Kurt Kister

Kurt Kister (born July 9, 1957 in Dachau ) is a German journalist . From 2011 to 2020 he was editor- in- chief at the Süddeutsche Zeitung , which is published in Munich , and from 2015 together with Wolfgang Krach as an equal double head.

Life

After graduating from high school at Josef-Effner-Gymnasium (1976) and doing military service, which he completed with the rank of lieutenant , Kister studied history, politics and communication science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1978 and attended the 17th editorial department at the German School of Journalism . He wrote his diploma thesis in 1983 on security policy and journalism . During his studies, Kister worked as a freelancer for the Dachau local editorial team of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, for news agencies and the Tagesschau .

From May 1983, Kister wrote about security and defense policy as a reporter for the domestic affairs department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He worked on the story of his grandfather, who was a concentration camp guard in Dachau , as a journalist . In 1989 he moved to page three , initially as deputy head of department and later as department head. From summer 1991 to 1996 Kister reported as America - correspondent of Süddeutsche Zeitung from Washington . In 1996 he returned to Munich and became head of the foreign policy department. In August 1998 he switched back to domestic politics and headed the capital city editorial office in Bonn , and from August 1999 to December 2004 in Berlin . On January 1, 2005, Kister became deputy editor-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung alongside Ernst Fischer . On January 1, 2011, Kister succeeded Hans Werner Kilz as editor-in-chief of the newspaper. From 2015, Kister held his position as editor-in-chief in the form of a double-headed position on an equal footing with the former deputy editor-in-chief Wolfgang Krach . In March 2020 it was announced that he was leaving the editor-in-chief at his own request in mid-July; he remains a member of the editorial team as an author. He was followed by Judith Wittwer as co-editor-in-chief .

Awards

• 1989: Guard price of German daily newspapers for the discovery of compounds that Member of Parliament Alfred Mechtersheimer with the Libyan government and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had entertained
• 2003: Egon Erwin Kisch Prize , 2nd place for "Wolf smiles and pinpricks", the description of a dispute between Edmund Stoiber and Gerhard Schröder
• 2006: Henri Nannen Prize in the category of outstanding humorous reporting for his column Our Best in SZ-Magazin
• 2014: Journalist of the year in the "National Editor-in-Chief" category

Publications / films

• My grandpa. Concentration camp guard Konrad Keller . A documentary by Paul Karalus and Kurt Kister. FRG 1983. 60 min.
• (Ed.), Divided Land. Heidelberg, hjr-Verlag 2012.
• (Ed.), IKids . Heidelberg, hrj-verlag 2012.
• (Ed.), Citizen in Uniform - Ideal or Reality? Nomos, Baden-Baden 1989.

Web links

• A man of 50 years. dctp.tv, July 15, 2007(Interview with Kisters). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Krach promoted to co-editor-in-chief. Retrieved April 19, 2016 . 
2. ↑ WG: traffic jam chaos and permanent lane changers, SZ letter from the editor-in-chief , February 15, 2019, sueddeutsche.de, accessed on February 15, 2019.
3. ↑ Graduates from the 10th to 19th teaching editors. Retrieved July 10, 2015 . 
4. ^ My grandfather - concentration camp guard Konrad Keller bpb.de , accessed on April 21, 2018.
5. ↑ Kurt Kister becomes editor-in-chief of the SZ Süddeutsche Zeitung on June 30, 2010.
6. ↑ New management team for SZ. March 17, 2020, accessed March 17, 2020 . 
7. ↑ New editor-in-chief. In: SZ.de. Süddeutscher Verlag, July 15, 2020, accessed on August 4, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Egon Erwin Kisch Prize to Stefan Willeke. Retrieved July 10, 2015 . 
9. ↑ The jury's statement on December 19, 2014 , accessed on December 20, 2014.
10. ↑ My grandfather - concentration camp guard Konrad Keller. Retrieved July 10, 2015 .