Arianna Huffington

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Arianna Huffington (birth name: Greek Αριάννα Στασινοπούλου , Arianna Stasinopoulou ; born July 15, 1950 in Athens ) is an American non-fiction author and journalist of Greek origin. She is the co-founder and was editor-in-chief of the online newspaper The Huffington Post until 2016 . Because of her influence as a political blog writer, she was dubbed “Citizen Huff” and “the queen of bloggers” in 2008.

Life

Her mother separated from her father, a newspaper publisher, because of his infidelity when Arianna was eleven years old. In 1969 she moved to England to at Girton College of the University of Cambridge to study for which they a scholarship had won. At age 21 she became president of the Cambridge Union Debating Society ; She completed her studies in economics as a master's . In 1971 she got to know the journalist Bernard Levin , who was twice her age at the time, while participating in a television quiz . Arianna Stassinopoulos moved to live with him in London . After the relationship broke up, she moved to New York City in 1980 . In the 1980s she wrote biographies about Maria Callas and Pablo Picasso .

In 1986 she married Michael Huffington , an oil millionaire, film producer, and Republican politician. The marriage, which resulted in two daughters, divorced in 1997, a year before Michael Huffington came out as bisexual.

At the end of the 1990s, their political positions changed. Huffington says of herself that she is a “former right-winger who has evolved into a compassionate and progressive populist”. In 2003 she stood in California as an independent candidate at the recall of Governor Gray Davis with the slogan "The Hybrid versus the Hummer ", with which she alluded to the preference of the ultimately victorious Arnold Schwarzenegger for sport utility vehicles . She withdrew a week before the election and called on voters to vote against the recall; with 0.55% it received the fifth best result.

In the 2004 presidential campaign , she declared her support for John Kerry on the Daily Show .

In 2006, a year after she co- founded the Huffington Post with Kenneth Lerer , Time magazine named Huffington its 100 Most Influential People . From 2007 to 2008 a selection of her columns was published in German translation on the Focus website . In 2008 her articles appeared in the form of a separate column in the magazine Focus.

In 2010 she made an appearance on the series How I Met Your Mother , in episode 22 of the fifth season, in which she played herself. That same year, Huffington also played himself in episode 6 of the ninth season of the American cartoon series Family Guy .

In 2011 she sold the Huffington Post to AOL for $ 315 million .

In August 2016, a year after Verizon bought AOL , she left the Huffington Post to focus on her own business, Thrive Global. Since April 2016 it is in the board of directors of Uber represented.

Arianna Huffington lives with her sister and two daughters in Brentwood , a borough of Los Angeles .

criticism

Huffington was accused of plagiarism in 1981 for her book Maria Callas ; the claims were settled out of court in the same year. The Callas biographer Gerald Fitzgerald was paid a low five-digit sum (in the low five figures) .

Lydia Gasman, a professor of art history at the University of Virginia , claims that Huffington's 1988 Picasso biography (Picasso: Creator and Destroyer) covers topics similar to those in her unpublished four-volume doctoral thesis. "She stole twenty years of my work from me," Gasman said in 1994 ("What she did was steal twenty years of my work") . However, Gasman did not sued Huffington. Maureen Orth also reported that Huffington greatly in their 1993 book, The Gods of Greece have served (borrowed heavily).

According to the author, the Picasso biography is based on a study of literature, interviews with everyone who knew him and whom the author could get hold of, especially with Picasso's former partner Françoise Gilot , as well as visits to several museums and exhibitions. The author focuses on Picasso's relationships with his women and is less concerned with his work and its meaning. The biography is therefore considered unbalanced; according to the criticism, she rides extensively on his weaknesses and shows solidarity primarily with Picasso's women. The author's view that Picasso could not claim the rank of artist of the century provoked opposition from his followers. His grandson Olivier Widmaier Picasso claims in his Picasso biography that the author even falsified the truth in search of sensations in order to tarnish his grandfather's memory. In doing so, he refers to the presumption of homosexual activity, at least in youth, which the author can justify, however, only with a drawing and unsecured statements.

filming

The film Mein Mann Picasso was initially to be made based on the biography of Françoise Gilot; however, the latter withdrew their consent. Then the biography of Huffington was taken as a basis, which in turn is essentially based on the biography of Gilot and conversations with her regarding this time.

Publications

  • The Female Woman. 1974.
  • After reason. 1978.
  • Maria: Beyond the Callas Legend. 1980.
  • The Gods of Greece. 1983.
  • Picasso: Creator and Destroyer. 1988.
  • The Fourth Instinct. 1994.
  • Greetings from the Lincoln Bedroom. 1998.
  • How to Overthrow the Government. 2000.
  • Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America. 2003.
  • Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America. 2004.
  • On Becoming Fearless… in Love, Work and Life. 2007.
  • Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe. 2008.
  • Third World America. 2010.
  • Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefing Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder . 2014, ISBN 978-0-8041-4125-3 .
    • German by Dagmar Mallet: The reinvention of success. Wisdom, wonder, generosity. What really helps us. Riemann, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-50173-3 .

Web links

Commons : Arianna Huffington  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Arianna Huffington Is Leaving Huffington Post , New York Times , August 11, 2016
  2. ^ The New York Times : Citizen Huff . March 31, 2008 (allusion to the movie Citizen Kane )
  3. ↑ The victory of the road . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 2008 ( online ).
  4. ^ The Washingtonian: From the Archives: Arianna Huffington . April 2, 2008 (originally published May 1994)
  5. ^ The Observer : Hurricane Arianna . December 10, 2006.
  6. ^ A b c d The New Yorker : The Oracle . October 13, 2008.
  7. ↑ The Odd Couple
  8. ^ Arianna Huffington in AlterNet: Bernard Levin Remembered . August 17, 2004.
  9. ↑ Der Spiegel: You know the limits of my love. The womanizer and despiser Pablo Picasso in a new biography. Reviewed July 18, 1988.
  10. ^ The Daily Telegraph : The most influential US liberals: 16. Ariana Huffington . October 14, 2008.
  11. ↑ www.votearianna.com ( Memento from November 27, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ The New York Times : The Nation; Arnold the Hummer Lover Revs Up a Green State . August 24, 2003.
  13. ^ Sacramento Bee: Huffington Quits Race but Will Fight Recall ( Memento of December 4, 2003 in the Internet Archive ). October 1, 2003.
  14. ^ CNN : Huffington withdraws from recall race . October 1, 2003.
  15. ↑ MarketWatch: http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=5ac2fc15-8239-4857-9d39-6f01c6217084&siteid=mktw&dist=morenews Huffington is a liberal's best hope ( Memento from May 22, 2008 in Internet Archive ). September 29, 2006.
  16. ^ The New York Times : A Boldface Name Invites Others to Blog With Her . April 25, 2005.
  17. ^ Fortune : Meet Arianna Huffington 2.0 ( Memento March 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). October 29, 2007.
  18. ^ Time : The TIME 100. The people who shape our world . 2006.
  19. ↑ Focus : On my own behalf: US blogger Arianna Huffington cooperates with FOCUS Online . December 11, 2007.
  20. ↑ Huffington Column: "Clinton, Obama and the magical power of words" , Focus , February 28 of 2008.
  21. ↑ Interview with Arianna Huffington in the Schweizer Tages-Anzeiger on September 30, 2014 on the occasion of a visit to Berlin
  22. ↑ How I Met Your Mother - Robots versus Wrestlers at fernsehserien.de
  23. ^ Brian Writes a bestseller. Retrieved December 6, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Arianna Huffington is the media mogul 2.0 , welt.de, February 7, 2011
  25. ^ Time : Arianna Huffington: The Web's New Oracle . March 19, 2009.
  26. ^ I found my sister, Arianna Huffington, lying in a pool of blood and knew I had to help , The Daily Telegraph , December 3, 2016
  27. ^ Orth, Maureen (2005) The Importance of Being Famous. MacMillon, p. 117.
  28. ^ Oney, Steve (October 2004) The Many Faces of Arianna. In: Los Angeles Magazine. P. 81.
  29. ↑ Emily Nussbaum: The Human Blog. In: New York Magazine. October 9, 2006. Retrieved September 7, 2010.
  30. ↑ Lauren Collins: The Many Lives of Arianna Huffington. In: New Yorker. Page 10 October 13, 2008.
  31. ^ Orth, Maureen (2005) The Importance of Being Famous. MacMillon. Page 117.
  32. ↑ Olivier Widmaier Picasso: Picasso - Portrait of the Family . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-34135-1 . (Introduction, pp. 12-13 of the English edition Picasso. The Real Family Story. Prestel Publishing, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7913-3149-3 )
  33. ^ Francoise Gilot, Carlton Lake: Life with Picasso. Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-257-21584-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Huffington, Arianna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stassinopoulos, Arianna (maiden name); Στασινόπουλος, Αριάννα
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American non-fiction author, journalist and political blogger of Greek origin
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens