Simone Augustin

After leaving the high school in 1996 she studied theater, film and television studies, German and History of Art at the University of Cologne with a final thesis on Quentin Tarantinos award-winning film Pulp Fiction. She went through various internships and volunteer positions, among others, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger,[2] the Kulturzeit, the WDR, the Deutsche Welle or Scholz & Friends in Berlin.

In 1999 she took part in the Young Poetry Series Junge Lyrik[3] in the Martin Werhand Verlag with lyrical texts.[4] Published poems were recited as part of a reading series by various authors in various German cities, such as Bonn, Heinsberg,[5] Münster or Essen, among other things, in 2000 with a reading at the University of Cologne.[6]

After completing her master's degree in the cathedral city of the Rhine, she moved personally and professionally as a journalist for Berlin.

The article Armutsgürtel Berlin-Mitte (88acht for the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg – Das Stadtradio), written in 2004[7] was awarded the Axel-Springer-Preis in the category radio in May 2005 in the presence of Friede Springer and Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner.[8]

In 2005 Simone Augustin belonged to the 2nd year of the graduates of the EMS Electronic Media School in Berlin.

Her contributions as a freelance journalist were published since 2001 in numerous press organs such as the Film-Dienst,[9] the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, The taz[10] or the rbb in Berlin.[11]

Simone Augustin is now working as a journalist and freelance writer based in Berlin.

• 2005: Axel-Springer-Preis in the category Radio[12]
• 2018: Deutscher Preis für Denkmalschutz, in the category Journalistenpreis[13]
• 2018: Medienpreis der Bundesarchitektenkammer "Architektur bleibt"[14]

• Literature by and about Simone Augustin in the German National Library catalogue
• Electronic Media School (in German)
• Berliner Morgenpost (in German)