Overview
- The stern-Preis, presented Tuesday at Hamburg’s Kampnagel, kept its interim name as independent jurors honored five works chosen from hundreds of entries.
- Philipp Daum of Die Zeit won the Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Preis for a report drawn from nine days at an adventure camp for children with incarcerated parents.
- Katrin Wegner took the Documentary award for Akutstation Psychiatrie after weeks of solo reporting inside a psychiatric clinic in Hesse.
- Nicole Rosenbach won Investigation for her ARD series on the power of child psychiatrist Dr. Winterhoff within youth psychiatry.
- Erik Westermann was recognized in Local for revealing a major abuse case as a miscarriage of justice in Braunschweig, and Emile Ducke won Photo Story of the Year for images from war-scarred Syria published in Die Zeit.