Meinrad Heck

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Meinrad Heck (* 1957 ) is a German journalist and author.

biography

From 1979 onwards, Heck worked as a trainee and editor in the local editorial office in Mosbach / Baden at the Heidelberger Tageblatt and in 1983 switched to the local editorial office of the Fränkische Nachrichten in Bad Mergentheim in Tauberfränk . From 1992 to 1995 he wrote several reports from the war zone in the Balkans for Fränkische Nachrichten . Since 1997, Heck has been reporting as a freelance journalist for the Stuttgarter Zeitung , the Badische Zeitung in Freiburg and the Rheinpfalz from the Karlsruhe area , and he also focused on travel journalism for magazines and the specialist pressSouthern Africa and the Middle East .

From 2000 to 2010 he was a correspondent for the Stuttgarter Zeitung in Karlsruhe . In his journalistic work since 2000, Heck devoted himself particularly intensively to dealing with the Flowtex scandal, about which he also wrote a book. In 2011/12, Heck worked for the context he helped found : the weekly newspaper in Stuttgart; there he left the project because of an unacceptable donation from the Wiedeking Foundation. He works on the online research portal edition-zeitlupe.com .

For his reports he was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize in 1988 and the Wächterpreis of the German daily press in 2001. For his work on the report collection “We can do everything.” Filz, Korruption & Kumpanei im Musterländle , like the editor Josef-Otto Freudenreich and the two co-authors, was named Journalist of the Year 2008 by Medium Magazin in the Local Authors category excellent.

Publications

  • The Flowtex scandal: How politics and the tax authorities profited from a gigantic economic fraud for years. 2nd Edition. Fischer, Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 3-596-17080-X .
  • Josef-Otto Freudenreich (eds.), Meinrad Heck, Wolfgang Messner, Rainer Nübel: We can do everything: Felt, corruption & companionship in the model country. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-940086-12-9 .
  • Meinrad Heck: Weikersheim Study Center. The Right Thinkers Club. In: Stephan Braun, Daniel Hörsch (ed.): Right networks, a danger. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4153-X , p. 95.
  • Josef-Otto Freudenreich (ed. And Aut.), Meinrad Heck (author), Susanne Stiefel (author), Rainer Nübel (author): The pocket players: betrayed and sold in Germany. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-940086-87-7 .
  • Meinrad Heck (photographer, author), Peter Maurer (photographer): We don't cry, we sing. South Africa - a journey of discovery from person to person. artur.Verlag, Kirchentellinsfurt, ISBN 978-3-9813648-1-1 . (Photo book, portraits of life and survival artists and their world)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website edition-zeitlupe.com
  2. ↑ Website edition-zeitlupe.com
  3. ^ Annette Milz: The Journalists of the Year. In: Medium Magazin , issue 01 + 02 2009, p. 22 ( PDF ).
personal data
SURNAME Heck, Meinrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957