Jürgen Bertram

Jürgen Bertram (* 1940 ) is a German journalist and author.

For around 40 years, until his retirement in May 2000, Bertram worked for the German Press Agency , Der Spiegel magazine and several daily newspapers, among others . Of his 30 years as a journalist for ARD, he worked 13 years in Asia ( Singapore and Beijing ) as a foreign correspondent . For the last five years, Bertram headed the current affairs department at NDR (1995–2000).

Bertram published several books and produced the film Die Helden von Bern for NDR in the mid-1970s .

A controversial discussion arose about Jürgen Bertram through his book Mattscheibe - Das Ende der Fernsehkultur . In it, he describes in retrospect how mechanisms for surreptitious advertising , tabloidization and corruption , a lack of socio-critical reflection and the loss of quality standards of the television stations in the public broadcasters could arise.

Publications

• The China Trap - Ripped off in the Middle Kingdom (2009) ISBN 978-3-596-18314-2
• Screen - The End of Television Culture (2006) ISBN 3-596-16393-5
• The drama of Brettheim - A village history at the end of the Second World War (2005) ISBN 3-596-16534-2
• The Heroes of Bern - A German Story (2004) ISBN 3-502-18091-1
• The story hunter - a story-telling novel from the world of television news (2004) ISBN 3-596-16196-7
• My Australia - Encounter with the Fifth Continent (2002) ISBN 3-8025-2767-4
• Asia, breathless - As a correspondent in a strange world (1996) ISBN 3891365896
• Longing for Australia - From the adventure of emigration (2009) ISBN 978-3-940731-19-7 (together with Helga Bertram)
• Torch Scream - Confessions of a Football Addict (2011) ISBN 978-3-940731-62-3

See also

• Hugh Greene
• Muckraker
• Investigative journalism
• Whistleblower

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Bertram in the catalog of the German National Library
• German Muslims respond to the Spiegel article "Das Model Gottes" (about Sabatina James) : Jürgen Bertram discusses an article by Matthias Matussek (SPIEGEL 51/2011) in a private TV program of the Islam Ahmadiyya community; Youtube winter 2012