Ulrich Wickert

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Ulrich Wickert (2018)

Ulrich Wickert (born  December 2, 1942 in Tokyo ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Childhood, youth and education

Wickert was born in Tokyo when his father Erwin Wickert was broadcast attaché to the German embassy there. Wickert spent his childhood from 1947 to 1956 in Heidelberg, where he attended the Mönchhofschule primary school , then the English Institute and later the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium , then until 1959 in Paris , where the family joined German NATO because of his father's professional obligations -Representation lived. At the age of 14, Wickert published his first journalistic article in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung in 1956 with a report on the Eiffel Tower . Because of a prank he played on the pastor, he was thrown out of confirmation class at the age of 14. In 1961 he graduated from the Urspring School near Schelklingen .

In 1961 he began to study political science and law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He went to Wesleyan University in Middletown (Connecticut) , USA , on a 1962 Fulbright scholarship . After his return to Bonn, he campaigned for the university rector Hugo Moser's Nazi past to be publicly discussed at the university. He passed his first state examination in law in 1968, after which he worked as a freelance radio author for ARD .

Career

Ulrich Wickert (2011)

As a television journalist

From 1969 to 1977 Wickert worked as editor of the program Monitor and was sent by WDR from 1969 to 1978 to every presidential election in Paris. In 1977 he went to Washington, DC as a correspondent for ARD , and in 1978 Wickert took a position in the ARD's France studio. In 1981 he founded the journalists' discussion group for open radio , in the same year he took over the management of the ARD studio in New York . In 1984, Wickert became head of the ARD studio in Paris. That year he shot a well-known report about the best way to cross the Place de la Concorde in Paris : In a self-experiment, he crossed the busy square without looking at the cars. Thus, the French drivers could not assume that he was taking care of himself and were therefore forced to adapt their driving style.

With effect from July 1, 1991 he became, according to the wishes of his predecessor Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, “First Moderator” of the ARD news program Tagesthemen , which he moderated until August 31, 2006 in weekly alternation with Sabine Christiansen , later Gabi Bauer and finally Anne Will . His trademark in the program was the farewell greeting "... a pleasant evening and a good night's sleep", with which he ended the program with a few exceptions. Normally, he followed a reference to the night edition of the Tagesschau with the phrase “You will be informed about the current state of affairs ...”. His successor at the tagesthemen was Tom Buhrow .

In his work as moderator of the Tagesthemen, Wickert made headlines in the autumn of 2001 when he quoted the Indian writer Arundhati Roy in the magazine MAX after an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that US President George W. Bush compared with terrorist leader Osama bin Laden . Although Wickert attempted an interpretation of this statement only very cautiously, there was massive criticism , especially in the tabloid press . In particular, Bild accused the moderator of "insulting the president" and " anti-Americanism ". After he publicly apologized, the ARD declared the matter closed and ended the media debate about a possible termination.

From August 17, 2006 to May 20, 2007 he moderated the 30-minute literature show Wickert's books on ARD . From March 2007 to July 2014 he presented the program “Wickerts Bücher” on the first Sunday of the month at 1 p.m. in NDR-Kultur.

Outside the ARD

In the 2004/05 winter semester he became an honorary professor at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences in Magdeburg . He worked there until 2015 in the journalism / media management course.

In November 2005 he was appointed Officer of the Legion of Honor for his services to Franco-German relations .

Since February 2008 he has been co-editor and columnist of the news portal zoomer.de , which was closed again on February 28, 2009 for economic reasons.

He is also the owner of the production company UWP. In 2008, Wickert applied with UWP for a third-party broadcasting license with RTL Television . After the award procedure against the company dctp of Alexander Kluge was inferior, he sued the Lower Saxony State Media Authority (NLM). After his urgent application against NLM was rejected in September 2008 before the Hanover Administrative Court, he withdrew the action in October 2008.

As an author, Wickert has published numerous books since 1981. "Reading and writing are part of our lives like eating and drinking with other people", quoted Hans Leyendecker Wickert about his father's role model in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "When I came home at noon, my father sat in the armchair and wrote on a fancy Olivetti ." Most recently, he presented a number of crime novels set in France.

In 2016, Wickert was a Heinrich Heine visiting professor at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . In January and April he gave three lectures on “Freedom and Journalism” (January 27), “Power and Responsibility of the Media” (April 13) and “From the Life of a Journalist” (April 27).

Private life

Wickert is the brother of the writer and painter Wolfram Wickert and the uncle of the actress Emily Wood .

From 1972 to 1980 Wickert was a member of the SPD .

From his first marriage (1969–1995) to Sylvie von Frankenberg , he has a daughter born in 1969. His second marriage (1997–1998) to the journalist and television presenter Birgit Schanzen remained childless. Wickert has been married to Julia Jäkel for the third time since 2003 , who is Chief Executive Officer of Gruner + Jahr in Hamburg. He has twins with her (* 2012).

Foundation, endowment

Ulrich Wickert and his wife founded the Ulrich Wickert Foundation for Children's Rights in 2011 as an independent foundation under the umbrella of the Help with Plan Foundation of the German section of Plan International Deutschland e. V. of whose board of trustees he is a member. It awards the prize for children's rights in three categories to journalists and youth groups with media projects: International, Germany / Austria and thirdly for youth groups from 50 Plan program countries with a Plan media project . In 2015, the Peter Scholl-Latour Prize was awarded for the first time for reporting on the suffering of people in crisis and conflict areas . The prizes are endowed with a total of € 24,000.

Memberships

Ulrich Wickert is a member of the boards of trustees of the Jugendpresse Deutschland , the Jugendpresse Schleswig-Holstein, the Junge Presse , the Foundation Schüler Helfen Leben and the JugendMedienEvent as well as the sponsor of the Bethel children's hospice . He is also a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Works

Non-fiction

• Freedom i fear. The state disempowered its citizens. Athenäum Verlag , Königstein / Ts. 1981, ISBN 3-7610-8112-X .
• New York, Tokyo, Paris. Diary of a trip around the world. Westermann , Braunschweig 1986, ISBN 3-07-508892-7 .
  • New edition as: Weltblicke: New York - Tokyo - Paris. Around the world in 50 days. Heyne Verlag , Munich 1992, ISBN 3-453-05225-0 .
• France: The Wonderful Illusion. Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-455-08343-9 .
• Fear of Germany , ed., Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-455-08377-3 .
• And God created Paris. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-455-08536-9 .
• "The weather". Transit Buchverlag , Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-88747-093-1 .
• The honest is the stupid: About the loss of values. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-455-11033-9 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from January 2 to September 3, 1995 )
• The book of virtues. Ed., Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-455-11045-2 ; updated new edition: Piper, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-05267-2 .
• About the current state of affairs. Transit, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88747-109-1 .
• Germany on probation. The difficult way into the future. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-455-11215-3 .
• The luck of being French. Incredible stories from an unknown land. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-455-11252-8 .
• Thunder weather. The very last reports of the day. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-455-11216-1 .
• You are the power! Politics for the next generation. Rowohlt, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-87134-378-1 .
• Time to act. Give values ​​to values. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-455-11253-6 .
• The signs of our time. Afterword by Heribert Klein . Hohenheim, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-89850-116-7 .
• Everything about Paris. Europa Verlag , Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-203-84050-2 .
• You have to call crooks crooks. The longing for reliable values. Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-05021-0 .
• Money talks, the world is silent. What values ​​must be worth to us . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-50224-4 .
• Curiosity and cockiness. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-50277-0 .
• My paris Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-455-70010-7 .
• Different together, conversation volume Wolfgang Schäuble, Ulrich Wickert, Michel Sapin, Dominique Seux, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-455-50401-9 .
• Media: Power and Responsibility, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-455-50404-0 .
• You have to love France to understand it . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-455-50217-6 .
• Never lose sight of lust. Life issues. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-455-00268-3
• Identify yourselves! Why we need a new sense of home. Piper, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-492-05954-1 .
• Weather stories. Kampa-Verlag, Zurich, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-311-25008-1 .
• Knight Otto, a princess, a witch, a dragon and a lot more. Children's book, Carlsen, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-551-51208-6 .

Detective stories with examining magistrate "Jacques Ricou"

• The judge from Paris. Almost a true story. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2003; Piper, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-492-24233-2 .
• The desert queen. The judge in Angola. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2005; Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-24770-2 .
• The useful friend. Piper, Munich 2008; ibid. 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-25742-8 .
• The eighth paradise. Piper, Munich 2010; ibid. 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-27355-8 .
• The Moroccan Girl: A Case for Jacques Ricou. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-455-40339-8 .
• The castle in Normandy. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-455-40546-0 .

Awards

Ingo Kolboom (l.) In conversation with Ulrich Wickert (r.) At the award ceremony of the literary prize "Hommage à la France" in the Dresden Kulturpalast (2018)

• 1990: German-French journalism award ( television category ) with Klaus Peter Schmid and Heide Supper
• 1991: Mainzer Auslese, Prize of the Reading Foundation
• 1992: The German television award Telestar
• 1995: Golden Camera
• 2000: Adenauer de Gaulle Prize
• 2002: Mercator professorship at the University of Duisburg-Essen
• 2005: Officer of the French Legion of Honor
• 2005: Tie Man of the Year
• 2006: Franco-German Journalism Award ( Honorary Award )
• 2010: Admission to the German Speakers Hall of Fame
• 2010: Honorary Commissioner of the Bonn Police
• 2011: Walter Scheel Prize
• 2014: Wolfgang Paul plaque from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• 2015: Karl Kübel Prize
• 2015: Frank Loeb visiting professor at the Frank Loeb Institute of the University of Koblenz / Landau
• 2016: Heinrich Heine visiting professorship at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• 2016: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 2018: “Hommage à la France” literary prize from the Brigitte Schubert-Oustry Dresden Foundation

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Wickert  - Collection of Images

Wikiquote: Ulrich Wickert  - Quotes

• Ulrich Wickert's homepage
• Literature by and about Ulrich Wickert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ulrich Wickert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Let's talk about money: Ulrich Wickert , interview from October 22, 2010
• “Stefan Raab, no, I don't watch something like that” - Interview about his journalistic career in the student magazine “unique”, January 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vita on ulrichwickert.de
2. ↑ See sit down, six! - School stories from Germany (2/3). Missed Opportunities . Documentary by Christina Brecht-Benze on behalf of SWR. German premiere on December 15, 2005
3. ↑ Interview with Ijoma Mangold , in: Zeit-Magazin No. 25, June 14, 2018, p. 46.
4. ↑ Interview with Ijoma Mangold , in: Zeit-Magazin No. 25, June 14, 2018, p. 46.
5. ↑ The end of Sojourn ( Memento from 1 September 2006 at the Internet Archive ) in Financial Times Germany on 31 August 2006
6. ↑ Kölnische Rundschau : "'Geruhsame Nacht' - Ulrich Wickert goes" , August 28, 2006
7. ↑ Doctorate: Professor Dr. hc Volkswagen in manager magazine from November 20, 2007
8. ↑ French Embassy in Germany: [ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 10, 2006 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. "Current topic moderator Ulrich Wickert [...] awarded the Legion of Honor"], November 25, 2005 
9. ↑ News portal zoomer.de is closed: Wickert is unemployed , taz from February 9, 2009
10. ^ New assignment of broadcasting licenses: Das Machtpaket , Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 8, 2008
11. ^ Urgent application rejected by UWP , decision of September 29, 2008
12. ↑ Wickert withdraws the lawsuit for broadcasting rights in Kontakter from October 16, 2008
13. ↑ Ulrich Wickert as a crime writer , Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 14, 2008
14. ↑ Ulrich Wickert is the next Heinrich Heine visiting professor, lectures start on January 27 ( memento of the original from January 19, 2016 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. ; hhu.de, January 9, 2016, accessed January 19, 2016 
15. ↑ Wickert marries a third time. Handelsblatt , March 5, 2003, accessed December 18, 2012 . 
16. ↑ Marco Saal: G + J changes its legal form and extends it with Julia Jäkel and Co. In: horizont.net. November 14, 2014, accessed August 1, 2016 . 
17. ↑ Plan International Germany e. V .: Current statement of accounts
18. ^ Website of the Ulrich Wickert Foundation
19. ^ The youth press board of trustees. Young Press , archived from the original on January 9, 2007 ; Retrieved December 18, 2012 . 
20. ↑ The Foundation Board of Trustees. (No longer available online.) Schüler Helfen Leben e. V., archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on November 28, 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.  
21. ↑ Youth Media Event : "Patron Ulrich Wickert"
22. ^ Children's hospice Bethel: Godfather Ulrich Wickert
23. ↑ Mercator Professorship 2009: Dr. Peter Scholl-Latour. Press release from the University of Duisburg-Essen, November 6, 2009.
24. ↑ Report from the French Embassy in Germany from November 25, 2005
25. ↑ The "Tie Man 2005:" Congratulations, Uli Wickert! on n-tv from November 29, 2005
26. ^ Winner of the German-French Journalist Prize 2006 (May 19, 2006)
27. ↑ Karl Kübel Prize 2015 ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2015 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. 
28. ↑ FL guest lecturer