Franziska Augstein

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Hannah Franziska Augstein (born September 18, 1964 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist .

Franziska Augstein, 2012 in Frankfurt am Main

Life

Franziska Augstein is the daughter of the Spiegel editor Rudolf Augstein (1923–2002) and the translator Maria Carlsson (* around 1937).

From 1983 to 1986 she studied history , politics and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . a. with Ernst Nolte , Hagen Schulze , Michael Theunissen and Ernst Tugendhat . After the intermediate examination, she got a temporary job as an editor for the newspaper Die Zeit in the Zeit-Magazin.

In 1989 she resumed her studies, now at Bielefeld University . There she studied with Jörn Rüsen , Hans-Ulrich Wehler a . a. Her master's thesis on “Climate Theory in the Early Modern Era” was accepted by Jörn Rüsen. Parts of this work later found their way into the books “Race” and “Anthropology”. In 1990 she received an Erasmus scholarship for the University of Sussex (Brighton). From 1991 to 1993 she lived in Paris, where she completed her master's thesis for Bielefeld University. From 1993 she was a doctoral candidate at the Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine , where she received her doctorate in 1996 with a thesis on the development of racial theory based on the writings of the anthropologist and doctor James Cowles Prichard .

Franziska Augstein's partner is the journalist Heribert Prantl .

Journalistic activity

In 1997 she became an editor in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (editorial abbreviation “fau”). From 2000 to 2001 she was the cultural correspondent for the FAZ in Berlin. Since 2001 she has been working for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , initially for the features section, then in the domestic affairs department, where she was responsible for the “The Political Book” page for five years. She has been part of the business editorial team since 2015; there she publishes a. a. her column "Augstein's World".

At the “Berlin Newspaper Conference” on November 10, 2005, Franziska Augstein's critical statement on the current journalistic quality of Spiegel attracted attention in the media scene. As a co-owner of the Hamburg news magazine, she assessed the journalistic standards of the paper as flattened and accused the then editor-in-chief, Stefan Aust, of focusing too much on soft topics. Her half-brother and co-partner Jakob Augstein contradicted his sister clearly in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung on May 16, 2006: He considered this debate to be wrong, the Spiegel had no quality defects and was still “ the German news magazine”. He specifically praised editor-in-chief Aust.

In July 2013, Franziska Augstein used a drawing by Ernst Kahl, originally published in the magazine Der Feinschmecker , of a horned creature with the caption “Israel's enemies consider the country a voracious Moloch” in the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung to illustrate two reviews of non-fiction books critical of Israel. Kahl expressed "appalled" when he learned of the context in which his work was used. According to Jüdischer Allgemeine, there would have been nothing wrong with both the illustration and the text in and of themselves, but together and in combination with the caption, “the result is a deliberately malicious effect that is reminiscent of the worst and consequently murderous anti-Jewish agitation.” Augstein is therefore solely responsible for this. The editor-in-chief of Süddeutsche, Kurt Kister , published an apology on behalf of the newspaper: The publication of the drawing “was the unsuccessful attempt to use caricatures to depict how the state of Israel is being drawn by its enemies. … We are very sorry that we made this mistake ”. While the SZ editors distanced themselves and admitted a mistake, Augstein defended himself, but admitted that the picture "led to misunderstandings" and that in retrospect it "would have been better to choose a different one."

Public work

Franziska Augstein became known to the general public when she spoke at the memorial service for her father in November 2002 - contrary to the protocol of the state act - and defended Rudolf Augstein's journalistic legacy in Hamburg's main church St. Michaelis .

In November 2013 Franziska Augstein gave a laudation on the occasion of the award of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize in Osnabrück. In her speech to the two award winners, the Palestinian diplomat Abdallah Frangi and the former Israeli ambassador to Germany Avi Primor , she campaigned for a policy of peace and trusting understanding in the Middle East. From 2014 to 2016 Augstein was a member of the first jury for the Bavarian Book Prize .

Awards

  • In 1998 she was awarded the Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Förderpreis .
  • In 2000 she received the journalist prize of the German newspapers, the Theodor Wolff Prize , in the category » Essay istischer Journalismus« for her contribution »Crouch that you are not to be met«, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 3rd 1999: [ 1]

Publications

  • Race. The Origins of an Idea, 1760-1850. Thoemmes, Bristol 1996, ISBN 1-85506-454-5
  • About German ironists and English irony. In: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte . 44, 1997, 6, pp. 506-510
  • James Cowles Prichard's Anthropology. Remaking the Science of Man in Early Nineteenth Century Britain. Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta 1999, ISBN 90-420-0404-5 (dissertation)
  • How to make a mosquito out of an elephant. The committee of inquiry and the CDU donation affair. In: Mercury . 55, 2001, pp. 375-386
  • Of loyalty and betrayal. Jorge Semprún and his century. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57768-0

Web links

Commons : Franziska Augstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franziska Augstein: The eccentric in his era - On the 90th birthday of Ernst Nolte. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 11, 2013, p. 12
  2. ↑ FOCUS Online: GROUP: Wish you a boss! . In: FOCUS Online . December 16, 2007.
  3. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 5, 2013, page 13.
  4. ↑ Michael Wuliger : Gluttonous Monster Israel: How the Süddeutsche Zeitung produces anti-Semitic spin , Jüdische Allgemeine , July 2, 2013
  5. ↑ Jens Krüger: A lioness who wants to fight. In: welt.de. Die Welt am Sonntag, December 1, 2002, accessed on May 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Ulrike Simon: In the name of the father. In: tagesspiegel.de. Der Tagesspiegel, December 1, 2002, accessed on May 18, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Abdallah Al-Frangi - Laudation - Dr. Franziska Augstein. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Augstein, Franziska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Augstein, Hannah Franziska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg