Klaus Ott

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Klaus Ott (born May 17, 1959 in Ochsenfurt ) is a German journalist . He is considered one of the most prominent investigative journalists .

Life

Klaus Ott grew up in Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt and graduated from high school in Marktbreit. Even as a schoolboy he was involved in the youth and alternative press and was chairman of the Bavarian youth press association in 1981/82 . After working as a freelance journalist for several years, he became an editor at the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Services

Klaus Ott made a name for himself through thorough research. He was instrumental in uncovering the Amigo affair . Next he was seen as intense observers of the introduced in the 1980s, private radio, especially on the occasion of the collapse of the Kirch Group in 2002. Another of his specialties is the public s passenger .

In 2008 he dealt intensively with the background to the crisis surrounding the Bayerische Landesbank . In 2014 he publicized the bribery affair surrounding Krauss-Maffei Wegmann tank exports to Greece with former SPD MPs Dagmar Luuk and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann.

Awards

year price occasion
1993 2. Guardian Prize of the "Freedom of the Press" foundation (together with SZ colleagues Christiane Schlötzer-Scotland , Hans Holzhaider and Michael Stiller ) Investigative journalistic achievement in the Amigo affair
1996 Bert Donnepp ​​Prize " We owe it to him that one does not know today, but could know what a state media authority is and does." (Laudation from Norbert Schneider)
1997/98 1. Guardian Prize of the Foundation "Freedom of the Press" Series of articles about a planned loan of an unusual amount to the media entrepreneur Leo Kirch by the Bavarian State Institute for Construction Financing
2006 "Business Journalist of the Year" Award from Medium Magazin
2007 Henri Nannen Prize Best investigative performance for “ Siemens / Bribery Scandal” in Süddeutsche Zeitung
2010 1st prize at the Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize Article about the takeover of Hypo Group Alpe Adria by Bayerische Landesbank
2010 "Business Journalist of the Year" Award from Medium Magazin
2012 Henri Nannen Prize, Best Investigative Achievement category together with Hans Leyendecker and Nicolas Richter ; they refused to accept it because editors of the Bild newspaper also received the award in the same category

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landesmedienanstalt NRW: Laudation by Norbert Schneider ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lfm-nrw.de
  2. ^ Annette Milz : Die Journalisten des Jahres 2010. December 21, 2010, accessed on December 21, 2010 .
  3. ↑ According to Leyendecker, the protest was expressly not directed against the person of the editors, but against the "taboo break" of the first award of a tabloid.
personal data
SURNAME Ott, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Ochsenfurt