Alexander Kissler

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Alexander Kissler (2012)

Alexander Kissler (born December 3, 1969 in Speyer ) is a German journalist , author and former theater director .

Life

Alexander Kissler studied Modern German Literature , Medieval and Modern History and Media Studies in Giessen and Marburg . There he was with a thesis on the writer and poet 2002 Rudolf Borchardt doctorate . He was a fellow of studienstiftung . Between 1986 and 2000 he also served as acting director worked, staged u. a. with its own theater group Don Karlos , Leonce and Lena , Torquato Tasso and Amphitryon . In 2000 he staged the play On the Way to the Wedding of Armin Petras and John Berger at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen .

From 1999 to 2001 Kissler worked for the feature pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , where he mainly published on the media site. In 2001 he became an editor in the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , then in 2010 for Focus magazine . There he worked in the debate department until April 2012. He writes u. a. for the political magazines Cicero and peculiarly free as well as for the supplement Christ und Welt der Zeit . He has or had regular columns in the Vatican magazine ( Dr. Schlauberger replies ), in the debate magazine The European ( Kissler's contrast agent ) and on Focus Online ( Kissler's counterattack ). Kissler has headed the Salon , the cultural department of the Cicero, since January 2013 . He has been part of the Berlin editorial team of the NZZ since August 2020 .

Kissler gives lectures on media reception and media ethics , for example at the Augsburg Media Talks 2010 and the Medienforum NRW 2011 . The Neuhardenberg conversation broadcast by Deutschlandfunk on the state of German television was published in July 2010 as a brochure under the title Nebel in den Niederungen .

Positions

In March 2014, Kissler defended Sibylle Lewitscharoff's Dresden speech from its critics.

Regarding the reporting on the former Limburg bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst , Kissler wrote in 2013 of a “Hatz auf Tebartz” and saw it as a “concerted action by the inner-church and anti-church critics, both in the media”. According to Kissler, the building costs of a diocesan center that got out of hand are only useful as a “provincial farce”.

When the then Freiburg Archbishop Robert Zollitsch criticized the AfD on the occasion of the 2013 federal election , Kissler saw the bishop's mandate exceeded in this statement. This should not give any judgments about individual parties during election campaigns. Kissler pleaded for the AfD to be treated with “democratic composure”. In the past, "too quickly a wedge that was too wide was pulled out and everything was beaten by the discourse field that was not at five on the tree of right sentiments".

In his book Pope in Contradiction , published in March 2013 . Benedict XVI. and his church 2005-2013 , Kissler characterizes the resigned Pope as an introverted “mystic from insight” and a radical nonconformist. He described Pope Francis as a "corpulent charmer" who appears increasingly as a "power-conscious, talkative and relatively disinterested in the Catholic relativist" and "struggles with a commitment to the need for salvation of Christ", which is why, according to Kissler's expectation, he is "a spiritually emaciated and insecure church" will be left behind.

Fonts

  • “Where am I living?” Rudolf Borchardt and the invention of the self. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-631-8 (also: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 2002).
  • The German Pope. Benedict XVI. and his difficult homeland. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau et al. 2005, ISBN 3-451-28867-2 .
  • The cloned human. Playing with technology, dreams and money. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau et al. 2006, ISBN 3-451-29261-0 .
  • Chimpanzee Age. Can the future do without people? (= Herrenalber Forum. Vol. 48 = Contributions to the awarding of the Bad Herrenalber Academy Prize. 2005). Evangelical Academy Baden, Karlsruhe 2006, ISBN 3-89674-549-2 .
  • with Carsten S. Leimbach: Everything about Patrick Süskind's Das Parfum. The film. The book. The author. Heyne, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-453-81089-9 .
  • The enlightened God. How religion came to its senses. Pattloch Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-629-02188-5 .
  • Stupid. How television makes us stupid. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2009, ISBN 978-3-579-06886-2 .
  • as editor: The Pope of the Century. Blessed John Paul II. Pattloch, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-629-02304-9 .
  • Pope in contradiction. Benedict XVI. and his church 2005-2013. Pattloch, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-629-02215-8 .
  • No tolerance to the intolerant. Why the West must defend its values. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2015, ISBN 978-3-579-07098-8 .
  • Counter words. Why there must be an end to phrases. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2019, ISBN 978-3-579-01474-6 .

Editing and preface:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kissler's contrast agent , column The European
  2. ↑ Kissler's counterattack
  3. ↑ New head of "Salon" Cicero
  4. ↑ Alexander Kissler goes to the Berlin editorial office of the NZZ | MEEDIA. May 28, 2020, accessed on May 30, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ Augsburg Media Talks 2010. ( Memento from September 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Medienforum NRW 2011. ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ Dresden speech on biopolitics Lewitscharoff hits the sore point By Alexander Kissler March 7, 2014
  8. ^ Liane Bednarz, Christoph Giesa: Dangerous citizens. The New Right is reaching for the middle. Munich, Hanser 2015, p. 129 f.
  9. ↑ Alexander Kissler: Who is the hunt for Tebartz good for? . Cicero, October 14, 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  10. ↑ Alexander Kissler: Robert Zollitsch warns of the AfD . Cicero, August 13, 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  11. ↑ Alexander Kissler in conversation with Vladimir Balzer and Axel Rahmlow: Everyone should get a chance . Deutschlandfunk Kultur from September 25, 2017. Accessed July 20, 2018.
  12. ↑ Spiegel.de
  13. ^ A relatively Catholic Pope , Cicero, May 19, 2016 (accessed on the same day).

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SURNAME Kissler, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer