Hans Holzhaider

Hans Holzhaider (born July 25, 1946 in Miesbach ) is a German journalist .

Career

Holzhaider studied American literary history, politics and journalism in Berlin and Munich . In 1974 he received his doctorate with an ideology-critical analysis of American consumer literature from 1865 to 1885. After a newspaper traineeship at Heilbronner Voice , he was editor of the Sunday paper of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria from 1976 on . In 1978 he moved to the Süddeutsche Zeitung and has been a court reporter there since 1996 . The first trial he reported was the 1995/96 criminal case against Souhaila Andrawes for her involvement in the hijacking of the “Landshut” plane .

Awards

• In 1993 Holzhaider - together with Michael Stiller , Klaus Ott , Christiane Schlötzer-Scotland (Süddeutsche Zeitung) and Fridolin Engelfried (Augsburger Allgemeine) - was awarded the Guardian Prize of the German daily press (2nd prize) for reporting on the so-called amigo affair .
• For his text Der nackte Wahnsinn , published on December 14, 2012 on page three of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Holzhaider was awarded the Herbert Riehl Heyse Prize in June 2013 .

• In 2014 he and Sophie Rohrmeier (also Süddeutsche Zeitung) received the Karl Buchrucker Prize from the Inner Mission Munich. The award was given to articles on the situation of prisoners in Bavarian prisons, especially the lack of psychotherapeutic treatment options and insufficient rehabilitation efforts.

Publications

• Literary studies as social science. An ideology-critical analysis of American consumer literature 1865–1885 , Kronberg / Taunus: Scriptor, 1976.
• Before sunrise. The fate of the Jewish citizens of Dachau, Munich: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2006.

Web links

• Hans Holzhaider, court reporter , BR-alpha from February 17, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Buchrucker Prize for Max Weber alumna. In: elitenetzwerk.bayern.de. Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art , April 16, 2014, accessed on October 17, 2017 .