Grimme award winner
Katrin Eigendorf: With “respect” in crisis areas
TV journalist Katrin Eigendorf shows her Grimme Prize. photo
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The ZDF reporter says that she prepares well for her trips to crisis areas. She’s not afraid.
The Grimme award winner and ZDF reporter Katrin Eigendorf (60) says she is not afraid, but always “with respect” for reporting in crisis areas. “Respect is the right word,” said the journalist, who was born in Tönisvorst on the Lower Rhine, on Friday evening at the Grimme Awards ceremony in Marl of the German Press Agency.
In addition to good preparation for the journey, respect for the task keeps them from being careless or careless on their sometimes dangerous missions.
Eigendorf, who spent the evening in Marl with her husband, the business journalist and Deutsche Bank spokesman Jörg Eigendorf (54), has been reporting for years as a ZDF reporter from numerous crisis and war zones around the world. She is part of a three-person reporter team at the station for these tasks. Her next business trip will take her back to Ukraine at the beginning of September, she said.
The multiple award-winning Eigendorf received the Grimme Prize 2022 for “Special Journalistic Achievement” for her empathetic and courageous reports on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan. The fate of the women and girls is very important to her, she said, especially after the Taliban took power. The prize is a “great recognition and award” and further motivation. “It’s confirmation for me and my team that we’re on the right track. And it also shows how important the issue of public service journalism is.”
The television prize of the German Adult Education Association (DVV) has been awarded in Marl since 1964.