International Music Journalism Award 2019

The shortlist for the International Music Journalism Award is online

For the third time in a row, Reeperbahn Festival hosts the International Music Journalism Award on Friday, September 20 at Reeperbahn Festival. The award honours outstanding journalistic work and superb ongoing journalistic engagement that focuses on popular music and its business surroundings.

Once again the juries for the International Music Journalism Award have met and read, listened and watched their way through roughly 200 German, English and French submissions. 

Categories:

• Best Music Journalist of the Year (German, English, French)

• The Year's Best Work of Music Journalism (text, German, English, French)

• The Year's Best Work of Music Journalism (audio, German, English)

• The Year's Best Work of Music Journalism (muldimedia, German, English)

• Best Work of Music Journalism, Under 30 (German)

International Music Journalism Award 2019 shortlist

BMJ

Max Dax - publicist, journalist, photographer & graphic artist, current: the curated exhibition Hyper! A Journey Into Arts And Music (Deichtorhallen, Hamburg)

Elissa Hiersemann - moderator & editor, radioeins, Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Salwa Houmsi - moderator, journalist & DJ, Radio Fritz, ZDF/Funk

Juliane Liebert - author & journalist, radioeins, regular articles for Süddeutsche Zeitung, swr2, Spiegel, Rolling Stone

Bodo Mrozek - historian & author, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, current book: Jugend - Pop - Kultur – Eine transnationale Geschichte (Suhrkamp)

Vivien Goldman - journalist, author & musician, current book: Revenge Of The She-Punks

Alison Lang - author & editor, current project: Music Men Ruined For Me 

Evelyn McDonnell - journalist, current book: Women Who Rock, a collection of over 100 texts on female musicians

Laura Snapes - representative music editor of the Guardian, current (among others): studies the term "Beta Male Misogynist" (coined by The Quietus) concerning male abuse of power in the supposedly enlightened indie music world

Jeff & Michael Zimbalist - filmmakers, current project: Remastered series (Netflix) on legends of music history

Brice Bossavie - freelancer, several media, including Libération, Tsugi, Binge Audio (Podcasts production company)

Adrien Durand - freelancer, several media, including Les Inrockuptibles

Clémence Meunier - tsugi.fr

The Year's Best Work of Music Journalism

Aida Baghernejad: Ain’t I A Human? - Kaput

Jennifer Beck: Soap & Skin - Selfies aus dem Jenseits - Spex

Kerstin & Sandra Grether: Fremd im eigenen Haus - Texte zur Kunst

Philipp Killmann: Sinti im Rap - All Good

Annett Scheffel: And Do You Feel Addressed? I Do. - Kaput

Joshi Hardik: Music and nature - Music Plus

Claire Lobenfeld: Flying Lotus and His Grandmother Talk Being in a Family Bound by Music- Pitchfork

Chris Molanphy: The "Old Town Road" Controversy Reveals Problems Beyond Just Race- Slate.com

Nikita Velichko: The Resilience of Russia's Dance Music Scene - Resident Advisor

Jeff Weiss: Post Malone Is The Perfect Popstar For This American Moment. That Is Not A Compliment - Washington Post

Brice Bossavie: Quand la musique devient, souffrance - Libération

Robin Ecoeur: Un peu, beaucoup, à la folie - un web-documentaire sur l'industrie musicale et la santé mentale des musiciens - Gonzaï / Racontr

Clémence Meunier: La fabuleuse épopée de Spiral Tribe - Tsugi

This Year's Best Work of Music Journalism - Audio

Andrea Burtz: Madonna und ich - Madonna wird 60 - WDR 5

Laura Ewert & Martin Böttcher: Berlin Zwanzig: Eine Stadt in 20 Songs - Red Bull Radio

Mike Herbstreuth: Popmusik-Spezial (1/5) – Über Sex kann man nur auf Englisch singen - Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Jan Kawelke & Vasili Golod: Machiavelli - Der Podcast über Rap & Politik - WDR Cosmo

Christoph Möller: Wie musikalisch ist künstliche Intelligenz? - WDR 5

various journalists (BBC Studios): Stay Free: The Story of The Clash (Narrated by Chuck D)- Spotify

Jake Brennan: Disgraceland - Disgraceland

June Owatari: Grrl On Grrl - Grrl On Grrl

Zakia Sewell: The Hour: J-FLAG, Salon Des Amateurs - Resident Advisor

Oliver Wang & Morgan Rhodes: Heat Rocks - Heat Rocks

This Year's Best Work of Music Journalism-Multimedia

Ilhan Coskun: Der Rap Hack: Kauf Dich in die Charts! Wie Klickzahlen manipuliert werden - Y-Kollektiv/FUNK

Daniel Grabner: FM4 Proseminar - FM4

Johannes Jacobie: Höme Unfiltered - Höme - Magazin für Festivalkultur

Dietmar Petschl: Wiener Nächte - Musik und Melancholie - ORF TV

Isabell Röttger: Rap in Buenos Aires: Duki & Co. übernehmen Argentinien - Arte/Tracks'

various journalists: website - beehy.pe

various journalists: 60 Times Madonna changed our Culture - New York Times

Leah Branstetter: Women in Rock'n Roll's First Wave - womeninrockproject.org

Sybill Gillespie: The Art of DJing: Eris Drew - Resident Advisor

Andrew Nosnitsky: Aphex Twin's Mask Collapses - Crack Magazine

Best Work of Music Journalism, Under 30

Lina Burghausen: 365 Female MCs - Mona Lina

Laurens Dillmann: Kunst und Kopfkrieg: Destroy Degenhardt über Psychosen und Selbsterkenntnis - Noisey/Vice

Marcel Laskus: Jetzt hören Sie mal zu! - Die ZEIT

Malcolm Ohanwe: Wir sind zu viele: Warum deutscher Pop nicht mehr weiß bleibt - Bayerischer Rundfunk

Mathis Raabe: Rap im Safer Space – Queere HipHop-Partys - Juice

Stefan Sommer: Popp 'ne Xanny, Bitch - Wie ein Angstblocker die Lieblingsdroge des Deutschrap werden konnte - PULS

Johann Voigt: Wer Gzuz' Realness feiert, darf bei seiner Frauenfeindlichkeit nicht weghören - Vice

Hengameh Yaghoobifarah: Rumi war meine Inspiration - taz

The International Music Journalis Award honours outstanding journalistic work and superb ongoing journalistic engagement that focuses on popular music and its business surroundings.

Read more about the awards HERE.

Reeperbahn Festival 2019 takes place on September 18-21 in Hamburg, Germany.
More information: https://www.reeperbahnfestival.com/en/