Hans-Ulrich Jörges

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Hans-Ulrich Jörges (2019)

Hans-Ulrich Jörges (born December 8, 1951 in Bad Salzungen , Thuringia , GDR ) is a German journalist . From 2007 to 2017 he was a member of the editor-in-chief of the Illustrierte Stern and editor-in-chief for special tasks at the Gruner + Jahr publishing house .

Life

Jörges was born in Bad Salzungen, Thuringia, and lived in the GDR until 1957 . When he was six years old, his family moved to West Germany . He grew up in Frankfurt am Main , was in contact with the left-wing scene there after graduating from high school and worked in a small left-wing publishing house, where he a. a. Met Wilfried Böse and Johannes Weinrich . His experiences with the militant left sobered him. At the same time, he completed a traineeship at the United Economic Services (VWD) news agency “in a balancing act” . He then worked as head of service for VWD. At the same time he studied social sciences and lived in a shared apartment without private property. He broke off his studies.

In 1977 he became deputy head of the domestic department of the Reuters news agency in Bonn . From 1979 to 1981 he headed the Berlin agency, then the one in Munich . In 1985 Heiner Bremer brought him to Stern's Bonn office , and in 1986 he went to Düsseldorf as a correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . In 1989 he became head of politics at Stern , and in 1990 deputy editor-in-chief.

In 1992 he moved to the development department of the new weekly newspaper Die Woche, which was currently being set up . Since the first issue appeared in February 1993, he was first head of the political department and then deputy editor-in-chief. From January to December 2001 he was editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper.

Since May 2002 Jörges was again deputy editor-in-chief of Stern and headed the capital city office in Berlin until August 2007. Since September 2007 he has been a member of Stern's editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief for special tasks at the Gruner + Jahr publishing house. The star revealed under his leadership the affair of Defense Rudolf Scharping ( SPD ) and PR consultant Moritz Hunzinger , which led to the fall Scharping. In his weekly column, Zwischenruf , he comments on political events in Germany.

In 2004 Jörges was voted Journalist of the Year in the “Politics” category. The British Financial Times ranked him among the most influential commentators in the world in 2006. In the spring of 2009 Jörges was the initiator of the European Charter for Press Freedom , which was approved by 48 editors-in-chief and leading journalists from 19 countries at a conference in Hamburg and then signed by several hundred journalists and journalists' associations from almost 30 countries. On June 9th, Jörges presented the charter in Brussels to the EU Commission with the request to enforce it in the community and make its acceptance a condition for EU enlargements.

Together with ZDF journalist Guido Knopp , Jörges founded the non-profit project Gedächtnis der Nation , which records the memories of contemporary witnesses of German history in the form of video interviews and keeps them permanently on the Internet for future generations, especially for schools and universities. The portal started on October 6, 2011, and since then a so-called century bus set up as a TV studio has been traveling through Germany to interview contemporary witnesses. Federal President Christian Wulff was the project's patron, and Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann chaired the Board of Trustees. Later, Joachim Gauck was the association's patron in his role as Federal President .

Jörges is a member of the board of trustees of the Friends of the Goethe and Schiller Archives in Weimar, the board of trustees of the Hamburg Foundation for Future Issues and the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Society.

In the 2010s, Jörges became known to a broad public through his presence on talk shows with political topics.

On June 30, 2017 Jörges retired from the Stern editorial team due to age. He continued to work as a columnist for Stern until the end of July 2020.

Private

He is married to the journalist Christiane Gerboth for the second time .

criticism

In May 2006 Jörges came under fire with a comment on Hartz IV under the heading " Communism wins - work is mocked, idleness is rewarded". In it and in a program by Sabine Christiansen in the same week he spoke of “2000 euros in social benefits” that families with several children could get under “favorable circumstances”. At the request of the taz , he admitted that he had based the bill on the exceptional situation of the transition from unemployment benefit to unemployment benefit II .

In January 2014 he and the moderator Markus Lanz were criticized for the poor style of discussion with Sahra Wagenknecht (“Lanz and Jörges forge alliance”). Jörges then commented on this in an internet video that was published on the Stern website . He described the indignation as a “ shitstorm from the left”, which aims to “make critical discussions with Sahra Wagenknecht taboo”, since this is the “most effective propaganda weapon of the left”.

In March of the same year Jörges was criticized by the daily newspaper Die Welt for having "uninhibitedly exploited intimate knowledge" on the talk show Günther Jauch about Uli Hoeneß 'tax affair and "cheerfully involved in the conspiracy theories surrounding the case".

Works

  • Manfred Bissinger , Hans-Ulrich Jörges: The uncomfortable President: Roman Herzog in conversation with Manfred Bissinger and Hans-Ulrich Jörges . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-426-80076-4 .
  • Manfred Bissinger, Hans-Ulrich Jörges: SPD, adaptation or alternative? Volk und Welt, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-353-00996-5 .
  • Hans-Ulrich Jörges (ed.): The fight for the euro . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-455-10368-5 .
  • Hans-Ulrich Jörges: Desperately looking for the government . Econ, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-430-20085-1 .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Hans-Ulrich Jörges  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Hans-Ulrich Jörges  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contemporary witness testimony in memory of the nation, on the experience: "1977: The Autumn of Terror" the clip: "Left radicalism as a totalitarian movement"
  2. ^ Stefanie Huland: Arguable capital city journalist. Insight 1/09 ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.8 MB)
  3. ↑ Commissioner Reding welcomes the new European Charter on Freedom of the Press
  4. ^ Website of the project The Memory of the Nation
  5. ↑ Most of the invited talk show guests 2010 meedia.de, December 22, 2010
  6. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Jörges about his career at stern: "I was a kind of I-AG within the magazine" meedia.de, March 6, 2017
  7. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Jörges listens as a "Stern" columnist on meedia.de, July 29, 2020
  8. ↑ Jens König: Mood maker of the Hartz Republic. In: taz , May 31, 2006.
  9. ↑ Helga Spindler: Hartz IV: Is the subsistence level too high for poor families? - or: how Herr Jörges vom Stern discovered the sophisticated conspiracy of the welfare state in favor of families. In: neue praxis, magazine for social work, social pedagogy and social policy . Issue 3/2006 pp. 251-256.
  10. ↑ Sahra Wagenknecht complains about ZDF and Markus Lanz. In: Abendblatt.de , January 22, 2014.
  11. ↑ The Wagenknecht method. In: stern.de . January 23, 2014, accessed January 23, 2014.
  12. ↑ Ralf Dargent: Hoeneß 'alleged friend chats explosive things. In: Die Welt , March 17, 2014.
  13. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Jörges Pfeifenkopf of the year 2008. In: Non-Smoking Initiative Germany eV December 25, 2008, accessed on October 27, 2019 .
  14. ↑ The star journalist Hans-Ulrich Jörges receives the Georg-Scheu-Badge from Torben Schröder on Allgemeine-zeitung.de on June 27, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Jörges, Hans-Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Salzungen , Thuringia