Jens Jessen (journalist)

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Jens Jessen, in 2012 as laudator at the presentation of the Ludwig Börne Prize to Götz Aly

Jens Jessen (born August 2, 1955 in Berlin ) is a German journalist and publicist .

Life

Jens Jessen attended the Arndt-Gymnasium Dahlem , studied German and art history at the Free University of Berlin and with Friedrich Sengle at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich . From 1984 to 1988 he was a publisher's editor in Stuttgart and Zurich , features editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 1988 to 1996 and features editor of the Berliner Zeitung from 1996 to 1999. From 2000 to 2014, Jessen was head of the features section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . His work focuses on literary criticism , film criticism and Political features section .

In 1995 Hellmuth Karasek certified him with a "merciless eye for the absurdity of contemporaneity and the necessary education to classify it."

On the occasion of a debate about juvenile and foreigner crime after the beating attack in the Munich subway in 2007 , Jessen asked in a video blog on the website of the time at the beginning of 2008, “whether there aren't too many know-it-all German pensioners who kill foreigners here Make hell ”. He provoked a broad, sometimes highly aggressive argument in the blogosphere , which entered the specialist literature as an example of the fact that communicators and recipients can no longer be separated and that agenda setting is not a privilege of professional journalism. Henryk M. Broder and Cora Stephan accused him of ascribing complicity to the victim. Journalists from the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the daily newspaper and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung defended Jessen against the attacks and criticized the “wave of mud [on the Internet] over him pours ". Jessen insisted that Germany had a philistine problem, but stated that he did not want to justify violence.

In 2017, Jessen spoke out in favor of closing Hamburg's Rote Flora because violence is being prepared, justified, legally defended and organized there.

He expressed himself critical of the #metoo debate in an article entitled "The threatened man" in 2018. It is no longer about equality, but about the triumph of "totalitarian feminism ". He cited a statement by the writer Mirna Funk as evidence of "openly displayed hostility" towards men that had become fashionable . In an interview in 2017, she said that one had to "found a feminist terror group to get the old white men out of the way."

family

Jens Jessen is a grandson of the National Socialist economics professor and later resistance fighter against the Hitler regime Jens Jessen , who was executed in connection with the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 . He is also a nephew of the computer science professor Eike Jessen .

Publications

as an author
  • In the wrong bed. Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 9783446239791
  • German lies in life. Exploring an unconscious society. Hohenheim publishing house, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-89850-014-4 .
as editor

literature

  • Patrick Bahners : Not a servant of the quota. To the journalist Jens Jessen on the sixtieth , in: FAZ , August 1, 2015, p. 14

Web links

Commons : Jens Jessen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the death of Frank Schirrmacher: Der Erregungstechniker , June 13, 2014, Jessen says he is no longer head of the arts section
  2. ↑ Hellmuth Karasek : The bottom line . In: Spiegel Special 1/1995 "Die Journalisten" . Spiegel-Verlag ( spiegel.de ).
  3. ↑ Reinhard Mohr: Debate about youth violence: Let off steam like the Hessian. In: Spiegel Online . January 18, 2008, accessed December 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Beatrice Dernbach, Thorsten Quandt, Specialization in Journalism , Springer-Verlag 2009, p. 60
  5. ^ Henryk M. Broder: Bildungsbürger als Bla-Bla-Blockwarte. In: Der Spiegel . January 19, 2008, accessed December 8, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Cora Stephan: The best argument wins - Politisches Feuilleton. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur. February 6, 2008, accessed December 8, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Ruth Schneeberger: When they let go. Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 28, 2011, accessed December 8, 2017 .
  8. ^ Christian Geyer: Disgusting and totalitarian. Frankfurter Allgemeine , January 23, 2008, accessed December 8, 2017 .
  9. ↑ TAZ of January 17, 2008, "Bild" rushes against "Zeit" - column editor
  10. ↑ Scared: Jens Jessen replies to letters from the reader about his video column "Atmosphere of Intolerance" , zeit.de, January 15, 2008
  11. ↑ Jens Jessen on the violence debate: "Centers of autonomous violence are being trivialized" , Deutschlandfunk , July 12, 2017
  12. ↑ Jens Jessen: MeToo debate: The threatened man . In: The time . April 5, 2018, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 1, 2019]).
  13. ↑ [1] , in Harald Czycholl, 100 Years of the Institute for the World Economy , 2014
personal data
SURNAME Jessen, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin