Helmut Ortner (journalist)

Helmut Ortner (* 1950 in Gendorf ) is a German journalist , media developer (“ sheet maker ”) and publicist .

Career

Ortner grew up near his birthplace, in Burghausen an der Salzach. In 1955 his parents moved with him and his brother to Frankfurt-Höchst , where he also spent his school and youth years. After a typesetter -Teaching he studied at the College of Design Offenbach am Main , where he worked already with the graphic design of magazines and newspapers. After completing his community service , he did not continue his studies in Offenbach: He switched to the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences , where he studied social pedagogy and criminology and graduated as a social pedagogue. In 1975 he published his thesis, Prison and Family , which he produced in collaboration with Reinhard Wetter . Numerous publications accompanied social projects in prisons and work as a volunteer probation officer. In 1977 Ortner was the editor of Public Enemy That I Am ...: A reader .

After his socio-educational work, Ortner completed “journalistic apprenticeship years” at various magazines, for which he wrote reports, portraits and essays. From 1989 to 1992 he was editor-in-chief of PRINZ magazine and from 1994 to 1999 editor-in-chief of Journal Frankfurt , whose circulation he was able to increase from 32,000 to 43,000 copies. As early as 1995, Ortner developed (new) concepts for magazines, a work to which he devoted himself increasingly from 1999 and which led to the establishment of an office in Frankfurt am Main for concepts and relaunch of magazines and newspapers in 2000 . Ortner revised the design of more than 80 magazines and newspapers, including those of Das Parlament, Jüdische Allgemeine, Weinwelt, Cicero, Focus and numerous AOK magazines , for which he has received numerous awards. He wrote journalistic articles for the Playboy and the Penthouse (“because a great fee”), for newspapers such as Frankfurter Rundschau and ZEIT, Cicero, but also for left-wing magazines such as concrete and Pflasterstrand .

Since 1978 Ortner has published numerous books that have appeared in several editions and in over ten languages. As early as 1987, El Solitario, the Spanish translation of the book Georg Elser - The loner, appeared . The American edition on Georg Elser was particularly successful in 2012 with The Lone Assassin .

Ortner lives in Darmstadt and works in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen . He is a passionate racing cyclist , art lover and Eintracht Frankfurt fan. He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation (gbs) since 2018 .

Private life

From 2000 he was in a relationship with the CDU politician Julia Klöckner for many years.

Awards

• 1986: City Clerk Prize of the City of Kelsterbach
• 1988: Reading trips to South America at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut :

Fonts

• EXIT: Why we need less religion - a reckoning . nomen, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3939816614 .
• Stupid anger. Kluger Zorn: Accusations and acquittals , Nomen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2018, ISBN 978-3-9398-1650-8
• When the state kills. A history of the death penalty . Theiss, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-8062-3597-5 .
• Mercilessly German. Five dossiers . Noun, Frankfurt am Main 2016.
• Foreign enemies: Sacco & Vanzetti - Ein Judizmord , nomen, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-939816-25-6 .
• The executioner: Roland Freisler - murderer in the service of Hitler , nomen, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-939816-21-8 .
• Resistance is futile. But it makes sense. , nomen, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-939816-19-5 .
• The Book of Killing: About the Death Penalty, zu Klampen, Springe 2013, ISBN 978-3-86674297-0 .
• (Ed.) Zorn: an homage . With contributions by Jutta Limbach, Claus Leggewie and Uwe Wittstock, zu Klampen, Springe 2012, ISBN 978-3-86674176-8 .
• Perpetrator. Victim. Accomplices , nomen, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-939816-15-7 .
• (Ed.) Hitler's shadow: Deutsche Reportagen , nomen, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-939816-16-4 .
• The lone assassin: Georg Elser - The man who wanted to kill Hitler , nomen, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-939816-03-4 .
• Everything else later , nomen, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-9809981-1-8 .
• False truths. Correct Lies , nomen, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-9809981-0-X .
• Beautiful prospects , Zambon, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 9783889750587 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Ortner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Konstanze Kleis: The man who loves paper . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Rhein-Main, August 25, 2012
• Roland Karle: Why magazine maker Helmut Ortner is annoyed about media agencies . In: HORIZONT Online from November 7, 2014
• Martin Schmitz-Kuhl : A hedonistic-political defiant head . In: Bookster Frankfurt from January 27, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Ortner, Reinhard Wetter: Prison and Family: Protocols from family members of prisoners, texts and materials on the effects of criminal imprisonment and the possibilities of political prisoner work . Karin Kramer, Berlin, 1975 ISBN 978-3-87956035-6 (2nd edition 1978)
2. ↑ Helmut Ortner (ed.): Public enemy, who I am ...: A reader . Texts and articles on political justice, among others by Rosa Luxemburg, Max Hoelz , Ernst Toller, Luise Rinser, Hans-Christian Ströbele , Peter Paul Zahl . Trikon, Munich, 1977. ISBN 3-88167008-4
3. ↑ Martin Schmitz-Kuhl: A hedonistic-political defiant head . From: Bookster Frankfurt. Interviews and portraits from the capital of books , Schwarzburg, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-943758-80-1
4. ↑ Publishing Pehuen, Santiago de Chile in 1987, another edition 2001 Zambon Iberoamericano, Llobregat
5. ↑ Skyhorse Publishing, New York 2012 ISBN 978-1-61608383-0 (translation by Ross Benjamin).
6. ↑ Rhein-Zeitung of December 22, 2012
7. ^ Short vita gbs: Helmut Ortner Helmut Ortner, journalist, media developer ("Blattmacher") and publicist. Giordano Bruno Foundation . Retrieved March 1, 2018.
8. ↑ Who will be “First Gentleman”? In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , February 12, 2016; Helmut Ortner in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available), March 8, 2016.