Catholic School of Journalism ifp

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The Catholic School of Journalism ifp is the journalism school of the Catholic Church in Germany. In 1968 the institute for the promotion of young journalists was founded. There are training courses for students , for volunteers in the Catholic media and volunteers at daily newspapers, as well as seminars for theologians and for German-speaking journalists from Central and Eastern Europe. The location has been in the former Capuchin monastery of St. Anton in the Isarvorstadt in Munich since 2008 . The seminar rooms, lounges and 24 single rooms for the participants are housed in the former monastery building.

ifp in the Capuchin Monastery of St.Anton
Courtyard of the journalism school

history

background

The first considerations of the Catholic Church in Germany to become active in the training and further education of journalists were made relatively early on. In the spring of 1962, the Freiburg cathedral priest Karl Becker had drafted a concept for a “Catholic Institute for Journalism”. Another concept comes from Hans Suttner in 1965. Together with a few young university graduates, he wrote the book “Catholic Press in Germany. Instead of another criticism: a concrete proposal ”. The concrete idea of ​​founding a Catholic institute for the training of journalists was also developed during this time by the then editor of the magazine Voices of the Time , the Jesuit father Wolfgang Seibel .

The establishment of the institute is to be seen in the context of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965. The changes in the context of the reform and renewal thought also affected the attitude of the Church to the media, which was laid down in the Council document Inter Mirifica in 1963 and in the pastoral instruction Communio et Progressio in 1971 . Against this background, there were a number of innovations in the media sector in Germany. In 1968 the German bishops founded the weekly Publik , which stood for new beginnings and dialogue, but which was discontinued as a donor in 1971 after quarrels with the German Bishops' Conference.

Foundation and goal setting

Following the cessation of the public , the plans for a church institution for journalist training were made in 1968 with the establishment of the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists. V. ( ifp ) specified. Its co-founder and first director, Wolfgang Seibel, was a reporter for the Catholic News Agency at the sessions of the Vatican and contributed his theological expertise and his journalistic competence as editor-in-chief of Voices of the Time. The Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists was founded in a formal act on October 11, 1968 in Munich.

At the opening, the chairman of the German Bishops' Conference Julius Cardinal Döpfner said in a letter in 1970:

"The institute has the chance to dismantle the traditional job description of the dependent Catholic journalist and to give him a new character that meets the needs of our time."

The ifp's first holiday academy took place in the summer of 1970 for 24 scholarship holders on Domberg in Freising. Speakers were u. a. well-known journalists such as Kurt Wessel , Hannes Burger , Hans Heigert and the Jesuits Walter Kern , Oswald von Nell-Breuning and Karl Rahner . In the first two decades, the institute's training courses took place at various locations in Germany, Austria and Italy. From 1986 to 2008 ifp had the "Studio Ludwigshafen" at its disposal for training and further education activities in the radio and television sector. The journalism school took over the studio including the technical equipment from the Association of Dioceses of Germany (VDD) after the completion of the cable pilot project in Ludwigshafen. In 2008 the TV and radio studio was set up in Munich. The office was always based in Munich. In 2008 ifp moved into its new domicile in the former St. Anton Capuchin monastery in Munich. At the inauguration, the chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Karl Cardinal Lehmann, said:

“ Ifp is open to the world with all its diversity of human existence and it offers a center of strength in concentrating on an activity that is based on consciously lived values, especially the Christian faith in God and his witness to the world . "

The aim of the institute was and is the training and further education of journalists in the church and non-church area. For the 10th anniversary of the institute, the media bishop Georg Moser, who was responsible for the ifp on the part of the German Bishops' Conference at that time, defined the objectives of the Catholic journalism school:

“The aim is to train journalists who understand their craft above all else, who can research, analyze, distinguish between the important and the unimportant, and master the journalistic forms as completely as possible. However, those trained in the institute should also be aware of the responsibility that this particular profession imposes on them. [...] They should never allow themselves to be misused into abusing the media, which they can undoubtedly dispose of in a privileged position. "

organization

Sponsorship

The sponsor is the private church association Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists. V. The institution is financed by the Catholic Bishops' Conference . The association decides on the budget and elects a supervisory board. The Supervisory Board is responsible for appointing and dismissing the Board of Management. Claudia Nothelle has been the chairman of the supervisory board since 2010 .

Media bishops responsible for ifp :

Management structure

At the beginning, the institute was run solely by a clergyman sent by the church, who acted as director. A managing director stood by his side until 2009. Since 2010, the facility has been run by a dual leadership, a journalist and a clerical director. According to the statutes, both directors must be confirmed in writing by the bishops' conference after their election by the supervisory board. Through this division of labor, the Catholic Church secures its influence in the ifp:

“The duties of the spiritual director are pastoral care for employees and trainees, responsibility for the spiritual offer, taking care of the consideration of the topics of religion, ethics and personal development in training, networking and cooperation in the church sector, conveying the Catholic profile and theological training. The journalistic director is specifically responsible for leading the training of scholarship holders and volunteers as well as for open training and further education, teaching in Munich, the organization and management of the office as well as advertising and the public. "

Church leadership

Secular leadership

  • 1969–1985: Wilfried Schwedler
  • 1986–2002: Anton Magnus Dorn
  • 2002–2010: Elvira Steppacher
  • since 2013: Bernhard Remmers

education

One of two PC training rooms, 2016
Moderation training in the tv studio
Radio and television studio
Space for prayer and contemplation
Terrace in front of the dining room

The ifp offers training for beginners and advanced students, for students who are just starting their studies, for volunteers in editorial offices, further training for journalists in the profession, special courses for theologians, as well as regular international programs for German-speaking journalists from Central and Eastern Europe. A special offer are the four-day journalist trips to the capitals of Central and Eastern Europe, where younger graduates visit editorial offices and meet representatives from politics, media, church, culture and society. For teaching and training purposes, ifp has two PC work rooms and a TV and radio studio. In addition, the Catholic School of Journalism cooperates with newspapers in Munich, including the Süddeutsche Zeitung , which occasionally opens its pages for articles and key topics created together with ifp . When asked by the Süddeutsche Zeitung about what the future journalists in the Catholic School of Journalism would be taught, the journalistic director of the school, Bernhard Remmers, replied:

“In the Catholic journalism school ifp, reporting is just one of many possible forms of representation. In most cases, the theses are multimedia projects with a mix of texts, photos, videos and infographics. Such projects can only be developed in a team. There is little space for star reporters. Even more important: at ifp we understand journalism as a craft. Elite thinking only disturbs. "

Journalist training accompanying the course

In the first few years after the establishment of ifp , the focus was on training parallel to studying at a university. The founders of the institute wanted to give young women and men a start in professional practice with this course-accompanying journalism training and offer them an alternative to studying journalism. In intensive seminars, the scholarship holders learn about journalistic forms of expression, such as the difference between news, reportage and commentary. Lecturers are journalists, authors and media professionals from all areas. The training is multimedia, it includes print, radio, television and online and it takes place during the semester break. Linked to these intensive courses are internships of several months at newspapers, news agencies, online media and radio stations. Every year, 15 students receive a scholarship for the journalistic undergraduate course. Prerequisites are university entrance qualification, not older than 28 years, enrolled in a German university, at the time of application in the fourth semester at the most, and an interest in religious and social issues.

Volunteer training in the Catholic press

Since 1978 ifp has offered around 15 volunteer positions in the Catholic press. Training centers are editorial offices in Germany. The training is coupled with inter-company seminars and internships lasting several weeks, in which the basics of print, radio, television and online journalism are to be imparted.

Courses for volunteers at daily newspapers

Courses for volunteers at daily newspapers take place four times a year at ifp . They are two-week basic courses that build on each other to introduce the journalist profession. In addition, ifp offers two-week advanced courses for trainees in the training year. This is inter-company training within the framework of the collective agreement applicable to daily newspaper volunteers.

Media training for theologians

Since 1988, full-time church employees such as priests, religious and pastoral officers as well as scientific employees have been included in the ifp's training program. The course program for them includes four one-week seminars in the areas of press, radio, television and public relations.

Volunteer training in private radio

Another offer is for volunteers whose editorial offices create articles on church topics for private radio stations. The radio volunteers will be trained as editors in two years. The ifp offers inter-company seminars and internships lasting several weeks. These serve to deepen the training and to impart knowledge in television and online journalism.

further education

Compact courses and seminars

For aspiring and standing already working journalist offers ifp various training opportunities. This ranges from compact television courses to advanced training seminars in the press, radio, television, online / cross-media sector to training and further education in multimedia forms of presentation, video journalism or the creation of texts for the Internet, but also imparting knowledge about the change in the media world and about trends and online strategies of classic media.

East courses

Every summer since 1993, a three-week training seminar for German-speaking journalists from Central and Eastern Europe has been held at ifp . In these so-called Eastern courses, journalistic knowledge in print and radio journalism is imparted.

Journalist trips to Central and Eastern Europe

For younger graduates and trainees, ifp has been offering four-day journalist trips to the capitals of Central and Eastern Europe every year since 2006. In the past, these trips led to Bratislava (Slovakia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Prague (Czech Republic), Warsaw (Poland), Budapest (Hungary), Zagreb (Croatia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) , Riga (Latvia), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Bucharest (Romania), Prishtina (Kosovo) and most recently to Lviv (Ukraine).

Discussion events

The program of the ifp also lectures and discussions on media policy issues are. Every year at the end of January, the ifp and the Görres Society for the Care of Science commemorate the Catholic publicist and founder of the Rheinischer Merkurs , Joseph Görres (1776–1848) with an evening of lectures . The editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper “ Die Zeit ”, Giovanni di Lorenzo , dealt with criticism of the media on January 29, 2016 under the title “Against the accusation of the lying press: What could be media ethics today”.

Graduates

Below is a selection of well-known graduates:

Friends of the ifp (Fifp)

The Friends of the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists e. V. (Fifp) was founded by graduates. He has been awarding the Pater Wolfgang Seibel Prize for young journalists since 2004 . The journalist prize is awarded in two categories (“print”, “radio / television”). The chairperson is Anne Reidt, the head of the main editorial department for culture at ZDF in Mainz.

criticism

Under pressure from the German Bishops' Conference, Pastor Michael Broch resigned from his position as Spiritual Director of the ifp on August 15, 2010 . The occasion was a newspaper interview by Broch with critical remarks about the Pope and the Church. Media representatives saw this as a “muzzle” for the ifp and feared that the journalism school would be “quickly converted into a Catholic cadre forge”.

literature

  • Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists, German Press Council (Hrsg.): Ethics in everyday editorial work (= practical journalism. Volume 63). UVK-Verl.-Ges., Konstanz 2005, ISBN 3-89669-469-3 .
  • Anton Magnus Dorn , Gerhard Eberts (Hrsg.): Editorial manual for the Catholic Church. For reference and reprinting. Published on behalf of the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists in cooperation with the KNA and the MDG. List, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-471-79322-4 .
  • Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists V. (Ed.): How do I become a journalist? Pattloch, Augsburg 1993, ISBN 3-629-02002-X .
  • Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (Ed.): Looking for the truth in open dialogue. Farewell to Father Dr. Wolfgang Seibel SJ as head of the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists e. V. Munich 1992.
  • Dietrich Schwarzkopf: A necessary reminder of the obvious. What education and training in broadcasting should achieve. Published by the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists, Munich 1988.
  • Anton Magnus Dorn: Journalistic education and training of the Catholic Church in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Communicatio Socialis . Volume 18, issue 1/1985, pp. 46-52.
  • Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (Ed.): 15 years Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists. Munich 1984.
  • Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (Ed.): Helping to talk. Eight essays. Munich 1979.
  • Karl Rüdiger Durth: Practical newspaper teaching. Published by the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists, Munich 1974.

Web links

Commons : Catholic School of Journalism ifp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Father Roger Gerhardy in an interview on the ifp new building in Munich in 2007. In: mk-online.de. Retrieved March 16, 2017 .
  2. ^ Cardinal Karl Lehmann: Speech for the inauguration of the new ifp building. In: bistummainz.de. September 15, 2008, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Florian Bock: THE CASE »PUBLIC« . Catholic press in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1968 (= Wilhelm Damberg [Ed.]: Publications of the Commission for Contemporary History Series B. . Band 128 ). Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-76642-7 , pp. 24 ( schoeningh.de [PDF; 134 kB ; accessed on July 24, 2019]).
  4. ^ Johanna Kempter: History and guidelines of the ifp . (PDF; 66 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Communicatio-Socialis. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017 ; accessed on March 13, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (Ed.): How do I become a journalist? Pattloch Verlag, Augsburg 1993, ISBN 3-629-02002-X , p. 178 .
  6. ^ Anton Magnus Dorn: A look back at ten years of Studio Ludwigshafen. In: Communicatio Socialis . 30. Vol., No. 3, 1997, pp. 300-303.
  7. ↑ New ifp location in Munich inaugurated. Press release No. 044. In: dbk.de. German Bishops' Conference, September 15, 2008, accessed on July 24, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (Ed.): 15 years ifp . Self-published, Munich 1984, p. 24 .
  9. ^ Journalistic Commission. In: gkp.de. Retrieved March 14, 2017 .
  10. ^ Johanna Kempter: Diploma thesis, ecclesiastical court reporting or critical journalism? Ed .: Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Eichstätt, S. 80 .
  11. ↑ Radio pastor Michael Broch becomes spiritual director of the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists in Munich. In: drs.de. March 8, 2010, accessed April 4, 2017 .
  12. ^ Jens Schmitz: Freiburg: Domkapitular Sauer goes to the journalist school. In: badische-zeitung.de. April 13, 2011, accessed March 16, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Future clergyman director of the Catholic School of Journalism ifp. In: dbk.de. April 26, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Leaving the Catholic journalism school: Elvira Steppacher is leaving ifp at the end of the year. In: kress.de. September 12, 2011, accessed March 16, 2017 .
  15. ↑ (rub): Bernhard Remmers becomes the new journalistic director of ifp. In: gkp.de. Retrieved March 17, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Multimedia training for budding journalists. In: bistum-fulda.de. January 27, 2014, accessed March 16, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Luisa Gruber u. a .: Lindwurmstrasse. 2400 meters of stories. SZ.de, May 7, 2018, accessed May 7, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Bernhard Remmers: There is little space for star reporters. In: SZ.de. May 29, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Hans Herbst: In the care of a Jesuit. How the Catholic Church endeavors to attract young journalists. (No longer available online.) In: zeit.de. June 20, 1980, archived from the original on April 9, 2017 ; Retrieved April 8, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Speakers at the journalism school. In: journalistenschule-ifp.de. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Marcus Nicolini: Bottleneck for journalistic career entry. Good chances for scholarship holders of the institute for the promotion of young journalists. In: Communicatio Socialis. 38th vol., No. 2, 2005, pp. 198-212.
  22. ↑ Andreas Müller, Sarah Stoffel, Madeleine Siegler: The volunteer training at ifp. Survey your participants. In: Communicatio Socialis. Vol. 44, No. 3, 2011, pp. 296-314.
  23. ↑ Bernhard Rude: Getting fit for everyday editorial work. 15-year collective training agreement for daily newspaper volunteers. In: Communicatio Socialis. 38th vol., No. 3, 2005, pp. 213-222.
  24. ↑ Bernhard Rude: The Ostkurse of ifp in Munich - a contribution to free media. A series of seminars for German-speaking journalists from Central and Eastern Europe. In: Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (Hrsg.): Promotion of democracy through journalist training in Southeast Europe (= contributions to university policy. 6/2009). Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-938738-67-2 , pp. 158-170.
  25. ↑ Bernhard Rude: Vzdelávacie shorty pre nemecky hovoriacich novinárov zo strednej a vychodnej Európy a rozvoj slobodnych médií. In: Katolícke noviny v Spolku sv. Vojtecha (Ed.): 160 rokov sme vasím svetlom. Zborník prednások z Medzinárodnej vedeckej konferencie o histórii a súcasnosti Katolíckych novín. Katolícke noviny, Trnava 2010, ISBN 978-80-7162-822-4 , pp. 90-100.
  26. ^ Henning Martin Schoon: Görres evening with Giovanni di Lorenzo. In: journalistenschule-ifp.de, accessed on March 16, 2017.
  27. ↑ ifp graduates (selection). In: journalistenschule-ifp.de. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Kurt Sagatz: Germany radio boss Willi Steul is retiring. In: tagesspiegel.de. August 31, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2017 .
  29. ↑ Pastor Michael Broch gives up new office. (No longer available online.) In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. August 14, 2010, archived from the original on April 4, 2017 ; Retrieved April 4, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Harald Biskup: The worldview beats the professional level. Resignation. Bishops muzzle Catholic journalism school. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. 21./22. August 2010, p. 26.

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