Jürgen Schreiber (journalist)

Jürgen Schreiber (born January 30, 1947 in Heilbronn ) is a German reporter and investigative journalist .

life and work

Schreiber has been a reporter for over 30 years. During this time he mainly worked for the Stuttgarter Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau . He was also represented as an author several times in the magazines GEO , Sports , Merian and Zeit-Magazin . In addition, he was one of the founding members of the now discontinued weekly newspaper Die Woche . As a reporter, he was also part of the SZ magazine . He has been working for the Berliner Tagesspiegel since 1999 and was its chief reporter from 2001 to 2007. In connection with the Gäfgen case , he uncovered the threat of torture against the then accused Magnus Gäfgen .

In 2005 Schreiber published the book Ein Maler aus Deutschland , which uncovered the family drama of the internationally known German painter Gerhard Richter . Schreiber revealed that Richter's aunt Marianne Schönfelder, painted in a famous portrait of Tante Marianne, was not only killed by Nazi doctors, but that his own father-in-law, Prof. Dr. Heinrich Eufinger , (without the knowledge of Gerhard Richter), as Obersturmbannführer of the SS, played a decisive role in the sterilization of the mentally handicapped.

A book about the years together with Joschka Fischer in Frankfurt was published at the beginning of September 2007. His 2009 book about Monika Ertl received mixed reviews.

Prizes and awards

• 1981: German Prize for Monument Protection  : Journalist Prize
• In 2002 and 2004 he was awarded the Wächter Prize of the German press.
• 1992: he received the Theodor Wolff Prize .

Works (selection)

• A painter from Germany. Gerhard Richter - The drama of a family . Pendo Verlag , Munich / Zurich 2005. ISBN 3-86612-058-3
• My years with Joschka. News of fat and lean times , Econ, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-430-30033-9
• She died like Che Guevara. The story of Monika Ertl. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-538-07274-9
• The Stasi is alive: reports from an infiltrated country. Droemer / Knaur, Munich 2009, ISBN 3-426-78251-0

literature

• Stefan Koldehoff : work of art, document, epitaph . (Review on Jürgen Schreiber: A painter from Germany, 2005). In: Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich), June 21, 2006, p. 11.
• Burkhard Müller : The gray tones of the flower meadow. Investigative consideration of art: Jürgen Schreiber reads Gerhard Richter's family pictures like a political detective novel . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 18, 2005, p. V3 / 22.
• Sebastian Preuss: The painter, the victim and the perpetrator. Jürgen Schreiber finds the secrets of a German family history in Gerhard Richter's early pictures . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 18, 2005, p. 26.
• Ernst Hohenthal: A family secret in the public domain. New revelations about Gerhard Richter's Herr Heyde . In: Christies's Magazine Vol. XXIII. No. November 5, 2006, New York and London, ISSN  0266-1217 .
• Eduard Beaucamp : Like a requiem from the end of a humane world. Breathless tension: Jürgen Schreiber's brilliant biography of the painter Gerhard Richter . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from October 19, 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Schreiber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jürgen Schreiber at perlentaucher.de
• The secret of the painter Gerhard Richter was firstrevealedby Jürgen Schreiber in the Berliner Tagesspiegel .

Remarks

1. ↑ See also: voluntary disclosure
2. ↑ For example, very negative: Erich Hackl: Guilty on all points - review of you died like Che Guevara. In: “Die Wochenzeitung”, June 18, 2009.