Luc Jochimsen

Luc Jochimsen at the election party of the left for the 2013 federal election.

Lukrezia Luise "Luc" Jochimsen , born as Lukrezia Schleussinger (born March 1, 1936 in Nuremberg ) is a German sociologist , television journalist and politician ( Die Linke ). From 1994 to 2001 she was editor-in-chief of HR television and from 2005 to 2013 a member of the Bundestag . In the election of the German Federal President in 2010 , she ran for her party as a candidate.

Life

Luc Jochimsen was born in Nuremberg in 1936 as the daughter of a forwarding agent. She finished school in Frankfurt am Main in 1956 with the Abitur . She studied sociology (with Helmut Schelsky and Heinz Kluth ), political science (with Siegfried Landshut ) and philosophy at the University of Hamburg . 1961 doctorate it to the Dr. phil. with Schelsky at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster with the work Gypsies Today - Investigation of an outsider group in a German medium-sized town .

Jochimsen was a freelance author from 1961 to 1975, and from 1975 to 1985 editor of Panorama in Hamburg. From 1985 to 1988 she worked for the ARD correspondent in London. From 1988 to 1991 she was responsible for the feature / international documentary department of the NDR and from 1991 to 1993 head of the ARD television studio in London. From 1994 to 2001 she was editor-in-chief of television for Hessischer Rundfunk and moderated, among other things, the political program 3 two one .

For the 2002 federal election , Lucretia Jochimsen was the PDS's top candidate in Hesse , but the party failed nationwide because of the five percent hurdle . In 2003 she held the Theodor Herzl lectureship at the Institute for Media Studies and Journalism at the University of Vienna and in 2004 published the Herzl biography This Year in Jerusalem . In the 2005 Bundestag election , she entered the German Bundestag via the Thuringia list of the Left Party / PDS and became the cultural-political spokesperson for the left-wing parliamentary group. Among other things, she suggested that May 8th ( end of World War II ) be introduced as a national holiday. For the 2009 Bundestag election she was able to enter the Bundestag list again. Because at the inauguration of the Bundeswehr Memorial in September 2009, she wore a scarf with the inscription “Now even more. Get out of this war ”, their field hunters refused entry to the subsequent reception of the Federal Defense Minister.

The Left nominated Jochimsen for the election of the Federal President on June 30, 2010, which was scheduled for the resignation of incumbent Horst Köhler . In a subsequent interview, she judged the GDR as a state that, as a dictatorship, had committed unforgivable injustice to its citizens. However, "according to the legal definition" it was not an injustice state . This statement received media coverage and criticism. In the first ballot of the Federal President's election she received 126 out of 1,242 votes, in the second 123, and in the third ballot she withdrew her candidacy.

She did not run for the 2013 federal election . In September 2014 she published her autobiography The Defense of Dreams .

Awards

• 1971: Special award from the Federal Government for the International Year of Education at the Adolf Grimme Prize
• 1981: Alexander Zinn Prize
• 1984: Prix ​​Italia
• 2000: Hedwig Dohm certificate
• 2001: Hessian Order of Merit
• 2014: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Web links

Commons : Luc Jochimsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Luc Jochimsen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Luc Jochimsen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Luc Jochimsen's website
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Luc Jochimsen's page with speeches in the Bundestag, press releases, parliamentary initiatives
• Interview with Luc Jochimsen about the 2009 federal election
• Luc Jochimsen on parliament watch.de

Publications

• with Ursula Haverbeck , Ansgar Skriver : Why I work in the Gustav Heinemann Initiative. In: Walter Hähnle (Ed.): Are we getting a different republic? Gustav Heinemann Initiative . Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1978 ISBN 3-87173-536-1 p. 43 ff.
• The defense of dreams . Berlin 2014 ISBN 978-3-351-03281-4

Individual evidence

1. ^ Enke-Verlag, Stuttgart 1963. It is about Paderborn .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jochimsen is a candidate of the Left Party ( Memento from June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de from June 8, 2010.
3. ^ Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2004.
4. ↑ Luc Jochimsen enters the race for leftists ( Memento from June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Stern.de from June 8, 2010.
5. ↑ Lutz Herden: Memorial on growth. In: Friday. Retrieved September 9, 2009, 2011 . 
6. ↑ Video today: Jochimsen - GDR - no constitutional state (June 17, 2010)  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on February 1, 2011. (offline)
   The GDR was a dictatorship and by no means a constitutional state - but I reject the term “unjust state” she from, says left-wing presidential candidate Jochimsen. This category does not exist.
7. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt: Left candidate Jochimsen: GDR was not an unjust state , June 16, 2010.
8. ↑ Stephan Ueberbach: Lucretia Jochimsen in the portrait. The Chanceless ( Memento from July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de from June 29, 2010.
9. ^ Publishing house for the Evangelical Academics in Germany