Peter Huth (Author)

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Peter Huth (born May 29, 1969 in Kleve ) is a German author , journalist , sheet maker and music publisher. He was editor-in-chief of Welt am Sonntag and has been Corporate Creative Director at Axel Springer and author of the Welt Group since March 2019 .

Life

After an internship in Halle with the Mitteldeutscher Express , Peter Huth went to the Express in Cologne in 1992 . In 1997 he moved to BZ. There he worked as head of news, before he went to Bild in Hamburg in 2001 and worked as editor-in-chief . In 2004 he became deputy editor-in-chief and in 2008 editor-in-chief of BZ. From 2014 he was also deputy editor-in-chief of Bild. At the beginning of 2017 he was appointed editor-in-chief of Welt am Sonntag. Since March 1, 2019, he has been responsible for the Axel Springer events across the group as "Corporate Creative Director".

Peter Huth is married and has two children.

Act as an author

After a heart attack in 2002, he wrote down his experiences in an autobiography (Infarct. An operational disruption) . The book was published by Rowohlt Verlag . Since his heart attack, he has published several non-fiction books and a novel. As an author, he also worked together with Ulrich Waller and Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre on the revue 100 Years in 100 Minutes , which was produced for the 100th birthday of the publisher Axel Springer .

Works (excerpt)

Prizes and awards (extract)

  • 2004: Hamburg Prize for Literature
  • 2012: Silver nail for the East-West edition of the BZ (Editor-in-Chief: Peter Huth)
  • 2014: Lead Awards : Award in the main category newspapers for the BZ No. 01 to 356 - The page-one lead (Editor-in-Chief: Peter Huth)
  • 2015: Award from the Art Directors Club (ADC) in the newspaper - Cover category (Editor-in-Chief: Peter Huth)
  • 2015: Lead Awards: Gold in the main newspaper category for the BZ and its series on the Auschwitz Trial - Every word counts (BZ No. 111/2015 to 191/2015) (Editor-in-chief: Peter Huth)
  • 2016: Lead Awards for BZ as newspaper of the year (Editor-in-Chief: Peter Huth)
  • 2016: Editor-in-chief of the year, 2nd place Medium Magazin 2016

Controversy

  • At the beginning of 2016, the CDU Bundestag member Andreas Lämmel saw a media scandal in the reports on the alleged death in front of the Berlin State Office for Health and Social Affairs (LaGeSo). However, there was no Syrian refugee who died before the LaGeSo. Andreas Lämmel criticized the media after it turned out that there was no death. Lämmel said in a video: " If a reporter had only called ten Berlin hospitals to find a dead person, it would quickly have turned out that there was no dead person. " He held the issue of the BZ in his hand. The title of the BZ was: "A drama about no dead person". As a result, Mr. Lämmel's argumentation came to nothing. Peter Huth reacted to Lammel's statements on social media and explained how reporters work. In addition, Peter Huth stated that the media reported "with clear reservations" and that it was also clear that there had been no deaths. This was also described on bz.de.
  • In 2017 Peter Huth shared an article in the world on Facebook and commented literally: "Any questions? Anyone? Tasteless? Stupid? Cynical?" . It was about the Welt.de article with the headline "Hexenhammer": AfD politician recommends burning women to save the climate. The Baden-Württemberg AfD member of the state parliament, Rainer Podeswa , was portrayed as actually recommending the burning of women to save the climate. The truth is that Rainer Podeswa compared the green climate policy with the medieval witch burnings and said that the green climate policy and the witch burnings were delusional excesses. Peter Huth was confronted with it several times on Facebook and felt misunderstood because he did not think that Mr Podeswa recommended witch burnings, but rather found the comparison of witch burnings and climate protection senseless. The world then changed the headline to: "AfD man causes excitement with reference to" Hexenhammer "."
  • In 2017, the world misrepresented a Donald Trump statement on fake news . Specifically, it was about having the dpa - journalist Kristina Dunz Angela Merkel said during the state visit with Donald Trump, dangerous as it considered that the isolationist policy of the American president. Trump interrupted her and then replied that he did not pursue an isolationist policy and that he did not know which newspaper she read, but that it must be fake news. However, in his editorial in Die Welt am Sonntag, Peter Huth claimed that journalist Donald Trump had asked why he was afraid of pluralistic reporting and why he was constantly making claims for which there was no evidence. Peter Huth wrote that Trump's answer was as follows: "The answer is of course not an answer. It begins with the patronizing old man's sentence" There's a nice, friendly reporter. I don't know which newspaper you represent ... "and ends As usual: “... but that's another example of fake news." Peter Huth then asks whether a question can already be fake news. Later Peter Huth admitted that he had quoted a wrong translation. Donald Trump asked specifically which newspapers she read and not which newspaper she represented.

Trivia

  • Peter Huth is a partner in the British-German music label Giant Electric Pea and was the promoter and tour manager of the band IQ
  • In 2015, Huth worked as an associate producer on the film Subterranea .
  • In October 2018, Peter Huth ended his activities on social media.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Huth - short biography. In: Rowohlt Verlag . Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
  2. ^ Peter Huth: Infarct. A malfunction. In: Pearl Divers . Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Sofia Ma: My little world of books ^^: [Book review] Berlin Requiem - Peter Huth. In: My little world of books ^^. April 21, 2014, accessed March 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Florian Kain: 100 years in 100 minutes. Welt , May 3, 2012, accessed March 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ “100 Years in 100 Minutes” - film premiere for the revue in Hamburg's St. Pauli Theater. Axel Springer , June 1, 2012, accessed on March 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Hans-Peter Siebenhaar: Review instead of ceremony for Springer's birthday. Handelsblatt , May 3, 2012, accessed on March 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ East-West edition of the BZ awarded the “Silver Nail”. BZ , May 15, 2012, accessed March 15, 2019 .
  8. ↑ THE PRIZE WINNER. Leadacademy, 2014, accessed March 15, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Art Directors Club honors BZ title as “brave and clear”. BZ , accessed March 15, 2019 .
  10. ↑ THE PRIZE WINNER. Leadacademy, 2015, accessed March 15, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Lead Awards 2016: Jury selects BZ before Handelsblatt and taz as newspaper of the year. Meedia, October 10, 2016, accessed March 15, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Regional Editor-in-Chief. Medium Magazin, 2016, accessed March 15, 2019 .
  13. ↑ a b c d e f A CDU politician, his unsuccessful media scolding about the pseudo-dead refugee and the peppery answer from the BZ boss. Meedia, January 29, 2016, accessed March 15, 2019 .
  14. ↑ a b c d e Stefan Niggemeier: Journalists don't make mistakes. They are just being misunderstood. Via media, May 15, 2017, accessed March 15, 2019 .
  15. ↑ a b c d e f Stefan Niggemeier: “Welt am Sonntag” misrepresents Trump's fake news accusation. Via media, March 19, 2017, accessed March 15, 2019 .
  16. ^ Peter Huth - Marketing Director. GEP, accessed in March 2019 .
  17. ^ Subterranea (2015) Full Cast & Crew. IMDb, accessed on March 15, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Peter Huth: Social: How do I freed myself from Facebook & Co. . December 29, 2018 ( online [accessed March 15, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Huth, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleve