Academy of the Bavarian Press

Academy of the Bavarian Press
legal form	non-profit registered association
founding	1988
founder	Bavarian Journalists Association , Association of Bavarian Newspaper Publishers , Association of Magazine Publishers in Bavaria
Seat	Munich
main emphasis	Education and training in communication and media professions
Chair	Robert Arsenschek (Director), Sebastian Poliwoda (Deputy)
Website	www.abp.de

The Academy of the Bavarian Press (ABP) is a training and further education institute for media and communication professions in Munich .

Concept and creation

Founded in 1986, the ABP is a registered, non-profit association. It trains journalists and communication experts. The sponsors are the Association of Bavarian Newspaper Publishers (VBZV), the Association of Magazine Publishers in Bavaria (VZB) and the Bavarian Journalists Association (BJV). Also members are the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation (BR) and the Bavarian State Center for New Media (BLM). The Free State of Bavaria supports the ABP institutionally. The ABP is recognized in the training collective agreements for newspaper and magazine volunteers as an institute for external training measures.

Until 1994, the former Spiegel editor Armin Sellheim and Herbert Knur jointly ran ABP as managing directors. After that, Knur managed it alone until 2011. Journalist Robert Arsenschek has been director of the academy since 2015, his predecessor Martin Kunz became editor-in-chief of ADAC Motorwelt . The ABP is a founding member of MedienCampus Bayern , the umbrella organization for media education and training in Bavaria.

education

The headquarters of the Academy of the Bavarian Press, Domagkstrasse 34

The ABP organizes seminars that last from one day to two weeks. All seminars are designed to be practical. The approximately 300 annual seminars with a total of more than 2,000 participants are open to journalists and communication professionals, both prospective and experienced professionals. The range includes the areas of print, online, photography, multimedia, editorial management, rhetoric, moderation, radio, TV, creative writing, UK , corporate publishing and public relations. In addition, the ABP organizes in-house training in editorial offices, agencies and companies.

The ABP offers theoretical and practical basic courses lasting two weeks for volunteer training . The participants come from newspaper and magazine editors from all over the German-speaking area. In addition, the ABP cooperates with the Academy for New Media in Kulmbach and organizes seminars there.

The lecturers all come from editorial practice. Well-known names include a. Sebastian Beck ( SZ ), Dinah Deckstein ( Der Spiegel ), Holger Gertz ( SZ ), Maik Großekathöfer (Der Spiegel), Hans Haltmeier (Editor -in- Chief Apotheken-Umschau ), Markus Knall (Editor-in-Chief at Münchner Merkur ), Harald Martenstein ( Die Zeit ), Cordt Schnibben , Karin Steinberger ( SZ ), Roland Schulz ( SZ-Magazin ) and Takis Würger (Der Spiegel), Hans Zippert ( Die Welt ).

Others

The four-time award-winning journal BISS (Citizens in Social Difficulties) was developed and relaunched during seminars on the academy's premises .

literature

Siegfried Weischenberg (editor): Journalism & Competence: Qualification and Recruiting for Media Professions, page 83ff, Springer-Verlag, 2013.
Michael Haller , Christopher Belz, Armin Sellheim : Job profiles in journalism. From the old to the new media. UVK-Medien, Konstanz 1999, ISBN 3-89669-231-3