Gerhard Spörl

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Gerhard Spörl (born March 16, 1950 in Hof (Saale) ) is a German journalist .

Life

He studied German in Heidelberg and Mainz, and received his doctorate with a thesis on Georg Lukács , who saw himself as an opponent of Theodor W. Adorno . He began his journalistic career as a student at the Hofer Anzeiger and the Frankenpost . In 1980 he became the political editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , and worked from 1988 to 1990 as a Bonn correspondent for the paper. In 1990 he switched to the magazine Der Spiegel , where he was initially head of the German Politics department at the Hamburg headquarters. In 2001 he gave up the department and was responsible for a series in 23 parts about the present of the past , which deals with the aftermath of Hitler's policy. In August 2001 he moved to Washington as a USA correspondent . From January 2005 to 2010 he was head of the international department at the Hamburg headquarters, then he took over the management of the opinion department and introduced leading articles and columns in Der Spiegel.

He retired on July 31, 2015.

In 2008 Spörl wrote a book (with Marc Hujer) about Barack Obama and edited The Present of the Past with Stefan Aust . In 2016 he published a book about his wife's grandparents: "There must be more than fear and worry and Mr. Hitler". In September 2017 his story about the Ruhr area was published: "Think big, act big. New beginnings Change: How the Ruhr area is reinventing itself". In August 2015 he founded the consulting firm Spörl Consulting . He is a columnist at t-online and historical advisor to two production companies. Since the end of March 2020 it has also been published at www.gerhardspoerl.de.

Spörl has been married to the RBB director Patricia Schlesinger for the second time since 1999 and has a daughter with her (* 2000). There are two sons from his first marriage.

Publications

  • Think big, act big. Change, break, upheaval: how the Ruhr area is reinventing itself. Piper, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-492-05849-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dr. Gerhard Spörl ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Unruly characters: Indispensable unbearable. In: Spiegel Online . July 31, 2015, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ The world as it is - Gerhard Spörl. Accessed April 7, 2020 (German).
  4. ^ Günter Fink: Often longing. Patricia Schlesinger lives and works in Washington as a correspondent for ARD. But the journalist's love belongs to Hamburg . In: Welt am Sonntag . March 25, 2003 ( welt.de [accessed March 11, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Spörl, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Hof (Saale)