18th September 2014 14:32 clock

Henri Nannen price Gruner year

The Henri Nannen price of Gruner + Jahr | © Malte Christians / dpa

The publisher Gruner + Jahr sweeps in the coming year the award of Henri Nannen price. This is due to austerity measures, which include job cuts. “In particular, the traditionally committed in ceremony ceremony seems to us not appropriate in this situation,” stated company spokesman Claus-Peter Schrack. “In addition, it is assumed that competition and award ceremony of the ongoing debate about austerity and job cuts would be superimposed and that even the winners would make a public discourse that has nothing to do with their excellent performance.”

Gruner + Jahr had recently announced its intention to cancel more than 400 jobs. However, the austerity measures are not the only reason that the ceremony will not take place next year, said a spokesman for the publisher of the FAZ . Two prominent laureates had recently distanced from the namesake of the prize, Henri Nannen. Henri Nannen had been a member of a Nazi propaganda company, which was known for a long time. Gruner + Jahr wanted to use it to develop the award ceremony, the year of exposure, according to the report of the FAZ .

The awards for quality journalism in print, online and photography were awarded this year for the tenth time. The cost of the ceremony in Hamburg are estimated at up to two million euros.

the Axel-Springer-Verlag in 2009 had at least abandoned for budgetary reasons, to the Gala for the award of his Golden Camera and this presents a smaller scale. Gruner + Jahr now you want to think along with the jury members about “can be as Henri Nannen Price modernized and developed in times of profound changes in the media landscape.”