Nikolaus Blome

Nikolaus Blome (2019)

Nikolaus Hermann Blome (born September 16, 1963 in Bonn ) is a German journalist , commentator and author .

Since 2020 he has been Head of Politics and Society in the central editorial office of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland and online columnist for the news magazine Der Spiegel . He was to autumn 2019 deputy chief editor of the picture - newspaper and responsible for the political and economic affairs. From 2013 to 2015, he was head of the capital city office and a member of the Spiegel editorial team. From 2011 to 2013 he was deputy editor-in-chief at Bild .

Life

Nikolaus Blome is the youngest son of the journalist and school film producer Hermann Blome, who died in 1998 .

Period soldier and studies

After graduating from high school in 1983, Blome was a contract soldier in the German Armed Forces for two years , most recently with the rank of corporal . Of this, he spent 15 months at the NATO headquarters SHAPE in Mons (Belgium). From 1985 to 1989 he studied history with minor subjects economics and political science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . In 1989 he completed his studies in Bonn with a Magister Artium (M.A.).

At the end of the 1980s, he did an internship at the Rheinische Post . From 1990 to 1991 he graduated from the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg.

Journalistic career

Blome worked from 1991 to 1993 as a business editor at Tagesspiegel in Berlin and from 1995 to 1997 as a correspondent for regional newspapers in Brussels .

Then he switched to the Axel Springer Group . From 1997 to 1999 he was head of foreign policy at Die Welt and from 1999 to 2001 office manager of the newspaper in Brussels. In May 2001 he became deputy editor-in-chief of Welt in Berlin and from 2002 headed the domestic affairs and parliamentary offices. Since August 2006 Blome (together with Rolf Kleine ) has been head of the capital city office of Bild . In May 2011, he became deputy editor-in-chief and head of the economic department.

On October 15, 2013, Blome moved to Spiegel-Verlag , where he was deputy editor-in-chief of Spiegel and Spiegel Online as head of the capital city office. The personnel was very controversial among the staff at Spiegel . The editors of Der Spiegel also had different opinions: Franziska Augstein criticized the decision, while her brother Jakob advocated Blome's appointment. The designated Spiegel editor-in-chief, Wolfgang Büchner , announced him at the time as “one of the most prominent political journalists in Germany”. On May 20, 2015, the Spiegel publishing group announced that Nikolaus Blome would leave the company “by mutual agreement”.

On November 13, 2015, the Axel Springer Verlag announced that Nikolaus Blome, as the successor to Béla Anda , would once again be deputy editor-in-chief of the Bild newspaper from December 2015 . In addition, he will be responsible for the political and economic department. Blome left the Bild newspaper in autumn 2019. Since May 2020, Blome has been an online columnist for the news magazine Der Spiegel; In his column Now even more so (s) he comments on current topics from politics, business and society from a conservative perspective, which Jan Fleischhauer represented at Spiegel until 2019 . In August 2020, RTL Germany announced that Blome would in future head the Politics and Society department in the media group's central editorial office. Blome has been a political commentator for RTL and ntv since May . The longtime editor-in-chief of RTL- Nachtjournals , Christian Berger, was appointed as his deputy .

Blome has been a member of the jury for the Theodor Wolff Prize since 2013 .

family

Blome is married. He has two sons and a daughter.

Media appearances

Blome appears regularly in public, mostly as a guest on talk shows on current topics. In this context he was best known as a supporter of the then Federal Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg in the programs Maybrit Illner , Hart aber fair and Menschen bei Maischberger . He also appeared as a representative of the Bild newspaper during the Wulff affair with Günther Jauch, among others .

The television station Phoenix developed the Augstein and Blome format together with the journalist and publisher Jakob Augstein . It has been broadcast every Friday since January 2011. There the two argue with left (Augstein) and liberal - conservative (Blome) positions. In the broadcast on May 3, 2019, Augstein and Blome referred to themselves as "leftists" and "rightists". Quote Blome: "If you (Augstein) are on the left, I am on the right". On the basis of the conversations, several books were published which, according to Augstein, are “conversation simulations”.

Awards

• Arthur F. Burns Fellowship (1993)
• Award of the Friedrich and Isabel Vogel Foundation (1994)
• Sponsorship award for business journalism from the Ludwig Erhard Foundation (1995)
• Franco-German Journalism Prize - Special Awards from the Asko Europa Foundation (1996)
• Theodor Wolff Prize (2007)
• State Street Financial Journalist Award (2011)
• Herbert Quandt Media Prize (2011)
• Henri Nannen Prize (2014) for best investigative achievement (together with nine other colleagues from SPIEGEL)

Fonts (selection)

• Lazy, corrupt and obsessed with power? Why politicians are better than their reputation . wjs Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-937989-42-6 . (also published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education )
• The little voter hater. What politicians really think of citizens . Pantheon Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-570-55140-0 .
• Angela Merkel. The procrastinator artist . Pantheon Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-55201-8 .
• with Jakob Augstein : Left or Right? Answers to questions from Germans. Penguin Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-328-10075-1 .
• with Jakob Augstein : Above and Below. Relegation, poverty, foreigners - what divides Germany. DVA, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-421-04826-4 .

Web links

Commons : Nikolaus Blome  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about Nikolaus Blome in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Nikolaus Blome  in the German Digital Library
• Search for "Nikolaus Blome" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Nikolaus Blome in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RTL central editorial office: Blome becomes head of department. In: SZ.de. Süddeutscher Verlag, August 10, 2020, accessed on August 22, 2020 (German). 
2. ^ ^{A b} Süddeutsche Zeitung: Termination - Nikolaus Blome leaves "Bild". Retrieved October 31, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Blome's petal. In: Wirtschaftsjournalist , December 18, 2007. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am5BllZDMWk from December 6, 2012, statement at minute 3:15, accessed on February 12, 2013
5. ↑ Award-winning text ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) . Website of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
6. ^ Johannes Altmeyer: The border crosser . In: politik & kommunikation , June 1, 2009.
7. ↑ "Bild" -Multitasker. Nikolaus Blome is promoted to chief editor . Spiegel Online, May 16, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2012.
8. ↑ Imprint: Nikolaus Blome
9. ↑ Johannes Boie; Claudia Fromme: Wechselsturm in Hamburg , Süddeutsche Zeitung , 23 August 2013, accessed on 25 August 2017
10. ↑ Ursula Rüssmann: Blome-Personnel causes an uproar , Frankfurter Rundschau , 23 August 2013, accessed on 25 August 2017
11. ↑ Mirror: Buchner and Blome vs Mirror employees fill KG or clean in: Berliner Zeitung of 26 August 2013. Retrieved on August 26, 2013
12. ↑ Franziska Augstein railed against brother Jakob "Bild" - husband Blome causes sibling dispute at "Spiegel" . in: Focus, August 23, 2013.
13. ↑ ^{a b} Kai-Hinrich Renner: "Spiegel" department heads reject Blome . In: Die Welt , August 26, 2013.
14. ↑ Nikolaus Blome leaves the news magazine DER SPIEGEL - press release . Website of the SPIEGEL Group. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
15. ↑ Press information: BILD personal details November 13, 2015
16. ↑ Nikolaus Blome is the new SPIEGEL columnist. Accessed April 30, 2020 (German). 
17. ↑ RTL central editorial office: Blome becomes head of department. In: SZ.de. Süddeutscher Verlag, August 10, 2020, accessed on August 22, 2020 (German). 
18. ↑ The world introduces itself . In: Die Welt , November 23, 1999.
19. ↑ Maybrit Illner broadcast on February 24, 2011: "War of Opinions about Guttenberg"
20. ↑ Show Hart but fair on February 23, 2011: "The case of the superstar - who still believes the politicians?"
21. ↑ Broadcast Menschen bei Maischberger from March 1, 2011: "The Baron abdicates - The resignation of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg"
22. ↑ Günther Jauch broadcast on December 18, 2011: "The 500,000 Euro question: Is Christian Wulff still the right Federal President?"
23. ↑ Augstein and Blome of May 3rd, 2019 "UNRUIR IN CONSENSUS - GERMANY: CANNOT YOU BE RIGHT ANY MORE?" Accessed February 9, 2020 (German). 
24. ↑ On the power of argument , in: Journalist , 6/2019, p. 20.
25. ↑ Nikolaus Blome, 2007 ( memento of November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Theodor Wolff Prize, accessed on August 26, 2013.
26. ↑ Ludwig Erhard Prize for Business Journalism - Prize Winner . Website of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
27. ^ Franco-German Journalism Prize - Prize Winners by Category ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Website of the Franco-German Journalism Award. Retrieved January 7, 2012.