Franz Josef Wagner

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Franz Josef Wagner (born August 7, 1943 in Olomouc ) is a German tabloid journalist and writer .

Life

Wagner was born in Olomouc in the then Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the Second World War and grew up as the son of a handicraft teacher in Regensburg , where he was also a singer in the Domspatzen choir . He attended a convent school, but failed the Abitur exam and left school without a degree. After that, he managed to get by with odd jobs for a few years before starting an internship at the Nürnberger Zeitung .

From 1966 Wagner worked at the Axel Springer publishing house in Hamburg , among other things as a war reporter and chief reporter for the picture . He also wrote as a ghostwriter for Franz Beckenbauer and Boris Becker .

In 1988 Wagner moved to Hubert Burda Verlag in Munich and became editor-in-chief of the tabloid magazine Bunte . There he developed the magazines Elle and Superillu together with Günter Prinz . In 1991, the tabloid Super! whose first editor-in-chief he became. It was intended to compete with Bild for East Germany , but was discontinued after a year. With Wagner's headline "Angeber-Wessi slain with a beer bottle - all of Bernau is happy that he's dead" on May 3, 1991, he awarded Super! the image of a revolver blade already on the second day of publication . In 1998 Wagner came back to Axel Springer Verlag and became editor-in-chief of BZ and BZ am Sonntag . In 2000, however, he lost his post as editor-in-chief after he had struck defamatory tones in an article about Franziska van Almsick .

Since 2001 Wagner has been the " chief columnist " at Axel Springer Verlag; a position created especially for him. He writes the columns Post by Wagner , Mondays to Saturdays in Bild as well as (until 2005) Wagner's World weekly in the Welt am Sonntag . For the column letter from Wagner , he received the 2002 by the Bauer publishing awarded journalism prize Golden Pen in the category "Print".

Wagner is married and has a daughter.

reception

His texts, which are provided with many descriptive adjectives and adverbs and sometimes contradict each other within a short time, and his wild leaps in argumentation have earned Wagner the nickname "Gossen-Goethe". The satirical magazine Titanic ridiculed Wagner as "Gaga columnists". In 2012, the director Patrick Wengenroth adapted Wagner's book Brief an Deutschland and Rainald Goetz 's text Katarakt in a theater evening at Berlin's HAU 2. In 2019, the author Nils Markwardt parodied Wagner's style on Twitter in letters to German greats such as Hegel and Kafka .

Wagner has also drawn a lot of criticism of his personal behavior. The daily newspaper , which was critical of him , summarized on his 60th birthday: "He is considered choleric, virile, impulsive, reactionary, hysterical, cynical, chaotic, and therefore unbearable." Wagner had particular difficulties in personal dealings in the years in which he had the BZ editorial team should lead. His working style was described as chaotic and his management methods turned a large part of the editorial staff against him. This went so far that an anonymous website operated by the BZ editors indirectly called for the removal of Wagner.

In 2009 he was sentenced by two instances to damages in the amount of 10,000 euros for insulting Eva Herman . On the occasion of her often criticized statements on the family policy of the National Socialists, he had described the TV presenter in his picture column as a "stupid cow". In January 2014 the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that it was not covered by freedom of expression to describe Gabriele Pauli as a “crazy woman”. In 2015 he was criticized by Christian Brandes after he wrote a text about the crash of the Germanwings flight 9525 .

Wagner also receives frequent criticism in the picture blog and from its former operator Stefan Niggemeier .

Works

Novels

Web links

Wikiquote: Franz Josef Wagner  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dear teachers, dear parents. In: Picture , January 5, 2008.
  2. ^ Franz Josef Wagner: Letter to Germany , Diederichs Verlag , Munich 2010 (blurb).
  3. ↑ a b Alexander Kühn: Franz Josef Wagner - The Big City Indian . In: Stephan Alexander Weichert, Christian Zabel (Hrsg.): Die Alpha-Journalisten. Portrait of Germany's spokesman . Herbert von Halem Verlag , Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-938258-29-3 , pp. 358–365, here p. 365 [1]
  4. ↑ Peer Schader: Picture your shredder. In: Spiegel Online , April 19, 2006.
  5. ↑ Thomas Schuler : "Gossen-Goethe" on the street. In: Berliner Zeitung , September 30, 2000.
  6. ↑ He is called "Gossen-Goethe" In: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 19, 2006.
  7. ↑ Arno Frank : Hurray, Berlin packed it. In: Titanic , May 2004 edition.
  8. ↑ Head and Belly of the Republic. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
  9. ^ With pickles against Adorno. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Failure more beautifully with Franz-Josef. In: Die Tageszeitung , August 7, 2003.
  11. ↑ Press release of the Cologne Higher Regional Court, July 28, 2009 ( Memento of November 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), last accessed March 18, 2020
  12. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court: Gabriele Pauli not "crazy" In: heise online , January 21, 2014.
  13. ^ Christian Brandes: Post to Wagner. In: schleckysilberstein.com , March 26, 2015.
  14. ↑ Search results for 'franz josef wagner' In: Bildblog .
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tabloid journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Olomouc