Jochen Bittner

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Jochen Bittner (* 1973 in Frankenberg (Eder) ) is a German journalist , publicist and lawyer . His main topics are European and security policy , terrorism, intelligence services and legal policy.

Life

Bittner studied law and philosophy at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1998 he passed the first state examination in law. In 1999/2000 he was a research assistant at the Kiel Chair for Public Law and Legal Philosophy (Professorship Robert Alexy ). After conducting research in the Northern Irish capital Belfast , he was with a dissertation on the legal system of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to Dr. iur. PhD.

He wrote for the Kieler Nachrichten , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Welt . In 2001 he became an editor in the politics section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . From 2007 to 2011 he was their Europe and NATO correspondent in Brussels, and during this time he coined the term crustacean . Since autumn 2013 he has also been a guest author for The International New York Times .

In 2008 and 2009, Bittner was a participant and reporter at the Brussels Forum , a partner of the German Marshall Fund of the US and the Bertelsmann Foundation . He was a guest and moderator at events of the Körber Foundation and speaker of the European Union .

Publications

In his 2010 book So nicht, Europa! Bittner describes the three big mistakes of the EU from his point of view. Really important concerns are neglected in favor of detailed questions, the necessary consistency in the implementation of fundamental tasks is lacking and the executive has too much weight compared to the democratic basis.

“In short, there are three mistakes. The EU regulates the small too big and the big too small. It regulates the soft too hard and the hard too soft. And it moves too fast at the top and too slow at the bottom. "

- Not like Europe!

Controversies about the institution

Bittner's networking with think tanks and political elites was portrayed satirically on April 29, 2014 by the cabaret show Die Anstalt . Reference was made to a cooperation project between the Science and Politics Foundation and the German Marshall Fund , which from November 2012 to September 2013 developed "Elements of a foreign policy strategy for Germany" with support from the Foreign Office's planning staff. Bittner was involved in the content of the project paper Neue Macht. New responsibility involved. A related disclosure under his time article was initially omitted. This also applies to contributions by Zeit co-editor Josef Joffe . The reference to Bittner's involvement in the project was made after a week under the article Bittner in the time. According to his own statement, Bittner actually took part in a 50-person "discussion group" in 2013, which was supposed to develop a thesis paper on the future German security strategy. “In my opinion, participating in conferences of all kinds and types of organization is part of the daily routine of journalists,” explained Bittner.

Bittner filed a complaint against the statement that he was a member of the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States and that he had also taken part in a speech given by Federal President Gauck to the Munich Security Conference . Bittner and Josef Joffe obtained an injunction against ZDF through the press chamber of the Hamburg Regional Court . Max Uthoff said in an interview: "Together they (Bittner and Josef Joffe) accuse us of having misrepresented facts about their connections in transatlantic lobby associations." The allegations are not false, Uthoff continues, but at best inaccurate. Bittner defends himself against being called a “member” of the transatlantic think tank. In fact, there are no members at the GMF, only "participants", to which it can be proven that it belongs. Bittner contradicted this representation. He relativized the importance of participation: he was only a participant in conferences organized by the GMF.

On October 7, 2014, Meedia reported that the Hamburg Regional Court had partially overturned the injunction. The statement that Bittner had written for the Federal President in connection with the speech by Federal President Gauck at the Munich Security Conference was allowed again. The statement that Bittner was a member, advisory board or board member of the three organizations with which he was associated in Die Anstalt remained forbidden. In its judgment of September 9, 2015, the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg prohibited Jochen Bittner and Josef Joffe from being called a member, advisory board or board member of the transatlantic organizations mentioned in the program, and judged the portrayal of the two journalists as a violation of their personal rights. As a result, the program was temporarily banned from being distributed and the satirists were not allowed to repeat their claims. On January 10, 2017, the Federal Court of Justice rejected this ruling and followed the opinion of the first instance that the satirical presentation of a situation may also contain inaccuracies. The Neue Juristische Wochenschrift referred in this connection to the judgment in the Böhmermann affair , where the satire was allowed at least under criminal law, even allegations drawn out of thin air, up to and including the allegation of sodomy .

Prizes and awards

  • 1993: FAZ's “Youth Writes” Prize
  • 2005: Journalism Prize from the Pons editorial team for creative word creations

Publications

  • with Christian Ludwig Knoll : An imperfect peace. The IRA on the way from myth to mafia . RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-89501-996-8 . (2nd revised and expanded edition 2001)
  • Rough Justice. The judiciary of the IRA. An investigation and documentation on the concept of the legal system (= European university publications . Series 2. Law . Vol. 3530). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-631-39968-5 .
  • Profession terrorist. A diary of the new world disorder . Nordthor-Verlag, Sieverstedt 2006, ISBN 3-00-019490-8 .
  • Not like that, Europe !. The three big mistakes of the EU (= dtv . 24833. Premium ). Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-24833-4 . (updated and expanded new edition 2011)
  • Down to business, Germany! : what unites the divided republic again . Hamburg: Edition Körber, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.koerber-stiftung.de ( Memento from May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Rough Justice - The Justice of the IRA | Bittner | beck-shop.de. In: www.beck-shop.de. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ topics.nytimes.com
  4. ↑ www.gmfus.org ( Memento from May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ trends.gmfus.org ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ www.gmfus.org ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ www.koerber-stiftung.de ( Memento from May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ ZEIT ONLINE GmbH, Hamburg, Germany: Jochen Bittner. In: ZEIT ONLINE. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
  9. ↑ www.dtv.de
  10. ↑ Not Europe like that! , P. 10
  11. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY6-KsduC2U
  12. ↑ www.swp-berlin.org
  13. ↑ www.swp-berlin.org
  14. ↑ Marcus Klöckner and Paul Schreyer: Chaos at Zeit Online: Sometimes the code of ethics applies, sometimes it doesn't. In: Telepolis. March 20, 2014, archived from the original on March 22, 2014 ; Retrieved December 9, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Jochen Bittner and Matthias Nass: The Chancellor must also have the courage to pursue foreign policy. In: zeit.de. May 1, 2014, accessed December 9, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Journalists take action against cabaret show. In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved December 9, 2014 .
  17. ^ Temporary injunction against “Die Anstalt”: Zeit journalists defend themselves against ZDF satire - meedia.de
  18. ↑ Nino Ketschagmadse / central organ Bavaria: Max Uthoff (ZDF / The Ward) v for blocking. "Influence of the elite on leading media" - www.das-zob.de on YouTube
  19. ↑ meedia.de: Report on the preliminary injunction and its partial cancellation (German, accessed on November 13, 2013)
  20. ↑ Hamburg Higher Regional Court decides against ZDF: Cabaret broadcast must be more precise , accessed on October 11, 2015
  21. ↑ Federal Court of Justice, judgment of January 10, 2017, VI ZR 562/15 , and contextual interpretation of statements in satirical contribution - Die Anstalt , NJW 2017, 1617
  22. ↑ Excellent. In: zeit.de. February 3, 2005, accessed December 9, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Bittner, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenberg (Eder)