Laura Himmelreich

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Laura Himmelreich (* 1983 in Munich ) is a German journalist .

Life

Himmelreich studied political science as well as economic and social history in Göttingen and Prague . Then she attended the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg from 2009 to 2010 and wrote as a freelance journalist a . a. for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Zeit , Spiegel Online and the news magazine Stern . Her main topics included economy, sustainability and social policy. From 2010 she was an editor in the politics department in the Berlin office of Stern, for which she a. a. regularly reported on the Pirate Party and the FDP .

In 2012, her social report Eine Reise ohne Rückerkehr was nominated for the German Reporter Award in the category Best Reportage and in 2013 was awarded the Hansel Mieth Prize . The man's joke , a portrait of Rainer Brüderle in Stern, sparked a nationwide debate about sexism and sexual harassment of women.

On June 1, 2016, Himmelreich switched to the German online edition of the lifestyle and youth magazine Vice as editor-in-chief . In September 2018 she became editor-in-chief of all German-language editions. The Austrian editorial team criticized the structural change and closed the company. In June 2019, Himmelreich left Vice . Since November 2019, she has been Deputy Editor-in-Chief Digital at Funke Zentralredaktion .

In 2017, Himmelreich, together with Hans-Martin Tillack and Ulrich Neumann, was nominated for the Nannen Prize in the “Investigative Achievement” category for their investigative research on precarious working conditions at the Rossmann drugstore chain , which appeared in 2016 under the title Rossmanns Tagelöhner im Stern .

In 2017, the jury of the medium magazine Himmelreich voted third place in the category “Editor-in-Chief of the Year 2017”.

Feature "Der Herrenwitz"

In the portrait of the Lord joke in the constellation of 24 January 2013, it described a lewd remark of the FDP -Spitzenkandidaten on the evening of Epiphany meeting of the FDP on January 6, 2012. Thus did Brüderle seen in a hotel bar on her bosom and said, "You can use a Also fill out a dirndl . ”In addition to this incident, Himmelreich draws the image of a man in“ permanent erosion ”with descriptions of other situations, who uses slipperiness because of her popularity.

Sexism debate

Reinforced by the debate on Twitter under the hashtag #aufschrei about sexist remarks and attacks that women are exposed to in their everyday lives, the sexism debate has also become a dominant topic in print media and television programs such as the talk shows Markus Lanz , Maybrit Illner and Günther Jauch as well as in the international press and "spilled over into the USA". The Süddeutsche Zeitung found that Laura Himmelreich had played a key role in initiating the sexism debate with her Stern article about Rainer Brüderle.

Reactions of the FDP

FDP board member Wolfgang Kubicki accused Laura Himmelreich of a journalistic "breaking a taboo" because she had made the "protected area" of confidential background discussions public. The FDP politician Koch-Mehrin welcomed the fact that Himmelreich had the courage to “openly name the subject of personalities” in her article. Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) evaluated Brüderle's statement as a compliment at the beginning of February 2013: “A compliment is different than when someone is actually abusive.” - “If I can also wear a dirndl and that suits me where is there the insult? So I really want to leave the church in the village. ”Brüderle himself initially did not comment on the allegations. At the ZDF summer interview in 2013 he said in this context: "There are issues that you don't have to comment on". It was only in April 2014 that he spoke up publicly and stated that the comment had been made in the presence of numerous other journalists, none of whom, including Himmelreich himself, had complained. Rather, Himmelreich accompanied him on several appointments even after the incident: “She drove with me in the car. Nobody does that who feels harassed. She hasn't complained to me for a year. "()

Reactions in the press

Khuê Pham pointed out in Die Zeit that Himmelreich never used the term “sexual harassment” itself.

Anja Maier commented in the Taz that Himmelreich “of all people, the victim of Brüderle's sexism, is becoming the perpetrator for her critics”. The news magazine Focus , the left-wing political weekly newspaper Jungle World and the tabloid Bild reported in February 2013 that Himmelreich wrote in an article in Stern about Ilse Aigner “eight months after her barbeque meeting” : “She has remained down-to-earth and is suitable for dirndl she anyway. "

Previous attacks by politicians

In response to Himmelreich's report, several journalists said that they themselves had experienced verbal and physical attacks by politicians and, in some cases, had kept them to themselves for years. In the Berliner Morgenpost , Inga Griese described how she felt disconcerted and defenseless when Willy Brandt put his hand on her knee during a background conversation in the early 1990s , but on the other hand emphasized that she said Hans-Dietrich Genscher's sentence “I knew I already liked how your lipstick color tastes "unproblematic and " giggled a lot " at an event in the early 1980s sitting next to Uwe Barschel . The NDR correspondent Gesine Enwaldt reported on a conversation with Brüderle, in which “from his side it was only about picking up”, which she found “extremely unpleasant” and later suppressed. Hanni Hüsch said that she had experienced verbal abuse by Brüderle in her time as a Berlin correspondent in the years 1998-2005 and said that the reputation preceded him "that it is not compulsively proper to be alone in a room with him" . Panorama reporter Patricia Schlesinger described how an FDP politician put her hand on her knee at the end of a shooting session without being asked while the camera team was still packing up.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The network - Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
  2. ↑ Caption in the print version of the portrait of Rainer Brüderle in Stern magazine (issue no. 5/2013) p. 47.
  3. ↑ a b Khuê Pham: Sexism Debate Everyone is asking: Why only now? How the "stern" reporter Laura Himmelreich was overwhelmed by the debate about her portrait of Rainer Brüderles . In: The time . No. 6/2013 , January 31, 2013 ( zeit.de [accessed February 16, 2013]).
  4. ↑ German Reporter Award. The 2012 nominations. (No longer available online.) In: Reporterforum. Reporter Forum eV Hamburg, archived from the original on February 2, 2013 ; Retrieved July 4, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Zeitenspiegel Hansel Mieth Prize. The 2013 winners. In: Zeitenspiegel agency. Zeitenspiegel Online, accessed on September 11, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Rainer Brüderle: The top candidate. - Stern.de, January 23, 2013
  7. ↑ German Vice.com brings star reporter Laura Himmelreich as editor-in-chief meedia.de, April 4, 2016
  8. ↑ Laura Himmelreich on the Vice-Exodus in Austria: “Don't want to be the boss of people who don't want to be part of my team” meedia.de, August 14, 2018
  9. ↑ Change of leadership at “Vice”: Felix Dachsel becomes the new editor-in-chief of the DACH region, Laura Himmelreich goes to meedia.de, June 28, 2019
  10. ↑ Ex-Vice-Boss Laura Himmelreich becomes Deputy Editor-in-Chief Digital at Funke meedia.de, October 2, 2019
  11. ↑ The nominees for the Nannen Prize 2017 have been announced. presseportal.de, accessed on November 9, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Laura Himmelreich. medium magazine, accessed on July 19, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Himmelreich writes of a kiss on the hand; Hannah Beitzer about the fact that Brüderle approached the “reporter with ambiguous allusions and touches”. Net feminist Anne Wizorek. Men, you have a brain! In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 11, 2013.
  14. ↑ Daniel Bax, Astrid Geisler, Hanna Gersmann , Anja Maier: The very everyday pick-up , in: taz of January 24, 2013.
  15. ↑ Sexism: Brüderle Talk at Illner with Kubicki and Roth - Der Spiegel Online, February 1, 2013.
  16. ↑ Melanie Mühl: #Dirndl at #Yes. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 28 , 2013
  17. ↑ For example: Frédéric Lemaître: Le déclin du mâle blanc allemand. In: Le Monde . February 7, 2013, online
  18. ↑ Sexism debate with Markus Lanz: "Brüderle has been reduced to his age" - "An ice cold process" - FOCUS Online
  19. ↑ Meliassa Eddy, Chris Cottrell: German Politician's Remark Stirs Outcry Over Sexism. In: The New York Times. January 28, 2013.
  20. ↑ Lena Jakat: With flat jokes against the #outcry. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 28, 2013 (TV review on Günther Jauch).
  21. ↑ Kubicki throws "Stern" taboo in front of the Handelsblatt on January 26, 2013
  22. ↑ Birgit Baumann: Sexism allegations against Brüderle excite Berlin. In: The Standard. 26./27. January 2013.
  23. ^ Minister of Justice: Brüderle's "Dirndl" statement was a compliment. dapd. February 1, 2013. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  24. ↑ Video Berlin direkt: Summer interview with Rainer Brüderle (July 21, 2013, 7:10 pm, 6:41 pm)  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on February 3, 2014.
  25. ↑ Rainer Brüderle breaks his silence In: Handelsblatt . April 6, 2014
  26. ↑ The Ugly Truth - January 24, 2013.
  27. ↑ a b c Sexism Debate - Ms. Himmelreich also likes the dirndl comparison In: Focus. 4th February 2013.
  28. ↑ Top Journalism In: Jungle World. February 7, 2013.
  29. ↑ "Dirndl-compatible" - This is how the Stern reporter wrote about Ilse Aigner. In: image. 1st February 2013
  30. ↑ Star No. 39, 2012.
  31. ↑ Inga Griese: When Willy Brandt put his hand on my knee ... joke or assault? Our author experienced it . In: Berliner Morgenpost . January 27, 2013 ( morgenpost.de [accessed February 17, 2013]).
  32. ↑ "It was all about getting started ..." (No longer available online.) Norddeutscher Rundfunk, archived from the original on February 13, 2013 ; Retrieved February 17, 2013 .
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SURNAME Heaven, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich