Angelika Hardegger has won one of this year’s Zurich journalism awards. In the award-winning text, the NZZ editor traces the alienation between the peasantry and Switzerland.
Awarded: Angelika Hardegger.
currently The NZZ domestic editor Angelika Hardegger was awarded the Zurich Journalist Prize 2022 on Tuesday evening. The 31-year-old journalist received the CHF 10,000 prize for her story “Dear farmers, let’s talk” at Zurich’s Kaufleuten.
Hardegger contrasts the often academic-looking agricultural analyzes with a text in the first person with small portraits and traces how Swiss farmers and society have become alienated from each other. The author traces the reasons for this in a “surprising montage” in which she addresses criticism without moralizing, but rather encourages her protagonists to engage in dialogue, it said in the laudatory speech.
Picture left: On Philip Angehrn’s farm in Häggenschwil (SG), where fruit is grown. Picture right: Philomena Fürer in Engelburg (SG) runs a dairy farm.
The Zurich Journalist Prize is one of the most prestigious awards for journalism in Switzerland. The prize has been awarded by a specialist jury since 1981. Complete works as well as outstanding works from print and online media are awarded.
174 works from all over German-speaking Switzerland were submitted for the 2022 Journalist Award. The seven-strong jury of journalists and publicists nominated nine stories for the Zurich Journalist Award and three for the Newcomer Award, and has now awarded four works. Each of the main prizes is endowed with 10,000 francs, the newcomer prize created in 2018 with 5,000 francs.
The sponsors of the foundation are the three Zurich media companies NZZ, Ringier and Tamedia. Well-known companies and institutions also support the event.
The Zurich Journalist Prize was awarded for the 42nd time this year. The excellent works and laudations are here to read and listen to.