The Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award is a German award for excellence in journalism. It was first awarded in 1995. The award is named for the German journalist Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, who died in the year before the awards had established. The winners of the award are journalists who have achieved exceptional results in their work. The prize money is €5,000.
Winners yearnamefunction 1995 Thomas Roth Foreign correspondent for ARD in Moscow 1996 Petra Gerster Host of ZDF magazine ML mona lisa Maria von Welser Host of ZDF magazine ML mona lisa 1997 Christoph Maria Fröhder Crisis reporter for ARD 1998 Hans-Josef Dreckmann Africa correspondent for ARD (studio Nairobi) Carla Kniestedt 1999 Wolf von Lojewski Host of ZDF news magazine heute journal Tina Hassel (Förderpreis) ARD correspondent in France (ARD studio Paris) 2000 Gabi Bauer Host of Tagesthemen on ARD Maybrit Illner Host of ZDF talk show MAYBRIT ILLNER Sandra Maischberger Host of talk show maischberger on n-tv 2001 Gerd Ruge Lifetime achievement award Alexander Kluge Lifetime achievement award Günter Gaus Lifetime achievement award 2002 Dirk Sager ZDF correspondent Russia (studio Moscow) 2003 Antonia Rados Correspondent for RTL and n-tv, reporter from Bagdad Ulrich Tilgner ZDF correspondent Bagdad Eric Friedler Film Konvoi in den Tod 2004 Annette Dittert ARD correspondent Poland (studio Warsawa) 2005 Frank Plasberg for Hart aber fair Journalist and host, together with team for Hart aber fair (WDR) NDR, author and director (Die Manns, Speer und Er) Britta Hilpert ZDF studio in Moscow 2006 ZDF program Frontal21 Claus Richter and host Theo Koll 2007Anne Will 2008 Eric Friedler NDR television reporter and documentary producer (for example "The Silence of the Quandts") Christina Pohl Spiegel TV reporter 2009 Nikolaus Brender ZDF reporter Astrid Randerath and Christian Esser Writers of ZDF television documentary Das Pharmakartell2010 Claus Kleber Host of ZDF news program heute journal Team of WDR documentary Die Story (special award) Team with signification of Gert Monheim2011 Johannes Hano ZDF studio Peking Ariane Reimers ARD correspondent in Peking Nasser Hadar (special award) Libyan reporter2012 Oliver Welke together with heute-show team TV host for heute-show Denis Scheck Literature journalist for Deutschlandfunk and host of ARD program Druckfrisch2013 Jörg Armbruster ARD correspondent in the Middle East Marcel Mettelsiefen Photographer, camera, TV journalist, publisher and author Eva Müller Reporter for WDR and author2014 Golineh Atai ARD correspondent in Arabia and Ukraine Stephan Lamby TV author and producer2015 Marietta Slomka ZDF host Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat Investigative team2016 Hajo Seppelt ARD sports journalist Armin Wolf ORF journalist2017 Hans-Ulrich Gack, Luc Walpot, Frederik Pleitgen Middle East correspondents Isabel Schayani WDR journalist2018 Anja Reschke ARD journalist Kulturzeit 3sat magazine2019 Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim Quarks, WDR, and YouTube Kanal maiLab 2019 Harald Lesch ZDF 2020 Emily Maitlis BBC journalist 2020 ZDF correspondent 2021 Katrin Eigendorf ZDF 2021 Carl Gierstorfer Documentary film director 2022 Christoph Reuter Reporter Der Spiegel 2022 Private television station 2023 Correspondent for Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln Elmar Theveßen Head of ZDF's Washington, D.C. studio Sevgil Musaieva (special award) Editor-in-Chief, Ukrainska Pravda Nataliya Gumenyuk (special award) CEO, Public Interest Journalism Lab, and co-founder, Hromadske Olga Rudenko (special award) Editor-in-Chief, The Kyiv Independent. 2024 Journalist Journalist 2025 Journalist, Correspondent for ARD in Tel Aviv Journalist, Correspondent for ARD in Istanbul
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External links
Official website of the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award