Cordt Schnibben

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Cordt Georg Wilhelm Schnibben (born July 28, 1952 in Bremen ) is a German journalist who headed the corporate department of the news magazine Der Spiegel from 2001 to 2013 .

biography

Both Schnibben's father Georg and his mother Elfriede Schnibben, who died when he was thirteen, were staunch National Socialists . Only after his father's death did Schnibben find out that shortly before the end of the war both parents had been involved in a politically motivated murder of an unarmed civilian , in which the father, who was later convicted of aiding and abetting manslaughter, was one of the main perpetrators as a volunteer in the Adolf Hitler Freikorps what Schnibben reported in a detailed essay in April 2014.

Schnibben was a student at the Bremen grammar school at the Barkhof . He was influenced by the 1968 movement , demonstrated against the emergency legislation , joined the DKP and studied social sciences for a year at the branch of the Franz-Mehring-Institut in Berlin-Biesdorf in East Berlin. The academic year was recognized when he started studying economics at the University of Bremen . He worked as a copywriter for a while. After an unsuccessful first application, the Henri-Nannen-Schule accepted him at the second attempt. From 1984 to 1988 he was an editor at the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and from 1989 he worked for the news magazine Der Spiegel . In 1999, together with Lothar Gorris , he took over the editor-in-chief of the newly founded Spiegel Reporter magazine , which was integrated into Spiegel as a company department after being hired in 2001. He headed the corporate department from 2001 to 2006 with Lothar Gorris and from 2006 to 2013 with Matthias Geyer .

From 2013 he headed the development of the Internet newspaper Spiegel Daily , which started in May 2017 and was discontinued in May 2018. In 2014 he was significantly involved when Spiegel founded a “laboratory for multimedia storytelling”. Employees from all sectors met there regularly to develop structures for multi-format publishing and data journalism . A Facebook post he published in December 2014, in which he sharply attacked the former Spiegel editor-in-chief Wolfgang Büchner, generated a lot of media coverage. In November 2017, he left the mirror when he reached retirement age.

In 2007, Schnibben founded the Reporter Forum together with Ariel Hauptmeier and Stephan Lebert , which has been awarding the German Reporter Prize annually since 2009 , and in January 2017 the online journalism school Reporterfabrik with David Schraven .

Schnibben joined the SPD in spring 2018 . In summer 2019 he became a member of the board of trustees of the Reutlingen Reportage School .

Awards

Schnibben was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize and the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for his journalistic work .

In 1990 he received the Adolf Grimme Prize with Gold for Under German Roofs : The Heirs of Dr. Barschel (together with Christian Berg ), 1991 the Adolf-Grimme-Preis with silver for Who comes too late - The Politburo experiences the German revolution (together with Martin Wiebel , Claudia Rohe , Jürgen Flimm , Hans-Christian Blech and Dirk Dautzenberg ).

For Hamburger Gift , he and Horst Königstein received a special award for script and research at the television film award of the German Academy of Performing Arts in 1993.

In 2012 Schnibben received a Henri Nannen Prize in the Best Documentation category, in a team with Ferry Batzoglou , Manfred Ertel , Ullrich Fichtner , Hauke ​​Goos , Ralf Hoppe , Thomas Hüetlin , Guido Mingels , Christian Reiermann , Christoph Schult , Thomas Schulz and Alexander Smoltczyk , for a bomb idea , appeared in the mirror .

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Web links

Wikiquote: Cordt Schnibben  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Bauer : Justice and Nazi Crimes: Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicide crimes 1945–1966. Volume 11, University Press Amsterdam 1974, p. 97
  2. ↑ Cordt Schnibben: My father, a werewolf , Der Spiegel , April 14, 2014, p. 62 ff.
  3. ↑ Cordt Schnibben: The big sack race , Der Spiegel , 5/2001, January 29, 2001, pp. 172–176.
  4. ↑ SPIEGELreporter is integrated into SPIEGEL spiegel.de, March 18, 2001
  5. ↑ The “Daily” dilemma of Spiegel - the difficult thing with the digital daily newspaper meedia.de, June 8, 2016
  6. ↑ "Spiegel daily" starts in the middle of the year: Timo Lokoschat and Oliver Trenkamp are in charge of editing, Cordt Schnibben is developing kress.de, January 31, 2017
  7. ^ Future of journalism: Laboratory for multimedia storytelling berliner-zeitung.de, May 19, 2014
  8. ^ "Wrong man in the wrong place" faz.net, December 5, 2014
  9. ↑ Reporter Cordt Schnibben expects Büchner from sueddeutsche.de, December 5, 2014
  10. ↑ In- house communication. Re: dioxin. Last editorial contribution by Cordt Schnibben for Der Spiegel. In: Der Spiegel No. 45 of November 4, 2017, page 3.
  11. ↑ "Reporter Factory": Cordt Schnibben leaves the mirror and founds meedia.de journalism school with David Schraven , January 15, 2016
  12. ↑ Talk Show. In: wake up! Tilo Jung , Stefan Schulz , March 2, 2018, accessed March 5, 2018 (episode 275).
  13. ↑ Cordt Schnibben: Entry into the party: "Dear SPD, I could not resist" . In: Der Spiegel . February 12, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 5, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Reporting school Reutlingen: ex-Porsche spokesman Anton Hunger resigns as chairman of the board of trustees, Cordt Schnibben becomes a member of meedia.de, June 28, 2019
  15. ↑ Hamburger Gift in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  16. ↑ Cordt Schnibben et al. a .: A bomb idea , Der Spiegel , 39/2011, September 26, 2011, pp. 57–74.
personal data
SURNAME Schnibben, Cordt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnibben, Cordt Georg Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen