‘What a year!’ Headlines from the Future
30 October 2024
The 2024 DAAD-ILCS German-Language Competition culminated in a round-table discussion on 25 October which brought together the prize-winners with prominent journalists and broadcasters. Former BBC presenter Rosie Goldsmith, ARD foreign correspondent Gabi Biesinger, Sky News output producer Stephanie Nourse, and Lecturer in German and Journalism at the University of Leeds, Imke Henkel, joined Godela Weiss-Sussex from the Institute in a discussion about how each country portrays the ‘other’ in the press.
This year’s competition entrants had been tasked with creating the front page of a fictional newspaper for the last edition of the year and, as usual, brought exceptional creativity to the task. The fictional cover stories spanned a range of topics, from science to sport and from climate change to culture. The twelve winning front pages were celebrated in a special issue of The Daily Deutsch (below).
A list of the winners can be found at https://www.daad.org.uk/en/about-us/who-we-are/daad-projects/german-language-competitions/what-a-year/
The annual competition is organised by the DAAD and the Institute, and generously supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum London, Goethe Institute London, the Keith Spalding Trust and the Embassies of the Federal Republic of Germany and of Switzerland.

Photo of the prize-winners and competition organisers © Mathias Falcone/DAAD