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Now: Tender for Rental Prices
The Weinstadt agency Zeitenspiegel Reportagen is, for the first time, awarding a prize for web reporting in addition to the Hansel-Mieth-Prize. Like the award for print reporting, it is endowed with a prize of 6,000 euros. Parallel to this, the Gabriel-Grüner-Scholarship will also be awarded again. The deadline for all three awards – Hansel-Mieth-Prize (print), Hansel-Mieth-Prize (digital), and Gabriel-Grüner-Scholarship – is…
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Reporter Award Goes to Zeitenspiegel Students
It was a small sensation: surrounded by journalists from major magazines such as “Die Zeit,” “Der Spiegel,” and the “Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin,” a Reutling native also stood on the winner's podium for the prestigious ”German Reporter Award“ in Berlin on Monday evening. Christoph Franz Dorner, a graduate of the Zeitenspiegel reportage school in Reutlingen, was honored for the best local reportage of the year. Dorner's piece appeared in the final magazine ”Go...“
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Nell Zink rocks the Feuilletons
„The most exciting debut novel I’ve read recently is The Wallcreeper, Nell Zink’s mordantly hilarious story of sex, drugs, and birdwatching.“ The Guardian „Nell Zink’s heady and rambunctious debut novel … moves at breakneck speed … Wake up, this book says: in its plot lines, in its humor, in its philosophical underpinnings and political agenda….".
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Ivory Coast: Narrator Tour Begins Now
For about five years, Zeitenspiegel has been training journalists in Ivory Coast through the Peace Counts project. In January, the workshops evolved into a permanent institution: Studio-Ecole Mozaik, a school for radio journalists in the metropolis of Abidjan. Teaching began in the spring. The journalism school, led by Zeitenspiegel's Tilman Wörtz, has forty partner radio stations in...
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Magnum and Reportage School Exhibit
For the second time, Magnum Photos and the Zeitenspiegel Reportage School Günter Dahl at the VHS Reutlingen will collaborate on a joint exhibition project. Following the successful traveling exhibition “Wounds of the World” on war and crisis photography from the Spanish Civil War to the Arab Revolution, the theme of “Flight” will now be presented in a photo exhibition and an accompanying catalog...
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Schultze's Exhibition in Gelsenkirchen
Zeitenspiegel photographer Frank Schultze is participating in a group exhibition as part of “Surprise me – Platform for Photography and Photo Projects,” which runs from November 28 to February 21, 2015, at the Wissenschaftspark in Gelsenkirchen. He is exhibiting photographs from a reportage about a café frequented exclusively by Shoah survivors. More information
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Zeitenspiegler nominated for reporter awards
Three members of Zeitenspiegel Reportagen and two graduates of our reporting school are nominated for this year's Reporter Award. Together with Dominik Stawski, Zeitenspiegel reporter Ingrid Eissele reached the final round in the “Best Interview” category with the article „Sometimes I thought it would be best if he took his own life.” In the “Best Reportage” category, Carsten...
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Who the hell is Nell Zink?
Yes – who now? That's how the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” recently asked in a report about an American living in Germany whose debut novel is being celebrated as the new release of the year in the USA. It's about... our translator Nell Zink. For years, Nell has been responsible for translating Zeitenspiegel texts into English, also for the English...
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Graduation ceremony at the journalism school
On September 26th, the 9th class of the Zeitenspiegel School of Reportage, founded by Günter Dahl, graduated. At the ceremony held at the VHS Reutlingen, the twelve graduates presented their GO! magazine – an issue about allotment gardens. “Laube Liebe Hoffnung” (Arbor love hope) is, however, not a practical publication for hobby gardeners, but a collection of extraordinary stories revolving around shears and spades, sowing and harvesting, the...
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Zeitenspiegel and „ff“ Award Scholarships
Together with the Mals education committee and the South Tyrolean weekly magazine “ff,” Zeitenspiegel launched a scholarship for students in South Tyrol for the first time this year. In June, twelve students from the Mals and Schlanders region were invited to a workshop to develop six ideas for reports from South Tyrol. Afterward, the participants began working in six author-photographer teams...
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„Secret Files NSU“ Has Positive Echoes“
The book „Geheimsache NSU“ (Top Secret NSU), released in May 2014, to which Zeitenspiegel authors Rainer Nübel and Frank Brunner contributed three chapters, is being lauded in the media as an important piece of investigative work. The FAZ writes that „Geheimsache NSU“ „journalist-style crisply“ describes the background of the „National Socialist Underground“ (NSU) and emphasizes: „What is written in this book..."
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Carsten Stormer on Markus Lanz
Seven times in the past two years, time reporter Carsten Stormer has been to Syria. His reports on the everyday lives of people in war have appeared in publications including “Cicero,” “Stern,” “Reportagen,” and “Amnesty Magazin.” His film footage has been shown on ARD, among other outlets. These are images and stories that would not exist without reporters like Stormer, who, at the risk of their...
more »: Carsten Stormer bei Markus Lanz