The Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award is a German award for excellence in journalism. It was first awarded in 1995. [1] The award is named for the German journalist Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, who died in the year before the awards had established. [1] The winners of the award are journalists who have achieved exceptional results in their work. The prize money is €5,000. [1]
| year | name | function |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| Horst Königstein | 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 |
| 2007 | Anne 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 Pharmakartell | |
| 2010 | Claus Kleber | Host of ZDF news program heute journal |
| Team of WDR documentary Die Story (special award) | Team with signification of Gert Monheim | |
| 2011 | Johannes Hano | ZDF studio Peking |
| Ariane Reimers | ARD correspondent in Peking | |
| Nasser Hadar (special award) | Libyan reporter | |
| 2012 | Oliver Welke together with heute-show team | TV host for heute-show |
| Denis Scheck | Literature journalist for Deutschlandfunk and host of ARD program Druckfrisch | |
| 2013 | Jörg Armbruster | ARD correspondent in the Middle East |
| Marcel Mettelsiefen | Photographer, camera, TV journalist, publisher and author | |
| Eva Müller | Reporter for WDR and author | |
| 2014 | Golineh Atai | ARD correspondent in Arabia and Ukraine |
| Stephan Lamby | TV author and producer | |
| 2015 | Marietta Slomka | ZDF host |
| Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat | Investigative team | |
| 2016 | Hajo Seppelt [2] | ARD sports journalist |
| Armin Wolf | ORF journalist | |
| 2017 | Hans-Ulrich Gack, Luc Walpot, Frederik Pleitgen | Middle East correspondents |
| Isabel Schayani | WDR journalist | |
| 2018 | Anja Reschke [3] [4] | ARD journalist |
| Kulturzeit | 3sat magazine | |
| 2019 | Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim [5] | Quarks, WDR, and YouTube Kanal maiLab |
| 2019 | Harald Lesch [6] | ZDF |
| 2020 | Emily Maitlis | BBC journalist |
| 2020 | Ulf-Jensen Röller [7] [8] | ZDF correspondent |
| 2021 | Katrin Eigendorf [9] | ZDF |
| 2021 | Carl Gierstorfer | Documentary film director |
| 2022 | Christoph Reuter | Reporter Der Spiegel |
| 2022 | OstWest | Private television station |
| 2023 | Ina Ruck | 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 | Eva Schulz | Journalist |
| Jan N. Lorenzen | Journalist | |
| 2025 | Sophie von der Tann | Journalist, Correspondent for ARD in Tel Aviv |
| Katharina Willinger | Journalist, Correspondent for ARD in Istanbul |