Julian Reichelt

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Julian Reichelt (2018)

Julian Reichelt (born June 15, 1980 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist . Since February 2017 he has been chairman of the editors-in-chief and digital editor-in-chief of Bild . Since Tanit Koch left on March 1, 2018, he has also been editor-in-chief of the print edition.

Life

According to the Bild newspaper, Reichelt's parents work as journalists.

Reichelt attended the Othmarschen grammar school in Hamburg, where he graduated from high school in 2000 . From 2002 to 2003 he was a trainee at Bild and completed the journalism training at the Axel Springer Academy . He reported u. a. from Afghanistan , Georgia , Thailand , Iraq , Sudan and Lebanon , partly as war correspondent . In 2007 he became chief reporter.

Since February 2014 he has been editor-in-chief of the Internet branch of Bild as the successor to Manfred Hart . In February 2017, Springer-Verlag announced that Reichelt would in future be the successor to Kai Diekmann as Chairman of the Editor-in-Chief and would thus have overall editorial responsibility for the Bild newspaper.

Reichelt is married.

Positions and Style

Reichelt regularly takes positions on political issues. In addition to comments in the Bild newspaper and on Bild.de , he also uses talk show appearances and the like. a. at Beckmann , Anne Will , tough but fair and in the WDR press club . In addition, he published two books.

In August 2015, Reichelt, in his position as editor-in-chief, opposed an accreditation agreement to show accused alleged IS fighters in a trial before the Higher Regional Court in Celle , because their guilt has not yet been proven. As a result, Reichelt was excluded as a reporter.

In the case described below, Reichelt stated that the German Press Council would "make itself the stooge of the Kremlin propaganda [...]". The press council criticized the misrepresentation of Russian military operations in Syria by Bild.de under the title Putin and Assad bombs more in February 2016. The reference was an agreement on a ceasefire within a week. The article gives the untruthful impression that the ceasefire that has just been agreed upon has been broken by Russia. In terms of press ethics, the committee assessed the violation of the journalistic principles as so serious that it expressed disapproval in accordance with Section 12 of the Complaints Regulation.

Reception and controversy

Reichelt has repeatedly been publicly criticized, but he is also considered to be "exceptionally argumentative on social media". In 2015, for example, he engaged in a public debate on Twitter with the journalist Glenn Greenwald , who became known as the " Snowden whistleblower" .

In an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on April 11, 2017, Frank Lübberding deals with an appearance by Reichelt on the show Hart but Fair on the war in Syria. Lübberding writes about Reichelt that he considers "the slightest doubt about his own point of view to be treason" and that he is a "war propagandist", "who is not interested in the strategic dilemma of the West". Reichelt works with "the method of a revolver journalism", which "whips up emotions and looks primarily for enemies". Lübberding writes that, according to Reichelt's logic, the West must intervene in Syria, "for which even the risk of a war with Russia would have to be taken into account." Reichelt does not act as a journalist, but as a "propagandist of a war party". According to Lübberding, Reichelt combines "arrogance with ignorance in an exemplary manner". So one experiences insulting dissidents by Reichelt in the show like "otherwise probably only on Russian state television." Reichelt is above all about repeating the image of the newspaper as a political power, as it has suffered a "rapid political loss of importance" in the past. had to cope with.

The former federal judge Thomas Fischer attested Reichelt in February 2018, with regard to allegedly excessive leniency of the German judiciary “ignorant scaremongering and legal-political agitation at a very low level”. He pointed out that the demands made by Reichelt in the case of tough but fair claims (including the abolition of a criminal framework for sexual offenses) were last practiced in Germany from 1941 to 1945 within the framework of the “Poland Penal Ordinance”, and imputed that he was “an express and deliberate rejection of the European Convention on Human Rights, the human right from Article 2 of the Basic Law, the constitutional principle of proportionality and the permanent jurisdiction of the Federal Constitutional Court ”.

During the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Reichelt described Vladimir Putin as a “murderer and cynical despiser of sport” and in this context demanded that Lothar Matthäus “should not shake bloody hands”. Matthäus responded without comment on Twitter with a photo from 2016, on which Putin can be seen together with ex-editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann and the political boss Nikolaus Blome .

At the beginning of January 2019, Reichelt met with criticism after he had spoken in Gabor Steingart's morning briefing on the hacker attack on politicians and celebrities and their possible backers. A few hours before the presentation of the lone perpetrator - a 20-year-old student - Reichelt spoke of a "larger structure" and "state support" behind the action and the picture several times indicated a "Russian trail". Dieter Schnaas commented on this assessment of the hacker attack with the words: "Since the triumph of the Internet and social media, a new journalistic style has emerged: a kind of preemptive news management based on stable prejudices."

(Negative) awards

In 2008 Reichelt was awarded the Axel Springer Prize for young journalists in the supra-regional / national category for his report “You can kill us, but never defeat” from Afghanistan, published in two parts on October 12 and 13, 2007 in Bild Contributions excellent.

In October 2018, Reichelt was to receive the “The Golden Potato” award from the New German Media Makers Association for “particularly one-sided or unsuccessful reporting on aspects of the immigration society ”. He appeared at the award ceremony, but turned down the award because “the word ' potato ' has become an abuse of race and origin in elementary schools where migration is not a success story”.

Fonts

  • War reporter. I want to tell about the people . Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-404-61669-5 .
  • With Jan Meyer: rest in peace, soldiers! How politics and the Bundeswehr hushed up the truth about Afghanistan . Torch bearer, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7716-4466-6 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Julian Reichelt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BILD chief reporter Julian Reichelt: About stories that changed his life. In: image. February 27, 2009, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Susanne Herrmann: Brilliant student interview with Bild boss Reichelt. In: Advertise & Sell . November 15, 2018, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Reichelt will have the last word in the "Bild" group . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 6, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
  4. ^ Julian Reichelt , Reporter-Forum, accessed on August 25, 2014.
  5. ↑ Manfred is hard editor for digital development projects at IMAGE / Julian Reichelt accepts editorship of BILD.de . axelspringer.de, November 19, 2013.
  6. ^ Gia: Julian Reichelt becomes chairman of the editors-in-chief . In: Spiegel Online , February 6, 2017, accessed April 11, 2017.
  7. ↑ kue / dpa: "Bild" reporters excluded from the IS process . In: faz.net . August 4, 2008.
  8. ↑ Press Council rejects allegations from Bild.de boss Reichelt: “Going in a political direction” ›Meedia .
  9. ↑ Decision of Complaints Committee 1 in complaint 0160/16/1-BA . In: German Press Council . June 7, 2016, accessed April 11, 2017 (PDF).
  10. ↑ "With Bild Plus we have created the largest subscription newspaper in Germany" - Julian Reichelt in a MEEDIA conversation (1) ›Meedia .
  11. ↑ "mob Santander ideologue," "sleazy tabloid editor" - Bild.de chief Julian Reichelt and Glenn Greenwald zoffen at Twitter> Meedia .
  12. ^ Frank Lübberding: War propaganda - not even from Moscow . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 11, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  13. ↑ Knowledge-free “fact checker” at “Hart aber fair”: Plasberg and Bild put a strain on the “healthy public feeling” ›Meedia .
  14. ↑ Comment by Julian Reichelt: Lothar Matthäus shouldn't shake bloody hands! In: bild.de . ( bild.de [accessed on July 8, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Kim Patrick von Harling: Controversial Putin photo: bizarre Twitter dispute between "Bild" boss and Lothar Matthäus | shz.de . In: Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher . ( shz.de [accessed on July 9, 2018]).
  16. ^ State affair of data theft - Gabor Steingart. In: gaborsteingart.com. Retrieved on February 15, 2019 (German).
  17. ↑ Oh G0d, how embarrassing: Image boss Julian Reichelt got lost in the hacker attack with his Russian theory. In: meedia.de. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Cyber ​​attack: The hackers could have MORE up their sleeves. In: image. January 5, 2019, accessed February 15, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Dieter Schnaas : Immersion heater: Thumbling for stupid. In: Wirtschaftswoche . Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  20. ^ Axel Springer Prize 2008: Prize Winner Print . ( Memento from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Axel Springer Prize for young journalists , accessed on April 11, 2017.
  21. Jump up ↑ A Panic Headline Master . In: Deutschlandfunk . October 23, 2018. Konstantina Vassilou-Enz in conversation with Vladimir Balzer.
  22. ↑ # 5 Sad Potatoes - Are We Talking About Racism? . In: Deutschlandfunk . November 8, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Reichelt, Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and war correspondent
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg