The Gala of Words
For the seventh time, the Gruner + Jahr publishing company and stern magazine presented the Henri Nannen Prize for outstanding journalism and photography in Hamburg yesterday. It was the industry’s most glamorous party.
By Ulrike Posche
Lilacs bloom, and pollen flies. Giovanni di Lorenzo retrieves his dinner jacket from the dungeon. In Berlin, the designated ‘PR Executive of the Year’, Deutsche Bahn’s head of communications Oliver Schumacher boards an overcrowded train to Hamburg and has to sit on the floor in the corridor – stories that start with German Rail apparently always end in exasperation. Windjammers weave their way along the Elbe to the port. Ursula von der Leyen drapes herself in a dance-class dress and, thus styled, takes herself to the Hamburg Schauspielhaus which has been decked out to the nines. For on this Friday evening, Gruner + Jahr publishers and stern are presenting the 7th Henri Nannen Prize – Germany’s hottest award for meticulously researched, brilliantly worded, masterfully photographed or hilariously written articles.
Excerpt from the article ‘The Gala of Words’ by Ulrike Posche, published in Stern magazine 20/2011.
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