Media professionals on HIV/AIDS honored in Bonn German AIDS Foundation awards prize at AIDS Congress
Media professionals on HIV/AIDS honored in Bonn
German AIDS Foundation awards prize at AIDS Congress
Bonn, March 23, 2023 – The German AIDS Foundation presented its traditional HIV/AIDS media prize on Thursday evening. At the AIDS Congress at her foundation's headquarters in Bonn, she honored media professionals who had previously been selected by a jury of experts. Actor Patrick Mölleken held the laudatory speech and hosted the award ceremony.
Prizes were awarded for a radio feature by WDR/Deutschlandfunk Kultur, a contribution by SZ-Magazine, and a journalist's many years of media work on HIV. The jury also awarded a special prize for a British television series and made a book recommendation.
The HIV/AIDS Media Prize for 2021/2022 was awarded to: Ole Siebrecht (author) and Matthias Kapohl (radio play director and author), Gabriela Herpell (editor) and Lars Reichardt (editor) from SZ-Magazine, Axel Schock (journalist and Author).
- Ole Siebrecht (author), Matthias Kapohl (director) - for the radio feature "HIV positive - Michael's first year with the virus", WDR 5, Doc 5 - The Feature / Deutschlandfunk Kultur, December 5th, 2021 / November 30th, 2021
- Gabriela Herpell, Lars Reichardt - for their contribution to "Wir alle haben Angst", published in SZ Magazin (23/2021), June 11, 2021
- Axel Schock – for his decades of continuous and expert reporting on HIV/AIDS, v. a as a freelance author of the magazine.hiv of the German Aidshilfe
An undoped special award goes to the entire team of the 5-part television series "It'sa Sin" (idea and screenplay: Russell T Davies, director: Peter Hoar, production: Phil Collinson), German language premiere January 22, 2021
One of the jury's recommendations is the book "Kahlschlag AIDS - Macht und Unmacht eines Tests" by Christian Noak and Ernst M. Häussinger, Books on Demand, 2021
The prize money totaling 15,000 euros is provided by the Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (vfa).
The prize of the German AIDS Foundation is the only media prize on the subject of HIV/AIDS in the German-speaking area. It has been awarded for 36 years.
An independent jury of doctors, journalists and AIDS activists selects the winners. Since 1987, the German AIDS Foundation has honored 87 media workers from print, radio, TV and online media as well as artists.
Media prize HIV/Aids of the German AIDS Foundation - excerpts from the laudatory speech
On Ole Siebrecht (author), Matthias Kapohl (director)
for the radio feature “Michael’s first year with the virus”, WDR 5, Doc 5 – The Feature / Deutschlandfunk Kultur, December 5th, 2021/ November 30th, 2021
“ The feature is an immersive radio play that you won't want to tune out. Ole Siebrecht manages to give a touching, very personal insight into Michael's life, which is turned upside down by the HIV diagnosis. At the same time, important knowledge about “living with HIV today” is imparted. This makes the feature absolutely worth the price.
The excellent production essentially lives from the excellent directing work. Matthias Kapohl makes a decisive contribution to getting the audience sucked into the hearing current. He implemented the feature script in a varied and acoustically sophisticated way. That elevates him to the rank of co-author .”
On Gabriela Herpell, Lars Reichardt
for her contribution to “Wir alle haben Angst”, published in SZ Magazin (23/2021), June 11, 2021
“ The contribution by Gabriela Herpell and Lars Reichardt is great journalistic cinema. And much more than a contemporary witness reminder of an anniversary. With their collage, the two authors succeed in a dramaturgical tour de force through 40 years of AIDS. No journalistic text can bring this time back to life more impressively. The text is definitely worth reading. And that too on the 50th, 60th and 70th anniversary .”
To Axel Schock
for his decades of continuous and expert reporting on HIV/AIDS, v. a as a freelance author of the magazine.hiv of the German Aidshilfe
“ Axel Schock has mastered all journalistic formats: news, features, reports, comments. His texts are calm, scientifically based, instructive - and almost always entertaining. Thematically he knows no boundaries. He is not afraid to tackle uncomfortable topics. Axel Schock has been an authority for many for years. The award for him is long overdue .”
A special prize for the entire team of the 5-part television series "It'sa Sin"
Idea and screenplay: Russell T Davies, director: Peter Hoar, production: Phil Collinson, German language premiere, January 22, 2021
"The series authentically conveys the mood of the 80s: prejudiced, homophobic, with sometimes abstruse attempts to explain the increasing wave of infections, the hysteria of those days. The excellent series tells directly about illness and dying, death and grief - and at the same time it celebrates life against all conventions. It's entertaining without being shallow. Informative, without being preachy - and brilliantly implemented on all levels."
On the recommendation of the jury : Book "Kahlschlag AIDS - Power and powerlessness of a test" by Christian Noak, Ernst M. Häussinger, Books on Demand, 2021
"The book - texts, poetry and prose - not only shows life with AIDS in the 80s and early 90s. It is above all a poetic mirror. The poems and texts won't let you go as you read them. "Kahlschlag Aids" touched the jury deeply! This extraordinary book, which the authors hope should encourage those affected, is a sincere recommendation.”
Contact and further information:
German AIDS Foundation, Münsterstrasse 18, 53111 Bonn
www.medienpreis-hiv.de
Andrea Babar, Project Manager
Tel.: 0228 / 60 46 9-37
E-mail: Andrea.Babar@aids-stiftung.de
Source: https://aids-stiftung.de/medienschaffende-zu-hiv-aids-in-bonn-ausgezeichnet-deutsche-aids-stiftung-verleiht-preis-beim-aids-kongress/
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