Reinhard Urschel

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Reinhard Urschel (born August 22, 1952 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German journalist and book author .

Life

During his studies in German and political science , which Urschel completed in Mannheim from 1972 to 1978 , Urschel worked as a freelancer for the daily newspaper Die Rheinpfalz . From 1974 to 1976 he was a scholarship holder of the Catholic Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists . In 1979 he became editor of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . In 1989/90 he moved to the Bonn office, and in 1999 to the Berlin office of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . From May 2007 he was head of the Berlin office of the HAZ . Since 2015 he has been working in the editorial network Germany team of the Madsack publishing company .

In 2002 his book Gerhard Schröder was published. A biography at the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt in Stuttgart and Munich . The reviewers were disappointed ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ), found it "tiring and confusing" ( Frankfurter Rundschau ), undifferentiated and factual ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ), solid but deadly boring, and much too detailed ( Die Tageszeitung ). Arno Widmann summed up in the Berliner Zeitung that “after four hundred pages of Urschel reading nothing about Schröder was known that one did not already know from reading the newspaper” and considered the book, like that of Jürgen Hogrefe , to be “contributions to the social democratic election campaign” . Günter Müchler praised the book in Deutschlandradio as “happily unacademic”, the author abstains from judgmental judgments and relies entirely on the method of description. Andreas Beckman wrote in the Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft that the book is easy to read, but that the majority is not a biography in the conventional sense, but sometimes reminds of a series of press articles. In her political science dissertation from 2007, Nicole Kaspari spoke about the criticism that both Urschel and Hogrefe were “extremely inclined” to their research object , and added that the SPD's own German printing and publishing company was a shareholder in Urschel's employer, the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung .

Urschel is a member of the jury for the Pater Wolfgang Seibel Prize .

Publications

  • Gerhard Schröder. A biography. German Verl.-Anst., Stuttgart and Munich 2002, ISBN 3-421-05508-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reinhard Urschel , Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists
  2. ↑ MADSACK media group well networked in Berlin , Märkische Allgemeine, 24 September 2015
  3. ↑ Summary of the reviews at Perlentaucher
  4. ↑ Arno Widmann: Schröder loses his critics. Berliner Zeitung, April 22, 2002
  5. ^ Günter Müchler : The Political Book: Reinhard Urschel: Gerhard Schröder , Deutschlandradio , April 26, 2002
  6. ^ Andreas Beckman: Reinhard Urschel: Gerhard Schröder. A biography. In: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 13 (2003), 1, p. 284, online
  7. ^ Nicole Kaspari: Gerhard Schröder - Political Leadership in the Field of Tension Between Striving for Power and Political Responsibility . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 82
personal data
SURNAME Urschel, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein