International Music Journalism Award 2022: ROLLING STONE author Joachim Hentschel honored

At this year’s Reeperbahn Festival, Joachim Hentschel was awarded the prize for “Best Music Journalist of the Year – German”, i.e. the best German music journalist of the year. Hentschel, 53, was deputy editor-in-chief of ROLLING STONE and is now an author for our magazine.

Hentschel’s music journalistic contributions have also appeared in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, “Wired”, “GQ” and in “Spiegel”, among others, he has worked for Deutschlandfunk and Arte. In 2018, Rowohlt published a book about the culture of the 1990s, “Zu geil fürdiese Welt” (Too cool for this world), and this year the same publisher published “Dann wir Helden”, his observation of pop music in the Federal Republic and the GDR.

The colleagues from “Musikexpress” can also be happy: Annett Scheffel’s text about Lorde, “Die Feine Kunst des Draufscheissens”, received the prize for the “Best Music Journalistic Work of the Year – German” at the “International Music Journalism Awards”.

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