Holger Kreymeier

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Holger Kreymeier recording the 100th episode of TV Critique TV (2012)

Holger Volker Kreymeier (born December 8, 1971 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist , author and media entrepreneur .

Life

In the 1990s, Kreymeier was involved in the working group of lesbians and gays in the SPD (Schwusos) and was at times spokesman for the Hamburg regional association.

Between 1992 and 1997 Kreymeier studied sociology at the University of Hamburg . He left university without a degree. In 1994 Kreymeier did an internship at OK Radio , and two years later at Cinema magazine . He then worked for Interactive Media, a subsidiary of Axel Springer Verlag , in the teletext editorial team for Sat.1 and in 1998 did an internship at the station's Hamburg regional magazine. After the termination for operational reasons, Kreymeier occasionally worked as a freelancer for the publishing subsidiary AS Content . In autumn 2002 he worked on a freelance basis on Bild-TV , a video production of the Axel-Springer-Verlag in cooperation with Spiegel TV , and from the beginning of 2003 he was an editor for a few months. At around the same time, Kreymeier acquired the fernsehkritik.tv domain , under which he initially only published texts and images. Between 2007 and 2018 he ran the online magazine program Fernsehkritik-TV , in which he took a critical look at German television .

In the early days of television criticism, Kreymeier was still working as a freelance journalist, among other things for subtitling for the hearing impaired at Norddeutscher Rundfunk . Through his activities, Kreymeier said he had internal insights into the public broadcaster and the misguided use of license fees. Based on this experience, Kreymeier started the “I don't pay for that” campaign in mid-February 2009, which, as a parody of the GEZ's advertising, criticized the handling of license fees by public broadcasters. She accused the broadcasters of a steadily decreasing quality of the program - the broadcasters no longer oriented themselves towards their educational mandate, but instead aimed for the highest possible audience rating . The GEZ compared Kreymeier with the Stasi . The centerpiece of the campaign was a cinema spot that could be seen in a small number of cinemas in large cities and through which Kreymeier and his program received increased attention. After the publication and broadcast of this commercial, the collaboration between NDR and Kreymeier ended. Due to opposing statements by the parties, it is not known whether this was done at the request of the NDR or whether it was Kreymeier's free decision.

The Frankfurter Rundschau described Kreymeier as a "complainer on duty" who "lives from nagging" and "doesn't have a good hair [on his victims]".

In 2011 Kreymeier received the German Web Video Award in the "Personality" category.

Kreymeier is the managing director of the media company Alsterfilm. In June 2013 he opened a studio in Hamburg and founded the online portal Massengeschmack-TV , on which various magazines are published - including TV criticism TV (until September 2018), the successor format Die Mediatheke , the film magazine Pantoffelkino and Der ComicTalk mit Hella out of your mind .

Several legal disputes attracted attention, including a. with Katharina Saalfrank and RTL . Critics accuse Kreymeier of instrumentalizing the numerous processes, some of which are financed by the community through donations, for self-presentation. In 2011, for example, Kreymeier had his community discuss and vote on whether he should pay an imposed fine or rather take legal custody. A few days later, he decided to pay the fine and launched an appeal for donations on the website.

The industry service DWDL criticizes Kreymeier's “self-portrayal” as “a lonely fighter against the great”, whereby he “sometimes uses a mallet rather than analysis”.

Another project by Kreymeier is the series Dubious Calls for Kay-Uwe Meyer , in which Kreymeier takes calls from fraudulent call centers under a false name . The recorded conversations were published as YouTube videos. Ten episodes have appeared so far.

Works

  • 2000: Showtime . Books on Demand, ISBN 3-89811-276-4 (2nd edition 2019)
  • 2004: German TV scandals. A polemical non-fiction book . Kritischer Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 3-9810011-0-9 .
  • 2017: Switch off again! A television critic between web video and madness . Alsterfilm, Hamburg, ISBN 3-00-057720-3 .

Web links

Commons : Holger Kreymeier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silke Mertins: Leaflets against "gay ticker". In: The daily newspaper. March 4, 1996. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ Daniel Hoffmann: TV Criticism TV - Methodology and Formation of Judgments of an Online Magazine in Comparison to Classical TV Criticism (seminar paper). (PDF) 2010, accessed on July 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Holger Kreymeier: Switch off again! A television critic between web video and madness . Alsterfilm, Hamburg, ISBN 3-00-057720-3 , p. 28 .
  4. ↑ Holger Kreymeier: Switch off again! A television critic between web video and madness . 1st edition. Alsterfilm, Hamburg, ISBN 3-00-057720-3 , p. 30-31 .
  5. ↑ Holger Kreymeier: Switch off again! A television critic between web video and madness . 1st edition. Alsterfilm, Hamburg, ISBN 3-00-057720-3 , p. 34-35 .
  6. ↑ Holger Kreymeier: Switch off again! A television critic between web video and madness . 1st edition. Alsterfilm, Hamburg, ISBN 3-00-057720-3 , p. 38-39, 50 .
  7. ↑ Handelsblatt TV expert on "Wetten, dass ..?", "The Saturday evening show will die"
  8. ↑ Holger Kreymeier: Switch off again! A television critic between web video and madness . 1st edition. Alsterfilm, Hamburg, ISBN 3-00-057720-3 , p. 74 .
  9. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: "I don't pay for that"
  10. ↑ Ernst Corinth: I don't pay for that . In: Telepolis. March 2, 2009. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
  11. ↑ a b Simon Hurtz: The complainer on duty. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. November 26, 2011, accessed April 3, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Peter Muehlbauer : We don't pay for that. In: Telepolis. Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, March 4, 2009, accessed on December 23, 2012 .
  13. ^ NDR on the alleged dismissal of Holger Kreymeier . Presseportal.de, March 4, 2009. Accessed December 23, 2012.
  14. ↑ Christoph Cadenbach: Posse about GEZ parody: Mr. Heidenreich from NDR. In: SPIEGEL Online. March 4, 2009, accessed December 23, 2012 .
  15. ↑ Entry by Holger Kreymeier at the German Web Video Prize ( Memento from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Focus: Alsterfilm on new paths: Internet should offer better television
  17. ↑ Die Welt: "Super Nanny" takes bloggers to court
  18. ↑ Die Welt: “Scheiß RTL” T-shirts remain banned
  19. ↑ DWDL.de: RTL warns of doing business from fernsehkritik.tv
  20. ↑ fernsehkritik.tv Community: Discussion and blog entry on detention
  21. ↑ fernsehkritik.tv blog: I'll pay now! ( Memento from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ↑ RTL warns of doing business from fernsehkritik.tv
  23. ↑ Kay Uwe Meyer - YouTube. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kreymeier, Holger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreymeier, Holger Volker (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and media entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg