Esther Schapira
Esther Schapira (born January 23, 1961, in Frankfurt) is a German journalist and filmmaker, currently politics and society editor at the German public television network, the Hessischer Rundfunk. Schapira is co-author of The Act of Alois Brunner, and producer of two award-winning documentaries, Drei Kugeln und ein totes Kind ("Three bullets and a dead child") (2002), about the death of Muhammad al-Durrah in Gaza in 2000, and Der Tag, als Theo van Gogh ermordet wurde ("The day Theo van Gogh was murdered") (2007), about the killing in 2004 of Dutch filmmaker, Theo van Gogh. The latter won her and her co-producer, Kamil Taylan, a Prix Europa award.
Esther Schapira
Dontworry · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Name
- Esther Schapira
- Born
- 23 January 1961
- Birthplace
- Frankfurt, West Germany
- Occupation
- Journalist, filmmaker
- Nationality
- Germany
- Honours
- Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal
- Languages
- German
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Esther Schapira. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q103989 · wikipedia · Esther Schapira
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Esther Schapira • Born — 23 January 1961 • Birthplace — Frankfurt, West Germany • Occupation — Journalist, filmmaker
Background
Background
Schapira completed her Abitur at the Frankfurt Helmholtzschule in 1982, and went on to study German and English language and literature, as well as theatre, film and television. She has been the politics and society editor at the German public television network, the Hessischer Rundfunk, since 1995.
Articles
Articles
• Weil ich ein Märtyrer sein will. Begegnung mit einem Terroristen, in: Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (ed.): Tod und Sterben in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft. Eine interdisziplinäre Auseinandersetzung (= Kulturwissenschaft interdisziplinär/Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 3), Baden-Baden 2008.
Books
• with Hafner, Georg M. Die Akte Alois Brunner. Campus Sachbuch, Frankfurt 2000. • with Hafner, Georg M. Israel ist an allem schuld. Warum der Judenstaat so gehasst wird. Eichborn, Köln 2015,
Awards
Schapira's awards include the Elisabeth-Selbert-Preis (1987), the Radio-, TV- und Neue-Medien-Preis (1995), the German Critics Prize (1996), and the Civis – Europas Medienpreis für Integration prize (2002). She won the first prize twice at the International Festival Law and Society in Moscow, for Drei Kugeln und ein totes Kind and Der Tag, als Theo van Gogh ermordet wurde. In 2007, she won the Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal with Georg M. Hafner, and a commendation during Prix Europa for the Theo van Gogh documentary.
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Esther Schapira, revision 1353489352 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 27 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Film memorabilia
38,713 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Esther OfarimPerson
- Esther RalstonPerson
- Esther ReginaPerson
- Esther RollePerson
- Esther ValiquettePerson
- Esther Victoria AbrahamPerson
- Esther VilarPerson
- Estibaliz UrresolaPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Esther Schapira?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.