Günter Bannas

Günter Bannas (born May 8, 1952 in Kassel ) is a German journalist and former head of the capital city office of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).

Life

Bannas went to school in Cologne and graduated from high school in 1971 at the humanistic Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium . After four semesters of history , he studied economics , finance , political science and social psychology . In 1979 he passed the diploma exam at the University of Cologne .

At the beginning of his studies he worked for the school and student magazine direct , published by the Catholic Student Youth (KSJ), in which Bannas was involved. From 1977 he worked as a permanent freelancer in various political editorial offices at Deutschlandfunk . In 1979 he joined the FAZ newsroom. Sent to Bonn for political reporting from 1981, Bannas described the development of the Greens in the 1980s . Parties, parliament and domestic politics later remained his focus. From 1997 he headed the Bonn office of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . In 1998 he moved back to the FAZ editorial team in Bonn. Since 1998 he has headed the political department of the newspaper in Bonn, since the move of parliament and government in 1999 the political department in Berlin.

In 2011 Bannas received the special prize of the German Bundestag's Politics Media Prize . In his laudation, the editor-in-chief of Deutschlandfunk, Stephan Detjen, paid tribute to him as a “journalist who always brings us back to the original place of the political in democracy: to the parliamentary room with its magnificent stages and winding backdrops, behind which he tracks down with incomparable precision, what constitutes politics at its core: the discourse in which arguments are formulated, exchanged, organized, instrumentalized and positioned against one another. ”In 2013, Bannas was named political“ Journalist of the Year ”and in 2014 with the“ Ernst Dieter Lueg Prize " honored.

In 2012 the writer Rainald Goetz reported that his novel project Johann Holtrop had been given a new shape in the creative process because the "Berlin business" originally chosen as the subject had already been exhaustively recorded by Bannas.

On March 20, 2018, Bannas retired; Chancellor Merkel, party leaders Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Horst Seehofer (CSU), some ministers from the Merkel III and Merkel IV cabinets and numerous other politicians and journalists took part in the event.

In 2018, Bannas was awarded a Theodor Wolff Prize for his life's work .

Bannas is married to the Berlin painter Sabine Schneider .

Works

• The treaty for German unity ; Insel-Verlag: Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig; Nomos-Verlag: Baden-Baden, Berlin; 1990, ISBN 978-3-458-33690-7

• Personnel situation of the CDU: decapitation blow . At the time, Kohlsuspected Geissler of trying to overthrow him. There were certainly parallels in therelationship between Merkel and Röttgen . But unlike in Kohl's time, the CDU is running out of politicians who can fill the halls. In: FAZ . May 20, 2012.
• Federal Government: How the Chancellor's power is eroding . Cabinet discipline within the federal government is dissolving. If the state elections are lost for the CDU, Merkel will lose her most important protection - success. As once Gerhard Schröder . In: FAZ . 20th January 2015.
• Shift in power: How the Berlin Republic changed our politics , Propylaeen Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-549-10004-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Bannas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Günter Bannas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Anecdote about Bannas in the Spreebogen column of the SZ
• Günter Bannas on political journalism: "I felt like a confessor" Günter Bannas in an interview with Jan Pfaff and Ulrich Schulte in Die Tageszeitung (taz) on June 16, 2018.

Footnotes

1. ^ Laudation by Stephan Detjen for Günter Bannas. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 20, 2012 ; Retrieved December 1, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ FAZ.net: The editors: Günter Bannas ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Laudation by Stephan Dethjen for Günter Bannas ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the occasion of the award of the special prize of the Media Prize for Politics 2010 of the German Bundestag on February 23, 2011 
4. ^ Ijoma Mangold, Moritz von Uslar : Rainald Goetz: Anger is energy. November 29, 2012, accessed August 30, 2017 . 
5. ^ FAZ.net / Julia Schaaf: Farewell to a FAZ institution