In the “Information” category, research is “European weapons, American victims” of the “Daily Mirror“was awarded the Grimme Online Award in collaboration with ZDF “Magazin Royale”. The routes of the weapons used in mass killings in the USA were traced back to the manufacturing companies in Germany and Austria.
The Grimme Online Award was almost canceled this year due to the Grimme Institute’s financial difficulties. But on Wednesday evening the prize for journalistic achievements on the Internet could still be awarded at the Grimme Institute in Marl.
According to the jury, the focus of the award-winning online offers is “clear on historical issues and their significance at a timein which society and the public are increasingly characterized by populism and anti-human tendencies.
Such offers included the joint project “#LastSeen. Images of the Nazi Deportations” with the participation of the Remembrance, Responsibility, Future Foundation – an image atlas that collects historical photographs of the deportations of Jews, Sintizze and Roma as well as sick and disabled people from the German Reich from 1938 to 1945.
Susanne Siegert’s TikTok channel “eine.erinnerungskultur” also received an award in the “Knowledge and Education” category: She manages it as a “lone fighter”The jury praised the aim of creating a “very contemporary approach to the crimes of the National Socialists”. The Instagram channel “Robinga Schnögelrögel”, in which the hobby gardener and “Plantfluencer” Robin König explains about species diversity and biodiversity, also received an award.
Prize for Archive of Satire Magazine
The online archive of the satirical magazine “Het Onderwater-Cabaret” received a prize in the “Culture and Entertainment” category for its insight into the world of thought and the author Curt Bloch, who went into hiding in the Netherlands during the Nazi era. Another prize in this category went to the “Library of Lost Books” about the library of the Berlin University for the Study of Judaism and its stolen books.
Two prizes went to the netzpolitik.org platform. In the Information category she was chosen for the podcast series “System settings“, which tells the stories of people “who suddenly find themselves targeted by the state”. There is also a special prize together with Bayerischer Rundfunk for the “Databroker Files“ about uncontrolled data trading on the Internet.
AI special prize awarded for the first time
The special “Artificial Intelligence” prize was awarded for the first time this year. It went to the Bavarian Radio podcast “Murder in 5 Days – The Crime Challenge with AI”.
“It is exactly the right signal at the right time that, despite all the odds, the Grimme Online Award is taking place now. It has been an important compass for digital quality for years“, said NRW Media Minister Nathanael Liminski (CDU) at the award ceremony. Due to financial bottlenecks at the Grimme Institute, the prize was in jeopardy several times.
However, the country, together with the Grimme Institute team, “spit on its hands to ensure that the prize is awarded during this time,” said Liminski. Therefore, the award ceremony did not take place in Cologne, as in previous years, but at the institute’s headquarters in Marl.