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ARI RATH PRIZE FOR CRITICAL JOURNALISM
\nExile - Flight - Expulsion<\/h4>\n

Greeting:
\nSabine Kroissenbrunner<\/strong>, Secretary General of the Kreisky Forum<\/p>\n

Statement by the jury and laudator:
\nAlexandra F\u00f6derl-Schmid<\/strong>, Journalist<\/p>\n

Introducer:
\nMirjam Zadoff<\/strong>, historian, Director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism<\/p>\n

Prize winner
\nCarolin Emcke<\/strong> Journalist, author, publicist and presenter<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The \u201eAri Rath Prize for Critical Journalism\u201c was established on the basis of a private initiative to honour journalists who have made outstanding contributions to critical reporting on flight, expulsion and asylum that is committed to upholding human rights, in the spirit of the renowned former editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post who died in January 2017.
\nA jury of experts chaired by Gertraud Auer Borea d'Olmo, the long-time former Secretary General of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue and close confidant of Ari Rath, unanimously selected CAROLIN EMCKE<\/strong> for the \u201eAri Rath Prize for Critical Journalism\u201c 2025 - to mark Ari's 100th birthday.<\/p>\n

Carolin Emcke,<\/strong> Born in 1967, she studied philosophy, politics and history in London, Frankfurt am Main and at Harvard University. From 1998-2006 she was an editor at Der Spiegel and travelled to many crisis regions as a foreign editor. 2003\/04 Visiting Lecturer for Political Theory at Yale University. From 2007 to 2014 international reporter for the ZEIT, since 2014 columnist for the weekend edition of the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung and freelance journalist. Since the 2004\/2005 season, curator and moderator of the monthly discussion event \u201eStreitraum\u201c at the Schaub\u00fchne Berlin, since 2023 she has been curator and moderator of the SZ podcast \u201eIn aller Ruhe\u201c
\nRecent publications include \"Respect is reasonable. <\/span>Texts on our present\", Frankfurt\/Main 2025,\u00a0<\/span>\u201eFor the doubt. Conversations with Thomas Str\u00e4ssle\u201c, Zurich 2022; \u201eWas wahr ist. On violence and climate\u201c, G\u00f6ttingen 2024. Awards (selection): Otto Brenner Prize for Critical Journalism (2010), German Reporter Prize in the category \u00bbBest Reportage\u00ab (2010), voted Journalist of the Year (2010), Johann Heinrich Merck Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry for her complete works (2014), Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony (2015), Prize of the Lichtenberg Poetry Lectureship, Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (2016), Silvers Grant for Work in Progress 2019, Carl von Ossietzky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics (2020), Glas der Vernunft (2024), Mercator Professorship University of Duisburg-Essen (2024).<\/p>\n

With the kind support of Vienna Energy<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Vienna<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Members of the jury:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gertraud Borea d'Olmo, Member of the Board, Bruno Kreisky Forum, Legatee of Ari Rath
\nAlexandra F\u00f6derl-Schmid, S\u00fcddeutsche Newspaper
\n<\/em>Fritz Hausjell, Professor emeritus at the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies
\nOliver Rathkolb, Professor emeritus at the Institute of Contemporary History<\/p>\n

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Award winners so far<\/strong><\/p>\n

2018
\nAlexandra F\u00f6derl-Schmid, former publisher and editor-in-chief of Der Standard, head of news at S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/p>\n

2019
\nSilvana Meixner, Heimat-Fremde-Heimat, ORF
\nAward of honour: Helmut Brandst\u00e4tter, Kurier<\/p>\n

2020
\nIrene Brickner, Der Standard
\nHonorary award: Anneliese Rohrer, columnist Die Presse<\/p>\n

2021
\nThomas Seifert, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Wiener Zeitung
\nHonorary award: Gideon Levy, columnist and member of the editorial board of the daily newspaper Ha'aretz<\/p>\n

2022
\nSimon Inou, journalist and media critic from Cameroon
\nVanessa Spanbauer, freelance journalist and historian from Vienna<\/p>\n

2023
\nChrista Z\u00f6chling, journalist and author
\nNoa Landau; Journalist Ha'aretz<\/p>\n

2024
\nMaria Sterkl, journalist, correspondent for the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard in Israel and OPT
\nPalestine-Israel Journal, Hillel Schenker and Ziad Abu Zayyad, co-editors<\/p>\n

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