Michael Hanfeld

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Michael Hanfeld (* 1965 in Bonn ) is a German journalist . From 1998 he was head of the media department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . He is currently the deputy features editor and media editor of the FAZ and a publicist .

Life

Hanfeld initially worked as a freelance journalist for the Kölnische Rundschau, among others . In 1991 he moved to the FAZ - daughter "Institute for Media Development and Communication". From 1998 Hanfeld headed the media department of the FAZ , after having been editor of the media page for three years. Since December 2013 he has been one of the deputies of the feature section chief and responsible for the feature section online . Hanfeld also writes under the author's abbreviation “miha” in the FAZ . He is also the editor and member of the scientific advisory board of the Humboldt Research Institute Property and Copyright in Democracy .

Hanfeld is married and has two children.

Positions and controversies

Criticism of the political influence on ZDF 2010

Hanfeld defended Nikolaus Brender's comparison of an internal spy system on ZDF with the GDR: He was once again speaking a bitter truth about the state of public broadcasting. "The parties shape the institutions according to their will, make personnel and thus program policy, in return they approve of the broadcasters' fee increases and access to the Internet." According to the "power apparatus logic", the "historically burdened" IM comparison is very accurate. The criticism of the artistic director Markus Schächter of Brender's statement is unfounded, Schächter should "maybe just go through his organizational chart once and remember his first choice - a single black and red post haggling, party personnel policy in its purest form".

Anti-Semitism allegation 2015

The historian Götz Aly rated Hanfeld's criticism of the billion-dollar donation announced by Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg as anti-Semitic. The historian and editor at Deutschlandradio Kultur Winfried Sträter then accused Aly of destroying the culture of debate because he would "... pull the anti-Semitism accusation by the hair".

Ancillary copyright law and copyright reform

In several articles in the FAZ, Hanfeld spoke out in favor of ancillary copyright law for press publishers at EU level. The blogger Stefan Niggemeier described the claims and arguments put forward by Hanfeld in this context as “obviously wrong” and concluded that the publishers were “radical in asserting their own interests” that knew “no limits”.

In his reporting on the copyright reform of the European Union, Hanfeld advocated the proposed reform in a series of articles to ensure that “creatives and authors receive a wage for the exploitation of their works”. Hanfeld represents the view of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV), as well as over 240 European associations that represent authors, composers, writers, journalists and photographers. His stance has been criticized by numerous opponents of the reform. The reform was passed by the European Parliament on March 26, 2019 . In an evaluation at the EuroDIG conference, the reform was then given disastrous testimony by representatives of science and NGOs. Without exception, no one defended the reform.

Prizes and awards

In 1999 he received the Bert Donnepp ​​Prize for media journalism from the Adolf Grimme Institute .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kathrin Anna Kirstein: Humboldt Research Institute Property and Copyright in Democracy ceremoniously opened - press portal. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Michael Hanfeld: Brender on the ZDF system: Lauscher on the Lerchenberg . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 22, 2010, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed November 19, 2016]).
  3. ↑ Götz Aly on Zuckerberg critics - "There is this fine bourgeois anti-Semitism" . Deutschlandradio Kultur. December 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ Winfried Sträter: Götz Aly damages our culture of debate Comment on Deutschlandradio Kultur Online of December 11, 2015
  5. ↑ Lies for ancillary copyright law (that never stops) | Over media . In: Übermedien . November 9, 2018 ( uebermedien.de [accessed November 14, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Karin Fischer: Niggemeier: Newspapers report "not reliably" about ancillary copyright law . Deutschlandfunk from November 30, 2012
  7. ↑ Wikimedia Resistance: In the filter bubble. Commentary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 8, 2019; accessed on March 11, 2019.
  8. ↑ Over 240 organizations appeal to the EU Parliament: # Yes2Copyright ' on the BDZV website.
  9. ↑ Stefan Niggemeier: Lies for ancillary copyright law (that never stops). Over media, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  10. ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/EuroDIG-Debatte-Vernichtende-Kritik-an-EU-Uruchterrechtsrichtline-4453040.html
personal data
SURNAME Hanfeld, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn