Michael Funken (publicist)

Michael Funken (born August 30, 1963 ) is a German publicist, ZDF editor and PhD philosopher .

Life and work

After graduating from the Arndt-Gymnasium in Krefeld in 1982, Funken initially did military service, after being recognized as a conscientious objector, civil service until 1984. From 1984 to 1986, he did an editorial traineeship at the Westdeutsche Zeitung in Düsseldorf. He then began studying philosophy, political science and history at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , where he received his Magister Artium in 1990 and a Dr. phil. graduated (PhD on evolution theory).

From 1988 Funken worked parallel to his studies as a freelancer for dpa , a city magazine and WDR radio, and from 1992 for WDR television. From 1992 to 1996 he was a research assistant at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , where he researched and published on media philosophy. In 1996 he founded the “Critical Yearbook of Philosophy” (published by the Thuringian Society for Philosophy), and in 1997 with Peter Moser the e-zine “Information Philosophy on the Internet”, which he published and edited until 2006.

From 1996 he was back in Düsseldorf as a TV reporter for WDR and ZDF . In 2003 he became head of the service at Länderspiegel at the ZDF headquarters in Mainz. Since 2007 he has been an editor in the ZDF Zeitgeschichte editorial team. Funken is the author of several TV documentaries and books. He is also active as a lecturer and coach in journalism training (including International Danube University Krems ).

In 2016 he was elected chairman of the ZDF operating group of the VRFF-Die Mediengewerkschaft and has been an exempt member of the ZDF staff council at headquarters since 2018.

Fonts

• About Habermas. Conversations with contemporaries . 2nd ext. Edition. WBG, Darmstadt 2009.
• The Year of the Germans: The happy story of the fall of the Berlin Wall and German unity . Piper, Munich 2009, unabridged paperback edition
• Sofie's M @ ssage: Jena intentions for a multimedia philosophy . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1996
• The game of life and its meaning. Evolutionary Metaphysics and Practical Philosophy . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1994

Movies

• The Concorde's death flight . 30'00, ZDF 2000 (with Stephan Merseburger)
• Death above the clouds . 30'00, ZDF 2004 (with C. Dezer, B. Weisener) 3rd Prize Grand Prix Europe 2003
• 3 days of life: Jürgen Rüttgers . 30'00, ZDF 2004 (with M. Fischötter):
• 3 days of life: Ute Vogt . 30'00, ZDF 2005 (with U. Brödermann)
• 3 days of life: Antje Hermenau . 30'00, ZDF 2005 (with M. Fischötter)
• Before the election - where does Germany stand? Between Hartz and hope . 30'00, ZDF 2005 (with M. Scheuch)
• When the Wall fell: November 9, 1989 . 120'00, zdf.infokanal 2007

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Funken in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Sparks in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• official homepage
• Interview about Habermas Deutschlandradio
• Interview on “About Habermas” DW world
• About Habermas In: FAZ
• Short biography and reviews of works by Michael Funken at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sandbothe.net
2. ↑ save.tv  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ docstation.de ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.