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CV
Since 3/2023
Creative Director FOCUS Magazine
Publishing house: Hubert Burda Media, Berlin
7/2020 - 2/2023
Head of Design Zentrum Hamburg
Design Zentrum Hamburg is an institution that is part of the Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft to promote design and the city's creative industry. A space for exhibitions, events, workshops, experiments, discussions and interdisciplinary exchange on design issues.
2019 - 2020
Creative Direction
Design, strategy, concepts, consulting, lectures and workshops. Among other projects, redesign of DER SPIEGEL
2013 - 2019
Creative Direction STERN, Member of the editorial board
Stern Magazine, Crime, Dr. v. Hirschhausens Gesund Leben, Special editions (Reise, Mode, Ratgeber, Thema), stern.de, Publishing house Gruner+Jahr GmbH
2010 - 2013
Projects + Books
TAZ (Die Tageszeitung) ProQuote Sonderausgabe, MAX Sonderausgabe, VITAL, XX - politisches Frauenmagazin, WIE EINFACH (Magazine for EON), BERLIN - Hauptstadt für die Wissenschaft (Publishing house ZEIT Tempus Corporate GmbH), Book design (selection): Cool Camping by Björn Staschen, Das neue Testament by Axel Sven Springer, Underground by Julian Assange, Wir wollen eine andere Welt - Jugend in Deutschland, 1900-2010 by Fred Grimm, Berlin 3D by Arne Weychardt, Cover Concepts: TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, GEHIRN + GEIST, FOCUS, EMOTION, GEO special
2005 - 2009
Creative Direction ZEIT WISSEN
Additional: development and launch ZEIT STUDIENFÜHRER und ZEIT WISSEN RATGEBER, Publishing house Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG
2004
Freelance Artdirection
STERN Campus + Karriere, STERN Gesund Leben (Cover), GEO + VIEW (Cover), SPIRIT Lifestyle-Magazine (development for the Publishing house Axel-Springer SE)
2001 - 2004
Creative Direction ALLEGRA
Additional: ALLEGRA Woman & Work
Publishing house Axel-Springer SE
1999 - 2001
SPIEGEL-Reporter
Head of the graphic department
Publishing house Spiegel-Verlag
1993 - 1999
BRIGITTE, STERN, KONR@D
Cover Design, Picture Editor, Graphic Design
Publishing house Gruner+Jahr GmbH
1988-1993
Studies
Visual Communication und Fine Arts, Universität Kassel, Graduation with distinction
Awards
Excellent work is almost always a team effort. Many thanks to all the great people I had the pleasure of working with.
Art Directors Club
1 Grand Prix
4 Gold
12 Silver
24 Bronze
25 Merit
Lead Award
1 Gold
2 Silver
3 Bronze
15 Merit
Nannen-Preis
3x First Place in Photography
Awards for photographers, publication in STERN.
World Press Photo
5x First Place
5x Second Place
3x Third Place
Awards for photographers, publication in STERN.
European Magazine Award 2025 + 2026
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Kategorie: Magazine Story of the Year / Focus Magazin –
„Ich wünschte, diese Fotos gäbe es nicht“ -
Kategorie: Photography – Portrait / Focus Magazin – „Out of Gaza“
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Kategorie: Storytelling Feature, Q&A / Focus Magazin – „Seid wachsam, bleibt Mensch!“
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Kategorie: Infographic / Focus Magazin – „Der große Exaflop“
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Kategorie: Photography - Sequence / Focus Magazin – „Inside Russia“
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Kategorie: Cover One-Shot / Focus Magazin – „Netzwerk des Bösen“
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Kategorie: Illustration / Focus Magazin – „Hart an der Grenze“
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Kategorie: Launch or Relaunch (digital) / Focus Digital/Paid – „FOCUS+“
Talks + Keynotes
Ignite Future Talks
»Fakten, Fake News, Fck Nws«, 5/2026
http://ignite.jetzt
Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee
Lecture in the context of »Jitsi Bisti Spider«, 1/2024
https://jitsi-bitsi-spider.kh-berlin.de
»The design market in Hamburg«
Creative Ports — Cultural and Creative industries (CCI) in the Baltic Sea region. Sustainable Design Lab, 2021
»Design means business«
Reinventing Media Business, Riga/Lettland, 2019
»The future of reading«
FURE, Münster, 2019
»The future of magazines«
Art Directors Club - Festival, 2019
»Editorial Design im Stern-Kosmos. Zur Gestaltung einer Markenwelt«
Staatliche Akademie der Künste, Stuttgart, 2018
»Peter Lindbergh – Der Mann, der die Frauen liebt«
Kunsthalle München, 2017
»Propaganda, Ikonisierung und Emotion. Bildidentitäten und ihre Wirkungsmacht als Teil medialer Kommunikation«
Imaginata, Jena, 2016
»Bilder im Kopf«
Photo-Convention Zingst, 2015
»Editorial Design für Journalisten«
Henri Nannen Schule, 2014
»Wissenschaftsfotografie im digitalen Zeitalter«
Technische Universität Dortmund, Chair of Science Journalism, 2010
Teaching + Workshops
Meisterschule für Grafik- und Kommunikationsdesign, Wien
Lecture and Q+A with Antje Mayer-Salvi, 2023
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
Workshop, Editorial Design + Magazine development, 2018 + 2019
Forward Festival München
Workshop »The cover is the brand«, 2019
Portfolio Slam Editoral Design
Jury Member, Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft + PAGE, 2019
Kunstschule Wandsbek, Akademie für Kommunikationsdesign
Editorial Design + Portfolio Views, 2016 + 2019
Design Factory International
Member of the examination board, 2019, 2021, 2022
Henri-Nannen-Journalistenschule
Lecturer for Editorial Design, training of several years on the topic of newspapers + magazines, 2012 to 2015, 2020
Hochschule für Künste Bremen
Jury member for the award of the university prize,
2010 to 2013
Press + Publications
Podcast DDCast
"Frances Uckermann // Editorial Design. Für Stern, Spiegel und Focus, Folge 244", 2/2026
https://www.ddc.de/de/magazin/ddcast.php
Grafikmagazin
"Neu, aber vertraut", about the Relaunch of FOCUS, 1/2026
NDR Hamburg Journal: Future Fashion Project
"Die Zukunft der Mode", 11/2022
https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/hamburg_journal/Hamburg-Journal,sendung1296708.html
SAT 1 Regional: Future Fashion Project
"Mode der Zukunft: Gemeinsames Projekt zwischen China und Hamburg", 11/2022
https://www.sat1regional.de/mode-der-zukunft-gemeinsames-projekt-zwischen-china-und-hamburg/
PAGE Brands und Nachwuchs: Der Portfolio Slam
"Drei drei mutige Nachwuchstalente im Design Zentrum Hamburg"
https://page-online.de/branche-karriere/brands-und-nachwuchs-das-war-der-fuenfte-portfolio-slam/
PAGE Magazine: Designxport becomes Design Zentrum Hamburg
About Design Zentrum Hamburg, 02/2022
https://page-online.de/branche-karriere/designxport-wird-zu-design-zentrum-hamburg/
Menschen, Marken, Medien, Hamburg 1 TV
Talk (12/2021, 40 Min.), Host: Peter Heinlein, Guests: Claudia Fischer-Appelt and Lars Kreyenhagen (Karl Anders Agency) + me.
https://hamburg1.de/mediathek/43514
Der grüne Faden - von Kreativ zu Jura und zurück!
Podcast with Britta Klingberg (Kanzlei Fechner)
and Yolanda v. Zitzewitz, 27/10/20
https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxyVNyQvVAGE905trhUug
Hamburger Abendblatt
About designxport + me, 11/9/20
NDR TV Hamburg Journal
About designxport + me, broadcasted 15/7/20
PAGE Magazine
Interview about magazine design, 09/2019
https://shop.page-online.de/shop/page-9-2019/
Photonews
Interview about photography at "Stern", 02/2017
NDR TV Medienmagazin Zapp
TV program about photo reporters, broadcasted 4/10/2019
RTL Nord TV
Contribution to "70 years of Stern", broadcasted 9/19/2019
Osmos Magazine, New York
Portraits of New York artists by Frances Uckermann, 04/2017
Jurys + Organizations
Member of the "Deutscher Designtag"
As representative of the Design Zentrum Hamburg, 2022-2023
www.designtag.org
Member of the Media Committee of the "Deutscher Kulturrat"
As representative of the Design Zentrum Hamburg, 2022-2023
www.kulturrat.de
Karl H. Ditze Preis - Förderpreis
Jury Member, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, 2020, 2021, 2022
Der Neue BFF Förderpreis
Jury Member, Bund Freischaffender Fotografen, 2020
http://www.foerderpreis.bff.de
D+AD London
Jury Member, Design of Magazines and Newspapers, digitally + print, 2018
ADC – Art Directors Club Deutschland
Jury Member, all years since 2015
2017 + 2022: Head of the Editorial Jury
https://www.adc.de/2019/03/14/adc-kopf-frances-uckermann/
ADCE – Art Directors Club Europe
Member
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie
Member since 2017
Lead Awards
Jury Member 2015, 2016
Rückblende
Jury Member, Prize for Political Photography and Caricature of the State Representation of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers and the Federal Press Conference, 2016, 2017
Illu16
Jury Member, Illustration competition, Köln, 2016
Henri-Nannen-Preis
Jury member of the preliminary jury photography, 2014
We are Open
Independent agency network, since 2019
LeBook
Jury Member
