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Theodor Wolff Prize
The Theodor Wolff Prize is a German journalism prize. It has been awarded annually since 1962 in five categories, equal prizes of €6,000, by the . In addition, at irregular intervals, journalists are awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize for their life's work. The award is dedicated to the memory of Theodor Wolff, who was forced into exile by the Nazis from Germany in February 1933 because of his Jewish origin and on account of ferocious opposition to the Nazi Party seizure of power the previous month. Until 1933, he was the liberal democratic chief editor of the Berliner Tageblatt. Jury The jury in 2016 consisted of nine people: * Nikolaus Blome (Bild) * (Die Welt) * ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung) * ( Saarbrücker Zeitung) * Christian Lindner ( Rhein-Zeitung) * (Der Tagesspiegel) * (Aachener Zeitung) * (Süddeutsche Zeitung) * ( Kölnische Rundschau) Notable recipients 1962: * Thaddäus Troll ( Bremer Nachrichten) 1964: * Klaus Bresser ( Kölner Stadt-Anz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Wolff
Theodor Wolff (2 August 1868 – 23 September 1943) was a German writer who was influential as a journalist, critic and newspaper editor. He was born and died in Berlin. Between 1906 and 1933 he was the chief editor of the politically liberal newspaper ''Berliner Tageblatt''. His talent as a writer won praise from an unlikely quarter: In 1939 Joseph Goebbels recommended his Propaganda Ministry staff to study Wolff's contributions in back numbers of the newspaper that he had edited. According to Goebbels, despite him being Jewish, the quality of Wolff's writing was matched by only very few in Germany. What Goebbels did not mention was that as a younger man he had himself on at least one occasion applied to work for the newspaper in question. Life Early years Theodor Wolff was born in Berlin, second of the four recorded children of a fabric wholesaler from Silesia called Adam Wolff by his marriage to Recha, née Davidsohn. Recha was a doctor's daughter from Danzig. Wolff grew up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bremer Nachrichten
The Bremer Tageszeitung AG (BTAG) (Bremer newspaper AG) is a publishing house that publishes various regional newspapers in the city of Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (, ), is the capital of the States of Germany, German state of the Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (), a two-city-state consisting of the c ... and nearby regions in Lower Saxony. The daily newspaper ''Weser-Kurier'' (WK) is the main product. The WK forms the title pages of the local newspapers ''Bremer Nachrichten'' and ''Verdener Nachrichten'' as well as the Sunday newspaper ''Kurier am Sonntag'', which appear in Bremen and the lower Saxon environs. In addition, there are some regional or local side dishes. The sold circulation amounts to 126,485 copies. That is a drop of 37.3 per cent since 1998. The publishing house is located in Bremen and had till 2019 its own printing house in the Woltmershausen district. BTAG was founded i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Fest
Joachim Clemens Fest (8 December 1926 – 11 September 2006) was a German historian, journalist, critic and editor who was best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including a biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer and German resistance to Nazism. He was a leading figure in the debate among German historians about the Nazi era. In recent years his writings have earned both praise and strong criticism. Early life and career Fest was born in the Karlshorst locality of Berlin, the son of Johannes Fest, a conservative Roman Catholic and staunch anti-Nazi schoolteacher who was dismissed from his post when the Nazis came to power in 1933. In 1936, when Fest turned 10, his family refused to make him join the Hitler Youth, a step that could have had serious repercussions for the family although membership became compulsory only in 1939. As it was, Fest was expelled from his school and then went to a Catholic boarding school in Freiburg im Breisg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reinhard Appel
Reinhard Appel (February 21, 1927, in Königshütte – June 26, 2011, in Bonn) was a German journalist and television presenter. Life Appel worked as journalist for German broadcasters. He was married and had three children. Awards * 1970: Special contributions at Adolf-Grimme-Preis * 1972: Theodor Wolff Prize * 1972: Goldene Kamera in category best moderation for ''Journalisten fragen – Politiker antworten'' * 1976: Bundesverdienstkreuz The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (, or , BVO) is the highest federal decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. It may be awarded for any field of endeavor. It was created by the first President of the Federal Republic ... 1. Klasse der Bundesrepublik Deutschland * 1981: Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland References External links * * reinhard-appel.de– private homepage German male journalists 20th-century German journalists 21st-century German journalists German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gitta Bauer
Gitta Bauer (born 1919 in Berlin, died 1990) was a German journalist. Opposing Nazism She was born into a liberal family and raised a Catholic. She was a member of a Catholic movement, that was banned by the Nazis in 1935. Some years later, she was sent to prison for publishing a small newspaper with six friends, that advocated peace. In 1944, her childhood friend, Ilse Baumgart, who was half Jewish and lived in Berlin under an assumed identity, where she worked as a secretary, got into great trouble. Upon hearing of the 20 July plot, she asked "Is the swine (Hitler) dead? Then the war is finally over". Her comment was reported, but the officer who came to arrest her was himself opposed to the Nazis, and gave her 15 minutes to escape. She was then hidden for the next nine months in the home of Gitta Bauer. Bauer later recounted: "This was no big moral or religious decision. She was a friend and she needed help. We knew it was dangerous, and we were careful, but we didn't consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The (; ''FAZ''; "Frankfurt General Newspaper") is a German newspaper founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt and is considered a newspaper of record for Germany. Its Sunday edition is the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung'' (; ''FAS''). The paper runs its own network of correspondents. Its editorial policy is not determined by a single editor, but cooperatively by four editors. History The first edition of the ''FAZ'' appeared on 1 November 1949; its founding editors were Hans Baumgarten, Erich Dombrowski, Karl Korn, Paul Sethe and Erich Welter. Welter acted as editor until 1980. Some editors had worked for the moderate '' Frankfurter Zeitung'', which had been banned in 1943. However, in their first issue, the ''FAZ'' editorial expressly refuted the notion of being the earlier paper's successor, or of continuing its legacy: Until 30 September 1950, the ''FAZ'' was printed in Mainz. Traditionally, many of the headlines in the ''FAZ'' were styled in bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günther Von Lojewski
Günther von Lojewski (; 11 July 1935 – 26 February 2023) was a German political journalist, television presenter and author. He worked as a journalist for the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', the ZDF and Bayerischer Rundfunk. From 1989 to 1997, he was head of the Sender Freies Berlin, and afterwards taught at the Freie Universität Berlin. Life and career Lojewski was born in Berlin on 11 July 1935. His father, Werner von Lojewski, was a speaker for Konrad Adenauer and the first speaker of Walter Hallstein, the President of the Commission of the European Economic Community. He attended primary schools in Pößneck (Thuringia) and in Berlin-Steglitz, and gymnasium in Berlin, Hamburg and Bonn. He studied history, German studies, and political science at the University of Bonn and in Innsbruck. He completed a dissertation in Bonn in 1960, ''Bayerns Weg nach Köln. Geschichte der bayerischen Bistumspolitik in der 2. Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts'', about Bavarian politics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Sommer
Theo Sommer (10 June 1930 – 22 August 2022) was a German newspaper editor and intellectual. He began working for ''Die Zeit'' in 1958, rising to an editor-in-chief and publisher. His editorials for ''Die Zeit'' shaped the paper's social-liberal attitude. He advocated the policy of détente with the Eastern bloc states (''Entspannungspolitik''). From 1992, Sommer was publisher of ''Die Zeit'', together with Marion Dönhoff and Helmut Schmidt. He was considered one of Germany's authorities on international relations and strategic issues. Life and career Born in Konstanz, Republic of Baden, on 10 June 1930, Sommer grew up in Schwäbisch Gmünd and was educated at the National Political Institutes of Education in Sonthofen. He was drafted into the Volkssturm in 1945. After World War II, he found out about the lies and atrocities of the Nazi regime, primarily by following the Nuremberg trials and reading Eugen Kogon's book '. Sommer obtained his Abitur from Schwäbisch Gmünd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Von Randow
Thomas von Randow (26 December 1921 Breslau, Schlesien – 29 July 2009 Hamburg) was a German mathematician and journalist who published mathematical and logical puzzles under the pseudonym Zweistein in the "Logelei" column in Die Zeit. (After 2005 his column and pseudonym were continued by Bernhard Seckinger and Immanuel Halupczok.) Publications Many of his logic puzzles were published in the following books: * ''99 Logeleien von Zweistein.'' Christian Wegner, Hamburg 1968 * ''Neue Logeleien von Zweistein.'' Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1976 * ''Logeleien für Kenner.'' Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1975 * ''88 neue Logeleien.'' Nymphenburger, München 1983 * ''87 neue Logeleien.'' Rasch und Röhring, Hamburg 1985 * ''Weitere Logeleien von Zweistein.'' Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag (dtv), München 1985, * ''Zweisteins Zahlenmagie. Mathematisches und Mystisches über einen abstrakten Gebrauchsgegenstand. Von Eins bis Dreizehn.'' Illustrationen von Gerhard Gepp. Christian Brandstätt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Zeit
(, ) is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles. History The first edition of was first published in Hamburg on 21 February 1946. The founding publishers were Gerd Bucerius, Lovis H. Lorenz, Richard Tüngel and Ewald Schmidt di Simoni. Marion Gräfin Dönhoff joined as an editor in March 1946. She became publisher of from 1972 until her death in 2002. In 1983 she was joined by former Chancellor of Germany (1949–), German chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Later Josef Joffe and former German federal secretary of culture Michael Naumann joined them as well. The paper's publishing house, Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius in Hamburg, is owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Dieter von Holtzbrinck, Dieter von Holtzbrinck Media. The paper is published weekly on Thursdays. As of 2018, has additional offices in Brussels, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kai Hermann
Kai Hermann (born 29 January 1938) is a German journalist, , accessed 17 August 2010 who contributed to the magazines Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Twen, and Stern (magazine), Stern, and published multiple works including "La révolte des étudiants" and "Intervention décisive à Mogadiscio". He is also co-author of ''Christiane F., Christiane F.: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo'', with Horst Rieck. He is a Theodor Wolff Prize laureate, and recipient of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal. Filmography * ''Christiane F. (film), Christiane F.'' (1981) * ''Circle of Deceit (1981 film), Circle of Deceit'' (1981) * ' (1987) * ''Engel & Joe'' (2001)References German male journalists 20th-century German journalists 21st-century German journalists 1938 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurter Rundschau
The ''Frankfurter Rundschau'' (''FR'') is a German daily newspaper, based in Frankfurt am Main. The ''Rundschaus editorial stance is social liberal. It holds that "independence, social justice and fairness" underlie its journalism. In Post-war Germany ''Frankfurter Rundschau'' was for decades a leading force of German press. The newspaper was one of the first licensed by the US military administration in 1945 and had a traditional social democratic, antifascist and trade union stand. Starting with the decline of printed daily newspapers in the 2000s, the ''FR'' changed ownership several times, reduced its editorial team dramatically and today has little national significance. Frankfurter Rundschau Druck and Verlagshaus GmbH filed for bankruptcy on 12 November 2012. Then the paper was acquired by ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' and Frankfurter Societät (publisher of the ''Frankfurter Neue Presse'') in 2013, by taking over just 28 full-time journalists. The ''FR'' editori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
