Jacques Schuster

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Jacques Schuster (* 1965 in Berlin ) is a German journalist and publicist.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1983, Schuster studied history and political science at the Free University of Berlin . During his student days he was chairman of the Jewish students in Berlin.

From 1987 to 1996 he worked at the FU at the Chair for Contemporary History and International Relations held by Arnulf Baring . Schuster was Baring's research assistant from 1991 to 1996.

In 1996 he received his doctorate in Berlin with a thesis on Heinrich Albertz .

From 1996 to 1998 he was speechwriter for the Governing Mayor of Berlin Eberhard Diepgen . During his studies he was already working as a freelancer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Berliner Tagesspiegel , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the weekly Die Woche , as well as glosses for the Deutschlandradio .

Schuster has been an editor for the newspaper Die Welt since 1998 , where he headed the foreign policy department from 2000 to 2007, then moved to the opinion department and headed the literary world for two years under editor Rachel Salamander . Since May 2014 Schuster has been chief commentator of the Welt-Gruppe and head of politics.

Heinrich Albertz, biography (1997)

Rüdiger Sassnick (TAZ) emphasizes that Schuster wants to show the multi-layered people “full of contradictions” and characterizes his different sides as pastor, Prussia and patriot. However, the reviewer misses the late Albertz and his humorous side in Schuster's biography.

For Hanna-Renate Laurien , the book is more than just a biography: With and against Albertz, contemporary history comes to life and becomes “lived life”. With Schuster, the Prussian could well get into conflict with the patriot, the pastor with the politician. The fascinating thing about this life drawing is how Schuster opens up the spiritual and spiritual roots: "Albertz has placed his life under the First Commandment and disregards human considerations, even party-political dependency, because of the absolute nature of such ties." The description, like Albertz, Brandt, Bahr , Korber with Abusch and the mighty GDR giants struggle tenaciously over every formality in the pass agreement, according to Laurien reading should not only be in upper secondary schools, but especially for East German readers. Laurien also rates the book as a political textbook: “Omnipotent airs have no place in a democracy. Contempt of the adversary is pointless, the endeavor to be able to coexist is essential. And the scramble in a party, it may be petty, power-based or based on conceptions, must be taken up. [...] Illusions about everyday political life do not last. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela Dachs: Jewish and German. In: Zeit Online . December 18, 1992, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Jacques Schuster. In: Welt.de . November 20, 2018, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Rüdiger Saßnick: “The man who lived several lives”: Jacques Schuster's biography of the pastor, Prussia and patriot Heinrich Albertz. In: taz.de . November 11, 1997, Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Susanne Gaschke: Pastor, Prussia, Patriot: A life in contradictions: Jacques Schuster portrays Heinrich Albertz. In: Zeit Online. September 19, 1997, accessed May 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schuster, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin