Stefan Kornelius

Stefan Kornelius (born December 3, 1965 in Weinheim ) is a German journalist and publicist . He is head of the foreign affairs department in Munich appearing Sueddeutsche Zeitung .

Life

Kornelius graduated from the Henri Nannen School from 1986 to 1987 and then studied politics , history and constitutional law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the London School of Economics and Political Science until 1991 . In 1986 he founded the trade journal Medium Magazin together with Sebastian Turner , Annette Milz and Oliver Schrott , and became its editor-in-chief in 1989. After freelance work for Stern and the BBC , Kornelius has been working for the Süddeutsche Zeitung since 1988 . From 1993 to 1996 he was a correspondent for SZ in Bonn , from 1996 to 1999 a correspondent in Washington, DC and then deputy office manager in Berlin . Kornelius has been Head of Foreign Policy since 2000.

Since 2008 he has been moderating disputes on international politics for the Körber Foundation in the “Körber Debate” series.

Memberships

Kornelius is a member of the Atlantik-Brücke and moderates events there.

He is a member of the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP), a network and think tank for foreign policy .

Kornelius is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS), a cross-departmental training center in the Federal Republic of Germany in the field of security policy .

He is also a member of the German-Russian Forum and a jury member for the Arthur F. Burns Prize .

Kornelius is a member of the board of trustees of the Munich Chamber Orchestra .

Prizes and awards

In 1991 he received the Axel Springer Prize for young journalists for the article Hitler and Stalin as subtenants .

In 2003 he and Clemens Wergin won the George F. Kennan Commentary Award , which has been awarded annually by the International Journalist Program Association (IJP) for the best transatlantic reporting in commentary form since 2001 . The award-winning commentary was The Art of War Avoidance .

In 2007 he and Georg Mascolo received the Karl Klasen Journalist Prize .

In 2009, the jury of Medium Magazin awarded him a special prize for his report on the air attack near Kunduz with the distinction of “ Journalist of the Year ” . In his laudation , journalist and jury member Wolfgang Kaden stated that by publishing the contents of the secret ISAF report , Kornelius had turned the domestic political debate about the Bundeswehr mission in the Hindu Kush.

Criticism and counter-criticism

Kornelius' networking with think tanks and political elites was criticized on April 29, 2014 by the satirical program " Die Anstalt ". The satirical contribution was also based on Uwe Krüger . In his doctoral thesis on the influence of elites on leading media in the period from 2002 to 2009, which he accepted in October 2011, he counted Kornelius among the most closely networked journalists, who illustrated the discourse of the elites and spread their arguments on the topics of security, defense and foreign missions of the Bundeswehr and have campaigned for more military engagement. The image of threats and conflicts conveyed corresponded to official military-political doctrines. According to Krüger, the Kornelius network showed clear similarities with the networks of Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger , Josef Joffe and Michael Stürmer .

In an interview with ZAPP author Daniel Bröckerhoff ( NDR ) on May 14, 2014, Kornelius admitted errors in transparency, but defended his membership in institutions, as this is part of his business as a journalist. He forms his own opinion and does not represent the opinions of these institutions. For journalistic participation in political institutions, he drew the line at political advice. He criticized the exaggerated and unreasonable tone of dealing with him and the leading media as a whole. He assigned a special role in the criticism of the leading media to the research of Uwe Krüger . Krüger's thesis that the influence of elites determines the journalistic work of leading media and alpha journalists was rejected as unfounded.

He feels that his work on the advisory board of the Federal Academy for Security Policy is "a piece of social responsibility that he fulfills as a citizen and taxpayer."

In an interview in August 2014, Kornelius described Krüger's work as “political criticism in the guise of a scientific work”. He criticized the small number of examined texts and described the selection of the examined journalists as politically motivated. The editor-in-chief of ZEIT, Bernd Ulrich, noted in his book "Tell us the truth" (2015) that these transatlantic networks are a "transmission belt for the American way of thinking in foreign policy". "Because of this journalistic embedding" the foreign policy debate in this country sometimes has a strange American accent (...) Even those who don't know anything about the Atlantik-Brücke feel this, and it makes them suspicious. when it comes to a new realistic and honest discourse in foreign policy and to win back readers' trust. " (P. 47 f.).

Works

• Al Gore - Mission Climate: His Life - His Goals. Herder, 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-03020-8 .
• The undeclared war. Germany's self-deception in Afghanistan. Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89684-138-4 .
• German soldiers in the war . Torchbearer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7716-4459-8 .
• Barack Obama: rise, crisis, second chance. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86497-113-6 .
• Angela Merkel. The Chancellor and her world. Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-50291-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Kornelius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Stefan Kornelius in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Albrecht Müller : The coordination of important leading media organized close to the US, Part II on Putin's speech, Ukraine, etc.
• Markus Glöckler: In line with the elite
• “It's part of my business” ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) ZAPP from May 14, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Stefan Kornelius. Retrieved July 9, 2015 . 
2. ↑ editorial office. Retrieved September 17, 2015 . 
3. ↑ waypoints. In: Medium magazine. Retrieved March 2, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Stefan Kornelius. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 2, 2015 ; accessed on September 17, 2015 . Info: The 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.  
5. ↑ Körber Debate. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on September 29, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ^ Journalism from the institution. Retrieved September 29, 2015 . 
7. ^ "Mapping Out Security Policy Strategies for the Transatlantic Partnership" - Discussion with high-ranking security advisors. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 30, 2015 ; accessed on September 29, 2015 . Info: The 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.  
8. ^ Journalism from the institution. Retrieved October 17, 2015 . 
9. ↑ https://www.baks.bund.de/de/die-baks/der-beirat
10. ↑ Federal Ministry of Defense (2006) (Ed.): White Paper 2006 on Germany's Security Policy and the Future of the Bundeswehr, Berlin, 127
11. ↑ http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=18653
12. ↑ http://www.streitkraeftebasis.de/portal/a/streitkraeftebasis/!ut/p/c4/TYpLDsIwDERvZJcYnMKOU0DZoKSJKovmoxA-4vQkCyT0pDe2ZvCCjWiespgqKZoVzzjNcrAvuN_sNcsH3hC8E2NldXjqc-dhTtHX7upjlealmJoK5FTq2ptHKa0BcTjRhnY0Kk9Eqrl_1JLbNfzDWhNp3vKeR81MaviBOYTjF-CCEvs!/
13. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. 
14. ↑ The Arthur F. Burns Prize. Retrieved October 17, 2015 . 
15. ^ Münchner Kammerorchester eV (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 18, 2016 ; accessed on March 2, 2016 . Info: The 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.  
16. ↑ reporter-forum.de
17. ↑ The George F. Kennan Commentary Prize. Retrieved October 17, 2015 . 
18. ↑ icfj.org ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. 
19. ↑ Quotations. Retrieved October 17, 2015 . 
20. ↑ ^{a b} mediummagazin.de
21. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
22. ↑ Ingo Rentz: Why the “time” took action against “the institution”. In: horizon. July 30, 2014, accessed March 2, 2016 . 
23. ↑ Ronnie Grob: In and with the elite. In: Medienwoche. March 7, 2013, accessed March 2, 2016 . 
24. ↑ Uwe Krüger: Power of opinion. The Influence of Elites on Leading Media and Alpha Journalists - A Critical Network Analysis. Halem, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3869620701 , also dissertation University of Leipzig, 2011.
25. ↑ http://www.message-online.com/wp-content/uploads/Artikel_Krueger_Die_Naehe_zur_Macht_Message_1_2013.pdf
26. ↑ Daniel Bröckerhoff: It's part of my business. In: NDR. May 14, 2014, archived from the original on May 17, 2014 ; Retrieved March 2, 2016 (video not available). 
27. ↑ Video of the ZAPP broadcast on May 14, 2014. Retrieved on March 2, 2016 . 
28. ^ Journalism from the institution , Cicero, August 7, 2014
29. ↑ Petra Schwegler: "Proximity does not mean fraternization": SZ replica to lobby study. In: W&V. August 6, 2014, accessed March 2, 2016 .