Press Club Hanover

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Press Club Hannover
(PCH)
purpose Profiling the Hanover region
Chair: Jürgen Köster
Establishment date: January 20, 1994
Number of members: around 380 (as of 2008)
Seat : Arnswaldtstrasse 6

30159 Hanover

Website: presse-club-hannover.de
2014 “on site” in the Marktkirche in Hanover: organist Ulfert Smidt (left) and the chairman of the Press Club Hanover Jürgen Köster

The Press Club Hannover e. V. is a press club organized as a registered association in the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover , which aims to raise the profile of the Hanover region . The club promotes the exchange of views in the political, economic, cultural and sporting areas through lectures. In addition to the annual award of the Leibniz-Ring-Hannover to personalities who have distinguished themselves through an outstanding achievement or who have set a special mark through their life's work, the Press Club Hannover sponsors through the Sir Hugh Carleton Greene Foundation in cooperation with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) the young journalists in Lower Saxony .

history

The first forerunner of the Hannover Press Club was a regular " Stammtisch " held in the Scotch Club on Weidendamm in the early 1960s at the suggestion of journalist Hans Hill , which was usually followed by a visit to Jenseits night bar run by Jens Brenke from midnight . These nocturnal gatherings soon outlived each other, apart from meeting an unshakable “hard core”.

A second attempt to found a permanent Hanoverian press club began immediately after the so-called " Hotels Interconti " opposite the town hall on Friedrichswall, which was newly built at the time and inaugurated on November 4, 1965 . The “Press Prize Skat”, which is held annually with up to 100 participants, developed from the skat regularly played by the journalists there on the first floor - but an informative press club has not yet developed in this way.

After the Lower Saxony state parliament bought the Georg-von-Cölln-Haus for expansion in 1979 and the Lower Saxony state press conference under its then chairman Rolf Zick had to meet in a windowless room in the Leineschloss , in October 1980, together with the state press chief Helmut Beyer and members of the Landtag presidium a founding committee "Press Club Lower Saxony". Sightseeing tours to press clubs such as Bremen, Hamburg or Munich were followed by lofty plans for a press center over three floors with offices, conference rooms and even a restaurant in the Georg-von-Cölln-Haus. Then, however, "left" journalists who wanted to overthrow the CDU- led Lower Saxony state government with the help of what would later become the Left Combat Press Association criticized the expected excessive closeness between journalists and parliament - the temporary end of the planned press club.

A regular's table in the Kreuzklappe in Hanover's Golden Angle was for a short time a renewed attempt to establish a press club.

The founding of the Hannover Press Club on January 20, 1994 finally succeeded through the professional work of representatives of all media, press officers and editorial staff "[...] from press offices of authorities, administration, business and industry, from associations and institutions , also from PR offices ”and printers and“ media workers ”with connections to the press, radio, television and PR .

Web links

Commons : Presse Club Hannover  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hugo Thielen : Press Club Hannover. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 508.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Rolf Zick: 20 years of the Press Club Hannover , speech by honorary chairman Rolf Zick on the 20th birthday of the Press Club Hannover on January 20, 2014 in the Brauhaus Ernst August, most recently from presse-club-hannover.de accessed on March 15, 2017
  3. ↑ Andreas Voigt: Maritim-Grand-Hotel: Concrete block with a new future? / Hanover loses the next Maritim Hotel: The group of companies has decided to sell the Grand Hotel opposite the New Town Hall - it has recently been offered on the property market , on the website of the daily newspaper [[Neue Presse (Hanover) |]] from April 24, 2014, last accessed March 15, 2017

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 10.6 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 40.8"  E