Marcel Rosenbach

Marcel Rosenbach studied Political Science and Journalism at the University of Hamburg, went to the Henri-Nannen-School of Journalism and joined the German news weekly Der Spiegel in 2001. He has since worked on numerous investigations, mostly in the fields of business and national security; he was part of the Spiegel team that worked on the Wikileaks releases such as the Afghan and Iraq warlogs and diplomatic cables in 2010/11 and is one of the Spiegel journalists who had access to the Snowden files from summer 2013. Together with his colleague Holger Stark he has written two bestselling non-fiction books on WikiLeaks (Staatsfeind WikiLeaks 2011) and the NSA (Der NSA-Komplex, 2014). Rosenbach and Stark were named “Journalists of the Year” in 2014 and were part of Spiegel’s NSA reporting team that won the prestigious Henri Nannen Award for investigative reporting.

Marcel Rosenbach was selected for the 2014 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Codename Apalachee’  

Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras is a filmmaker and artist. Her film CITIZENFOUR, the third part in a trilogy about post-9/11 America, won an Oscar for best documentary. Her reporting on NSA mass surveillance received the George Polk Award for National Security journalism, and was shared in the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service.

She is a co-creator of Field of Vision, a visual journalism project that commissions short-form and feature films about urgent global issues. She is currently suing the U.S. government to learn why she was placed on a terrorist watchlist in 2006.

Her first solo museum exhibition of immersive installations, Astro Noise, was presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2016. Her most recent films include Risk, following WikiLeaks and Julian Assange over 6 years, and Project X, about a mysterious windowless building in lower Manhattan. 

Laura Poitras was nominated for the 2014 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Codename Apalachee’