Roger Schawinski

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Roger Schawinski (1991)

Roger Schawinski (born June 11, 1945 in Zurich ) is a Swiss journalist , author and media entrepreneur . From 2003 to 2006 he was managing director of the German private television broadcaster Sat.1 . In Switzerland he is known as a pioneer of private radio and as a television presenter .

Schawinski founded the consumer magazine Kassensturz of Swiss television , the first Swiss private radio Radio 24 , the first Swiss private television broadcaster TeleZüri , Radio 1 for adults and the first national private television Tele24 . He moderated television programs, was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Die Tat and publisher of the monthly magazine Bonus .

Live and act

Roger Schawinski comes from Zurich. As the child of the Jewish textile goods trader Abraham Schawinski, he grew up in Zurich-Wiedikon . After business school at the Kantonsschule Enge Schawinski acquired at the age of 21 years, the maturity on the second chance . He studied economics at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). In 1973 he was with the work of the socio-economic factors of tourism in developing countries: The case of Guatemala in the field of economics doctorate . During his studies he spent two semesters at Central Michigan University, where he earned an MBA. He also completed an internship at the Neue Presse in Zurich.

From 1972 he first worked as a journalist for Swiss television . From 1974 he founded and moderated the consumer magazine Kassensturz . From 1977 until his dismissal without notice in 1978, he worked as editor- in- chief at the Migros daily newspaper Die Tat .

In 1979 he founded the first Swiss private radio, Radio 24 , which initially broadcasted as an Italian broadcaster from Pizzo Groppera in Northern Italy with what was then the strongest VHF radio station in the world as a radio adviser to Switzerland, before it, after being supported by the youth movement at the time and a broad public, was licensed in Switzerland in 1983 alongside other private radio broadcasters. In April 1981 Schawinski received an award from the American Billboard magazine.

In the 1980s, Schawinski was managing director of the Stella Group, which owned cinemas in several Swiss cities and was active in film distribution and film production. He founded the Zurich city magazine Bonus , which appeared until 1996. In 1991 he founded the classic radio station Opus Radio , which in 1992 had to cease operations again due to a lack of definitive approval for FM broadcasting.

Schawinski founded TeleZüri, the first private local television broadcaster in Switzerland, which went on air in 1994. There he moderated, among other things, the talk show “TalkToday”, in which he talked to guests. In 1995 Schawinski was awarded the Tele Prize and in 1996 the Zurich Radio and Television Prize. In 1998 he founded Tele24, the first nationwide private television broadcaster in Switzerland, for which he was awarded the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize in the same year . In 1999, the major Swiss bank Credit Suisse took over 40 percent of the shares in Schawinski's Belcom Holding AG , which the various companies owned. The Swiss media company Tamedia AG took over Radio 24 and TeleZüri in August 2001 for 80 million Swiss francs. Tele24 was then discontinued.

On December 4, 2003, Schawinski was appointed managing director of the private television broadcaster Sat.1 by the new owner, Haim Saban . With a few announcements, including the show Anke Late Night , he came under criticism at the beginning. In June 2005, his contract was extended by two years. The attempt to revive the program Talk in the tower called Talk of the Week , which he initiated , ran only from August 7th to October 9th, 2005 and was canceled after ten episodes due to the low ratings . The market share of Sat.1 under Schawinski initially rose from 10.2 percent (2003) to 10.9 percent (2005) and fell in 2006 - the year of the soccer World Cup in Germany - to 9.8 percent. When Schawinski took over the station, it made no profit, in 2006 he achieved a record profit of more than 200 million euros. At the end of November 2006, Schawinski announced that he would leave Sat.1 early at the end of 2006 on his own initiative.

At the beginning of October 2007, Schawinski bought the Zurich Radio Tropic from Frédéric Dru in order to start a new radio station. The new station, called Radio 1 , went on air for the first time on March 17, 2008. From 2010 to 2015 he discussed current issues with Roger Köppel on Mondays in the format Roger versus Roger . In 2016 the show was continued with Markus Somm , the then publisher and editor-in-chief of the Basler Zeitung .

Schawinski wrote a weekly column in the SonntagsZeitung from 2009 to 2013 . He was on the newspaper's columnist team in 1987 when the newspaper was launched.

After 34 years, Schawinski, who had " advanced to become one of the sharpest critics of the SRG ", returned to Swiss television, where he began his journalistic career. From August 22, 2011 to March 23, 2020, he hosted the talk show named after him «Schawinski» every Monday on SRF 1 . There he used to discuss with exponents from politics and business.

In January 2014, Schawinski took over the Radio 105 station with the aim of integrating it into Radio 1. The station had previously had to file for bankruptcy.

2016 awarded him the University of Freiburg the honorary doctorate . This recognized his commitment to media freedom and diversity.

In 2018 Schawinski published a pamphlet against the No-Billag initiative , which he declared to be one of the most important disputes, which caused a sensation because he had fought vehemently against the SRG monopoly for many years.

Also in 2018, Schawinski published a book on conspiracy theories in which he criticized current representatives of this way of thinking such as Alex Jones , Ken Jebsen or Daniele Ganser . The Neue Zürcher Zeitung described it as pleasantly written, but complained about the somewhat alarmist tone. The Basler Zeitung praised the book as a “clever, informative, even brilliant book”, while Schawinski's research on Daniele Ganser “belongs to the best in the book”. At most, it was criticized that Schawinski did not address conspiracy theories from the left enough. The Journal21 came to the conclusion that the reader of the «factual book [s] about the obscure cosmos of conspiracy theories, their cynical producers and their naive or bitter supporters [...] could gain some enlightenment insights on this highly topical subject area» .

Private

Schawinski has been married for the third time since 1996 and lives in Zurich. He has a daughter together with his current wife Gabriella Sontheim. The first marriage in 1970 remained childless. From the second marriage in 1981 come a son (* 1981) and a daughter (* 1983). His son Kevin Schawinski was Professor of Astrophysics at ETH Zurich until 2018 .

In March 2014 his autobiography Who Am I? In 2018 he was a member of the Pro-Committee for the private “Ensemble” project by HRS and Credit Suisse (a new football stadium with two high-rise buildings) in Zurich. The project was accepted.

Controversy

Scandal in television programs

In Schawinski's programs there have been various scandal in the past, including a. the following:

  • Ueli Maurer left the “SonnTalk” on Tele24 in 1999 while the program was running after Schawinski had described him as “in principle party president by Blocher's grace”.
  • In the “TalkTaily” program on Tele Züri , he once threw the book of his guest, the author Catherine Herriger , through the studio.
  • The political scientist Regula Stämpfli canceled a visit to his talk show “Schawinski” on the grounds that she had already been portrayed in the announcement text for the program as an extremely polarizing person who seemed to have a lot of fun with it, and diplomacy and sensitivity were also sought in her Columns in vain.
  • In Schawinski's radio talk show on his own radio station, Radio 1 , there were various insults on the September 6, 2009 broadcast with Klaus J. Stöhlker .
  • In December 2014 he described the cabaret artist Andreas Thiel as an “ asshole ” after an emotional interview when the cameras were no longer running .
  • In his talk show “Schawinski” on SRF 1 , he asked the prostitute Salomé Balthus following a clip that discusses sexual abuse in the childhood of prostitutes: “Was that the case with you too?”

Adoption of texts from Wikipedia and other sources

In 2016 Schawinski published the book I am the very greatest. Why Narcissists Fail at No & But Publishing . According to the Tages-Anzeiger , both texts from Wikipedia and newspaper articles - such as Der Spiegel - were taken over without being identified as sources in the book. There are also many formulations that can be found on other websites on the Internet, for example in articles from Die Zeit and the NZZ . The non-fiction editor Ulrich Nolte from the CH Beck publishing house criticized this in an interview as “fraud against the reader”.

Works

Several of his books became bestsellers in Switzerland :

literature

Documentaries

  • Beat Hirt: Jolly Roger - A Chapter of Swiss Media History. Mesch & Ugge, Zurich 2003.
  • Michael Bühler: Roger Schawinski. DOK , 2020 ( video, 50 min )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.persoenlich.com/gesellschaft/ich-wundere-mich-wie-viel-mir-gelungen-ist
  2. ^ "Jolly Roger" by Beat Hirt ( memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: CH Filmszene ( Swiss television ). November 5, 2008, accessed April 6, 2012.
  3. ↑ Start «Tele24» ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Video in: Swiss television from October 5, 1998 (1:30 min) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.srf.ch
  4. ↑ Do you remember when Sat.1 put down a talk flop with “Talk of the Week”? on Quotenmeter.de
  5. ↑ Roger Schawinski buys Radio Tropic Radio planned for 30 to 60 year olds NZZ Online from October 5, 2007
  6. ↑ Radio 1 website
  7. ^ Off for the show "Roger versus Roger". ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.persoenlich.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: persoenlich.com/sda from September 5, 2015.
  8. ↑ Schawinski no longer writes a column. In: persoenlich.com from July 14, 2013
  9. ^ Column by Roger Schawinski in: SonntagsZeitung
  10. ↑ Schawinski's comeback as a columnist for the “SonntagsZeitung” in: Klein Report from May 5, 2009
  11. ↑ Philippe Zweifel: "Everyone ends up with SF sooner or later" in the Berner Zeitung , February 3, 2011.
  12. ↑ SF talk show for Schawinski in: NZZ Online from February 3, 2011
  13. ↑ mission "Schawinski" on the website of SRF 1
  14. ↑ Schawinski digs into Radio 105 - "that was hard work." In: Tages-Anzeiger .ch / Newsnet from January 28, 2014
  15. ↑ Patrick Mülhauser: University of Freiburg awards Roger Schawinski an honorary doctorate. In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF). November 15, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Roger Schawinski receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Freiburg / Friborg. (PDF) Press release. In: University of Freiburg. Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, April 7, 2016, accessed November 20, 2016 .
  17. ^ "Why Roger Schawinski considers the" No Billag "initiative to be very dangerous", NZZ from January 6, 2018 , accessed February 8, 2018
  18. ^ "Roger Schawinski on‹ No Billag ›" , votez.ch video from January 31, 2018, accessed February 12, 2018
  19. ↑ Marc Tribelhorn in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 24, 2018, quoted from perlentaucher.de , accessed on September 19, 2018.
  20. ↑ Markus Somm : And deliver us from evil. Who is behind 9/11, who rules the world? Roger Schawinski on the trail of the conspiracy theorists . bazonline.ch of April 21, 2018, accessed on September 19, 2018.
  21. ↑ Reinhard Meier: Conspiracy theories. Ganser, Trump, Putin and others . In: Journal21 of April 9, 2018, accessed September 20, 2018.
  22. ↑ Barbara Lukesch, Unterwegs mit Roger Schawinski, - ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lukesch.ch
  23. ↑ See on this the biography of Roy Spring : One against all. The other face of Roger Schawinski ( memento from March 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Weltwoche-ABC-Verlag, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-85504-178-4 .
  24. ↑ Jean-Martin Büttner: He is the best himself. Review in: Tages-Anzeiger from March 1, 2014
  25. ↑ "I didn't want to make myself small like my father." ( Memento from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Pre-printed in the SonntagsZeitung on February 23, 2014
  26. ↑ Nadja Pastega, Thomas Speich: "The radio is holding up extremely well." In: SonntagsZeitung from November 5, 2018.
  27. ↑ Broadcast on Youtube
  28. ↑ Die Welt , July 30, 2006
  29. ↑ Aargauer Zeitung , June 7, 2013
  30. ↑ Rico Bandle: If Schawinski and Stöhlker lose their composure , Tages-Anzeiger from September 7, 2009 and September 8, 2009
  31. ↑ Basler Zeitung of December 17, 2014
  32. ↑ Schawinski, broadcast on SRF. April 8, 2019, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  33. ↑ Andreas Tobler: The Schawinski method. In: Tages-Anzeiger from June 20, 2016.
  34. ↑ Martin Ebel: "That is fraud against the reader." In: Tages-Anzeiger from July 20, 2016.
  35. ↑ Book excerpt: Everything you think you know is wrong. In: Das Magazin 14/2018 from April 7, 2018 pp. 24–27. Interviews: [1] [2] [3] [4] .
  36. ↑ Linus Schöpfer: The role model is himself. In: Tages-Anzeiger from March 14, 2020.
  37. ^ Website for the film
  38. ↑ Linus Schöpfer: SRF presents Schawinski. In: Tages-Anzeiger , April 30, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Schawinski, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich