Jens Weinreich

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Jens Weinreich (* 1965 in Haldensleben ) is a German sports journalist . In 2009, his blog received the Grimme Online Award and the Golden Prometheus journalist award . Weinreich deals in particular with politically relevant aspects of sport, more recently especially with the issues of doping and corruption as well as with the sport- political processes in the national and international Olympic committee .

Life

Weinreich passed his Abitur in Magdeburg . After military service in the NVA of the GDR , he completed an internship at the 1986 FDJ -Tageszeitung Junge Welt and studied until 1991 at the section of Journalism of Karl Marx University in Leipzig .

In 1996 he started his journalistic work for the Berliner Zeitung , of which he was Head of Sports from 2002 to 2008. He then worked for Deutschlandfunk for several years . As a result of his critical contributions, Jens Weinreich repeatedly came into conflict with sports officials, athletes and sports editors. Among other things, there were legal disputes with DFB President Theo Zwanziger in 2008 and with speed skater Claudia Pechstein in 2009 . In April 2012, Deutschlandradio ended its cooperation with Weinreich because of alleged disparagement of colleagues.

Today he writes as a freelance journalist for Spiegel and Krautreporter, among others .

Awards

  • In 2016, Weinreich was awarded the Nannen Prize in the “Best Investigative Achievement” category as a member of a SPIEGEL team together with Jörg Schmitt , Rafael Buschmann , Gunther Latsch, Udo Ludwig and Jürgen Dahlkamp . The work was honored for the article Summer, Sun, Black Money , which appeared in October 2015. He discussed the presumably bought award of the 2006 soccer World Cup, which led to the resignation of DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach.

Fonts

  • Olympic Informator '92: Albertville, Barcelona , together with Volker Kluge , sports publisher. Berlin. 1991. ISBN 3-328-00489-0
  • Muscle games. A swan song for the Olympics , together with Thomas Kistner , Rowohlt Berlin. Berlin. 1998. ISBN 3-87134-247-5
  • The billion game. Football, money and media , together with Thomas Kistner, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. Frankfurt am Main. 1998. ISBN 3-596-13810-8
  • The Olympic swamp. The machinations of the IOC , together with Thomas Kistner, Piper Verlag. Munich, Zurich. 2000. ISBN 3-492-04249-X - French edition: Les seigneurs des anneaux . Golias. Villeurbanne. 2001. ISBN 2-914475-20-9
  • Operation 2012. Leipzig's German Olympic trip , together with Grit Hartmann and Cornelia Tomerius , Forum Verlag Leipzig. Leipzig. 2004. ISBN 3-931801-32-2
  • Corruption in Sports. Mafia dribbling, organized silence , as editor, Forum Verlag Leipzig. Leipzig. 2006. ISBN 978-3-931801-21-2
  • Power, money, puppets . Sport and Politics Edition. 2014. (self-published by Jens Weinreich)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad Lischka: Dispute over the twenties comment: How bloggers exposed the DFB . In: Spiegel online. November 24, 2008. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
  2. ↑ Jens Weinreich: Pechstein judgment: 63 pages, two years, a loser . In: Spiegel online. November 25, 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ Birgit Wentzien : On our own behalf . In: Deutschlandradio , August 10, 2012, accessed on August 12, 2012.
  4. ^ Jens Weinreich: # London2012 (XXIX): #openFriedrich and other transparency allergy sufferers: why Deutschlandradio banned me from working . Private blog. August 10, 2012. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
  5. ↑ Article by Jens Weinreich at Krautreporter. In: Krautreporter. Retrieved October 16, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Weinreich, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Haldensleben