Claus Kleber

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Claus Kleber at the German Film Award 2019

Claus-Detlev Walter Kleber (born September 2, 1955 in Reutlingen ) is a German journalist , book author and television presenter . Until 1984 he worked as a lawyer.

Life

Claus Kleber was born in Reutlingen as the first of two sons of the aerospace engineer Peter Kleber and his wife Margot, née Schmidt. The elementary school attended glue in Vaduz ( Liechtenstein ) and from 1964 in Bensberg near Cologne. There he passed the matriculation examination in 1974 at the mathematical and scientific Otto Hahn Gymnasium . During his school days, Kleber worked as a freelancer in a local editorial team for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 1971 to 1976 . From the winter semester 1974/1975 he studied law at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, interrupted by two semesters abroad in 1978 and 1979 in Lausanne . In Tübingen he became a member of the Catholic student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen in the Cartell Association (CV). While studying adhesive was a freelancer of Südwestfunks in Tübingen and Baden-Baden . In the fall of 1980 he passed the first state examination in law in Tübingen. This was followed by the traineeship in Stuttgart . In 1983 the second state examination followed and a subsequent research stay for his dissertation in Washington, DC and New York .

Kleber received grants from the German National Academic Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for his studies and stays abroad . After passing the second state examination, he worked as a lawyer in a law firm in Stuttgart specializing in international business and competition law. In 1986, he was at Thomas Oppermann at the Law Faculty in Tübingen with Scripture Private Radio - design options in the Constitutional Framework for Dr. iur. PhD .

Activity as a journalist

Claus Kleber, July 2008

In January 1985, Kleber became studio manager of Südwestfunk in Konstanz and switched to journalism after completing his doctorate. From 1986 he reported for fifteen years as a correspondent for ARD stations in both radio and television programs from the USA . He rose from radio editor to studio manager in Washington DC. From there, Kleber reported live about the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . Before moving to ZDF , he was most recently the ARD studio manager in London .

At the beginning of 2003, Kleber succeeded Wolf von Lojewski as moderator of the ZDF- heute-journal and was also its director until February 2009. At the end of 2007 he was offered the position of editor-in-chief of the news magazine Der Spiegel . However, he declined the offer, among other things on the grounds that television was his medium. He then gave up his permanent position at ZDF and has been the presenter of heute-journal as a freelancer ever since . This status brings him a much higher income: According to research by the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2009, Kleber earned 480,000 euros a year for moderating heute-journal and was thus the highest-paid German news presenter at the time. He is a member of the board of trustees of the foundation of the same name affiliated to the German-American association Atlantik-Brücke and of the Berlin branch of the American association Aspen-Institut .

In 2009, the report and documentary Die Bombe was shown in three parts by Kleber and the filmmaker and author Angela Andersen . It was first broadcast on August 2, 2009 on ZDF.

In the German version of the 2010 animated film Ich - Einfach Despicable Me (original title: Despicable Me ), Kleber lends his voice to the news anchor of the "msnbc" channel.

In February 2015, Kleber was appointed honorary professor for media studies at the University of Tübingen. He won the Institute for Media Studies for a collaboration in which he regularly offers block seminars for students of media studies on topics such as news reporting and documentary films.

On December 30, 2021, Kleber presented his last heute-journal with his 2977th broadcast .

Reception and criticism

Claus Kleber, 2014

Kleber was shown positively in a portrait of the DWDL . He combines “seriousness, sense of class, sobriety, journalistic ethos , well-groomed appearance and a zest for the cause” in one person and counts as one of the “superstar [s] of the news industry”.

After two years of efforts, on March 18, 2012, Kleber conducted a 45-minute recorded interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , in which Kleber asked Ahmadinejad primarily about the Iranian nuclear program . According to Kleber, there had been no substantive agreements. The interview led to criticism of Kleber in the Central Council of Jews and in newspaper comments.

In May 2013, Kleber admitted that, in the report on the CSU party convention on May 3, 2013, he had adopted the allegation that the criticized entrepreneur and football official Uli Hoeneß had been cut out of a CSU advertising film, unchecked. Criticism also aroused his behavior during the Crimean crisis in a conversation in the heute-journal with Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser . Frank Schirrmacher accused Kleber of “self-portrayal of journalism” and called the interview an inquisition. Jakob Augstein held against Kleber for downright interrogating Kaeser.

January Fleischhauer threw glue in January 2016 in his column in the mirror educational journalism in relation to the refugee crisis before. Fleischhauer referred in particular to Kleber's sentence “Europe has stayed together, the German economy is booming, and in the refugee crisis Germany is amazed to see what it is capable of. Helpfulness, empathy and welcome overshadow what xenophobes, nationalists and doubters bring to the streets. " ? ”Kleber reacted among other things with “Jan Fleischhauer is right. That was moderated negligently ”and“ A mistake and an own goal. I am a skeptic myself. Even professionally. "

In March 2017, the chairman of the Altenburger Land regional association filed a criminal complaint against Kleber for defamation, defamation and degradation of volunteer work. In an article about a theater premiere in Altenburg, Kleber had quoted a report from Die Zeit (from February 9, 2017, p. 37) with the words "Reporters noted at the time that black-white-red imperial flags are as present in allotments as the black and white flag. Red-gold of the Federal Republic. ”The public prosecutor's office decided not to investigate, as Kleber's statements did not constitute an attack against the Altenburg allotment gardeners.

Claus Kleber interviewed the actress Maria Furtwängler in July 2017 about a study on the subject of "Audiovisual Diversity". The study initiated by the MaLisa Foundation was carried out by the University of Rostock and supported by ARD, ZDF, RTL and ProSieben and Sat.1 . For his sometimes sharp questions, he earned the criticism of disregarding the interviewee and the arguments presented by her and allowing terms from politically right-wing discourses to flow into it. For the interview, he was awarded the negative pickle pickle 2017 , which he refused to accept.

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of NATO's existence , on April 4, 2019, Kleber reported fictitiously on the deployment of NATO troops to defend Estonia in the introduction to heute journal .

"Good evening, by sea and by air, American, German and other European allies are on their way to Estonia tonight to repel the Russian units that have established themselves there, as they did in Crimea a few years ago."

Afterwards, Kleber made it clear that this was not a reality, but possible at any time.

"Do not worry. It's not like this. It's just a vision. But a realistic one. In an emergency, NATO's response to an attack on the territory of one of its member states should look like this. "

This representation sparked criticism.

Private

Claus Kleber has been married to the doctor Renate Grziwok, a daughter of the former soccer player Lothar Grziwok , since 1982 and has two daughters. He lives with his family in Wiesbaden .

honors and awards

Fonts

  • 1986: Private broadcasting - options within the constitutional framework . Diss. Tübingen ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • 2005: America's Crusades - What drives world power . Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-570-00834-7 .
  • 2006: News that made history. From ancient times to today . Cbj, Munich, ISBN 3-570-12979-9 .
  • 2008: America's Crusades - Where is the world power drifting? Pantheon, Munich, ISBN 978-3-570-55001-4 .
  • 2012: Playball earth - power struggles in climate change . C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-570-10134-6 .
  • 2017: Save the Truth . Ullstein, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-550-05033-6 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Claus Kleber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Atlantik Brücke / Deutsche Welle Media Conference. (No longer available online.) German Historical Institute, Washington DC, archived from the original on December 4, 2010 ; accessed on December 15, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Claus Kleber. Internet Movie Database, accessed February 4, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Details. Retrieved December 28, 2021 .
  4. ↑ Claus Kleber: Private broadcasting options in the constitutional framework . Dissertation, University of Tübingen, 1986.
  5. ↑ Michael Hanfeld : You drive better with the second one. In: FAZ.NET , December 8, 2007
  6. ↑ Claus Kleber stays with ZDF ( Memento from November 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , heute.de, December 12, 2007
  7. ↑ Hans Leyendecker : The super glue. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 17, 2010, accessed January 8, 2020 (Article originally published July 29, 2009).
  8. ^ Members of the board of trustees of the Atlantik-Brücke Foundation ( memento from June 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Claus Kleber becomes a media professor. In: derwesten.de , February 2, 2015, accessed on February 3, 2015
  10. ↑ "We will miss him" - After more than 3000 broadcasts, Claus Kleber says goodbye to "heute journal". In: Teleschau. Focus Online , December 28, 2021; accessed December 29, 2021 .
  11. ↑ DWDL de GmbH: Claus Kleber, the good conscience in the valley of the gods. Retrieved January 11, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Ahmadinejad spits big tones on ZDF. In: Focus Online , March 20, 2012
  13. ↑ ZDF presenter Claus Kleber takes a beating. In: Spiegel Online , March 25, 2012
  14. ^ Stefan Buchen: Self-dismantling of a news star ( Memento from March 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , in: Cicero Online , March 21, 2012
  15. ↑ Philipp Gessler : Undisputed hatred of Jews. In: taz.de , March 20, 2012
  16. ↑ Andrea Seibel: Come on the devil out. In: Welt Online , March 26, 2012
  17. ↑ Michael Hanfeld : How little tricks enlarge the message. In: FAZ.NET , May 13, 2013
  18. ↑ Markus Ehrenberg, Sonja Pohlmann: Did Claus Kleber research poorly? In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 13, 2013
  19. ↑ Frank Schirrmacher : Dr. Strange is online today. In: FAZ.NET . March 28, 2014, accessed May 6, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Jakob Augstein : The fairy tale of the mad Iwan. In: Spiegel Online . March 31, 2014, accessed May 6, 2015 .
  21. ↑ Jan Fleischhauer : Educational Journalism. In: Spiegel Online . January 5, 2016. Retrieved January 8, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Refugee crisis: ZDF presenter Kleber admits mistakes. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Allotment gardeners report Claus Kleber . In: FAZ , March 3, 2017
  24. ↑ No investigations against Claus Kleber. In: tagesspiegel.de , March 14, 2017
  25. ↑ What about audiovisual diversity in Germany? - Institute for Media Research - University of Rostock. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 16, 2017 ; accessed on July 27, 2017 .
  26. ↑ Kleber against Furtwängler: Does feminism want to re-educate us all? In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Women on TV: Claus Kleber slanders Maria Furtwängler in the “Heute Journal” - she counters with charm. Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Anti- feminism in the heute-journal: Claus Kleber interviews Maria Furtwängler . In: Filmlöwin . July 19, 2017 ( filmloewin.de [accessed July 27, 2017]).
  29. ↑ Bettina Burkart: Awarding of the negative prize “Saure Gurke” 2017. In: Deutsche Welle . November 18, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Claus Kleber: In his own (sic!) Matter. In: Twitter . December 15, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  31. ↑ "Underground": Claus Kleber causes a bad shock moment in "heute journal". April 7, 2019, accessed April 9, 2019 .
  32. ↑ Claus Kleber shocks ZDF viewers in “heute journal”: I beg your pardon ?! April 10, 2019, accessed April 10, 2019 .
  33. ↑ Interview on the show: Germany's best! on ZDF on July 2, 2014
  34. ↑ Short biography of Claus Kleber on the occasion of the award of the Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs Prize 2010
  35. ↑ [1] , GQ Star portrait Claus Kleber
  36. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Review
personal data
SURNAME Kleber, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleber, Claus-Detlev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and television presenter
BIRTH DATE 2nd September 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Reutlingen