Bidding period of the “Axel-Eggebrecht-Prize 2010″ has begun

The Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig announces the 10.000 € “Axel-Eggebrecht-Prize 2010”. The award acknowledges the life work of German-speaking authors, who continuously enhanced the repertoire of the genre “radio feature” with their radio work.

The prize, which has been named after Axel Eggebrecht (1899-1991), a writer and journalist from Leipzig, has first been awarded in 2008 to the author Helmut Kopetzky from Fulda. Axel Eggebrecht decisively established the high standard of the art form “feature” in German radio, radio-aesthetic as well as journalistic and ethical..

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