Andrea Rexer

Andrea Rexer was selected for the 2020 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Roland Berger’s self-deception: The star consultant, his Nazi father and the guilt of German industry.’

Andrea Rexer, born August 27, 1981 in Freilassing, Germany worked for the Austrian News Magazine Profil in Vienna from 2007 to 2011. Previously, she was a correspondent for the WELT-group in Frankfurt. Starting in 2012, Rexer held several positions at Süddeutsche Zeitung. First as a correspondent and then bureau chief in Frankfurt, from 2014 on she led the finance team in Munich. In 2017 she also oversaw „Plan W“, a quarterly business magazine for women. In 2018, Rexer changed to Handelsblatt and the held the position as head of the companies & markets section until December 2019. Rexer was honored with the Ludwig-Erhard Award in 2014 and is a
member of the Young Leader section at Atlantik Brücke, a non-profit association which promotes German-American understanding and Atlanticism.

Sönke Iwersen

Sönke Iwersen was selected for the 2020 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Roland Berger’s self-deception: The star consultant, his Nazi father and the guilt of German industry.’

Sönke Iwersen, born on April 9, 1971 in Hamburg, Germany, graduated from the Axel Springer School of Journalism and afterwards took a job as a business reporter for the Stuttgarter Zeitung. Since 2006, Iwersen has been working for the German business daily Handelsblatt. Starting in 2012, Iwersen headed the newly created investigative reporting at Handelsblatt which has since become an important corrective in the German media landscape. Iwersen has won many awards, among them business journalist of 2011, the same year he was honored with the Georg von Holtzbrinck Award for Business Journalism. Iwersen won the German Journalism Award in 2011 and 2019 as well as the Henri-Nannen Award in 2013. He is a triple recipient of the Watchman Award and in 2017 received the Kurt-Tucholsky Award for Literary Journalism.