Johann Hari

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Johann Hari (2003)

Johann Hari (born January 21, 1979 in Glasgow ) is a British journalist , writer , columnist and podcaster .

life and work

Early career

Johann Hari grew up in London as the son of a Swiss and a Scottish woman and attended Woodhouse College there. He then studied political and social science at King's College in Cambridge and graduated with honors from both courses (double first) .

As a journalist Hari wrote a long time columnist for the British newspaper The Independent and published also in the Huffington Post , the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , the New Republic , the Nation , the Le Monde , the El País , the Sidney Morning Herald and the Ha'aretz . On BBC Two , he appeared regularly as an art critic, and for the magazine Slate , he wrote book reviews.

In 2009 he was named one of the most influential people on the British left by the Daily Telegraph . For example, on January 28, 2009, he published an article in the Independent warning that religious organizations were increasingly undermining the right to freedom of expression enshrined in the UN Charter of Human Rights . This article was reprinted on February 5, 2009 by the (English-language) Indian daily The Statesman , whereupon the two editors responsible, Ravindra Kumar and Anand Sinha, were brought to trial in Calcutta for "deliberate and malicious acts in violation of religious feelings". His arguments and comments on historical and political events are often adapted and used. For example, on February 5, 2003, Hari commented in the Independent on the looming war in Iraq :

"We should be marching in the streets [...] to secure a guarantee from Blair and Bush that after the conflict we will stay and help its people to build a peaceful, federal, democratic Iraq."

This “moral” line of argument was adopted by the British Prime Minister at the time, Tony Blair , when he remarked at a contentious European summit at the beginning of the war that, despite the differences of opinion, at least everyone could agree on the need for Western “reconstruction” in Iraq , and he demanded the same (like Hari).

Allegations of plagiarism

Cooperation with the British daily The Independent was discontinued in July 2011 after allegations of plagiarism were brought against Hari. As a result, Hari admitted that he used text passages from other interviews as well as from books in interviews and incorporated them into his texts as if these statements had been communicated to him directly. However, he rejected the accusation that he had invented quotations in reports. In the same year it was also revealed that he had acted as a sock puppet on Wikipedia . He then confirmed that he had manipulated Wikipedia articles about critics of his work. As a result of the allegations, Hari gave back the Orwell Prize he had received in 2008.

Later career

In the following years, Hari concentrated on writing books.

His book Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (2015; German drugs: The history of a long war ) received mostly positive reactions . Topics are the history and effects of drug criminalization and the demand for a new drug policy .

His book Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions (2018; German No longer connected to the world. The real causes of depression - and unexpected solutions ) met with divided reactions . The neuroscientist Dean Burnett pointed out that Hari has been presenting things that have been known for decades, such as biopsychosocial medicine, as his own discoveries and that he portrays the medical, psychiatric and scientific establishment as a shadowy, monolithic organization that is close to the drug industry.

Awards (selection)

Publications (selection)

Column posts

  • Ethnic cleansing back on Israel's agenda . German Translated by Ellen Rohlfs on the information portal Middle East Conflict Israel Palestine ; engl. Original version published in: The Independent, London, November 13, 2006 (German translation as PDF file available online ; PDF; 19 kB)
  • We need to stop being such cowards about Islam . In: The Independent, London, 14 August 2008 (in English; available online on the information portal Humanistischer Pressedienst as German translation by Andreas Müller from 19 September 2008 ).
  • Despite the Riots and Threats, I Stand By What I Wrote . In: The Huffington Post, February 12, 2009 ( available online from the online newspaper Huffington Post )

Books

  • God Save the Queen? Monarchy and the Truth about the Windsors . Icon, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 1-84046-401-1 . (English)
  • Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs. Bloomsbury, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-620-408902 .
  • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions . Bloomsbury, London 2018, ISBN 978-1-40887-868-2 .
    • No longer connected to the world. The Real Causes of Depression - and Unexpected Solutions . HarperCollins, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-95967-268-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iain Dale, Brian Brivati: Top 100 most influential Left-wingers: 100-51. telegraph.co.uk, September 27, 2009 (accessed July 30, 2019).
  2. ↑ Blasphemy paragraphs ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article by Edgar Dahl of 17 February 2009 on the portal Wissenslogs (accessed on 3 March 2009). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wissenslogs.de
  3. ^ Martin spoon wood (ed.): War as a media event. 2. Crisis communication in the 21st century . 1st edition, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-13997-5 , pp. 116-117.
  4. ↑ Cahal milmo: Independent columnist apologizes for plagiarism. , independent.co.uk, September 15, 2011 (accessed May 16, 2019).
  5. ↑ David Allen Green: The tale of Mr Hari and Dr Rose. A false and malicious identity is admitted. newstatesman.com, September 15, 2011 (accessed May 16, 2019).
  6. ↑ Differentiated, for example, Nicola Lutterotti: Why is depression so common? , nzz.ch, April 18, 2019 (accessed May 16, 2019).
  7. ^ Dean Burnett: Is everything Johann Hari knows about depression wrong? theguardian.com, January 8, 2018 (accessed May 16, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Hari, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow