Heribert Prantl

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Heribert Prantl (2017)

Heribert Prantl (born July 30, 1953 in Nittenau , Upper Palatinate , Bavaria ) is a German lawyer , journalist and author . From January 2018 to February 2019 he headed the opinion department at the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich and was a member of the editor-in-chief from January 2011.

Life

Heribert Prantl is the eldest of three sons of his father of the same name, who was a senior official and city treasurer and honorary chairman of the Kolping factory , and his mother Julie Prantl, a master tailor. According to his account, his father was a "believer", the honeymoon had taken his parents to the pilgrimage site of Altötting , which the family often visited later. As a teenager he was involved in the Association of German Catholic Youth and from the age of 15 wrote almost daily reports for the local newspapers in his region. He graduated from high school in 1973 at Regental-Gymnasium Nittenau. Then he did his military service (last rank: Ensign of the reserve) in Regensburg and Idar-Oberstein .

Heribert Prantl lives in Munich. His longtime partner is the journalist Franziska Augstein , the daughter of the Spiegel founder Rudolf Augstein . He has two children from a previous marriage.

Professional career

education

From 1974 to 1979 , Prantl studied law , history and philosophy at the universities of Munich, Tübingen and most recently in Regensburg . In 1979 he passed his first and in 1981 his second state examination there. He was a research assistant at the chair for civil law, family law and German legal history at the University of Regensburg and started his dissertation with Dieter Schwab in 1982 with the thesis journalistic information between the right of exclusion and the public domain. A study on the so-called news protection, on the indirect protection of journalistic information by § 1 UWG and on the exclusive contract on journalistic information to the Dr. jur. ( magna cum laude ) doctorate. His work received a science award from the University of Regensburg and the Thurn und Taxis company .

In addition to his legal studies in 1975, Prantl completed an accompanying journalist training as a scholarship holder of the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists of the Catholic Church and completed traineeships with the newspapers Stuttgarter Nachrichten and Der neue Tag as well as with the Bavarian and Italian radio .

Legal practice

After his legal clerkship, he first worked as a lawyer , from 1981 to 1987 he worked as a judge at Bavarian local and regional courts and as a public prosecutor . In addition, he was press spokesman for the regional court in Regensburg .

journalism

In 1988 he changed his profession and, at the instigation of the then editors-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Hans Heigert and Dieter Schröder , became the domestic policy editor ; since then he has written many editorials for the newspaper. He is also the author of numerous political books and essays and appears as a political commentator on public broadcasters and as a frequent guest in radio and television discussions. From 1992 he was deputy head of the domestic policy department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , from 1995 to 2017 department head. Since January 2011 Prantl was a member of the editor-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . At the beginning of 2018 he took over the newly created opinion department at this newspaper.

On March 1, 2019, he gave up the administrative tasks as head of the opinion department and member of the editor-in-chief. As an author and columnist, Prantl continues to work for Süddeutsche : with a Saturday political column, the newsletter Prantls Blick am Sonntag and the video blog Prantls Politik on the newspaper's website.

Positions and controversies

Prantl is seen as the representative of a liberal and cosmopolitan constitutional state . Occasionally he is classified as “ left-liberal ”. His special focus is on the intersection of law, morality and politics. “He resolutely demands that fundamental rights be observed,” says the award document of the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis 1994 to Prantl. His “clear voice” is “unparalleled in German journalism”. Winfried Hassemer , judge in its second senate, said of Prantl's criticism of the Federal Constitutional Court 's rulings on asylum , as a laudatory speech when he was awarded the Siebenpfeiffer Prize in 1999 to Prantl: where it is vulnerable: the solidity and seriousness of the protection of fundamental rights ”. In his laudation on the award of the Arnold Freymuth Prize 2006 to Prantl, former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder called him the “third senate” of the Federal Constitutional Court.

In his pamphlet Wir sind viel (2011), Prantl accuses financial capitalism and points out that property within the meaning of the Basic Law also obliges banks and that the markets must not break away from morality. It is an appeal to the responsibility of the financial market and politics: Europe is not based on the euro, but on its citizens, who form the basis of democracy.

Heribert Prantl (2008)

In July 2012, Prantl came under fire with a portrait of the President of the Federal Constitutional Court Andreas Vosskuhle , in which he reported a scene from his kitchen that appeared to be realistic. Prantl had written in a style that suggested that he had personally been a guest at Vosskuhle. This caused some irritation about the supposed proximity of the two. When it turned out that Prantl only knew the vividly portrayed kitchen scene from stories by third parties, this sparked a debate about journalistic diligence and criticism from within the editorial team, whereupon the SZ printed a clarification and regretted the mistake.

Prantl was interviewed several times as the editor-in-chief of Spiegel , most recently in 2013. He is one of the supporters of the Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

Prantl was very committed to the proposed reform in a series of articles on copyright reform in the European Union . The resistance to the reform “is about lies and feint of the big internet corporations. They wrapped the net church with these lies. These corporations disguise their business interests with hypocritical idealistic talk ”. Prantl thus represented the view of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV), which had lobbied for the change. His stance was criticized by numerous opponents of the reform, including blogger Stefan Niggemeier . The reform was passed by the European Parliament on March 26, 2019 .

In the course of the Covid-19 pandemic , Prantl sees fundamental rights at risk of permanent damage and wrote about them in a number of comments.

Memberships and functions

Prantl is a lecturer at the journalism schools in Hamburg and Munich, a member of the ethics council of the Hamburg Academy for Journalism and a member of the PEN Center Germany . Since 1995 he has been involved in the Rotary Club Munich-Nymphenburg. Since 2002 he has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Bielefeld University , where he was appointed honorary professor in 2010. In the summer semester of 2011, he took up the Theodor Herzl lectureship for poetics in journalism at the University of Vienna . Since 2004 Prantl has been an advisory board member of the Pro Justitia Foundation , which promotes research into legal facts. He sits in the Senate of the German National Foundation founded by Helmut Schmidt and Kurt Biedenkopf . Since 2010 he has been a member of the advisory board of the European Law Students' Association Deutschland e. V.

Awards

Fonts

Autograph by Prantl
  • The journalistic information between the right of exclusion and the public domain. A study on the so-called news protection, on the indirect protection of journalistic information through § 1 UWG and on the exclusive contract on journalistic information. E. u. W. Gieseking, Bielefeld 1983, ISBN 3-7694-0199-9 .
  • Germany - easily inflammable. Investigations against Bonn politics. Carl Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-446-17691-8 .
  • (Ed.): Wehrmacht crime. A German controversy. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-455-10365-0 .
  • Can we still be rescued? Inciting resistance to dangerous policies. Carl Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-446-18541-0 .
  • Red-Green - An initial assessment. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-455-10383-9 .
  • with Hans Leyendecker , Michael Stiller : Helmut Kohl, die Macht und das Geld. Steidl, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-88243-738-3 .
  • with Thomas Vormbaum (ed.): Juristisches Zeitgeschehen 2000 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7540-X .
  • with Arthur Kaufmann : What man owes man. Carl Heymanns, Cologne / Berlin / Bonn / Munich, special edition 2001, ISBN 978-3-452-25124-4 .
  • Suspicious - The strong state and the politics of internal insecurity. Europa, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-203-81041-7 .
  • with Thomas Vormbaum (Ed.): Juristisches Zeitgeschehen 2001 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 3-7890-8298-8 .
  • with Thomas Vormbaum (Ed.): Juristisches Zeitgeschehen 2002 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8305-0618-X .
  • with Thomas Vormbaum (ed.): Juristisches Zeitgeschehen 2003 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8305-0882-4 .
  • with Thomas Vormbaum (Ed.): Juristisches Zeitgeschehen 2004 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8305-1062-4 .
  • No Beautiful Country - The Destruction of Social Justice. Droemer, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-27363-2 .
  • in conversation with Hans-Jochen Vogel : Politics and decency. Why we cannot live without values. Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-451-28608-4 .
  • with Nina von Hardenberg (ed.): Schwarz Rot Grau. Aging in Germany. Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86615-616-6 .
  • The terrorist as a legislator. How to make politics with fear. Droemer / Knaur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-27464-4 .
  • with Robert Probst: Unity and Law and Prosperity: How Germany became what it is. 60 years of the Federal Republic. Süddeutsche Zeitung / Library; 2009, ISBN 978-3-86615-727-9 .
  • Democracy Alert. In: Wilhelm Heitmeyer (ed.): German conditions. Episode 8. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-12602-8 , pp. 296-304.
  • The Wrath of God - Food for thought about the holidays. Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86615-888-7 .
  • We are many: an indictment against financial capitalism. Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86615-999-0 .
  • The world as an editorial. The future of journalism. Picus, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85452-683-4 .
  • Alt, amen, the beginning. - New food for thought. Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86497-167-9 .
  • Splendor and misery of basic rights. Twelve stars for the Basic Law. Droemer, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-426-27650-1 .
  • In the name of humanity - save the refugees. Ullstein, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-550-08126-2 .
  • What an individual can do. Political history. Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86497-352-9
  • Instructions for use for populists. How to get rid of the new extremism. Ecowin, Salzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7110-0130-6 .
  • The power of hope. Food for thought in difficult times. Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86497-423-6 .

literature

  • Winfried Hassemer : Praise from the other. Laudation for the award of the Siebenpfeiffer Prize 1999 to Heribert Prantl. In: Winfried Hassemer: Freedom Criminal Law. Philo-Verlag Berlin 2001, pp. 55 ff., ISBN 3-8257-0142-5
  • Heribert Prantl , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 17/2008 of April 22, 2008, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Heribert Prantl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More opinion . In: sueddeutsche.de . February 27, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on March 2, 2019]).
  2. ↑ "You were a great man in a small town" Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , September 21, 2018, p. 28.
  3. ↑ Member of the editor-in-chief and head of internal politics “Süddeutsche Zeitung” - Hard but fair - Das Erste. (No longer available online.) January 8, 2016, archived from the original on October 21, 2016 ; accessed on August 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ International Biographical Archive
  5. ^ Franz Kotteder : Wilhelm Hoegner Prize - Resident in the Basic Law. In: sueddeutsche.de . October 10, 2011, accessed January 19, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Josef Seitz, Günther Bähr: Corporations: Wish you a boss! In: Focus Online . December 17, 2007, accessed January 19, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Heribert Prantl in the Munzinger archive , accessed on January 19, 2015 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  8. ↑ Heribert Prantl: The journalistic information between the right of exclusion and the public domain. E. and W. Gieseking, 1983, ISBN 978-3-7694-0199-8 ( limited preview in the Google book search), page VII.
  9. ↑ Graduates: Heribert Prantl. In: ifp.de , accessed on March 28, 2018.
  10. ↑ Dr. Heribert Prantl ( memento from March 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at the Theodor Wolff Prize.
  11. ↑ Everything new. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 27, 2017.
  12. ↑ Tagesspiegel: Heribert Prantl resigns from SZ , February 28, 2019
  13. ^ Die Welt : A Wrong Judgment , August 7, 2011, p. 11
  14. ↑ daily newspaper : Freedom instead of high security , June 4, 2002, p. 14
  15. ↑ As a fitting characterization assessed by Eberhard Stilz on the 20th anniversary of the Global Ethic Foundation . Global Ethic Foundation: Annual Report 2015
  16. ^ Geschwister-Scholl-Preis: 1994 Prize Winner Heribert Prantl. In: Geschwister-scholl-preis.de. November 21, 1994, accessed January 19, 2015 .
  17. ↑ Winfried Hassemer: Praise of the other , in which: Freedom of criminal law . Philo-Verlag Berlin 2001, p. 55 ff.
  18. ↑ Read: Prantl's “We are many” ( Memento of June 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: hinesehen.net
  19. ↑ Heribert Prantl: Der Verfassungsschützer , Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 10, 2012, page 3.
  20. ↑ Ulrike Simon, Berliner Zeitung, July 30, 2012: Accusation against Süddeutsche Zeitung: SZ author tricks on Vosskuhle's portrait.
  21. ↑ Christian media magazine August 1, 2012: Causa Prantl: "Süddeutsche Zeitung" apologizes
  22. ↑ Markus Ehrenberg, Sonja Pohlmann: No writing ban for Prantl at the SZ. In: Tagesspiegel from August 1, 2012, accessed on December 23, 2018.
  23. ↑ Sönke Paulsen: Focus Augstein new Spiegel boss? In: freitag.de. April 5, 2013, archived from the original on January 28, 2015 .;
  24. ↑ Prantl's Blick - Is the digital Armageddon looming? In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 17, 2019
  25. ↑ Over 240 organizations appeal to the EU Parliament: # Yes2Copyright ' on the BDZV website.
  26. ↑ Alexander Fanta, EU copyright law: lobby race with pop stars and condoms
  27. ↑ Slanderer in the service of the Enlightenment . In: Übermedien September 12, 2018
  28. ↑ Voluntariness, born out of fear
  29. ↑ Good journalism as a means against hostility
  30. ↑ The rule of law, infected by the virus
  31. ^ Club and membership directory of Rotarians in the Federal Republic of Germany 2002/2003
  32. ↑ Bielefeld University: Dr. Heribert Prantl new honorary professor at the Faculty of Law
  33. ^ University of Vienna: Heribert Prantl as Theodor Herzl lecturer at the University of Vienna , April 7, 2011.
  34. ↑ Foundation ProJustitia - Advisory Board. In: stiftung-projustitia.de. Retrieved January 19, 2015 .
  35. ^ Documentation Erich Fromm Prize 2006. In: o-ton.radio-luma.net. Retrieved January 19, 2015 .
  36. ↑ Hamm Brücher Prize . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 21, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 ( online [accessed July 8, 2015]).
  37. ↑ Prantl appointed honorary doctor in theology. domradio.de, July 12, 2016, accessed on July 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Prantl, Heribert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Nittenau