Jean Peters

Jean Peters (other pseudonyms: Paul von Ribbeck, Gil Schneider, Sven Ansvar, Jessica Gräber, Conny Runner a.o.) is a German Journalist, Author and Tactical Media Artist born on the Croatian Island Vis. He is known as founding member of the Peng! collective, with which he won the Aachen Peace Prize in 2018., and his investigative journalism at Correctiv. In 2022, he was awarded Reporter of the Year for a joint MeToo investigation. Life Peters holds several master's degrees in political science from the Free University Berlin, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance in Berlin. In public, his true identity is not completely clear, since he publicly appears with different names and also changes names in interviews. He exhibited at the Berlin Biennale, Kampnagel, the Museumsquartier Wien and the Künstlerhaus Wien. In Austria he was investigated by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism because of his exhibition. At an exhibition at Kampnagel, the German Ministry of Economics and RWE CEO Rolf Schmitz reacted. He is lecturer at the University of Cologne, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg and at the Berliner Festspiele.