Franz Alt (journalist)

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Franz Alt (2019)

Franz Alt (born July 17, 1938 in Untergrombach , Baden , today in Bruchsal , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German journalist and book author .

activity

Franz Alt at the final rally of the anti-nuclear human chain on March 12, 2011 in Stuttgart
The Dalai Lama with Franz Alt after a “Report” interview in 2005

Franz Alt studied political science , history , philosophy and theology at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Heidelberg . In 1967 he was charged with a dissertation on Konrad Adenauer doctorate . From 1968 to 2003 he mainly worked for Südwestfunk (SWF, today: SWR ), for which he moderated the political magazine Report for 20 years . The publication of the book Peace is Possible , in which Alt reported doubts about the policy of retrofitting , led to years of legal disputes between Alt and his station. From 1992 to 2003 Franz Alt headed the future editorial team at SWR and also moderated the magazines Querdenker and Grenzenlos in 3sat . His books have been translated into twelve languages ​​and have a circulation of over two million.

He plans to start a "solar world revolution". Alts work has received several awards, including a. with the Adolf Grimme Prize , the Golden Camera , the first German Solar Prize in 1994, the European Solar Prize 1997, the Environment Online Award, the Human Rights Prize AWARD 2003 and the Environment Prize of German Business in 2004.

On his homepage on the sunny side , Franz Alt gives an overview of the alternatives of energy generation - renewable energies, solar building, solar economy - as well as the topics of climate change , climate policy , greenhouse effect , ecological transport turnaround , ecological water management, organic farming, ecological tax reform , peace and human rights (" War for Oil or Peace from the Sun ”).

As a professing Christian , Franz Alt justifies his commitment to ecology out of his faith, for example in his work The Ecological Jesus .

Franz Alt supports the aid organization Andheri-Hilfe , with whose founder Rosi Gollmann he wrote the book A better world is possible .

In addition to his own journalistic activity, Alt also acts as an editor, among other things he edited texts by Carl Gustav Jung .

In October 2006, the interview volume You mustn't split the core will be published . In an interview with two journalist colleagues, Alt looks back on his life, his childhood in a well-protected home, his student years and his experiences as an employee of public radio and television.

Alt is a member of the Magic Circle of Germany . For 40 years he has been giving public performances as a hobby magician under the stage name Francesco Altini .

Political commitment

Franz Alt during an interview with Helmut Kohl (center) at the CDU Bundestag election party, October 3, 1976

In 1963 Alt joined the CDU . After the Chernobyl reactor disaster in April 1986, he wrote an open letter to Helmut Kohl who criticized the CDU for continuing to stick to nuclear energy. In 1988, Alt left the CDU. Since then he has given up political activity, but is mainly close to the ödp , of which he is the most prominent advocate outside the party. At the end of the 1970s, Herbert Gruhl, who later became the federal chairman of the Austrian Federal Parliament , entrusted him with his growing differences with his former party, the CDU. Since the party was founded, Alt, although a member of the CDU until 1988, has repeatedly expressed positive views about the ödp, for example in the run-up to the 2002 federal election .

When Alt wrote an open letter to the then CDU General Secretary Heiner Geißler on the occasion of his resignation, he recommended reading the basic program of the ödp to the supporters of his former party :

“But I recommend all Christian Democrats and value-oriented people to read the basic program of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) of the former CDU member of the Bundestag Herbert Gruhl. This party does without the 'C' in the party name, but its program gives an idea of ​​what a Christian-inspired one could be today: Conservative, in the truest sense of the word. "

- Franz Alt : on the occasion of his resignation from the CDU

At the 1992 ödp federal party conference , Alt gave a lecture on his book Schilfgras instead of Atom (1992). The party awarded him the Golden Swallow at that time .

In October 2000, Franz Alt wrote an open letter to Angela Merkel , in which he reminded her of her earlier statements on " ecological tax reform " when she was President of the 1995 World Climate Summit in Berlin. At the time, Merkel said that an ecological tax reform was a prerequisite for an effective environmental policy and that she therefore supported these demands. As the environment minister at the time, she was grateful for the people's ecological commitment. Since she has now called the "already quite modest red-green entry into an ecological tax reform a knockout tax", he demanded a logical justification: "For years you wrote and spoke of" responsibility " in your pleading for ecological taxes and "preservation of creation". Does all of this suddenly no longer apply just because you are in the opposition? "

Franz Alt is a founding member and member as well as the former spokesman of the board of trustees of the Solidarity Modern Institute . He is also a member of the board of trustees of the ÖDP- related Foundation for Ecology and Democracy .

Alt is committed to the " Stuttgart 21 " project. He criticizes the project's poor cost-benefit ratio (KNV) and emphasizes that every euro invested there is missing from other infrastructure investments with a far better KNV.

Private

Old is married. When he was around 40 years old, he became the father of twins out of wedlock .

reception

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According to Micha Brumlik, Alt's image of Jesus is criticized by some theologians as a “one-sided and cheap projection of current ideological ideas”: the pacifist Jesus, the ecological Jesus, the feminist Jesus. In addition, he was accused of playing the God of the New Testament as "God of love" against the God of the Old Testament as "God of vengeance and war", which not only Jews and representatives of the Judeo-Christian dialogue as anti-Judaistic and would criticize anti-Semitic ideas. Fritz Rumler goes even further in his criticism of Alt's work Jesus - the first new man , on the basis of which he attested Alt " sectarian sense of mission ": "Because under the different titles there is always the same suada , out of anger of confession and conversion fever, arrogance of the righteous and contrition of the sinner, hostility to rationality, new-age know-it-all including a catalog of catastrophes; a spiritual kitchen that smells of sectarianism and yesterday. "

In the opinion of his critics, Alt fails to make a clear distinction from right-wing extremist ideologies (see publications, inter alia, in the national newspaper ). He accepts that his prominent name will be used to advertise the image of right-wing extremist organizations. Alt counters the allegations that he himself has nothing to do with right-wing extremist organizations, but that one also has to deal with them, since the members there and the readers of these newspapers are also people.

Christoph Scheuring attributed a prophetic habitus to Alt: “He reverently planes his sayings from the great block of wisdom, and every sentence is a moral exclamation mark. 'Who, if not us, and when, if not now?' he asked from his pulpit. "

Awards (selection)

Works

  • It started with Adenauer. Freiburg 1975.
  • Peace is possible. The politics of the Sermon on the Mount. Piper, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-492-00584-5 , 119 pages.
  • Love is possible The Sermon on the Mount in the Atomic Age. Munich 1985.
  • Jesus - the first new man. Munich 1989. ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list in 1990 )
  • Reed instead of atom. Munich 1992.
  • The sun doesn't send us an invoice - the energy transition is possible. Munich 1994.
  • The ecological economic miracle. Berlin 1997.
  • Windy protest. Conflicts about the future potential of wind power. With Jürgen Claus and Hermann Scheer , Bochum 1998
  • The ecological Jesus. Munich 1999.
  • Agricultural change now. Healthy foods for everyone. Munich 2000.
  • War for oil or peace by the sun. Munich 2002.
  • Paths to the ecological turning point. Reform alternatives and visions for a sustainable cultural system. With Rudolf Bahro and Marko Ferst . Jump in time, Berlin 2002.
  • The creation. Illustrated book, with Wilfried Weyer. Berlin 2003.
  • Tibet - vast land between heaven and earth. Illustrated book m. Wilfried Weyer. Hamburg 2005.
  • A better world is possible. A Marshall Plan for Work, Development and Freedom. With Rosi Gollmann, Rupert Neudeck . Riemann Verlag, Munich 2005.
  • Future earth. How do we want to live and work tomorrow? Berlin 2006.
  • Germany is renewable. Franz Alt in conversation with Bernhard Müller and Horst Wörner. Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-7466-7061-4 .
  • Sunny prospects. How climate protection becomes a win for everyone. 3. Edition. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-06966-1 .
  • Good business. Humane market economy as a way out of the crisis. with Peter Spiegel . Aufbau-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-351-02707-0 .
  • What Jesus really said. A resurrection. 3. Edition. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2015, ISBN 978-3-579-08522-7 .
  • The 100 most important words of Jesus - as he really said them. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2015, ISBN 978-3-579-08533-3 .

literature

  • Micha Brumlik : The Anti-Alt. Against the terrible peacefulness. Frankfurt / M. 1991, ISBN 3-8218-0453-X .
  • Jürgen Wüst: Conservatism and the ecological movement. An investigation into the tension between party, movement and ideology using the example of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) . IKO - Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-88939-275-X .
  • Raphael Mankau (Ed.): 20 years of ödp - beginnings, present and perspectives of ecological-democratic politics . dolata verlag, Rimpar 1999, ISBN 3-344-70790-6 .
  • Franz Alt , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 09/2008 from February 26, 2008, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely accessible).
  • Rolf Zundel : Is Peace Possible? Questions and answers about a book by Franz Alt . In: Ders .: Power and Humanity. Time contributions to the political culture of the Germans . Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1990, pp. 307-314 (first published in: Die Zeit , July 29, 1983), ISBN 978-3-498-07656-6 .

Web links

Wikiquote: Franz Alt  - Quotes
Commons : Franz Alt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pull fangs. "Report" moderator Franz Alt is dismantled: his director no longer wants to leave the screen to him alone . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1987, pp. 132-134 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Goodbye. Despite a labor court ruling, "Report" boss Franz Alt should not be allowed to moderate his magazine alone this Tuesday . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1987, pp. 78 ( online ).
  3. ^ Franz Alt: No more atomic gambling. Open letter from CDU member Franz Alt to Helmut Kohl . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1986, pp. 18-19 ( online ).
  4. ↑ oedp-rhein-neckar.de ( Memento from January 12, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b Wüst, p. 63.
  6. ^ Franz Alt: Herbert Gruhl - Vordenker und Querdenker, in: Mankau, pp. 9–12, here p. 9.
  7. ↑ ödp election program available on the Internet! . In: eco-world.de .
  8. ^ Franz Alt: Where conscience is raped . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1988, pp. 44 ( online ).
  9. ↑ Wüst, p. 64.
  10. ↑ Start - Sunny Side - Ecological Communication with Franz Alt . In: sonnseite.com .
  11. ^ Franz Alt: Much change of heart. Open letter to Angela Merkel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 2000, pp. 27 ( online ).
  12. ^ Institute Solidarity Modern: Founding members
  13. ↑ solidarian-moderne.de
  14. ↑ stiftung-oekologie-u-demokratie.de
  15. ^ Franz Alt: Emergency brake for Stuttgart . RP, October 4, 2010
  16. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin/2016/50/franz-alt-rettung
  17. ↑ Cf. Micha Brumlik: The Anti-Alt. Against the terrible peacefulness, Frankfurt / M. 1991.
  18. ↑ Fritz Rumler: With Anima in the add-on kitchen. About Franz Alt's "Jesus - the first new man" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1989, pp. 260 ( online ).
  19. ↑ Christoph Scheuring: special reporter Christoph Scheuring about the eco-propagandist Franz Alt and his restless conversion work. In: Der Spiegel Special 7/1995.
  20. ↑ Welcome . In: sevenpfeiffer-stiftung.de . Archived from the original on June 4, 2013.
  21. ↑ NiBB Innovation Prize 2006 to Bigi and Dr. Franz Alt, Homepage ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ↑ Der Löwe 2017 ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / humanprojects.de
  23. ↑ Alt, Bahro, Ferst 2002 ( Turn of Time) - DNB 964391244 , detailed interview with Marko Ferst in the book.
personal data
SURNAME Alt, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Untergrombach , Baden