Michael Stiller (journalist)

Michael Stiller (born January 18, 1945 in Hirschberg , Lower Silesia Province ; † August 12, 2016 in Munich ) was a German journalist . He has received several awards for exposing CSU scandals.

Life

Michael Stiller grew up in Upper Austria after fleeing from Silesia . After attending the Jesuit College in Linz , he studied German, history and law in Munich and Würzburg from 1963 to 1967. In 1967 he received a scholarship at the German School of Journalism in Munich. From 1968 he worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , first as a state parliament correspondent, later as the chief editor for the field of Bavarian state politics. He was instrumental in uncovering numerous CSU scandals ( Amigo affair , Zwick affair , Schreiber affair ). Lukas Wallraff wrote in a review in the taz in 2002 : “The opposition in Bavaria consists of one man […] Only one name makes [the CSU] nervous: Michael Stiller.” Max Strauss took over for his research on Strauss and the CSU , the eldest son of the CSU politician, insulted in 1995 and described, among other things, as a "professional disinformant", against which he took legal action. In 2005 Stiller retired. He then continued to work as a freelance journalist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit , the taz and for the Bayerische Staatszeitung .

Michael Stiller died in August 2016 at the age of 71 in his house in the Allach district of Munich .

Awards

• 1988 First prize at the Guardian Prize of the German daily press
• 1993 Second prize in the Guardian Prize of the German daily press
• 2000 First prize at the Guardian Prize of the German daily press
• 2007 Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Gold

Works

Books

• The Republicans. Franz Schönhuber and his right-wing radical party (= Heyne Books Volume 10: Heyne Report , No. 72), Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-453-03724-3 .
• together with Hans Leyendecker , Heribert Prantl : Helmut Kohl, die Macht und das Geld , Steidl, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-88243-738-3 .
• Edmund Stoiber. The candidate , Econ, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-430-18786-9 .

items

• Irritating indulgence . Bayerische Staatszeitung , October 2, 2015.
• Umflort is now the proud Bavarian crown . ( Memento from August 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) taz , 4./5. October 2008; nominated for the Theodor Wolff Prize 2009.
• A quote that is not a quote. Stoiber has never rushed against the "raced society" . Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 8, 2002.

Web links

• The SZ journalist Michael Stiller recalls interviews. DokZentrum ansTageslicht.de, archived from the original on April 15, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 2016 . 
• Johannes Waechter, Dominik Wichmann, Toby Binder: Two Bavarian souls . SZ magazine , issue 39/2008.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Speaker portrait for his lecture of September 2, 1999 “Too poor, too old, too helpless. Response to current demands by victims of National Socialism from the countries of the former Soviet Union ”at the International Conference for Survivors and Descendants of Victims and Offenders of National Socialism: The“ Liveliness of History ”from 1-3. September 1999 on the website of the "Arche - Platform for Intercultural Projects in Austria", accessed on August 15, 2016.
2. ↑ Heribert Prantl : Obituary for Michael Stiller: A journalistic investigator . Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 15, 2016, accessed on August 15, 2016.
3. ↑ Lukas Wallraff: The majority likes net different . taz , June 11, 2002, accessed August 15, 2016.
4. ↑ Professional: Michael Stiller . Der Spiegel 27/1995, July 3, 1995, p. 198, accessed on August 15, 2016.
5. ↑ Michael Stiller: Journalist and Stoiber Biographer. SWR1 Baden-Württemberg , January 15, 2007, archived from the original on March 7, 2014 ; accessed on August 15, 2016 . 
6. ^ Paul Hoser: Bayerische Staatszeitung (BSZ) . In: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns , April 11, 2013, accessed on August 15, 2016.