Tanjev Schultz

Tanjev Schultz at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Tanjev Schultz (born May 13, 1974 in Berlin ) is a German university professor , journalist and publicist . The former editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung has been Professor of Journalism at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2016 . His main topics include the quality and ethics of journalism. He has also come to the fore through books and interviews about right-wing extremism and the German security authorities.

Life

Schultz obtained his Abitur at the Thomas Mann School in Lübeck, then after his community service he studied philosophy , psychology , communication science , political science and German at the Free University of Berlin , the FernUniversität in Hagen and the Indiana University Bloomington and was at the University of Bremen in political science with the dissertation Geschwätz oder Discurs? The rationality of political talk shows on television for Dr. rer. pole. PhD. At the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies at the University of Bremen, he worked as a research assistant for four years. a. participates in a study funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the identities of Turkish immigrants. Schultz worked in the work area of ​​the sociologist Bernhard Peters . He has published articles in various specialist journals, including the Zeitschrift für Soziologie , der Journalistik and the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

During and after his studies, Schultz worked as a freelance journalist and intern a. a. for the Spiegel , the Tagesspiegel and the WDR . From 2005 he was editor, responsible for education and university policy, at the Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as co-editor of the series “Pedagogical Policies” and author of several books, among others. a. on the Guttenberg plagiarism affair . Together with his colleague Roland Preuss, he was the first to write about the plagiarism in the doctoral thesis of the then Federal Defense Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg and thus triggered his plagiarism affair. As an educational policy editor, Schultz reported in numerous articles a. a. about the Pisa studies and about cases of abuse at the Odenwald School .

From 2012 onwards, Schultz reported for the Süddeutsche Zeitung mainly on internal security issues, above all on the terrorism of the " National Socialist Underground " (NSU). He accompanied the NSU investigative committees in the Bundestag and the state parliaments and reported regularly on the NSU trial at the Munich Higher Regional Court. With Annette Ramelsberger , Wiebke Ramm and Rainer Stadler, Schultz was part of a team that published protocols in SZ-Magazin for every year of the NSU trial . The team also documented the NSU trial in book form on more than 2000 pages, published by the Kunstmann- Verlag and the Federal Agency for Civic Education .

Schultz worked closely with the online editorial team and the investigative department at SZ and was involved in research projects and series, including the work of the secret services ( secret war ) and work on Swiss leaks .

Schultz accepted a call for a regular professorship at the journalism seminar at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where he has been researching and teaching since February 2016. With a research team, he regularly publishes data on the trust of the population in the media. Schultz is one of the founders and co-editors of the journal Journalistik (Journalism Research). He also works as an author of journalistic articles and books. He is a member of the jury of the German Journalist Award and of the Medium Magazin jury for the “Journalists of the Year”.

Together with the journalist Frederik Obermaier , he published a book about the Ku Klux Klan in Germany in 2017, and in 2018 Schultz's overall presentation of the right-wing extremist terror group National Socialist Underground (NSU) appeared. In the press and radio he gave numerous interviews on these topics and in general on right-wing extremism and the German security authorities, etc. a. at Kulturzeit (3Sat) and on Deutschlandfunk . In 2019, he contributed to an anthology about right-wing extremist activities in the security apparatus. In cooperation with the University of Oxford , Schultz also published a study in 2019 on how newsrooms are looking for journalistic talent.

Awards

• 2008: DeGEval Media Prize (Society for Evaluation)
• 2010: Emma Journalist Prize , Category: Men's Prize
• 2011: Shortlist Henri Nannen Prize, Reportage category (Egon Erwin Kisch Prize)
• 2012: Goethe Prize for journalism in science and university politics
• 2013: Universitas Prize for Science Journalism
• 2014: Lead Award (Gold) in the category "Article of the Year" (Team SZ-Magazin zu NSU)
• 2014: Shortlist Henri Nannen Prize, "Investigation" category
• 2015: Lead Award (Bronze) in the "Contribution of the Year" category
• 2016: Lead Award (Bronze) in the "Contribution of the Year" category
• 2018: “Honorable mention” at the Richard Schmid Prize
• 2018: "Journalists of the Year" (as "Team of the Year")
• 2019: Nannen Prize (special prize) for reporting on the NSU trial in 2013–2018

Fonts (selection)

• Chatter or discourse? The Rationality of Political Talk Shows on TV. von Halem, Kön 2006, ISBN 978-3-938258-24-8 .
• with Roland Preuss: Guttenberg's case. The scandal and its consequences for politics and society. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2011, ISBN 978-3-579-06672-1 .
• School without fear. How pedagogy with a heart can become reality. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30420-0 .
• Edited with Klaus Hurrelmann : Education and Kleinstaaterei. Do we need more centralism? (= Educational pamphlets ). Beltz Juventa, Weinheim u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-7799-2751-8 .
• Edited with Klaus Hurrelmann: Die Akademiker-Gesellschaft. Will everyone have to study in the future? (= Educational pamphlets ). Beltz Juventa, Weinheim u. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-7799-2753-2 .
• with Frederik Obermaier : hooded men. The Ku Klux Klan in Germany. dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-26137-1 .
• Edited with Karl N. Renner, Jürgen Wilke : Journalism between autonomy and utility. von Halem, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7445-1133-9 .
• NSU. The terror from the right and the failure of the state. Droemer, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-27628-0 .
• With Annette Ramelsberger , Rainer Stadler , Wiebke Ramm (eds.): The NSU trial. The protocol. Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-95614-095-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Tanjev Schultz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Tanjev Schultz at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Collective Identity of Turkish Migrants in Germany? Retrieved April 13, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Mediatized understanding - Distance Communication ( Memento from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, April 2001 (PDF)
3. ^ Tanjev Schultz: The moderation of political discussions on television . In: Journalism . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-004-0073-5 . tape 49 , p. 292 ff .
4. ^ Tanjev Schultz: Interactive Options in Online Journalism: a Content Analysis of 100 US Newspapers. doi: 10.1111 / j.1083-6101.1999.tb00331.x
5. ^ Tanjev Schultz , Reporter Forum, accessed March 23, 2014.
6. ↑ "There you go, what's the point!" , January 11, 2016, SZ-Magazin
7. ↑ Annette Ramelsberger, Wiebke Ramm, Tanjev Schultz, Rainer Stadler: The NSU trial. The protocol . Kunstmann, ISBN 978-3-95614-112-6 .
8. ↑ Annette Ramelsberger, Wiebke Ramm, Tanjev Schultz, Rainer Stadler: The NSU trial. The protocol . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-7425-0372-5 .
9. ↑ John Goetz, Christian Fuchs, Frederik Obermaier and Tanjev Schultz: Secret War: US officials check travelers in Germany. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. November 18, 2013, accessed September 9, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Swiss Leaks: Documents reveal the business of HSBC. In: sueddeutsche.de . Retrieved October 13, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Tanjev Schultz. Journalistic Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, accessed on September 9, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Jackob, Nikolaus; Schultz, Tanjev et al .: Media Trust in the Age of Polarization . In: Media Perspektiven . No. 5 , 2019 ( ard-werbung.de [PDF; accessed on September 9, 2019]).
13. ↑ Editor & Editor. In: journalistik.online. Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Michael Jacobs: Good style and ethical sensitivity. In: Allgemeine Zeitung . January 14, 2016, accessed September 9, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Matthias Meisner , Heike Kleffner (ed.): Extreme security. Right-wing extremists in the police, the protection of the constitution, the armed forces and the judiciary . Herder, Freiburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-451-38561-2 .
16. ↑ "It is dawning on many editorial offices that they have to look after the next generation" , in: Journalist , 9.2019, p. 18.
17. ↑ DeGEval Young Talent Award / DeGEval Media Award , DeGEval, accessed on March 23, 2014.
18. ^ The 11th Journalist Prize: The Prize Winners , EMMA, accessed on March 23, 2014.
19. ↑ Goethe Media Prize - a journalist prize for journalists in Germany , University of Frankfurt am Main, accessed on March 23, 2014.
20. ^ Forum Berlin, December 13, 2013, Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation ( Memento of March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
21. ↑ The winners. In: Lead Awards 2014. Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
22. ↑ stern / Gruner + Jahr (ed.): Henri Nannen Prize 2014: The best works in the German-language press . Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg 2014.
23. ↑ The winners. In: Lead Awards 2015. Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
24. ↑ The winners. In: Lead Awards 2016. Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
25. ↑ The journalists of the year 2018. In: Medium Magazin . December 18, 2018, accessed September 9, 2019 . 
26. ↑ NANNEN PRICE 2019 (PDF) Accessed on September 9, 2019 .