Günter Wallraff Prize 2025
05/09/2025
COLOGNE
Maria Kalesnikava has been awarded the Günter Wallraff Prize for Press Law and Human Rights 2025, together with the country's journalists' association.
In its citation, the "Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung" states that Maria is “a symbolic figure, representative of the many people who have sacrificed their freedom and their lives for a free and democratic Belarus”.
The prize, which is endowed with a total of 5,000 euros, will be awarded on Friday, May 9, 2025, at the Cologne Forum for Journalism Criticism on Deutschlandfunk radio.
With the prize, the "Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung" aims to draw attention to topics and discourses that are neglected in the German and international media.