Achim Winter

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Achim Winter (2015)

Achim Winter (born April 1, 1961 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German moderator , author , producer , director , blogger and satirist .

Life

Winter studied English , history and journalism . He then volunteered at ZDF - initially in the show editorial team. As a reporter, he produced reports from England and Ireland. From 1997 to 2006 Winter was a presenter for the ZDF tabloid magazine People Today . Also since 1997 he has been an external reporter for “ Hallo Deutschland ” on ZDF. With his cabaret weekly review "Winters Week", Achim Winter can be seen there every Friday in the evening program. He presented the column "AHA" in the ZDF midday magazine .

Winter is also a frequent participant in the guessing program “ Dings vom Dach ”, which has been produced by Hessischer Rundfunk since 2005 and broadcast on hr television on Sunday evenings . From March to May 2006 he moderated the WDR television program “ Kölner Treff ” together with Bettina Böttinger . In 2007 he took part in the “ perfect celebrity dinner ” as a guest . In addition, Winter had various guest appearances, including on the ARD program “ Do you understand fun? ".

Winter is a member of the Rotarians . Due to the experiences in the course of the premature birth of his son, Winter is involved as a moderator and advocate for the “European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants” (EFCNI for short) based in Munich.

Since 2015, Winters' video column “Das Morgengrauen” has been published regularly on Roland Tichy's online newspaper Tichy's insight . Together with Tichy himself, he comments on current political and economic events. In addition, Winter is the producer and presenter of the Internet talk format "Entertainment Ungeschminkt", which he produces together with Stephan Schreyer . In it, Winter speaks to politicians, entrepreneurs and celebrities about their lives and current affairs.

Writing

In 2010, Winter published the book “We are not Pope!”, In which he summarizes a development in the mass media under the term “notorism”, which enables awareness to be completely detached from talent, level and ethical standards. Winter's second book was published in 2012. Together with the TV presenter Bärbel Schäfer , he published the entertainment novel "Zen im Gurkenbeet" in Weissbooks Verlag , in which he humorously processed his experiences with family life and the media world, sometimes with an autobiographical color.

reception

In the summer of 2016, Winter dealt in his three-minute satirical weekly review for the ZDF program “Hallo Deutschland” with a brochure from the Amadeu Antonio Foundation on dealing with hate speech recommended by the Federal Ministry of the Interior . He described the reporting of hate posts on social media as "spying". As an example, he named two anti-Muslim and nationalist Twitter accounts , according to the time , whose contributions, along with other right-wing populist accounts, he also distributed himself via his private Twitter account. The foundation, which became the target of an intensive campaign by right-wing extremists with the publication of the brochure , responded with a complaint to the ZDF television council and requested that the contribution be deleted. ZDF did not meet this requirement, but distanced itself from Winter's statements in terms of content: "Winter works as a satirist with provocative, exaggerated theses and makes his pointed statements recognizable in this role," a spokesman told Zeit Online . In this context, the journalist Stefan Winterbauer pointed out in the online branch service Meedia that it was a scam by Winter to “package populist agitation with a lot of grimacing in pseudo-irony”. So in the end he could always say: It was just fun, it was just satire! " Winter also spreads in the column with Tichy "with a lot of rolling eyes and arm-rowing, which is probably supposed to signal irony", mostly "reactionary [e] to populist [e]" messages. In contrast, defended Rainer Meyer winter TV report, and according to him his "migration critical" posts for the video column in his FAZ - Blog Deus ex Machina , saying in the context of criticism of an "orchestrated spectacle".

Publications

Web links

Commons : Achim Winter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim Winter. Vita ( Memento from August 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Achim Winter. . In: fruehgeborene.de , accessed on August 19, 2016.
  3. ^ Henryk M. Broder : Broders books: rampage through the arena of vanities. In: Spiegel Online . November 19, 2010, accessed June 10, 2016 .
  4. ^ Tilman Steffen: Right-wing extremism: ZDF makes the fight against hate comments ridiculous. In: zeit.de . July 13, 2016, accessed August 6, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Amna Franzke: Controversy over ZDF satirical contribution: With best regards. In: taz.de . July 15, 2016, accessed August 6, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Hate everywhere you look: How an anti-hatspeech brochure by the Amadeu Antonio Foundation triggered waves of hate on the social web ›Meedia. In: meedia.de. August 9, 2016. Retrieved August 22, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Don Alphonso : How to incite against satirical journalists, StaSi victims and the police. In: FAZ.net . July 17, 2016, accessed August 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German presenter, reporter, editor and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main