Hans Hoff (journalist)

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Hans Hoff (born August 4, 1955 in Düsseldorf ) is a German journalist and media critic . From 1990 to 1999 he was media editor for the Rheinische Post in Düsseldorf.

Live and act

Hans Hoff went to Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf and studied social pedagogy and worked as a social pedagogue for the Düsseldorf youth welfare office. According to his own admission, he then “slipped” into journalism through the first reports for the music magazine Sounds . Articles that he wrote under the name Hansi Hoff can be found in Sounds since September 1979. Later he also wrote for the Musikexpress . As a music reviewer for the Rheinische Post and the Neue Rhein Zeitung , he gained a reputation as a feared critic in the 1980s. After an internship, he worked from 1990 to 1999 as a media editor for the Rheinische Post in Düsseldorf.

Since 1999 he has been writing as a freelance journalist for the media site of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Later I worked as a freelancer for Rolling Stone and for the NRW edition of Welt am Sonntag . Hoff always emphasizes that his freelance work enables him to work independently as a critic outside the boulevard . He also speaks for the WDR-5 magazine political issue regular media columnist . He has also headed the music section of the Düsseldorf free culture magazine Biograph for over 20 years .

Since June 2013 he has been writing reviews of TV programs and his opinion on current events in the media for the online magazine DWDL.de in the column Das Hoff zum Sonntag .

More recently he has conducted interviews with Stefan Raab and Spiegel boss Georg Mascolo .

Also since 2013 Hoff has been active as a singer in the two-man project Fools On A Hill and in the blues band "Old Love". In 2015 he was a member of the jury for the Grimme Prize in the entertainment category.

Publications

  • Party horror. Peter Rütten is something like the sports reporter for Gaga entertainment. He is currently writing a show at Pro Sieben with mud as the central element. With him you can hate and love television again. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 29, 2014, p. 39.
  • "We have to reposition ourselves". Interview with Michael Wulf . In: journalist , October 2014, pp. 28–34. Online version

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung: Memories of the time at Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  2. ^ Krone.at steals complete "Stadl" criticism. horizon. (No longer available online.) September 14, 2015, archived from the original on November 24, 2015 ; accessed on November 24, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horizont.at
  3. ↑ Das Hoff zum Sonntag on DWDL.de , accessed on August 16, 2014
  4. ↑ Stefan Raab in an interview on sueddeutsche.de , accessed on August 16, 2014
  5. ↑ Editor-in-chief Georg Mascolo in an interview on journalist.de , accessed on August 16, 2014
  6. ↑ Anke Holgersson: Concert in the Rittersaal at Burgau Castle: Journey to the 60s with “Fools on a hill”. In: aachener-zeitung.de. Aachener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, May 14, 2019, accessed on May 11, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Old Love - Helmit's Blues , accessed August 16, 2014
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. , accessed November 24, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
personal data
SURNAME Hoff, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist with a focus on media
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf