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Theodor-Wolff-Preis
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-Anzeiger) * Ka ... [...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] |
Nikolaus Blome
Nikolaus Blome (born 16 September 1963) is a German journalist. Life Blome was born in Bonn. He studied at the Henri-Nannen-Schule in Hamburg. From 1991 to 1993, he worked for newspaper ''Der Tagesspiegel''. From 1993 to 2013, he worked for German newspaper ''Bild''. From 2013 to 2015, Blome worked as journalist for the news magazine ''Der Spiegel''. , Blome has been working again for ''Bild'', this time in the position of the vice editor-in-chief. He was also editor-in-chief of the ''Bild'' offshoot ''Bild Politik''. Activities * International Journalists' Programmes (IJP), Member of the Board of Trustees Works * ''Faul, korrupt und machtbesessen? Warum Politiker besser sind als ihr Ruf''. wjs Verlag, Berlin 2008, . * ''Der kleine Wählerhasser. Was Politiker wirklich über die Bürger denken''. Pantheon Verlag, Munich 2011, . * ''Angela Merkel. Die Zauder-Künstlerin''. Pantheon Verlag, Munich 2013, . Awards * ''Arthur-F.-Burns-Fellowship'' (1993) * Förderpreis by '' ... [...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 his being Jewish, the quality of Wolff's writing was matched by only very few in Germany. 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 in a prosperous Jewish family. He rapidly achieved good results at the prestigious King William I Grammar school in Berlin.Christel Goldmann: ... [...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 (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ... 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, Germany, 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 ... [...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 (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ... 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 ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (; ''FAZ''; "''Frankfurt General Newspaper''") is a centre-right conservative-liberal and liberal-conservativeHans Magnus Enzensberger: Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen' (in German). ''Deutschland Radio'', 16 October 2007 German newspaper founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt. Its Sunday edition is the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung'' (; ''FAS''). The paper runs its own correspondent network. Its editorial policy is not determined by a single editor, but cooperatively by four editors. It is the German newspaper with the widest circulation abroad, with its editors claiming the newspaper is delivered to 148 countries. History The first edition of the ''F.A.Z.'' 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günther Von Lojewski
Günther von Lojewski (born 11 July 1935) is a German journalist, television presenter and author. Life Lojewski was born in Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ... and worked as television journalist in Germany. He has written several books. Works * ''Bayerns Weg nach Köln'' (1962) * ''Mehr Staat – weniger Staat'' (1982) * ''Wem gehört die deutsche Geschichte'' (1984) * ''Kirche und Politik'' (1989) * ''Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit. „Report" eines deutschen Lebens'' (2000) * ''Rundfunkwende. Der Umbruch des deutschen Rundfunksystems nach 1989 aus der Sicht der Akteure'' (2000); together with Axel Zerdick Awards * 1969: Theodor-Wolff-Award * 2004: Commanders Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany References External ... [...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
''Die Zeit'' (, "The Time") 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 ''Die Zeit'' 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. Another important founder was Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, who joined as an editor in 1946. She became publisher of ''Die Zeit'' from 1972 until her death in 2002, together from 1983 onwards with former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, later joined by Josef Joffe and former German federal secretary of culture Michael Naumann. The paper's publishing house, Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius in Hamburg, is owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Dieter von Holtzbrinck Media. The paper is published weekly on Thursdays. As of 2018, ''Die Zeit'' has ... [...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 , , , and , and published multiple works including "La révolte des étudiants" and "Intervention décisive à |
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