Jürgen Döschner

Jürgen Döschner (* 1957 in Duisburg ) is a German journalist . Since 1984 he has worked in various functions for West German Broadcasting Corporation (WDR) and ARD . From 2003 to September 2015 he worked in the business editorial department of WDR radio, a. a. as a specialist editor for energy topics. and headed the establishment of the investigative journalism division at WDR radio. Since the end of 2011, Döschner has been the official "energy expert" of ARD radio and works in this position in the chief editor of WDR radio.

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Jürgen Döschner graduated from the Kamp-Lintfort municipal high school in 1978 . He then studied journalism and history at the TU Dortmund until 1983 .

After graduating, Döschner initially worked briefly as a freelance journalist for various media ( DLF , DW , WDR, Ruhr-Nachrichten ) before joining WDR in 1984.

Since then he has been employed in various areas at WDR, including a. until 1989 as a reporter in the regional studio in Kleve, then until 1992 as editor for the WDR-2 midday magazine and from 1997 to 2002 as a correspondent and studio manager at the ARD radio studio in Moscow. From 1992 to 1997 and from 2003 to September 2015 he worked as an editor and reporter in the business department of WDR radio. In addition, from 2013 he headed the development of the “Investigative Journalism” division at WDR radio.

Döschner has made a name for himself above all as a reporter and critical commentator on questions relating to the energy industry. He is an avowed opponent of nuclear power and fracking . Döschner supports the energy transition towards renewable energies.

Repeatedly, Döschner publicly criticized the oil and gas companies and the large electricity suppliers for their pricing policy and for their behavior in the energy transition.

Controversy

In a comment in August 2015, Döschner endorsed a protest action by anti-coal activists in the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine . In it he wrote u. a .: "The protests [...] may not always have been legal, but given the ignorance of money and power and the threat to be fought back, they are perfectly legitimate." This comment sparked violent protests, what Döschner arranged to respond to the allegations in an open letter.

In July 2017, Döschner caused outrage with a tweet when he spoke of the "gassing of tens of thousands of innocent people" in relation to diesel engines, thereby creating an analogy between non-compliance with exhaust gas limits and the Holocaust .

Honors

In 2008 Döschner received the Otto Brenner Prize (2nd prize) for the contribution Fire and Forget - War as a business for the armaments industry and arms trade.

In 2014 Döschner was founded by the non-profit association “European Association for Renewable Energies Eurosolar e. V. ", Eurosolar for short , was awarded the German Solar Prize in the" Special Prize for Personal Commitment "category.

Web links

• Jürgen Döschner on Twitter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jürgen Döschner. Brief portrait of the West ART Talk program . WDR television, January 27, 2015, accessed on August 19, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} The offensive of the investigative . In: Print - The magazine for West German broadcasting . December 2013, p. 34–36 ( download as PDF ).
3. ↑ Jürgen Döschner: Problems of the work of West German correspondents in the GDR . Diploma thesis at the Institute for Journalism at TU Dortmund University. TU Dortmund University, Dortmund 1982.
4. ↑ ^{a b} 2nd prize - Jürgen Döschner. (No longer available online.) Otto Brenner Foundation, 2008, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 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.   
5. ↑ ^{a b} Appreciation to Jürgen Döschner. (No longer available online.) Eurosolar, 2014, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved August 20, 2015 . 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.  
6. ↑ E.ON in future without nuclear, coal and gas: "This is the new energy world". Interview with Jürgen Döschner. In: tagesschau.de. ARD, December 1, 2014, accessed on August 28, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Energy transition: large corporations want to shut down power plants - so what? In: WirtschaftsWoche Green Economy. July 17, 2013, accessed August 28, 2015 . 
8. ↑ What electricity actually costs: Greenpeace study provides surprising figures. Interview with Jürgen Döschner. WDR, January 15, 2015, accessed on August 28, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Jürgen Döschner: RWE action against demonstrators: "Inappropriate and absurd". Comment. In: tagesschau.de. ARD, August 16, 2015, accessed on August 28, 2015 . 
10. ↑ NRW puts pressure on WDR. In: taz.de. September 27, 2015, accessed October 19, 2015 . 
11. ↑ 17. Submission report of the chairmen of the WDR Broadcasting Council for the period from September 2014 to August 2015. WDR Broadcasting Council, September 8, 2015, accessed on October 19, 2015 . 
12. ^ Open letter from Jürgen Döschner: On the reactions to the Garzweiler comment. (No longer available online.) WDR 5, August 26, 2015, archived from the original on October 29, 2015 ; Retrieved October 19, 2015 . 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.  
13. ↑ "Automafia gasses innocent people every year": ARD expert angered Twitter users. Focus Online, July 31, 2017, accessed July 31, 2017 . 
14. ^ German solar prizes awarded in Witten - Climate Protection Minister Johannes Remmel honors WDR editor in Cologne. EnergieAgentur.NRW, October 25, 2014, accessed on August 21, 2015 .