The 2018 Gabriel-Grüner Scholarship goes to Marius Münstermann (author) and Christian Werner (photographer). The scholarship is endowed with 6,000 Euros. Additionally, the author and photographer will receive a two-month residency scholarship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
For the Gabriel Grüner Scholarship, which is being awarded for the 19th time this year, 38 applications were submitted. The scholarship commemorates SternReporter Gabriel Grüner, who was murdered in Kosovo in 1999 along with photographer Volker Krämer and translator Senol Alit. It will be awarded to a writer-photographer team for a joint reportage project.
The Jury: Beatrix Gerstberger, Author Gruner+Jahr (Chairwoman of the Jury); Wolfgang Behnken, Art Director; Christoph Borgans, Reporter; Angela Butterstein, Akademie Schloss Solitude; Amrai Coen, The time; Heiko Gebhardt, publicist; Peter Grüner, social worker; Anton Hunger, publicist; Christian Jungblut, reporter; Ingrid Kolb, author; Georg Mair, deputy editor-in-chief ff; Rainer Nübel, Zeitenspiegel Reportagen; Ulrike Posche, Stern.
Gabriel-Grüner Student Prize
The Gabriel Grüner Student Prize for South Tyrol, which Zeitenspiegel Reportagen awarded in 2018 together with the Mals Education Committee and the South Tyrolean weekly magazine ff Greta Maurer and Lea Schrentewein from the W. v. d. Vogelweide High School in Bozen received the award. The jury recognized their story “Eleven Years of Solitude,” in which the authors illuminate the life of a mountain farming family.
The Gabriel-Grüner Student Prize was established in memory of Stern-Reporter Gabriel Grüner, who was murdered in Kosovo in 1999, launched it. For the fourth time, it was announced in all high schools in South Tyrol. In several workshops in Bolzano, 12th-grade students are prepared to produce a reportage, both written and visual, on topics of their choice. The results – 14 stories this year – are submitted to the jury. The entries were inspiring this year. And even more important is the educational benefit: 28 students spent half a year on topics set in their home region. This included the daily life of a cancer doctor, digital learning in schools, the motivations of a truant, or the life of a family on a mountain farm only accessible on foot.
The award aims to promote young people interested in journalism. It is endowed with 1,000 Euros. Additionally, the winning team will have the opportunity to work at the magazine ff and at the magazine Stern to be hospitalized.
The Jury: Beatrix Gerstberger, Author Gruner+Jahr (Chairwoman of the Jury); Wolfgang Behnken, Art Director; Christoph Borgans, Reporter; Angela Butterstein, Akademie Schloss Solitude; Amrai Coen, The time; Heiko Gebhardt, publicist; Peter Grüner, social worker; Anton Hunger, publicist; Christian Jungblut, reporter; Ingrid Kolb, author; Georg Mair, deputy editor-in-chief ff; Rainer Nübel, Zeitenspiegel Reportagen; Ulrike Posche, Stern.
The award ceremony for the Gabriel Grüner Scholarship and the Gabriel Grüner Student Prize will take place on Friday, June 1, 2018, in Mals (South Tyrol).