19 February 2021 marks the first anniversary of the attack in Hanau, where a man shot nine people for racist reasons. He then killed his mother and himself. The perpetrator had apparently stoked his hatred in the filter bubbles and echo chambers of the internet before giving it free rein.
Over the past 33 years, the CIVIS Media Prize has been awarded to journalistic and artistic contributions that deal with the topics of right-wing extremism, racism and anti-Semitism in an outstanding way. A selection of these programme achievements from television, radio, cinema and the internet can be found here.
CIVIS nominations (2004-2019) and prize winners (1988-2020)
This selection is related to "... and then Hanau"
Prizewinners
Nominations
- Arte Re: Brave against right-wing rock – a small town defends itself
- Informationen am Morgen: Chemnitz from a Jewish perspective
- MONITOR - Pure racism: an advertising poster and its consequences
- Bohemian Browser Ballett: Festival in Saxony
- die story: Anti-Semitism in Europe
- Young, Bavarian, Jewish | Multimedia series against prejudices
Prizewinners
- hr2-kultur DER TAG: "Limits of Enlightenment – Right-wing Violence and the Legal System"
- No room for the Right-Wing : www.kein-raum-fuer-rechts.de
- Panorama: "Alternative for Politics: Emotions instead of Facts"
- Dok 5 - Das Feature: "Right up to the last breath. Ultras and the radicalisation of the fan culture in football"
Prizewinners
- A Man and his Mission - Against Neo-Nazism in East Germany
- In Enemy Eerritory
- Angermünde and Elsewhere
- Here We Are - Jews in Post-War Germany
Prizewinners
- He Who Sows Violence ...of Citizens and Arsonists
- Comments on the Solingen Arson Attack