Hermann Rudolph (journalist)

Hermann Rudolph (born March 15, 1939 in Oschatz in Saxony ) is a German journalist and publisher of the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel , of which he was previously editor-in-chief.

Life

Rudolph grew up in the GDR . After graduating from high school and volunteering at newspapers for the Eastern CDU , he managed to escape to West Germany in 1959 . In Freiburg , Munich and Tübingen , he studied literature and social sciences, in 1969 he was at the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on the cultural-political thought Hugo von Hofmannsthal PhD (cultural criticism and conservative revolution) .

Rudolph continued his journalistic career in 1970 at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . In 1980 he moved to the weekly newspaper Die Zeit as a domestic political editor . In 1983 he took over the management of the politics and current affairs department at Deutschlandfunk for three years , then he went to the Süddeutsche Zeitung . After German reunification and the change of seat from the Bundestag and the federal government to Berlin, he accepted the offer in Berlin in 1991 and became editor-in-chief of the Tagesspiegel . Later and until the end of 2013 he was the editor of the Tagesspiegel .

Rudolph was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize (1977) and the Karl Hermann Flach Prize (1993) , among others . From 1981 to 1985 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

Fonts (selection)

• Richard von Weizsäcker . Berlin: Rowohlt Berlin, 2010.
• The first decade . Stuttgart: Dt. Verl.-Anst., 2000.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Rudolph in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Hermann Rudolph in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New editor: Sebastian Turner buys himself into the "Tagesspiegel". In: The world. December 12, 2013, accessed January 8, 2019 .