“Axel Eggebrecht Prize 2010” goes to Richard Goll and Alfred Treiber

The 10.000 € “Axel Eggebrecht Prize 2010”, donated for the second time by the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig, is directed to authors, who have devoted an oeuvre of weight in terms of content and acoustic creativity to the radio genre “Feature”.

This time, the award equally acknowledges the life work of the two Vienna authors Richard Goll and Alfred Treiber, who have uniquely rendered outstanding services to the introduction, implementation and the development of the “Feature”, which can be regarded as the “prime genre of the radio”, within the Austrian broadcasting.

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“Against the trend with reportages?”

Round of talks with Peter-Matthias Gaede, editor-in-chief of GEO magazine, in the “Villa Ida”

The GEO-prescription against the media crisis: marathon texts, high gloss and a large product family.

Does the race for the quick report replace a pinnacle of journalism: the reportage? Is the change from “experience reading” to “outcome reading” the death of narrative texts? Does the reportage photography still have a chance to rise from the flood of images? And could magazines survive without ads? In his lecture Peter-Matthias Gaede describes the way a “knowledge magazine” handles the media crisis.

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Modern bibliology is closely connected to the science site and “book city” of Leipzig. The “Promotion Prize of Bibliology” emphasizes this importance by annually awarding a degree thesis which is sufficient for the highest scientific demands and which is an innovatively productive contribution to its discipline.

The 2.500 Euro award is carried out by the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig together with the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig. The prize is awarded in memory of Prof. Dr. theol. Dr. phil. Dietrich Kerlen who significantly contributed to the building up and the making of mark of bibliology in Leipzig between 1995 and 2004.

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