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Rent Price 2010: Apply Now!
(For English, see bottom right of page) For the twelfth time, the Zeitenspiegel agency is awarding the Hansel Mieth Prize. With this award, the reporter cooperative also honors committed photo and text reports for the year 2010, with a prize of 6,000 euros. The agency awards the prize for the complete submission, with the jury considering photos and text in…
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Ravensburger Prize for Harms
Annette Leyssner and Zeitenspieglerin Kathrin Harms received the award for best series as part of the Ravensburg Media Prize 2009. Photographer Harms and author Leyssner accompanied an extended family for a year and portrayed their daily lives in the Munich street paper BISS (“Citizens in Social Difficulties”). The award ceremony took place on November 16, 2009, in...
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Photo Exhibition in Siena
“Life and Its Shadow” is the name of an exhibition by Zeitenspiegel photographer Ivo Saglietti, which can be seen at the Palacio Santa Maria della Scala in Siena until the end of December. Ninety black-and-white photographs document the connection between poverty and contracting malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis. The work was created over the past four years in Uzbekistan, Russia, Italy, and…
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Peace Counts on Tour in Colombia
On the occasion of the “Week of Peace,” Peace Counts made a stop in Bogotá. The El Tintal library is located on the grounds of a former landfill. The generous exposed concrete building offers glimpses into its interior through huge porthole windows, a haven of culture in the impoverished south of the Colombian capital. Streams of children and young people from the surrounding housing developments visit...
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REPORTER TRAVELS
Discover your vacation region through the eyes of a reporter! Experienced journalists have already scouted ahead and searched for stories that tell more about a landscape or city than you'll find in typical travel guides. With reporter reisen, you'll leave the beaten path. We'll take you behind the facades of famous cities and have…
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Neo-Nazis stumble in Web 2.0
Neo-Nazis Trip Over Their Pride on the Web 2.0 On June 21, 2008, Zeitenspiegel photographer Stanislav Krupar was attacked on the outskirts of a neo-Nazi demonstration in Dresden by a mob of far-right thugs. Other demonstrators filmed the beating orgy and proudly posted the video online – investigators received the evidence with a click of the mouse. Two of the attackers have now been...
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Article No. 4: Venice can pack its bags
Venice can pack its bags! Every summer the same thing: where to go on vacation? It has to be the sea. Maybe the Canary Islands? Too hot. Or a few days on the island of Rügen? Too lonely. And Venice? Better in the spring. So we stayed here! In the Ländle. Because Baden-Württemberg has at least as much flair on the Neckar, Rhine, and numerous lakes...
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„Are you driving towards Auschwitz?“
Zeitenspiegel Team on a Tramp Tour to Auschwitz How can it be that in 2009, more people from Germany and the USA were interested in Hitler's mountain fortress on the Obersalzberg than in the Auschwitz concentration camp? Every day, around 3,000 visitors, predominantly from Germany and the USA, make their pilgrimage up to the “Kehlsteinhaus,” the last surviving structure from the Nazi era...
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Peace Counts – Interim Report
For months, "Zeitenspiegler" have been working on the Peace Counts media project in Ivory Coast. Their goal: to bring stories of peacemaking to the people – with lasting success. On stage is Fortuné, one of the best-known actors in Ivory Coast. He gestures, cracks jokes, rolls his eyes. Loudspeakers carry his voice far across the square, and photos are projected onto a huge screen…
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Trial against neo-Nazis in Dresden
NEONAZI ATTACK ON PHOTOJOURNALISTS GOES TO TRIAL On Monday, July 20, 2009, a trial will begin before the Juvenile Court of Lay Judges in Dresden against four neo-Nazis accused of attacking and beating photojournalist Stanislav Krupar. Krupar, who works for the reportage agency Zeitenspiegel, was in Dresden last June 21st during a march of German and Czech…
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A German Saturday
On the sixth day of the week, opinions differ: some relax and indulge in their hobbies, others tackle their shopping lists—13 photographers from Zeitenspiegel, however, set out to get to the bottom of Saturday. They traversed the republic to capture it visually at the same time. The result is a document of...
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Gabriel Grüner Scholarship Awarded
The Zeitenspiegel agency has awarded the Gabriel Grüner scholarship for the 10th time. The research scholarship, endowed with 6,000 euros, went to journalist Amrai Coen, 22, and photographer Fabian Brennecke, 24. Podcast: Gabriel Grüner Scholarship RAI Sender Bozen During a ceremony at the Gruner + Jahr press house in Hamburg, Stern editor-in-chief Thomas Osterkorn remembered Gabriel Grüner, a reporter at...
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