Hubert Seipel

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Hubert Seipel, 2014

Hubert Seipel (* 1950 in Wasserlos ) is a German journalist and documentary filmmaker .

Life

Hubert Seipel studied politics and history at the Philipps University in Marburg , as well as political science at the London School of Economics . He worked for the Hessischer Rundfunk . Among other things, he worked as a foreign correspondent for Stern and Spiegel . In 1985 he published a non-fiction book about the Flick affair and the tax investigator Klaus Förster , who uncovered the party donation scandal.

Journalistic activity

Since 1991 he has been working in investigative journalism for television stations. So he documented in a co-production between NDR and WDR , entitled The Power, greed and megalomania: How the billionaire Ferdinand Piech and the blacksmith Klaus Volkert VW dominated the VW corruption scandal and portrayed the Russian gas company Gazprom . In greed and megalomania , he pursued the affair surrounding the banking holding company Hypo Real Estate . In 2011 and 2012, Hubert Seipel became the first Western journalist to accompany Russian President Vladimir Putin for months. ARD broadcast the documentary “Ich Putin - a portrait” on the Russian presidential election 2012. He also conducted the world's first television interview with Edward Snowden after the Snowden Leaks , which ARD broadcast excerpts on January 26, 2014.

He also conducted a detailed interview with Putin on November 14, 2014 in Vladivostok, which the ARD talk show Günther Jauch broadcast on November 16, 2014. The interview received very controversial comments. Criticisms range from the highest praise for Seipel's reticent conversation and the subsequent analysis by the Jauch round (“Sternstunde des Erste” in Handelsblatt correspondent Hans-Peter Siebenhaar ) to accusations of violating journalistic standards and supporting Russian state propaganda with one-sided conversation have ( focus ). In a mirror conversation about his book Putin. Inside views of power , Hubert Seipel criticized the polemical battle term “Putin understanders” in political debates in 2015. Understanding is the journalistic prerequisite for rationally dealing with different interests - less of preaching as it should be. Russia has an authoritarian system with social conflicts, but the Russians have to solve them themselves, not the West.

honors and awards

Seipel was awarded the German Television Prize in 2006 and the Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize for his documentary And you are out. How investors squeeze out the traditional company Grohe . In 2009 he received the Adolf Grimme Prize in the Information & Culture for Living and Dying Category for Kabul , a documentary co-produced by NDR and WDR in the series die story about the ISAF mission of the German armed forces in Afghanistan . In 2014 Hubert Seipel received the German Television Award in the “Best Information” category for the world's first television interview with Edward Snowden .

Film list

  • China-the new world power (ARD 2019)
  • Heard and nodded. (ARD / NDR 2017)
  • Edward Snowden exclusive - The Interview (ARD / NDR 2014)
  • The Syria Trap - Germany and the War against Assad (ARD 2013)
  • Chaostage - Merkel's fight for the euro (ARD / NDR 2012)
  • Me, Putin - a portrait (ARD, NDR, MDR, rbb, Servus TV 2012)
  • Where is the army marching to? (ARD / NDR 2011)
  • As expensive as possible - the last battle of the nuclear industry (ARD / NDR 2011)
  • The world of Josef Ackermann - How Deutsche Bank is turning the country inside out (WDR / NDR 2010)
  • Greed and megalomania - How politics was ripped off in the bank rescue (WDR TV documentary 2010)
  • Life and Death for Kabul - How Germany Defends Freedom in the Hindu Kush (NDR / WDR 2009) / Adolf Grimme Prize 2009
  • Giant Gazprom - The Germans and their Oil from the East (WDR 2009)
  • Joschka - a career / Fast marching through institutions (ZDF 2008)
  • Power, greed and megalomania - Documentation on the VW corruption scandal (WDR / NDR 2007)
  • And you're out - How investors squeeze the traditional company Grohe (ARD / WDR TV documentary 2006) / Helmut-Schmidt Prize 1st place
  • The poker for the black gold - How speculators drive up the oil price (WDR 2006)
  • Opel is just the beginning of the story (WDR 2005)
  • The Brain: Al Zawahirii - Stations of a Faith Warrior (WDR 2004)
  • The story of the decline of the comrades (WDR 2004)
  • An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - the haggling of the agents (ARD / WDR 2004)
  • Lord, give me patience, but now! The tightrope walk of the super minister Wolfgang Clement (WDR 2004)
  • Operation Blind Flight - The Failure of US Agents (WDR / Arte 2002)
  • In the grip of the red emperors - Tibet occupied for five decades (ZDF 2002)
  • For us or against us the story (WDR 2001)
  • Agent Mauss - the end of the shadow man (ZDF 1999)
  • Chronicle of an announced war (ZDF documentary about the Kosovo war 1999)
  • The fight for water - the stolen Euphrates (ZDF 1998)
  • In the grip of the generals - how the military co-governs in Turkey (ZDF 1998)
  • Blood for Diamonds - Executive outcome (ZDF 1997)
  • Fratricide in the name of Allah (ZDF 1996)
  • The Prophet's Fist (ZDF 1996)
  • A King on the Dump (ZDF 1995)
  • State terror from Tehran (ZDF 1994)

Fonts

  • The man who chased Flick. The story of tax investigator Klaus Förster. Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-570-05884-0 .
  • Putin. Inside views of power. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-455-50303-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Amann: Portrait of a male friendship on Spiegel Online from May 22, 2007.
  2. ↑ Susanne Amann: Behind the scenes of the energy giant . Spiegel Online , February 22, 2009.
  3. ↑ Hendrik Feindt: Expensive Rescue: A documentary about the collapse of Hypo Real Estate. Der Tagesspiegel , March 24, 2010, accessed on December 21, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Markus Brauck, Matthias Schepp: The street boy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 2012 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Snowden exclusive - The Interview ( Memento from January 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on NDR.de; Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  6. ↑ tagesschau.de ( Memento from November 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Putin interview with Kalkül ( Memento from November 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Zapp ( NDR ), accessed on November 20, 2014.
  8. ↑ "That was good for the cause, even if Putin's arguments for a violation of international law by the annexation of the Crimean peninsula are difficult to bear."
  9. ↑ Cuddling course with Putin: This is how the ARD loses any credibility. on Focus.de. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
  10. ↑ Britta Sandberg , Matthias Schepp: SPIEGEL conversation Putin is on cloud nine . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 2015 ( online ).
  11. ^ Schmidt Journalist Prize 2006: Hubert Seipel awarded the Helmut Schmidt bronze bust
  12. ↑ Prize winners. In: deutscher-fernsehpreis.de. Retrieved October 3, 2014 .
  13. ↑ ARD documentary on the NSA affair Spying on is always possible
  14. ↑ ardmediathek.de ( Memento of the original from December 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ardmediathek.de
  15. ↑ ARD.de
  16. ↑ programm.ard.de

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personal data
SURNAME Seipel, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterless