Jasper von Altenbockum

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Jasper von Altenbockum (born February 11, 1962 in Schwäbisch Hall ) is a German journalist and editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Life

Jasper von Altenbockum, (editorial abbreviation cum.) Comes from a lineage of the noble Altenbockum family , which is connected to the Baltic States . He grew up in Nassau an der Lahn and Schorndorf in the Rems Valley. After high school and military service, he studied history and German in Tübingen, Berlin and Münster. In 1986 he received a Masters of Arts degree in Politics , History and Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis . He then received his doctorate from the University of Münster with a biography of Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl .

During his studies he was already writing articles for newspapers in Reutlingen, Waiblingen and Schwäbisch Gmünd as a freelancer . In 1989 he joined the political editors of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1994 to 1996 he worked as a correspondent for Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . He later traveled to northern Europe and reported on Scandinavia and the Baltic countries. From 2001 to May 2011 he was responsible for political news at the Frankfurt headquarters, since then he has been head of the domestic affairs department .

Jasper von Altenbockum lives near Frankfurt, is married and has three children.

Viewpoints and reception

After the former national soccer player Thomas Hitzlsperger had revealed his homosexuality in 2014 , von Altenbockum wrote a comment in which he described the resulting debate as the “Rocky Horror Hitzlsperger Show” and described criticism of homophobia in Germany as completely exaggerated. The comment concluded with the words “It shouldn't come to the point where it takes courage to say:» I'm heterosexual, and that's a good thing. «” The comment was written by Leo Fischer in the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland and by Georg Diez in the column SPON - The Critic taken up critically.

Von Altenbockum came under fire in June 2019 when he distributed a video on Twitter of a YouTube channel that was considered Islamist and homophobic. In the video, conspiracy theories are spread about the YouTuber Rezo , which among other things deal with his independence. Von Altenbockum provided his tweet with an allegation to YouTuber Rezo that he was doing advertising for the advertising group Ströer . After massive criticism, von Altenbockum deleted the tweet and apologized for the "ambiguous wording".

Fonts

  • Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl. Social science between cultural history and ethnography , Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 1994, ISBN 978-3-412-09293-1 (dissertation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - The editors: Jasper von Altenbockum
  2. ↑ The Rocky Horror Hitzlsperger Show . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 9, 2014. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
  3. ↑ Sex conductor . In: Neues Deutschland , January 10, 2014. Accessed January 10, 2014.
  4. ↑ Hitzlsperger's Outing: Fear of immoral contact . In: Spiegel-Online , January 10, 2014. Accessed January 10, 2014.
  5. ↑ FAZ head of domestic affairs destroys himself in the fight against Rezo . In: uebermedien.de , June 11, 2019. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
  6. ↑ German minister spread right-wing conspiracy theory about Youtuber Rezo . In: derStandard.de , June 13, 2019. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Altenbockum, Jasper from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Hall