Bernd Ulrich

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Bernd Ulrich, 2015.

Bernd Ulrich (born October 17, 1960 in Essen ) is a German journalist . Since 2003 he has been deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

life and career

Bernd Ulrich, the son of a sign painter and a landscape gardener, refused military service , participated in the peace movement of the nineteen-eighties and studied political science and philosophy in Marburg as well as new German literature and sociology at the University of Essen . He completed his studies with an MA and diploma in political science. From 1984 to 1988 Ulrich wrote articles for the magazine Graswurzelrevolution . From 1988 to 1990 he was the office manager of the Greens parliamentary group in the German Bundestag .

From 1991 he worked as a freelance journalist for the Frankfurter Rundschau , the taz and the FAZ, among others . From 1993 to 1996 he was parliamentary correspondent for the Wochenpost , from 1997 he worked for the Berliner Tagesspiegel , most recently as editor-in-chief. On April 1, 2003, he became head of the capital city office of the time and at the same time deputy editor-in-chief. From August 1, 2007 to June 30, 2019, he was Head of Politics.

For his essay Who are we today? Ulrich received the 2013 Henri Nannen Prize for the image of Germans abroad .

Publications

Tell us the truth! What the politicians are hiding and why (2015)

The starting point is Ulrich's observations from many background discussions that politicians leave a lot unsaid or do not want to address them. The “new attitude towards life of politicians” is characterized by upheaval, confusion and threats. The crises have become normal and can no longer be suppressed or glossed over. The “strategy of silence” of the politicians, the attempt to keep their own insecurity to themselves, in order not to startle the population out of their prosperity, is doomed to failure. The multipolar and anarchist media landscape with its swarm intelligence also prevents the earlier “paternalistic” orientation of the public. In view of this situation, Ulrich pleads for a new culture of openness and fearless dialogue with the population on an equal footing.

Ulrich suspects that journalists are “embedded in a journalistic way of thinking” in an “American way of thinking in foreign policy” through their involvement in American think tanks as the reason for the alleged “one-sidedness and uniformity of the leading media”.

“Because of this journalistic embedding, the foreign policy debate in this country sometimes has a strange American accent, while reading you often get the impression that something is being added to you in editorials, that there are arguments behind the arguments, you almost believe you are hearing a prompter voice . This is also felt by those who don't know anything about the Atlantik-Brücke, and it makes them suspicious. In this respect, the journalists also have an obligation when it comes to a new realistic and honest discourse in foreign policy and to win back readers' trust: they have to say goodbye to these institutions. "

reception

About what Germany may wage war for. And must: Andreas Fanizadeh wrote a pamphlet for the daily newspaper : “But above all the Western peace movement represented a principled pacifism, as it equated an active German military policy with a return of German fascism. Zeit editor Bernd Ulrich is now trying (...) What Germany is allowed to wage war for. And must outline these debates that are still in effect today. "

Dieter Rulff reviewed the Fischer biography of Bernd Ulrich and Matthias Geis in the FAZ and found that this biography does better justice to Fischer than the previous ones. The two authors would have illuminated the "method of construction" of this work of art in a "clever" and "rich" way . In his review in the SZ, Nico Fried emphasized the analytical clarity with which Geis and Ulrich traced the lines of development of Fischer's amazing career.

His book Everything Will Be Different. The Age of Ecology (2019) certified the reviewer of the Süddeutsche Zeitung to be “more of a stimulus for social and self-reflection than a collection of concrete findings”.

Awards

  • 2013: Henri Nannen Prize in the "Essay" category
  • 2015: Theodor Wolff Prize in the category "Opinion / Lead Article / Comment / Glossary"

Publications (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Ulrich: Everything will be different. The age of ecology. 2019, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Bern Ulrich: Everything will be different. The age of ecology. 2019, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Reporter Workshop '19: Vita .
  4. ^ Lutz Hachmeister : Nervous Zone. Politics and Journalism in the Berlin Republic , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-42104228-6 , p. 245.
  5. ↑ Two become one: Zeit merges politics department and capital city office, Bernd Ulrich resigns management meedia.de, May 6, 2019
  6. ^ The winners of the Henri Nannen Prize 2013 .
  7. ↑ Tell us the truth! What the politicians are hiding and why. Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04857-5 , p. 48.
  8. ↑ Andreas Fanizadeh: What do you say, Mr. Minister? taz , October 19, 2011, accessed on March 28, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Matthias Geis, Bernd Ulrich: The Unfinished. The life of Joschka Fischer , Alexander Fest Verlag, Berlin 2002.
  10. ↑ Review note at Perlentaucher .
  11. ↑ End of Illusions sz.de , October 14, 2019.
  12. ↑ Spiegel.de: Theodor Wolff Prize: Authors of “Zeit”, “FAS” and “SZ-Magazin” honored (accessed on May 12, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Ulrich, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH eat