The Jury
Members of the Jury are the literary scholar Professor Dr. Sabine Doering (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg), the journalist and author Dr. Gunter Hofmann (Die ZEIT, Berlin), Friedrich-Wilhelm Kramer, former director of the NDR Broadcasting Centre Schleswig-Holstein, freelance journalist and Lecturer for Media and Politics in Riga and Hamburg, the sociology Professor em. Dr. Dieter Rucht (Freie Universität Berlin) as well as the historian Professor Dr. Martin Sabrow, Director of the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam and Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
 

The literary scholar Sabine Doering studied German philology and evangelical theology in Göttingen, Germany and Geneva, Switzerland. Following her studies she worked at the Uniuversity of Göttingen and then for many years at the University of Regensburg, where she earned her doctorate and qualified as a professor. She has been a Professor for modern German literature at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg since 2001.

Friedrich-Wilhelm Kramer studied political science and communication science at the Universities of Braunschweig, Hamburg and Berlin. Initially he worked as an independent journalist for numerous newspapers and broadcasters. In 1973 he became a copy editor and reporter for the NDR Broadcast company in Hannover, and then in Hamburg.

The historian Martin Sabrow studied history, German language and literature, political science and philosophy at the universities of Kiel, Marburg and Bremen. In 1993 he earned his doctorate degree at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on political assassinations in the early Weimar Republic. Since 1994 he has been a lecturer at various universities.