Hector Haarkötter

Hektor Haarkötter (born October 17, 1968 in Oldenburg ) is a German TV journalist, book author and media and communication scientist .

Life

Haarkötter grew up in the Ruhr area , Aachen , the Eifel and Bamberg , where he graduated from the Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium . He studied at the Pontificio Ateneo s. Anselmo in Rome, at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf as well as at the University of Cologne, the subjects Philosophy, Theology, German Philology, Middle and Modern History as well as Sociology and graduated with a Magister Artium (MA ) from. He then did his doctorate at the University of Göttingen on a media science and storytelling topic; the dissertation was published in 2007.

journalism

Haarkötter was editor of the Göttinger Woche , an alternative citizen journalistic weekly newspaper, where he worked with, among others, Norman Ohler . He was also editor-in-chief of the Göttinger Nachrichten.

Haarkötter has been working in Cologne as a television journalist, director and author for public broadcasters and arte since 1994 . He published in taz , the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , Spiegel Spezial, MacMagazin, Medium Magazin , M - Menschenmachen Medien , Online Today, Tomorrow and on Telepolis .

As a TV journalist, Haarkötter worked for the editorial group Economics, Labor & Law of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation as well as for the editorial departments of the West German Broadcasting Corporation , especially the editorial group Economics & Service. He has contributed to the programs Markt, PlusMinus , ARD-Ratgeber , Quarks & Co. , Quarks21, Servicezeit, ARD morning magazine, Polis produces. As a filmmaker he has made reports and documentaries a. a. Produced for SWR Eisenbahnromantik , arte Reportage and WDR Erlebnisreisen. The pilot of the award-winning travel show Wunderschön! he was responsible.

In shutdown. The Antimedien-Buch (2007) has summarized Haarkötter historical and current positions of media criticism. His book Der Bücherwurm (2010) sees itself as a contribution to a “literary zoology” or “ bibliophile / bibliophage culinary art” . In it, Haarkötter explores the question of how it actually comes about that the book's greatest friend is named after its most dogged enemy.

science

Hektor Haarkötter is professor of communication science with a focus on political communication at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences . Before that, he had been Professor of Cultural Journalism at the Macromedia University for Media and Communication in Munich since 2011 and Professor of Online Journalism at the HMKW University for Media, Communication & Economics in Cologne since 2014. There he was also head of the journalism & communication department.

In his academic work, Haarkötter deals with media theory, media philosophy, journalistic ethics and empirical communication research. He has researched data journalism, shitstorms and YouTube videos, analyzed science television and dealt with anonymization on the Internet. One focus of Haarkötter is on agenda cutting and neglect of news, about which he speaks regularly in publications and in interviews. Haarkötter is an expert in data-supported research techniques, for which he has presented several specialist publications and textbooks.

Volunteering

Hektor Haarkötter is the managing director of the Initiative Nachrichtenaufklerung eV (INA) based in Cologne. Every year the initiative selects the top ten forgotten news. INA has been cooperating with Deutschlandfunk as a media partner since 2015. The two institutions jointly founded the Cologne Forum for Journalism Criticism, within the framework of which the INA awarded the Günter Wallraff Prize for journalism criticism. Günter Wallraff is a member of the INA jury.

As a representative of science, Haarkötter is also a member of the media commission of the State Agency for Media in North Rhine-Westphalia . He also acts as spokesman for the NRW state Board of Management of Deutsche Journalistinnen- and Journalists Union (dju) in Ver.Di .

honors and awards

• In 1999 she was nominated for the Grimme Prize in the entertainment category as a member of the author collective of the WDR satire format Quasi-TV.
• 2003 Honorable Mention at the Ernst Schneider Prize for Business Journalism (“markt”, WDR 2003).
• 2004 Honorable Mention at the Journalist Prize of the Taxpayers' Association (“markt”, WDR).
• 2010 Toura d'Or ("Dorfhotel Vna", WDR 2010)
• 2010 Columbus Film Prize in Gold ("A village becomes a hotel", ARD guide to building and living )
• 2010 Columbus Special Prize (" Beautiful ", WDR 2010)
• 2011 Honorable Mention at the Bert Donnepp ​​Prize for media journalism (WDR print plagiarism)
• 2015 For the Initiative News Enlightenment: Alternative Media Prize 2015 (multimedia report “Neglected News” by Rita Vock / Deutschlandfunk)

Varia

• Hektor Haarkötter is a jazz pianist and financed his studies as a piano teacher at the Free Music School on Wall Göttingen. He has appeared with various formations at the Leverkusen Jazz Days and the Göttingen Jazz Festival .
• Haarkötter lived and worked as a caretaker and porter in a monastery in Rome for a year.
• As a sketch writer, Haarkötter took part in the Cologne Stunksitzung for two years .
• Together with the musician Det Heidkamp, ​​who was saxophonist with the Cologne world music band Schäl Sick Brass Band for 10 years , Haarkötter founded the Immigrantenstadl in 2005 , Cologne's first carnival session only for non-Cologne residents, which took place for four years in the Stollwerck community center . A follow-up event now operates as an immisession at the same location.

Books

• Journalism.online. The manual for online journalism . Cologne: Halem publishing house. ISBN 978-3-7445-1108-7 .
• (with Johanna Wergen as editor) The Youtubiversum. Opportunities and disruptions of the online video platform in theory and practice . Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
• (with Jörg-Uwe Nieland as editor) News and education. 20 years of intelligence intelligence initiative . Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
• (as editor) Shitstorms and other niceties. On the Limits of Communication in Social Media (2016). Baden-Baden: Nomos publishing company. ISBN 978-3-8487-3064-3
• Google & more: online research. How to get exact hits on your search queries (2016). Cologne: Halem publishing house. ISBN 978-3-86764-684-0
• (as guest editor with Felix Weil :) Ethics for the Internet of Things . International Review of Information Ethics, Issue 1/2015.
• with Evelyn Runge: Motor and Travel Journalism (2015). Journalism Library Series. Ed .: Martin Welker. Cologne: Halem publishing house. ISBN 978-3-86962-026-8
• The Art of Research (2015). Cologne: Halem publishing house. ISBN 978-3-7445-0678-6
• William Blades: The Book Enemies. Fire and water, gas and heat, dust and neglect, ignorance and narrow-mindedness: books can be harmed in many ways (2012). Ed., Trans. and introduced by Hektor Haarkötter. Darmstadt: Scientific Book Society. ISBN 978-3-534-26498-8
• The Bookworm. Pleasures for the special reader (2010). Darmstadt: Scientific Book Society. ISBN 978-3-89678-662-3
• Never-ending Ends (2007) . Dimensions of a literary phenomenon: narrative theory, hermeneutics, media theory. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. ISBN 978-3-8260-3389-6
• Switch off. The Anti-Media Book (2007). Darmstadt: Scientific Book Society. ISBN 978-3-89678-620-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review by Werner Fletcher ; 02/2007
2. ↑ Hektor Haarkötter on the website of the University for Median, Communication and Economy. Memento from the Internet Archive from May 23, 2016
3. ↑ HMKW: Hektor Haarkötter. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 12, 2017 ; accessed on May 12, 2017 . 
4. ↑ haarkoetter.de. Retrieved May 12, 2017 . 
5. ↑ haarkoetter.de. Retrieved May 12, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Switch off. The anti-media book . In: Anti-Media Blog . ( antimedien.de [accessed on May 12, 2017]).
7. ↑ - Treatise on a concept of ridicule . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on May 12, 2017]).
8. ↑ Prof. Dr. Hector Haarkötter | Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (H-BRS). Retrieved April 28, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Blind spots in reporting . In: European Journalism Observatory (EJO) . March 7, 2016 ( ejo-online.eu [accessed May 12, 2017]).
10. ↑ "We have lost the criteria of relevance." In: @GI_weltweit . ( goethe.de [accessed on May 12, 2017]).
11. ↑ The Initiative Message Enlightenment eV -. Retrieved May 12, 2017 . 
12. ^ Members. Retrieved April 28, 2020 . 
13. ↑ dju in NRW. Retrieved April 28, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Administrator: free pages - Special mention now also from the Grimme Institute. Retrieved May 12, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Special award for media criticism for forgotten news. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 3, 2017 ; accessed on May 12, 2017 .