Peter Michael Lingens

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Peter Michael Lingens (2009)

Peter Michael Lingens (born August 8, 1939 in Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist . He is the son of Ella and Kurt Lingens , two resistance fighters against the Nazi regime .

Life

After graduating from high school and joining the army, Lingens worked as an editor for the Arbeiter-Zeitung . After an interlude in an institute for market and motivational research in Munich, he became courtroom reporter for the courier . Appointed by Oscar Bronner as editor-in-chief of the newly founded profil , he was editor of the news magazine until 1987 after his departure.

In 1987 Lingens founded the weekly newspaper Klex , the first Austrian children's newspaper for politics, economy and culture, based on the French Journal des enfants . Initially available at the kiosk, Klex appeared from September 1988 in cooperation with the Austrian youth book club every 14 days for its members. In September 1989, the Mutation Topic was added with a different cover story and an economic section for older students. In September 1990 there was a castling with the magazine Joe the ÖJRK . Instead of doing the balancing act for all ages from 10 to 16 with two competing magazines ( Klex / Topic and JÖ ), the youth book club and the ÖJRK got together: (Klex-) Topic became the ÖJRK's magazine for older students and JÖ that for the younger ones .

In 1990 Lingens took over the publishing and editor-in-chief of the Austrian edition of the German Wirtschaftswoche , after which he moved to the editor-in-chief of Standard in 1993 , from which he left in 1996, but continued to write comments for the newspaper. From 1997 to 2000 Lingens then took on a professorship for journalism at Danube University Krems and taught at the Journalism Academy in Vienna. From 2001 to May 2017 he worked again as a columnist for profil. His columns have been published in the weekly newspaper Falter since mid-June 2017 .

Lingens had a close friendship with the Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal . As the personal secretary of the “Nazi hunter”, he contributed a lot to turning Wiesenthal into a communicator. When Bruno Kreisky suspected Simon Wiesenthal as an undercover agent of the Gestapo in the course of the Kreisky-Peter-Wiesenthal affair , Lingens called this in a comment by profil “monstrous, immoral and opportunistic”. Because Kreisky was criticized as Federal Chancellor, the press procedure was negotiated as an official offense and Lingens was sentenced in Austria to a fine of 30,000 schillings in the last instance. In the grounds of the judgment, the Vienna Higher Regional Court took the position that a journalist should abstain from any “evaluation”.

Ten years later, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) overturned this conviction in a judgment that gained considerable significance for reporting in the common area. The ECHR made it clear that when a matter is correctly presented, the journalist is of course entitled to moral judgments, provided that they are expressed in words that can be considered appropriate. A very critical issue, which can in any case be assessed critically, can therefore be criticized with appropriately harsh words.

When Elfriede Jelinek addressed the National Socialist past of the Burgtheater and its stage stars Wessely and Hörbiger with her play Burgtheater in 1985 , a broad media criticism formed, which Lingens also followed and vigorously spoke out against the play. He justified this with the old age of the actors exposed in the play.

Peter Michael Lingens lives with his wife Eva and his youngest son Eric in Austria and Spain.

Works

Peter Michael Lingens reads from Views of an Outsider (2009)

Peter Michael Lingens became known for the precision of his argumentation, which he has proven in countless comments over the years. Lingens is the author of several books, including:

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klex , edition of September 14, 1987, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Klex No. 33 / September 1988, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Topic . Issue No. 8, December 1989, p. 9.
  4. ↑ Klex-Topic No. 1, September 1990, p. 2.
  5. ↑ See also religious war about the comprehensive school , on lingens.online, accessed on February 4, 2018.
  6. ↑ The Jewish Echo : Authors , accessed on May 24, 2017.
  7. ↑ derStandard.at: "Profile" again without Lingens - writes for "Falter" from June . Article dated May 21, 2017, accessed May 21, 2017.
  8. ↑ ECHR July 8, 1986 - complaint number 12/1984/84/131, judgment (English)
  9. ↑ Jelinek: "There is the hex!" ( Memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), on diepresse.com
  10. ↑ orf.at of January 28, 2020: ORF anchor Pötzelsberger honored as journalist of the year ; accessed on January 29, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Lingens, Peter Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna