Harald Wieser

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Harald Wieser (born March 22, 1949 in Kleve ) is a German sociologist , author and journalist . His literary portraits , polemics , reports and essays shaped the journalistic and literary discourse in the German-language feature pages of the late 20th century.

Live and act

After studying social sciences at the Ruhr University in Bochum with Urs Jaeggi , Wieser completed a journalistic traineeship in the editorial team of the television magazine Panorama . From 1974 to 1980 he was together with Hans-Magnus Enzensberger (1974) and Karl Markus Michel (1974–1980) editor of the magazine Kursbuch . In addition, he worked as a lecturer at the Dortmund Social Academy and at the University of Kassel . In 1980 he did his doctorate in Kassel under Ulrich Sonnemann with “Social-philosophical reflections on the political relationship between psychoanalysis and Marxism”.

From 1980 to 1989, Harald Wieser worked as an editor for the news magazine Der Spiegel , where he was temporarily responsible for the book mirror . Together with Rudolf Augstein and Hellmuth Karasek , he conducted the Spiegel interview with Ernst Jünger in 1982 . In 1987, Wieser's report "Death of a Pianist" about the fate of Karlrobert Kreitens and Werner Höfer's journalistic past led to his resignation as the presenter of the international morning pint and to the end of this broadcast on ARD .

From 1985 to 1989 Wieser was next to Klaus Harpprecht and Wolf Schneider juror for the International Journalism Prize in Klagenfurt . From 1990 to 1992 Wieser worked as a reporter for Stern magazine . In 1990, his Stern report about plagiarism by the writer Walter Kempowski in the novel “From Great Time” (1978) received controversial feedback. In the 1990s he co-authored the autobiographies of Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs , Harald Juhnke and Peter Ustinov . In 2003 he published an audio book with Walter Benjamin's lost radio stories. As a guest author he occasionally writes for DIE ZEIT .

Harald Wieser lives and works as a freelance journalist in Hamburg and Bremen.

Works (selection)

  • Social philosophical reflections on the political relationship between psychoanalysis and Marxism, excursions on the dialectic of blind consciousness and damaged identity . Dissertation Kassel 1980
  • Kursbuch (Ed.) Issues 35 to 59. With Hans Magnus Enzensberger (35 to 40, 1974) and Karl Markus Michel (35 to 59, 1974–1980)
  • Conversations with Ernst Bloch . Edited with Rainer Traub. Edition Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1974 ISBN 978-3-518-00798-3
  • Of masks and people . Volume I: Portraits and Polemics . Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1991 ISBN 3-251-01081-6
  • Of masks and people Volume II: Essais and Affairen . Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1991 ISBN 3-251-01082-4
  • With Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs: Journalist Life . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1994 ISBN 978-3-426-26834-6
  • With Harald Juhnke: My seven lives . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1998 ISBN 978-3-498-03331-6
  • Walter Benjamin: Education for children . Audio book. Selected and read by Harald Wieser. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2003 ISBN 978-3-455-30343-8
  • Peter Ustinov: Warning! Prejudice . After discussions with Harald Wieser and Jürgen Ritte . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2003 ISBN 978-3-455-09410-7
  • Bildgewitter / Struck by Pictures . Edited with Mark Gisbourne, Clemens Meyer, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2013 ISBN 978-3-86678-912-8
  • "I am perfec!" An encouragement . Supplement in: Michael Ensser (Ed.): Die Sinngestalter - Leadership in restless times . EgonZehnder, Berlin 2018
  • I beg your pardon? The poison of reproach . Supplement in: Michael Ensser (Ed.): Terra incognita. Together on new paths . EgonZehnder, Berlin 2019

Literature (selection)

  • Jörg Drews : About the influence of book reviews in newspapers on the sale of fiction titles in the eighties . In: literary criticism - claim and reality . Edited by Wilfried Barner . Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 1990. ISBN 3-476-00727-8
  • Volker Ladenthin : Literature business without literature. Harald Wieser and the "stern" . In: Journalism . Quarterly issues for communication research . University Press Konstanz, issue 4/1991
  • Friedrich Lambart (ed.): Death of a pianist. Karlrobert Kreiten and the Werner Höfer case . Edition Hentrich 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Re: Ernst Jünger . In: Der Spiegel , 33/1982 . More mirror -Gespräche led Harald Wieser u. a. with the actor Bruno Ganz (47/1986, together with Urs Jenny ), the publisher couple Brigitte and Gottfried Bermann-Fischer (1/1987, together with Peter Sichrovsky ) and the billiard player Raymond Ceulemans (48/1987).
  2. ^ Death of a pianist (PDF) . In: DER SPIEGEL 51/1987 pp. 156–170
  3. ^ Christian Felchow: Case Werner Höfer. How Germany's master presenter stumbled upon his brown past . At: spiegel online , June 2, 2010 (accessed June 9, 2018)
  4. ↑ For the Star interviewed Wieser athletes Steffi Graf (under the title: Rare luck . Speaking to the tennis player Steffi Graf , in expenditure 27/1990 and 28/1990, see From masks and humans II, pp 209-231) and Boris Becker (under the title: drug audience. Conversation with the tennis player Boris Becker ; in issues 44/1990 and 45/1990, see Von Masken und Menschen II, pp. 232–260); also for the same magazine the film producer Bernd Eichinger and the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter (before 1992).
  5. ↑ Harald Wieser: The copyist . In: Der Stern , January 1990
  6. ↑ For example: Volker Hage : A case of philistinism . In: Die Zeit , 04/1990
  7. ↑ Produced as a series in 2002 by Radio Bremen .
  8. ↑ Harald Wieser at: zeit / autoren
personal data
SURNAME Wieser, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleve