Peter Huth (computer journalist)
Peter Huth is a German journalist , among other things, through his television appearances as "computer and Internet expert" in various infotainment broadcasts of private television (. Eg file and Planetopia Online ) became known.
Life
In June 1973 Peter Huth graduated from high school in Salzgitter -Bad. From 1975 to 1981 he studied German and theater studies at the Technical University of Berlin .
During his studies in 1979 he was involved in setting up and developing the daily newspaper die tageszeitung (taz). In September 1981 he left the Technical University of Berlin without a degree. Shortly afterwards he became responsible for the areas of foreign affairs and news at taz. In the foreign editorial office, his focus was on Eastern Europe, so that during this time he dealt with Poland and Solidarność . In the newsroom he was responsible for the latest foreign pages. In 1984 he appeared for a short time as ViSdP in the taz imprint.
In 1985 Huth staged the children's play Hart im haben at GRIPS-Theater Berlin. In 1986 he wrote the radio play Auf Durchreise for RIAS Berlin.
In 1988 Peter Huth received a grant from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation . In the following years up to 1995 he mainly worked as a freelance journalist for newspapers, radio and television.
From September 1994 to May 2000 he was the editor of the Sat.1 broadcast Act , in which from 1999 he also made his own television appearances with a focus on computers and the Internet .
In June 2000 he became managing director of My Channel Multimedia GmbH, where he was responsible for the development of child protection software and dialer protection programs .
There was public criticism in 2004 in connection with a security problem at the My Channel company. A list of the names, addresses, and credit card details of the company's customers was unprotected for a long time on the company's website. As the managing director of My Channel, Huth was particularly criticized for insufficiently informing customers about the breakdown and instead filed criminal charges against several hundred Internet users who had downloaded the data. The investigation into Huth's advertisements was closed because the data on the website was not sufficiently secured. My Channel was liquidated in March 2010.
Peter Huth has been running the Internet platform Gegenrede , an information portal against right-wing extremism , since 2007 .
In July 2003, Huth became a freelancer for the SAT.1 program Planetopia . A few months later, his internet advisor was published by Data Becker . Since 2004 he has hosted the television program Planetopia Online together with Elke Rosenfeldt . Huth worked for the station RBB and several local newspapers in northern Brandenburg, where he also lives.
In 2019, Huth was nominated for the journalists' award The Long Breath of the DJV Berlin-Brandenburg for his television programs for the rbb show “ Brandenburg aktuell ” and his information portal gegenrede.info .
Publications
- with Matthias Brand, Liese Petry: Sketches in Berlin. Ed. New Society for Literature. Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 1980.
- (Red.): Poland: “Winter to you, spring to us.” TAZ-Journal No. 4, TAZ, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-922767-03-6 .
- Tough. Text book. Grips-Theater (Ed.), Berlin 1985.
- The Caillaux case. Play. Bauer, Berlin 1989.
- with Ernst Volland (Ed.): This book is pure forgery. From A to Z: Everything is fake. Two thousand and one, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
- Horizontal. 100 crossword puzzles from the scene. Two thousand and one , Frankfurt am Main 1991.
- Internet fast and safe. Data Becker, 2003, ISBN 3-8158-2354-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heise Online, January 13, 2005, Mychannel: Data unsecured - procedure discontinued
- ↑ http://www.gegenrede.info/index01.php
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkZzlpImc3c
- ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/journalistenpreis-langer-atem-nazis-im-blick/25250014.html
- ↑ https://www.djv-berlin.de/startseite/info/news/aktuelles/details/article/die-nominierungen.html
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Huth in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huth, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1955 |