Esther Schapira

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Esther Schapira
Born (1961-01-23) January 23, 1961 (age 63)
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Journalist, filmmaker

Esther Schapira (born January 23, 1961, in Frankfurt) is a German journalist and filmmaker, currently politics and society editor at the German public television network, the Hessischer Rundfunk. [1]

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Schapira is co-author of The Act of Alois Brunner , and producer of two award-winning documentaries, Drei Kugeln und ein totes Kind ("Three bullets and a dead child") (2002), about the death of Muhammad al-Durrah in Gaza in 2000, and Der Tag, als Theo van Gogh ermordet wurde ("The day Theo van Gogh was murdered") (2007), about the killing in 2004 of Dutch filmmaker, Theo van Gogh. The latter won her and her co-producer, Kamil Taylan, a Prix Europa award. [2] [3] In 2009, she produced a second documentary about the death of al-Durrah, Das Kind, Der Tod, und Die Wahrheit ("The Child, the Death, and the Truth"). [4]

Background

Schapira completed her Abitur at the Frankfurt Helmholtzschule in 1982, and went on to study German and English language and literature, as well as theatre, film and television. She has been the politics and society editor at the German public television network, the Hessischer Rundfunk , since 1995.

Awards

Schapira's awards include the Elisabeth-Selbert-Preis (1987), the Radio-, TV- und Neue-Medien-Preis (1995), the German Critics Prize (1996), and the Civis – Europas Medienpreis für Integration prize (2002). She won the first prize twice at the International Festival Law and Society in Moscow, for Drei Kugeln und ein totes Kind and Der Tag, als Theo van Gogh ermordet wurde. [5] [6] In 2007, she won the Buber-Rosenzweig-Medaille with Georg M. Hafner, [7] and a commendation during Prix Europa for the Theo van Gogh documentary. [3]

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References

  1. Spiegel 13 November 2007
  2. "Der Tag, als Theo van Gogh ermordet wurde" Archived 2009-06-23 at the Wayback Machine , Hessischer Rundfunk, June 11, 2007, accessed October 21, 2009.
  3. 1 2 Schad, Isabel. "Wir sind zu naiv!" [ permanent dead link ], hr-Fernsehen, November 8, 2007.
  4. Das Kind, Der Tod, and die Wahrheit; ARD deckt Fälschung im Fall Mohammed Al-Durah auf Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine , Hessischer Rundfunk, March 3, 2009.
  5. 26. April Preis für hr-Dokumentation Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine , hr–Chronik 2003.
  6. hr-Doku in Moskau ausgezeichnet [ permanent dead link ], press release, April 23, 2008.
  7. Zwei hr-Journalisten werden mit Buber-Rosenzweig-Medaille geehrt [ permanent dead link ], Hessischer Rundfunk, March 9, 2007.