mieth-Prize. The journalists receive the renowned award for the reportage “Freude, schöner Götterfunken” (Ode to Joy), which was published in Zeit-Magazin. It tells the story of a classical orchestra in the civil war country of Congo. Read the full story on Zeit online here.
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Harms wins „The Market“ prize
Zeitenspiegel photographer Kathrin Harms has won the competition for the photo festival “The Market,” which begins on May 28th. Harms receives the 3000 Euro award for her work “Being demented where others vacation.” Reinhard Heinis (73 years old) and the other demented patients are taking an excursion in Thailand. A folk festival is currently taking place at the market.
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Joy, beautiful spark of divinity
Author Andrea Böhm and photographer Marcus Bleasdale have won the 2010 Hansel Mieth Prize. The journalists are receiving the prestigious award for the reportage “Freude, schöner Götterfunken” (Joy, Beautiful Spark of the Gods), which was published in Zeit Magazine. It tells the story of a classical orchestra in the civil war country of Congo. Read the whole story here on Zeit online.
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