Markus Schächter

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2009 in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt
The wine senators Cardinal Lehmann (left) and ZDF director Schächter planting the first grapevine

Markus Schächter (born October 31, 1949 in Hauenstein ) is a German journalist and media manager . From 2002 to 2012 he was director of the Second German Television .

Career

Schächter was born as the fifth of six children of warehouse clerk Jakob Schächter in Hauenstein and grew up in simple circumstances. After attending school in Hauenstein and Dahn he began in 1968 a teaching degree in history, political science , journalism and religious studies at the universities of Munich , Lyon, Paris and Mainz . For the winter semester 1971/1972 he received a scholarship from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung for the promotion of talented students. In 1974 Markus Schächter graduated with the 1st state examination and was already involved in journalism during his studies, among others with Südwestfunk (SWF), ZDF and the German Press Agency ( dpa ) in Paris.

Markus Schächter laid the foundation for his radio journalism career as culture editor at Südwestfunk in 1976. After working (beginning in 1977) as head of the public relations department in the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Culture under Hanna-Renate Laurien , he finally joined ZDF in 1981.

Within the ZDF, he initially worked as a consultant for planning questions for cable and satellite television and in 1983 he became a consultant to program director Alois Schardt .

In 1984 he took over as the first managerial function of the editorial office “Culture and Society” and was there co-founder of the series “ Terra X ”.

In 1985 he became head of the “Children and Youth” editorial department and, in this role, was responsible, among other things, for the introduction of the children's news program “ logo! “In 1988.

In 1992 he took over the ZDF planning department, and in 1993 he took over the program planning department. In 1998 he was appointed program director.

His election as the fourth ZDF director (after Dieter Stolte's tenure of 20 years ) was preceded by a protracted and initially embarrassing dispute within the ZDF television council , which was divided into two party-political camps : Schächter was only just ahead of the compromise candidate Beginning of his term of office in the fifth ballot the required majority of three fifths of the votes.

In December 2005, well before the end of his first term of office, he achieved the best result in the history of ZDF in his (early) re-election with 60 of 61 votes cast.

The most spectacular event of his tenure was the rejection of his proposal to extend the term of office of ZDF editor-in-chief Nikolaus Brender by the ZDF administrative board, which is dominated by members of the CDU / CSU, in November 2009, as well as the public debate about the independence of ZDF from this controversial precedent party political influence.

In July 2010, Schächter and representatives of the ARD received the President of the Iranian State Broadcasting Corporation (IRIB) and General of the Revolutionary Guard Ezzatollah Zarghami . This meeting met with isolated criticism from opposition Iranians.

On January 25, 2011, Schächter announced that he would not stand again for the next term of office. He justified this by saying that ten years was a good time, he had achieved his goals and, in his opinion, every top position in a top company was limited in time. The then chairman of the ZDF board of directors, Kurt Beck , emphasized in the Frankfurter Rundschau that Schächter had put the station on a solid financial footing. In the same issue, reference was made to the ZDFmediathek , created in 2001 and further developed under him , through which the broadcaster was able to realign itself for digitization. Michael Hanfeld wrote in the FAZ that the outgoing artistic director had succeeded in sticking to his 2002 "ten-year plan". As examples, Hanfeld cited the programmatic orientation of ZDF, including through the digital channel ZDFneo , which was designed for younger viewers and which went on air in 2009. Schächer's successor was Thomas Bellut in March 2012 .

Markus Schächter was an elected member of the Executive Council of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) until the end of 2012 . His successor as German representative was BR director Ulrich Wilhelm . From 2011 to 2015 he was President of the ARTE shareholders' meeting. On July 13, 2016, he became a member of the Communication Secretariat (today: Dicastery for Communication ) of the Roman Curia .

Teaching assignments

Markus Schächter has been teaching as professor for media theory and media practice at the University of Music and Theater (HfMT) in Hamburg since January 2004 , which awarded him the academic title of professor in the same year. Since the winter semester of 2012, Markus Schächter has been honorary professor at the University of Philosophy in Munich for the subject of media ethics .

criticism

Brender case

In connection with the publicly controversial end of the term of office of editor-in-chief Nikolaus Brender , Schächter had been unusually open against the intention of the deputy ZDF supervisory board chairman (and de facto majority leader) Roland Koch to refrain from renewal by working on his ultimately no majority recruitment proposal Brender held on. However, he was also advised to have the legality of the editor-in-chief's rejection of the contract extension checked by means of an administrative lawsuit, which he ultimately refrained from. Instead, Schächter left it to politicians to ensure a thorough review of the applicable rules. After Brender's violent criticism of an internal party-political informers' system on ZDF that was comparable to the GDR, Schächter criticized this representation as inaccurate and exaggerated.

Digital channels

The newspaper Die Welt described the establishment of new digital channels by Schächter as a "miscalculation". This digital offensive is the real reason why his successor Bellut has to cut 400 jobs at ZDF.

Other engagements

In addition to numerous positions in the media sector, Markus Schächter also holds a large number of other positions within the framework of the social and cultural commitment of ZDF: a. Chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Behindertenhilfe Aktion Mensch , member of the German Committee for UNICEF, member of the board of trustees of the German Foundation for Monument Protection and chairman of the High Cathedral in Mainz.

He is also a member of various boards of trustees: u. a. the Kulturstiftung der Länder , Museuminsel Berlin , Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , Reporters Without Borders Germany, the CIVIS Media Foundation , the Eugen Biser Foundation Munich, the Bach Choir Mainz and chairman of the board of trustees of the Reading Foundation .

Markus Schächter has been Chairman of the Foundation Council of the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin since June 2011 .

Awards and honors

Private

Markus Schächter is married and lives in the Mainz district of Hechtsheim .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Schächter's biography in the Munzinger archive
  2. ↑ wdr.de ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ CV on ZDF.de, accessed on January 9, 2012
  4. ↑ Wunder vom Lerchenberg , Tagesspiegel of March 11, 2002, accessed on February 2, 2011
  5. ↑ I am often underestimated , Der Spiegel, March 18, 2002, accessed on February 2, 2011
  6. ↑ DWDL.de: Best result in ZDF history: Schächter re-elected almost unanimously , accessed on February 2, 2011
  7. ↑ The Day of Border Crossing , Stefan Niggemeier in FAZ.net of November 28, 2009, accessed on February 2, 2011; more on the subject in the article on Nikolaus Brender
  8. ↑ Power struggle: CDU: fears resignation of ZDF director Schächter in Welt.de on March 10, 2009, accessed on February 2, 2011
  9. ↑ ARD and ZDF receive Iran's chief censor: stepping quietly for correspondents. Spiegel Online, July 13, 2010, accessed December 12, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Biography: Markus Schächter: ZDF press portal. In: presseportal.zdf.de. March 14, 2012, accessed November 11, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Ralf Mielke: Der quiet Intendant , Frankfurter Rundschau of January 26, 2011, page 35
  12. ↑ Michael Hanfeld: The director with the ten-year plan , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 26, 2011, page 35
  13. ↑ Mainz remains in "Zeit.de" from March 14, 2012, accessed on March 14, 2012 with the new director Mainz
  14. ^ Fourth EBU Executive Board elected. In: TVB Europe of December 10, 2012, accessed on March 16, 2018 (English)
  15. ↑ Biography of Prof. Markus Schächter on arte.tv
  16. ^ Nomina di Membri della Segreteria per la Comunicazione. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, July 13, 2016, accessed July 13, 2016 (Italian).
  17. ↑ The director has to sue , Hartmann von der Tann in FAZ.net of July 8, 2009, accessed on February 2, 2011
  18. ↑ Schächter: "I have no understanding for it" in DWDL.de of November 27, 2009, accessed on February 2, 2011
  19. ↑ http://funkkorrespondenz.kim-info.de/artikel.php?pos=Ppolitik&nr=8451 straight-line | url = http: //funkkorrespondenz.kim-info.de/artikel.php? Pos = politics & nr = 8451 | date = 2018-12 | archivebot = 2018-12-03 01:34:15 InternetArchiveBot}} (link not available)
  20. ↑ Meedia editorial team: Scandal about Brender: Where is the ZDF? ›Meedia. February 23, 2010, accessed November 19, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Steffen Grimberg: Stasi comparison by ZDF editor-in-chief: Spy hunter Nikolaus Brender . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on November 19, 2016]).
  22. ↑ Downsizing : The fatal legacy of ZDF director Schächter . The world. December 11, 2012. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  23. ^ Board of Trustees - Bach Choir Mainz. In: www.bachchormainz.de. Retrieved July 25, 2016 .
  24. ↑ Reading Foundation | Board of Trustees. In: www.stiftunglesen.de. Retrieved May 24, 2016 .
  25. ↑ DWDL.de : Markus Schächter receives International Emmy Award on July 9, 2009.
  26. ^ ZDF director Markus Schächter awarded the French National Order of Merit. Report from the French Embassy in Germany of January 18, 2011, accessed on December 2, 2011
  27. ^ Diocese of Mainz: Papal Order of Gregorius awarded to ZDF director Markus Schächter, press release of December 10, 2011, accessed on December 13, 2011
  28. ^ Austrian Cross of Honor for ZDF director Prof. Markus Schächter from March 2, 2012, accessed on March 2, 2012
  29. ↑ Markus Schächter receives an honorary doctorate. Press release from October 16, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de).
personal data
SURNAME Schächter, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and director of the ZDF
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Hauenstein