The Hansel-Mieth Prize 2013 goes to author Jan Christoph Wiechmann and photographer Seamus Murphy. They will receive the renowned award for their Stern reportage „A Life in Kabul“, which tells the story of five Afghan brothers – a story that reflects the suffering of an entire country. The prize is endowed with 6,000 Euros.
The Gabriel-Grüner Scholarship 2013 goes to author Yasemin Ergin and photographer Marcel Mettelsiefen. The team plans a reportage about women in Tajikistan who have been left behind by their husbands searching for work abroad, numbering in the hundreds of thousands. The scholarship, also endowed with 6,000 euros, supports this project. Additionally, the author and photographer will receive a two-month residency scholarship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
The award will be presented on April 25, 2013, in Fellbach near Stuttgart, and the scholarship on May 2, 2013, in Mals.
As part of the Hansel-Mieth-Prize, where text and photos of committed reportages are evaluated equally, the following were also awarded:
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„The Mayor of Hell“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin) by Michael Obert and Jan Grarup
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„The Man Who Stopped the Desert“ (The Time) by Andrea Jeska (Text and Photos)
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„The Incredible“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine) by Tobias Haberl and Jonas Unger
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„The Neanderthals“ (Geo) by Christoph Reuter and Marcel Mettelsiefen
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„A journey of no return“ (Stern) by Laura Himmelreich and Michael Trippel
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„God's mills“ (The Time) by Nadine Ahr and Joanna Nottebrock
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„Mayer's War“ (Der Spiegel) by Alexander Osang and Espen Eichhöfer
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„Burned“ (Star) by Andrea Schaper and Nele Martensen
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„Between the Fronts“ (Der Spiegel) by Christoph Reuter and Marcel Mettelsiefen
The reports will be published in a book.
This year, 110 and 61 applications were submitted for the prize and the scholarship, respectively.
The agency Zeitenspiegel Reportagen commemorates its honorary member Hansel Mieth, who died in 1998 and worked as a photographer for the American magazine LIFE, dedicating herself to social issues, with the Journalist Prize. The Gabriel Grüner Scholarship commemorates the stern reporter Gabriel Grüner, who was murdered with photographer Volker Krämer and translator Senol Alit in Kosovo in 1999.
The jury meeting took place for the third time on March 1, 2013, in the municipality of Mals in South Tyrol, where Gabriel Grüner was born and is buried.
Jury Members of the Hansel-Mieth-Prize 2013:
- Ingrid Eißele, Zeitenspiegel Reportages (Chair of the Jury)
- Wolfgang Behnken, Art Director
- Heiko Gebhardt, Ringier Publishing House
- Christiane Gehner, Der Spiegel
- Anton Hunger, publicist
- Christian Jungblut, Reporter
- Thomas Kern, Photographer
- Margot Klingsporn, Focus Agency
- Ingrid Kolb, Author
- Alexander Smoltczyk, Spiegel Reporter
Members of the Gabriel Grüner Scholarship Jury 2013:
- Beatrix Gerstberger, Brigitte author (Chairwoman of the jury)
- Wolfgang Behnken, Art Director
- Angela Butterstein, Akademie Schloss Solitude
- Heiko Gebhardt, Ringier Publishing House
- Christiane Gehner, Der Spiegel
- Peter Grüner, Social Worker
- Anton Hunger, publicist
- Christian Jungblut, Reporter
- Thomas Kern, Photographer
- Margot Klingsporn, Focus Agency
- Ingrid Kolb, Author
- Rainer Nübel, Zeitenspiegel Reportages
- Alexander Smoltczyk, Spiegel Reporter