(2014 ARCHIVED) Peter Deininger and Fred Schöllhorn - Germany
PETER DEININGER AND FRED SCHOELLHORN (Germany) - Nominees for 'Media Ambassador of the Year'
Website: www.augsburger-allgemeine.de
- Profession: sports journalist and photographer, nationality: German
- Disciplines: freestyle, extreme, rafting, downriver, canoe slalom
Peter Deininger and Fred Schöllhorn have enjoyed decades reporting and taking photographs for the Augsburger Allgemeine, arguably one of the world’s most supportive newspapers when it comes to paddlesports.
In 1972 Peter Deininger ran alongside the Olympic flame as it was carried through the centre of Augsburg, Germany, host city for the Canoe Slalom event at its maiden games. Peter has gone on to a thrilling international career. Peter has had the satisfaction of writing about German slalom medalists at each Olympiad from 1992 to 2012, from Elisabeth Micheler at the Barcelona games to Sideris Tasiadis and Hannes Aigner in London. Few reporters could have seen such consistent success in those they write about.
In the thirty years between 1985 and 2014 Peter has bolstered the public profile of canoeing by writing articles on no less than ten World Championships and three European Championships in Augsburg, along with countless other local and international events. Peter combines his first hand historical knowledge of paddlesports with a personal approach to writing about the athletes that gives his work a special touch.
Fred Schöllhorn works alongside Peter at the Augsburger Allgemeine as a photojournalist. This started in 1972 with the lighting of the Olympic flame [by Karl Heinz Englet] on the Eiskanal and has continued on to current events, such as the boater cross that will be hosted in Augsburg this year.
He began as a photograph apprentice and editorial trainee and went on to spend fourty six years as a member of the newspaper’s editorial staff. He also held the position of imprint editor, and has been head of the photograph editorial department since 1979.
Fred’s exceptional photographs have been published across the globe. For nearly fifty years he has covered local and national sporting events and dealt with politics, the economy and arts and his work has been recognized with a World Press award. Fred is also an author and has numerous specialty publications and expositions to his name. His photojournalism has helped bring paddlesports to the world in a modern and exciting way.
Peter and Fred have been nominated for the Paddlesport Media Ambassador award for their decades of high quality paddlesports coverage.
This is a 2014 archived nominee. For the 2015 nominees click on the button below.
