Matthias Matussek

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Matthias Matussek (born March 9, 1954 in Münster ) is a German journalist , publicist and author .

Life

Matussek attended the Jesuit- run Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn-Bad Godesberg for three years and then switched to the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart , where he graduated from high school. He then began studying American and German and comparative literature at the Free University of Berlin . After the intermediate examination, he broke off his studies and switched to the German School of Journalism in Munich , which he graduated with a diploma in 1977. Then he started as a culture editor for the Berlin newspaper Der Abend . After his activities for the evening and for the star , he went to the mirror in 1987 . From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Day of German Unity , he reported as a special correspondent from East Berlin , for which he was awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in 1991 . Matussek then headed the Spiegel offices in New York (1992), Rio de Janeiro (1999) and London (2003). From 2005 to 2008 he was head of the culture department at Spiegel . Weekly from October 2006 to April 2011, then in loose succession until January 2014, Matussek published a vlog called Matussek's Kulturtipp on Spiegel Online . At the end of October 2013 he moved to Axel Springer AG , where he was dismissed as a columnist for the daily newspaper Die Welt in November 2015 .

Positions

Matthias Matussek 2011

Through articles and books such as Die vaterlose Gesellschaft (1998), We Germans (2006) and The Catholic Adventure (2011) - all of which are German bestsellers - Matussek repeatedly addressed controversial issues. He represents conservative values ​​such as faith, family or patriotism in public .

In 2009 he criticized the current German conservatism, which in his view was leading a “ class struggle from above”, and described himself as an “accidental left”. As an “unreliable conservative” and the son of a CDU mayor, he viewed the class struggle from above as a “belated culture war in which the middle class defeated the 68ers once again, as in a constant sedan celebration of old and young conservatives”. The conservative Juste milieu , “which has had the most severe economic panic attacks behind it”, is only concerned with “patting itself on the shoulder with almost unbearable complacency”. Today's conservatism has "sunk into a dreary lifestyle bourgeoisie and belated settlements with the left opponent of yore" and has "smashed values, more radically than the left could ever have".

In 2010, in a “contribution to the debate” for Der Spiegel, he referred to the Sarrazin debate as a cipher “for the outrage at how the justice milieu of the consensus society sent the hall protection to escort a disturbing heckler outside”. Debates on identity (e.g. cultural identity ) and dominant cultures are being conducted in an increasingly globalized world, which means “only an insistence on traditions and values, which also include religion”. Matussek judged some passages of the Sarrazin book Germany is abolishing: "In them the melancholy is expressed about the fact that the Germans are not only working demographically on their disappearance, but also saying goodbye to their cultural and educational horizons." Pegida movement accused Matussek in 2014 on Facebook : "Anyone who takes part in the ritual kicking against these people has the sentiments of Hitler Youth."

By his own admission, Matussek is a practicing Catholic who regularly confesses that it is “more exonerating” than “waiting for the very big final account from a gracious God, as Protestants do”. In 2011 he commented on his Catholicism as follows: “I am as passionately Catholic as I was a Marxist forty years ago. Why? Because my association is under attack. ”He is a supporter of the Catholic lay movement Germany pro Papa . Furthermore, he signed a counter-memorandum to Church 2011 under the title "Petition pro Ecclesia" : A necessary departure and he advocates the preservation of celibacy , but in his book The Catholic Adventure criticizes the church tax as a "modern form of indulgence trade " . In September 2012 the Catholic Church in Germany made a decision with the tenor No sacraments without church tax . Matussek asked himself “how suspicious the German Catholic Church [must] be about tying the sacraments to membership fees” and predicted “This is how it will collapse: the old die, the young stay away”; he recommended that the church should be based on voluntariness. In September 2015, he spoke out against the recognition of same-sex marriage in Germany in a dispute with Henny Engels from the LSVD board. On the online page of the debate magazine The European , Matussek also referred to homosexuality as "nature's fault" and compared it to deafness and hereditary diseases such as maple syrup disease . At a “Journalistic Colloquium” in 2012 at the University of Eichstätt , he contradicted the thesis that Islam belongs to Germany; rather, he referred to this religion as a "threat" which u. a. The result is that "hours of checks at airports " are carried out.

After the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015 , Matussek said on his Facebook account: “I guess the terror of Paris will also move our debates about open borders and a quarter of a million unregistered young Islamic men in the country in a completely new and fresh direction. “He ended this assessment with a ' smiley ', the emoticon for joy. In particular, the smiling smiley was criticized as inappropriate in this context. The editor-in-chief of the world , Jan-Eric Peters , called the posting - also via Facebook - "crazy" and distanced himself from Matussek's statement. On November 17, 2015, Die Welt parted ways with its columnist with "immediate effect". Shortly afterwards, on November 21, 2015, Matussek gave the laudation at the award ceremony of the Gerhard Löwenthal Prize to Heimo Schwilk , which is awarded by the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit , which is regarded as the mouthpiece of the New Right .

In early 2017, Matussek got into the media when he was interested in a position offered by the satirical magazine Titanic on the right-wing populist news and opinion website Breitbart News Network .

In 2017 Matussek said that the “funny actions” of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution were “just so cool”. In July 2017 an article appeared in which he outlined his transformation "to today's Matussek" and described himself as a "sympathizer of the identities".

Matussek publicly supported the AfD and was one of the first signatories of Vera Lengsfeld's Joint Declaration 2018 initiative . In its wording, Germany is being damaged by “illegal mass immigration” and solidarity is expressed with peaceful demonstrators who are demonstrating for the restoration of the “constitutional order at the borders of our country”. In addition to Matussek, Thilo Sarrazin , Henryk M. Broder , Uwe Tellkamp and Uwe Steimle signed the declaration.

Since January 2018 Matussek has published articles in the Catholic weekly newspaper Die Tagespost . On March 19, 2018, he appeared as a speaker at the Monday “Merkel must go” rally in front of Hamburg Dammtor train station and warned about 200 participants about “ Islamization ”. He sees a "flood of Muslim bodybuilders" in the country.

Matussek does not consider climate change to be a man-made phenomenon . The weather, according to Matussek, is “good God”. He described the Swedish climate protection activist Greta Thunberg as a “holy figure of a substitute religion”.

In March 2019, the satirist and television presenter Jan Böhmermann announced that at Matussek's birthday party a convicted member of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement , Erika Steinbach , the head of the AfD- affiliated Desiderius Erasmus Foundation , Andreas Lombard , editor-in-chief of Cato magazine , and Dieter Stein , publisher of the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit , took part. This met with media coverage.

Matussek is a guest author on the Axis of the Good as well as on Tichys Insight , the Swiss World Week , Deutschland-Kurier , Cato and Tumult. Quarterly for Consensus Disruption .

Legal disputes

On August 10, 2013, ARD broadcast an episode of the Krömer - Late Night Show , in which Kurt Krömer described his guest Matussek as a " sneaky asshole " and a " puff-goer ". Matussek tried unsuccessfully, with the help of his lawyer Joachim Steinhöfel, to prevent the broadcast in advance by means of an injunction. The Hamburg Higher Regional Court rejected this request in the second instance because it was satire, Matussek had to be informed about the character of the program and he had himself involved accordingly by calling Krömer a “stupid pig”.

After the journalist Silke Burmester in her column for the Aug. 14, 2013 The daily Matussek and the judgment under the title The Big Quiz of Puffgänger had been identified, procured Matussek before the District Court of Cologne an injunction injunction against them.

reception

Matussek served as a template for the character of the reporter "Leo Lattke" in Thomas Brussig's turnaround novel How it shines . Brussig, who wrote the foreword to Matussek's Palace Hotel or How Unity fell over Germany , had been able to observe him after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the Berlin Palace Hotel , from where Matussek reported on the GDR for Spiegel magazine and where Brussig worked as a porter. He describes the journalist Lattke as an unpleasant and irritable person, but also as an ingenious reporter - a description that Matussek's journalist colleagues thought was "fairly realistic".

Alexander Wallasch wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2011 : “Matussek obviously really believes. That is surely the most haunting insight to be gained from the book The Catholic Adventure . The author speaks from a fortress: 'I think Catholic, I feel and laugh and rage Catholic, I sin, I confess, I look Catholic at the world.' "

Theology professor Rainer Kampling wrote in 2011 on Deutschlandradio Kultur about The Catholic Adventure : “Matussek thinks and writes in a theological vacuum that he claims to be his childhood beliefs - self-loving, arrogant and ignoring faith. About Catholicism, its theological depth, its wealth of intellectual achievement, about its strict school of thought and faith or the history of the Church, one learns terrifyingly little in the 358 pages of the book [...] This book is embarrassing - in the choice of words, in the pride of the Author on his theological illiteracy, in his sloppiness. And it is embarrassing to think that someone can believe that it is now Catholic. [...] "

The Munich theologian Friedrich Wilhelm Graf found on the same book in the FAZ feature pages that Matussek relies on “aggressive polemics, calculated insults, radical subjectivity and professional rampage”. "Matussek is far from intellectual virtues such as thoughtfulness, working on concepts, discernment and readiness for self-criticism." That Curia Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes praised this collection of "bad essays and good interviews" as "a kaleidoscope of faith" and "real impulse to apostolate" only show "the intellectual crisis of German Catholicism".

The Rheinische Post editor Reinhold Michels described Matussek's appearance at a panel discussion in 2012 and wrote a. a .: "[...] Matussek, who is cautiously described with the label 'passionate traditional Catholic' [...]. Matussek praised 'all the wonderful Catholic folklore', which he always found supportive. "

At the end of 2012 Matussek published his novella The Apocalypse after Richard . The critic Hellmuth Karasek spoke of a “feat”: “a pious Christmas story […] with miracles and an apocalyptic end - but full of warmth, yes, wit”, and Stephan Sattler judged in the Zurich Weltwoche that Matussek had “succeeded in creating a piece of extremely lively prose , full of wit, but also tenderness ”.

In February 2014, Matussek made a polemic on the Internet portal of the world in response to a program on Menschen bei Maischberger on the subject of homophobia that he was “probably homophobic, and that's a good thing”. Two world editors criticized this as “an insult not only for homosexuals, but for love as a whole” and as “unchristian”. The Tagesspiegel accused Matussek of being an “almost fanatical Catholic” and raised the question of whether homophobia, like other phobias, can be cured. The media journalist Stefan Niggemeier also took up the topic and criticized on his blog, among other things, that Matussek misinterpreted several fundamental aspects in his comments on the homosexuality debate or did not understand them at all. Matussek then insinuated that he argued "like a Hitler Youth ". Alan Posener explains his attitude: “So why in God's name do I want to defend Matthias Matussek? Because he says nothing else than what is in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. ” Posener also views the association of homophobia and anti-Semitism accused of Matussek from a different perspective:“ That Matussek thinks homophobia and Jew phobia together is also correct because it is historical almost always belong together. "

In the article “Überwerfung” published in June 2018, ZEIT reporter Malte Henk portrayed him and traced Matussek's path from SPIEGEL reporter to representative of the New Right .

Private

Matussek is the son of CDU politician Josef Matussek and has four brothers, u. a. the diplomat Thomas Matussek and Peter Matussek , professor for media aesthetics at the University of Siegen . He is a nephew of the psychiatrist Paul Matussek and the biochemist Norbert Matussek (1922–2009). Until 1983 Matussek was married to the actress Barbara Frey . From his second marriage to Ulrike Matussek, a son emerged.

Since 2016 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KAV Capitolina Rome in the Cartell Association .

Book publications

  • The dream of victory. Gruner & Jahr, Hamburg 1985.
  • Palais Abyss. edition Tiamat, Berlin 1990.
  • Palasthotel or How unity fell over Germany. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-10-048923-3 .
  • Palasthotel Zimmer 6101. Reporter in frenzied Germany. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-499-19339-6 .
  • The suicide taboo. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-499-13177-3 .
  • Bill Clinton. Droemersche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 1993 (co-author).
  • Showdown. Diogenes, Zurich 1994.
  • Fifth avenue. Diogenes, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-257-06036-X .
  • Long Flight Into Art. In: Icarus. New York University, New York 1997.
  • Markus in Central Park. Fairy tale, series. In: Berliner Zeitung . February to April 1997.
  • The fatherless society. Letters, reports, essays. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-499-60816-2 .
  • Rupert or The Art of Losing. Diogenes, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-257-23150-4 .
  • The Prince of Westend Avenue. Pegasus-Theaterverlag, 2001 (dramatization of the novel by Isler ).
  • Twilight of the Idols. Portraits at the end of the millennium. Patmos, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-72415-5 .
  • Eintracht Germany. Reports and glosses from the new republic. Patmos, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-72421-X .
  • Beloved between the beach and the jungle. Heat bursts from Rio de Janeiro. Picus, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85452-792-6 .
  • In the magical thicket of the rainforest. Journey through the Amazon. Picus, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85452-799-3 .
  • We Germans. Why others can like us. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-10-048922-5 .
  • When we were young and beautiful. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 3-10-048924-1 .
  • The Catholic Adventure. A provocation. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04514-0 .
  • The Apocalypse According to Richard: A Festive Tale. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 3-351-03501-2 .
  • White Rabbit or Farewell to Common Sense . FinanzBook Verlag, March 12, 2018, ISBN 3-959-72080-7 .

Awards

literature

  • Erhard Schütz : poet of society. New German journalism or For a renewed asphalt literature. In: text + criticism . No. 113, 1992.
  • Maik Großekathöfer: Report writing: craft or art? A qualitative study using the example of the SPIEGEL authors Leinemann, Schnibben and Matussek . Philosophical Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University, Münster 1997.
  • Ariel Stefan Hauptmeier: Splinters of Reality in the Iconoclasm - Literary Reportage as a Possibility of Realistic Writing in the Developed Media Society? Free University, Berlin 1997.
  • Malte Henk : Throwing over. In: Die Zeit 27/2018, 28 June 2018.

Web links

Commons : Matthias Matussek  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Matthias Matussek  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Matthias Matussek: Deutsches Theater I ( Memento from December 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: Netzeitung. June 28, 2006.
  2. ^ Hannelore Gauster: Egon Erwin Kisch Prize 2000. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-35102697-4 , p. 213.
  3. ↑ "Spiegel": Matussek is going as head of culture. In: Berliner Morgenpost . 4th December 2007.
  4. ↑ Matussek's culture tip on Spiegel Online .
  5. ↑ "Die Welt" fires Matussek. In: RP Online . November 19, 2015, accessed November 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ Matthias Matussek: How I accidentally became a leftist. In: Spiegel Online . September 11, 2009.
  7. ↑ Matthias Matussek: The counter rage. In: Spiegel Online. September 6, 2010.
  8. ^ Liane Bednarz , Christoph Giesa : Dangerous citizens. The new right reaches for the middle . Hanser, Munich 2015, p. 121. Via Matthias Matussek's Facebook entry , December 26, 2014.
  9. ↑ Editorial. Triumph of sin. In: Der Spiegel. February 13, 2010, p. 3.
  10. ↑ a b Alexander Wallasch : "I am Catholic, and that's a good thing". In: Süddeutsche.de . May 9, 2011.
  11. ↑ Back strengthening for bishops. In: Domradio . February 9, 2011.
  12. ^ Matthias Matussek: Celibacy? Why, surely! In: Spiegel Online. January 22, 2011.
  13. ^ Matthias Matussek: Away with the church tax! In: Spiegel Online. May 11, 2011.
  14. ^ Matthias Matussek: Basic judgment on the church tax: It's enough! In: Spiegel Online. September 27, 2012.
  15. ↑ Kevin Clarke : The Deficit Homosexual ( Memento June 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Men . September 12, 2015.
  16. ^ Bednarz, Giesa: Dangerous Citizens. 2014, p. 120 f.
  17. ↑ Matussek criticizes Islam. In: Main-Post . January 19, 2012.
  18. ↑ Gunda Windmüller: Smiley Gate: Matthias Matussek posts so macabre about the attacks. In: Huffington Post . November 14, 2015, accessed November 14, 2015 .
  19. ↑ "Crazy Posting" - "Welt" editor-in-chief distances himself from Matussek ( memento from February 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: DWDL.de . November 14, 2015.
  20. Jump up ↑ Matussek posting. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur - Kulturnachrichten. November 14, 2015, accessed November 14, 2015 .
  21. ↑ Marvin Schade: “Crazy”: World editor-in-chief condemns Matthias Matussek's posting to terrorism in Paris. In: Meedia. November 14, 2015, accessed November 14, 2015 .
  22. ↑ Alexander Krei: "Welt" fires Matussek after an "asshole" statement ( memento from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: DWDL.de. 17th November 2015.
  23. ^ Scandal over Facebook posting. “World” separates from author Matussek. In: Spiegel Online. November 17, 2015, accessed November 18, 2015.
  24. ↑ Stefan Winterbauer: What belongs together: Matthias Matussek's appearance at the New Right of Young Freedom. In: Meedia. November 24, 2015, accessed November 24, 2015 .
  25. ↑ Stefan Winterbauer: So yes: The Titanic was behind Breitbart's phone prank with Matussek, a fake headhunter also called “Tagesschau” boss Gniffke. In: Meedia . February 24, 2017.
  26. ↑ Katja Thorwarth: Identitarian Movement. Open on the basis of the Aryan certificate. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . June 12, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2017 .
  27. ^ Matthias Matussek: '68. How I got from left to right. In: Zeit Online . 6th July 2017.
  28. ↑ Stefan Schirmer: Matthias Matussek: The AfD, a stroke of luck? In: The time . June 20, 2018, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 4, 2019]).
  29. ^ Authors against "illegal mass immigration". Joint statement. DLF24 , March 19, 2018, accessed March 19, 2018 .
  30. ^ Christian Schröder: Tellkamp for solidarity against immigrants. "Declaration 2018". Der Tagesspiegel , March 19, 2018, accessed on March 19, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Matthias Matussek: Well-intentioned lies? The daily mail from January 17, 2018
  32. ↑ Matthias Matussek: Present glow. The daily mail from February 11, 2018
  33. ^ Christian Schröder: Matussek warns of "Islamization" in the anti-Merkel demonstration. Hamburger Abendblatt , March 20, 2018, accessed on March 20, 2018 .
  34. ↑ Matthias Matussek as guest at the Monday Talks. www.aachener-zeitung.de, May 7, 2019
  35. ↑ a b Little scandal at the buffet: Matthias Matussek celebrated his birthday with old media friends and new rights. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
  36. ^ Daniel Dillmann: Matussek celebrates his birthday with rights. www.fr.de, March 11, 2019
  37. ↑ Contact debt. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
  38. ↑ Simone Rafael: #mitRechtenfiegen at Matthias Matussek: A party as a new right network. Belltower.News , March 11, 2019
  39. ↑ Karolin Schwarz: Hate Warriors. The new global right-wing extremism. Herder, Freiburg 2020, p. 106
  40. ↑ Sonja Álvarez: “Late Night Show”. Matussek also loses against Kurt Krömer before the Higher Regional Court. In: Tagesspiegel Online . August 16, 2013.
  41. ^ Silke Burmester : The great quiz of the puff-goers. In: The daily newspaper . August 14, 2013.
  42. ↑ Silke Burmester: Visit from the bailiff. In: The daily newspaper. 18th September 2013.
  43. ↑ Silke Burmester: Greetings from the taz-brothel. In: The daily newspaper. November 13, 2013.
  44. ^ Friedemann Siering: unrest in the "mirror". In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . December 4, 2007, p. 22.
  45. ^ Rainer Kampling : The new passionate Catholic. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur. August 14, 2011.
  46. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : The "I strike back" Catholicism. In: FAZ.net . July 5, 2011.
  47. ↑ Reinhold Michels: “How is Catholic today?” In: RP Online . February 22, 2012.
  48. ↑ Hellmuth Karasek : Books for Santa Claus. In: Welt Online . December 8, 2012.
  49. ↑ Stephan Sattler : New Testament and Literature. In: Die Weltwoche . Edition 45/2012, p. 63.
  50. ↑ Matthias Matussek: I am probably homophobic. And that's good. In: Welt Online. 12th of February 2014.
  51. ↑ Stefan Anker: I love so I am. And that's just as well. In: Welt Online. February 13, 2012.
  52. ↑ Lucas Wiegelmann: Why homophobia is unchristian. In: Welt Online. February 13, 2012.
  53. ↑ Helmut Schümann: “I'm not homophobic and that's a good thing!” In: Tagesspiegel Online. February 13, 2014.
  54. ↑ Stefan Niggemeier : Matthias Matussek fails on questionnaire for seventh graders. 20th February 2014.
  55. ↑ Matthias Matussek: Necessary last words. In: The European . February 24, 2014, accessed November 18, 2015.
  56. ^ Alan Posener : Matthias Matussek and the Gays: A Defense ( Memento from October 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Strong opinions. February 18, 2014.
  57. ↑ Malte Henk: Matthias Matussek: Überwernung . In: The time . July 19, 2018, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 4, 2019]).
  58. ↑ Well-known members of the German Language Association ( Memento from February 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). German Language Association.
  59. ^ David Denk: Awarding of the Golden Prometheus - Berlinig and expectable. In: The daily newspaper. January 29, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Matussek, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German essayist, reporter and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster