Munich (dpa / lby) - The podcast "Himmelfahrtskommando - My father and the Olympic assassination" by Bavarian Radio wins the media prize of the Munich Press Club, which is endowed with 4000 euros. The eight-part podcast was researched by journalist Patrizia Schlosser. "She describes an absolutely gripping, investigative, reconstructive research into the involvement of her father Guido Schlosser in the failed action to free the Israeli hostages at Fürstenfeldbruck Airport in 1972," the press club justified the award on Tuesday.
The then young policeman Guido Schlosser was supposed to free the Israeli athletes in a passenger plane 50 years ago with other volunteer officers who had been captured by a Palestinian terrorist squad at the Olympic Games in Munich. Since the liberation action then seemed hopeless to the police officers, who were not trained for such an operation, they left the machine again. Ultimately, all eleven hostages died, a German police officer and five of the eight terrorists.
The Herwig Weber Prize, named after a former chairman of the press club, is awarded every three years for outstanding journalistic contributions related to the state capital. Two other BR productions will be awarded prize money of 2,500 and 1,500 euros this year. It is the "Lebenslinien" portrait "Die Isarnixe" by Petra Wiegers about the Munich synchronized swimmer Marie-Luise Jordan and the "controversial" report "5 Years OEZ Attack" by Christian Stücken about the racist attack with nine fatalities on Olympia shopping center 2016.
