Matthias Meisner

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Matthias Meisner (born July 22, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German journalist and editor of the Berliner Tagesspiegel .

Youth and education

Matthias Meisner grew up in Langen (Hessen) . In 1980 he received his Abitur at the Dreieich School in Langen. In the same year he did his one-year community service at the Dreieich Hospital in Langen . From 1980 to 1985 he worked as a freelance journalist; primarily for the Frankfurter Neue Presse . Meisner was a co-founder of the youth magazine Du Mayst, which appeared in the Offenbach district from 1982, and remained its editor-in-chief until 1985.

Working life

Meisner volunteered at the German Press Agency (dpa) from 1985 to 1987 and was then the agency's state policy correspondent in Stuttgart . On July 1, 1990, he moved to Saxony and set up the dpa office in Dresden , which he managed until 1994. From 1994 to 1999 he was the national political correspondent for the Sächsische Zeitung in Bonn .

Meisner has been working for the Tagesspiegel since 1999. As a correspondent, he reports on domestic politics and the spectrum of left parties, among other things. He dealt extensively with the Pegida demonstrations and the discussion about refugee policy . He commented on his reporting on the topics of refugees, AfD and Pegida, but also on the role of social media in journalistic work, in various interviews, including for lügenpresse.de, Deutschlandfunk and Mediendienst Ost.

Meisner's co-edited book “Unter Sachsen. Between anger and welcome ”caused some violent negative reactions from Saxon conservative and right-wing local politicians.

Honors

In 2015, Meisner's reporting on Pegida was nominated for the journalists ' award “Der Long Breath” from the Berlin-Brandenburg Journalists' Association (JVBB).

In February 2016 he was recognized for his reporting on refugee policy in the category Reporter regional third place in the " Journalist of the Year Award".

In 2016 he was awarded the Second Prize of the Guardian Prize of the German daily press for his reporting on Pegida and the anti-asylum movement in Saxony .

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author's page Meisner, Matthias. In: Der Tagesspiegel . Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Lies press. Matthias Meisner from Tagesspiegel on freedom of the press. (No longer available online.) In: lügenpresse.de. Archived from the original on April 24, 2017 ; Retrieved March 3, 2017 .
  3. ^ Matthias Meisner, Dirk-Oliver Heckmann: Refugees and social media. "History is developing much faster through Twitter". In: Deutschlandfunk . September 7, 2015, accessed March 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Michael Kraske: The Code of the New Right. In: Media Service East. January 2017, accessed March 3, 2017 .
  5. ^ Bernhard Honnigfort: "Unter Sachsen": local politicians polemicize against book. In: fr.de. June 2, 2017, accessed October 8, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Nominees 2015 - JVBB - Journalists Association Berlin-Brandenburg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 25, 2016 ; accessed on February 27, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Journalists of the Year 2015. Prize Winner. Matthias Meisner. In: Medium magazine . Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
  8. ^ PEGIDA: new bourgeois racism. In: anstageslicht.de. Retrieved October 8, 2018 : "Awards:" Guardian Prize of the Daily Press "2016. The people behind this story: Matthias MEISNER. Alexander SCHNEIDER. Tobias WOLF. Ulrich WOLF "
  9. ↑ Under Saxony. In: weitermachen.de. Heinrich Böll Foundation Saxony, March 19, 2017, accessed on March 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Meisner, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main