Johannes Böhme

Johannes Böhme was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with The traveling tribunal.

Johannes Böhme is an editor at Zeit Online. He has previously worked several years as a freelancer for different German and international media. Last year he received the Theodor-Wolff-Preis for an article about German veterans of the war in Afghanistan. In 2019, he published a novel with Ullstein, on the life of his grandmother. He holds an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge.

Katja Artsiomenka

Katja Artsiomenka was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with The Experience of Powerlessness Changes Everything.

Katja Artsiomenka is radio documentary journalist and a professor for Journalism at HMKW University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication and Management at Cologne. Since April 2021 Katja Artsiomenka hosts “To the point –Debate from Berlin”, a political talkshow about Belarus for Belarus by the Deutsche Welle. She came to Germany from Belarus in 2004. For her journalist work she was named the European CIVIS-Media-Award.