Simone Augustin

Simone Augustin also Simone Roßkamp (born 23 November 1976 in Heinsberg) is a German journalist and author.^[1]

Biography

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 in the Martin Werhand Verlag with lyrical texts.^[3] Published poems were recited as part of a reading series by various authors in various German cities, such as Bonn, Heinsberg,^[4] Münster or Essen, among other things, in 2000 with a reading at the University of Cologne.^[5]

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^[6] was awarded the Axel-Springer-Preis in the category radio in May 2005 in the presence of Friede Springer and Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner.^[7]

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,^[8] the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, The taz^[9] or the rbb in Berlin.^[10]

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

Awards

• 2005: Axel-Springer-Preis in the category Radio^[11]

External links

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

References