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Tom Straw Cutter (2013)

Tom Strohschneider (* 1974 in East Berlin ) is a German journalist . From August 1, 2012 to the end of 2017, he was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland .

Life

Strohschneider was born in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain as the son of psychologists and describes his growing up in the GDR as a “niche existence” in which “a lot of politicization” and a lot of reading was done. He experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall and unification as a youth and perceived the problems of the GDR before the fall of the Wall as the “crunch of a transition society”. Strohschneider studied modern and contemporary history , art theory ( aesthetics ), political science and sociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at times at the University of Graz .

From 2000 he completed a traineeship at the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland and then rose as a domestic editor to deputy head of department. For a while he was also chairman of the works council of Neues Deutschland GmbH. He dealt critically with the history of the sheet to the communist era SED - Central Organ had been.

In 2008 he went to the Berlin weekly newspaper der Freitag for four years and then worked for half a year in the opinion department of the daily newspaper die taz, which also appeared in Berlin , before returning to New Germany on August 1, 2012 , younger To develop readership classes. Initially, he shared the role of editor-in-chief there with his predecessor Jürgen Reents , and since January 1, 2013, he has been the sole editor-in-chief.

Strohschneider also ran a blog under the name Lafontaines Linke until the end of 2012 , in which the non-party member “sympathized” ( Mariam Lau ) followed the fate of the party Die Linke . He himself calls his relationship to the party "critical, solidarity, and observing". Strohschneider is involved - most recently in a “pamphlet” published in 2014 about a “left majority” - in the debates about a possible red-red-green coalition at the federal level. His taz colleague Stefan Reinecke acknowledges that he was "incredibly quick" and "agile" and that he " polished up" the "sleepy" New Germany "surprisingly quickly". However, even he could not put an end to the rapid decline in circulation. He left the editorial office at his own request at the end of 2017, the paper was in a desperate economic situation. He continues to play a leading role in the monthly business newspaper OXI , which is also included in Neues Deutschland .

Strohschneider lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

Fonts

• Education in production. Youth brigades in the GDR and the conflict over company youth work. VDM Müller , Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-0443-3 ; New edition: AV Akademikerverlag , Saarbrücken 2012, ISBN 978-3-639-39751-2 ( print on demand ; also as a paid online resource).
• together with the ND editor Wolfgang Huebner : Lafontaines Linke: a lifeboat for socialism? Karl Dietz, Berlin 2007 ( free download ).
• Left Majority? About red-red-green, political alliances and hegemony. VSA, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89965-596-4 ( FAZ review ).
• What's left? Europe's left, the shift to the right and a socialist compromise. VSA, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-89965-669-5 .
• as editor: Eduard Bernstein or: The freedom of those who think differently. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-320-02361-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Tom Strohschneider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author page at Neues Deutschland
• Mariam Lau : Editor in Chief “Neues Deutschland”: I am so free. Portrait. In: Die Zeit , March 14, 2013.
• The supraregional from the east Interview of Deutschlandfunk with Tom Strohschneider, October 3, 2017 (audio file, 5 min.)
• Left things - interview series with Tom Strohschneider on Radio FREI

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Markus Decker: Editor-in-chief Tom Strohschneider: Fresh wind for the new Germany. , August 1, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Mariam Lau: Editor-in-chief “Neues Deutschland”: I am so free. Portrait. In: Die Zeit , March 14, 2013.
3. ↑ ^{a b} "Neues Deutschland": Tom Strohschneider becomes the new editor-in-chief. In: Spiegel Online , July 24, 2012.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Imprint. In: Lafontaines-Linke.de .
5. ↑ Change of personnel at "Neues Deutschland". In: Neues Deutschland , January 8, 2013.
6. ↑ Vincent Körner, Wolfgang Hübner, Tom Strohschneider: End, End, End. In: Lafontaines-Linke.de , December 31, 2012.
7. ^ Editing and publishing house new Germany: change in the editor-in-chief of "new Germany" . November 13, 2017 ( neue-deutschland.de [accessed November 13, 2017]).
8. ^ Anne Fromm: Editor-in-chief of "Neues Deutschland": Tom Strohschneider goes . In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 13, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed November 14, 2017]).
9. ↑ Wolfgang Hübner: At the run: Tom Strohschneider was editor-in-chief for five years. In: Neues Deutschland , December 30, 2017.