Overview

• The 2025 Stern-Preis recognized 13 journalists across five categories during a ceremony in Hamburg’s Kulturfabrik Kampnagel.
• Düzen Tekkal and David Körzdörfer received the Documentation award for their film on the Yazidi genocide, highlighting survivors' harrowing stories.
• Isabell Beer and Isabel Ströh won in the Investigation category for exposing a vast rape network operating on Telegram with over 70,000 users.
• The Augsburger Allgemeine team earned the Local Reporting award for uncovering systemic abuses at the JVA Gablingen prison.
• Additional awards included Dominic Nahr’s conflict photography in Yemen and Malte Henk’s reportage on Buchenwald’s historical memory.