Volker Herres

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Volker Herres (2018)

Volker Herres (born July 23, 1957 in Cuxhaven ) is a German television journalist and program director of the ARD joint program Das Erste .

education

Herres attended elementary school in Cuxhaven and later the "Gymnasium for Boys", today's Amandus-Abendroth-Gymnasium , from which he passed his Abitur in 1977 . After doing community service at the German Red Cross and at the adult education center in Göttingen, he studied economics , political science and journalism at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1978 , where he also completed training at the German School of Journalism . During his studies, Herres worked as a freelancer for the Nürnberger Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Professional activities

ZDF

Herre 'journalistic work began after the diploma in 1983, first as an employee in Berlin ZDF -Studio, where he worked for the political East-West magazine registration D worked. Since 1984 Herres has worked at the ZDF headquarters in Mainz as a domestic political reporter and presenter for programs such as Länderspiegel , the political talk series “Was nun…?”, In election programs and as an author of documentaries and reports. In 1986 he went to the ZDF studio in Bonn as a reporter for current national political reporting.

NDR

Volker Herres at NDR, 1990

In 1987 Herres switched to the Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg, where he initially worked as a consultant in the directorship, where he became director and speaker in 1991. Here he initiated and managed the internal business modernization program “Securing the future and reducing costs”, in the course of which more than 500 positions in the NDR were cut, business structures were streamlined and funds were diverted to strengthen the program. Herres was also involved in the expansion of the NDR from a three to four country broadcaster after the opening of the inner-German border. The ARD chairmanship of the NDR also fell during this time.

In 1995, Herres became editor-in-chief of NDR television and head of the current affairs program area and was therefore responsible for all information broadcasts on NDR on First German Television - "Panorama", "Plusminus", "Weltspiegel", etc. - as well as for current offers on NDR television. Since then he has also moderated many election and special programs as well as the ARD focal point .

Since May 2004, Herres has been the program director for television at NDR, responsible for all of the broadcaster's television programs . He has expanded the digital information channel EinsExtra into a news channel that is now called tagesschau24 . Herres also created a central editorial office for "Features, Documentation and Reports" at NDR. In 2006 he brought the telenovela Rote Rosen to the program. Herres caused a stir in 2007 when he resigned from the Tagesschau spokeswoman Eva Herman after her controversial statements on family policy in the Third Reich. As program director, he has also taken up the issue of migration , for example with Mehmet Kurtulus, who established the first Turkish-born Tatort inspector on German television in 2008. In April 2007 he talked to Michael Buback , son of Siegfried Buback , who was murdered by the RAF , and the former RAF member Peter-Jürgen Boock ; the show was nominated for the German Television Award. Herres is also a regular commentator on the daily topics . Alternating with WDR editor-in-chief Jörg Schönenborn , he moderates the ARD program Presseclub .

For a long time Herres was considered the favorite to succeed NDR director Jobst Plog, but was not nominated by the NDR board of directors in the summer of 2007. In the same year he was also the editor-in-chief of the Hamburg news magazine Der Spiegel .

ARD

In November 2007, the directors of ARD in Bremen unanimously appointed Herres to succeed Günter Struve as program director of the First German Television . Herres took up his new office in November 2008. He then conducted negotiations for ARD with the German Football League DFL on the allocation of television broadcasting rights to the Bundesliga and secured them for the public broadcaster network for four years. The Bundesliga sports show is still an integral part of the program on offer in the ARD community program. Herres also brought back the presentation of the German music prize "Echo Pop", previously broadcast by RTL , in Das Erste , which was broadcast until 2016. He also established a partnership with the pop and young ARD radio waves. In 2010 a partnership with Pro7 and Stefan Raab was entered into with “Our Star for Oslo” in order to redesign the Eurovision Song Contest in Germany. 28 years after Nicole's triumph , in the same year, Lena Meyer-Landrut , a German won the European music competition. In autumn 2011 he introduced a weekly talk show with Günther Jauch and combined this with a reform of the program scheme of the first. In 2012, Herres created a prime time slot for the summer cinema on Das Erste. In his role, he also has to decide on program changes and the use of special programs, which brought him criticism when reporting on the surveillance and espionage affair in 2013 . As a trademark of the first, he developed so-called event programming, i.e. the combination of television films with subsequent journalistic deepening of the topic. In 2013 he initiated the most complex and expensive TV series to date, Babylon Berlin , which was realized together with X-Films, Sky and Beta-Film and celebrated its world premiere on September 28, 2017 in Berlin and October 6, 2017 in Los Angeles. In 2014, he established a regular slot for comedy and satire formats on Thursday after the daily topics. In 2019, the Tuesday became the weekly slot for entertaining talk formats such as the "NDR Talkshow", "3nach9", the "Kölner Treff", etc. a. Series from the Third Programs. After the TV series "Lindenstrasse" was over, he launched the tabloid magazine "Brisant" on Sunday in April 2020. At the beginning of 2020, program responsibility for the ARD media library changed to the program directorate in Munich with Florian Hager as channel manager, who had previously set up the new "funk" service from ARD and ZDF.

In 2016 he was asked as a candidate for the office of rbb director, but was not available. His contract as program director of the First was extended in 2012 and again in 2017.

Secondary and honorary positions

Herres is chairman of the board of the German School of Journalism , Munich, e. V. and on the advisory board of the Hamburg Media School (HMS) as well as a founding member of the German-Turkish Foundation. In addition, he sits on the board of trustees of the Hamburger Akademie für Publizistik , e. V., on the board of trustees of the youth press in Germany and on the supervisory board of the joint sports rights agency of ARD and ZDF, SportA . From January 2009 to November 2012 he was also part-time managing director of the ARD film purchasing and production subsidiary Degeto . Then he moved to the Degeto supervisory board. In 2013 he was honored with the PSI Media Award from PSI Sporthorses GmbH "for the good and constant reporting on equestrian sports in the first", said the then railway boss Rüdiger Grube in his laudatory speech . Since 2014 he has also been a "Member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ". He is also a member of the Rotary Club in Munich. In 2002 he received the DUH Environment Media Prize in the Special Prize category.

Publications

  • Mark D. About the difficulties of making a German-German television magazine . Zollhaus Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-923328-04-4 .
  • Together with Jobst Plog: constant system changes. 40 years of changing broadcasting legislation. In: ARD yearbook 1989. Hans Bredow Institute, Hamburg 1989
  • Balance or Hollow? Brokdorf reporting and dispute over the NDR State Treaty. In: German Adult Education Association e. V. (Ed.): Our Media - Our Republic. 1991
  • The termination of the State Treaty. The years of the NDR crisis (together with Jobst Plog), Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, Hanover 1991.
  • Four countries - one transmitter. The expansion of the NDR to include Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In: ARD yearbook 1992. Hans Bredow Institute, Hamburg 1992
  • 'Over there' - messages from the reality of the GDR on West German television. In: German Adult Education Association e. V. (Ed.): Our media - our republic. 1992
  • What do the potatoes cost? - The ZDF series 'Drüben' provided information about everyday life in the GDR from 1966 onwards. In: German Adult Education Association e. V. (Ed.): Our media - our republic. 1993
  • Media scene in Europe. Trends and tendencies, opportunities and risks. In: dprg documentation 1993
  • Stay tuned. Journalism and responsibility: a series of theses. In: epd-medien 1997
  • Live. More than just being there. In: Ruth Blaes and Gregor A. Heussen: ABC of television. UVK Medien, Konstanz 1997
  • Politics as show business. Whoever wants to inform must be able to entertain. In: grimme 1998
  • The way up. Gerhard Schröder. A political biography (together with Klaus Waller), Econ, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-612-26611-X .
  • Editorial management at television , in: Kurt Weichler, editorial management , UVK Medien, Konstanz 2003.
  • Simple, efficient and unbureaucratic. The cooperation of the third television programs. In: ARD yearbook 2004/05. Hans Bredow Institute, Hamburg 2004
  • Helmut Schmidt. Balance of a great statesman (together with Joachim Knuth), audio book, Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-455-32058-9 .
  • Richard von Weizsäcker (together with Joachim Knuth), audio book, Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2004. New edition 2008, ISBN 3-455-32033-3 .
  • The first buttonhole. On the strategy of public television in the digital age. In: Funk correspondence dated February 24, 2006
  • The digital revolution cannot replace journalism. Keynote at the annual conference of the Research Network, 2006.
  • Television and responsibility. The special role of public service broadcasting. In: Funk correspondence from July 28, 2006.
  • EinsExtra: news and more. In: ARD yearbook 2006. Hans Bredow Institute, Hamburg 2006.
  • Nothing but the truth. Digital world: journalism in the field of tension between reality and quota. In: Funk-Korrespondenz No. 31 of August 3, 2007.
  • NDR television director Herres on the opportunities and risks of the digital television world In: epd-medien. No. 50 of June 25, 2008.
  • Not for everyone. Where and when is quality being discussed on ARD? In: epd media. No. 10 of February 7, 2009.
  • Air to breathe. TV quality from the perspective of a responsible program maker. In: Funk-Korrespondenz. No. 7 of February 13, 2009.
  • Quality in all genres. The program assignment of the First German Television. In: politics and culture. Newspaper of the German Cult Council. No. 4/09, July – August 2009
  • Quality despite quota printing. In: ARD yearbook 2009. Hans Bredow Institute, Hamburg 2009
  • The putty that creates meaning. Quality journalism on television or: the charm of reach. In: Funk-Korrespondenz. No. 51/52, 2009.
  • The charm of the range. Comments on the quality debate In: epd-medien. No. 16 of March 3, 2010.
  • Quality journalism on television or: The charm of reach , in: Michael Schröder and Axel Schwanebeck (eds.): Quality under pressure. Journalism in the Internet Age . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6055-1
  • Four countries one transmitter - How Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania came to NDR . 2012
  • Preserving the dignity of the victims , in: Thomas Hestermann (Ed.): Von Lichtgestalten und Dunkelmännern. How the media report on violence . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-18252-0
  • Even more present. The future of television or: everything stays different! In: Funk-Korrespondenz. No. 18, 2014.
  • Integration through participation in the program , in: Marlis Prinzing, Nina Köberer and Michael Schröder (eds.): Migration, Integration, Inclusion. Media policy challenges and potentials for the digital media society . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-8487-4304-9 (print), ISBN 978-3-8452-8508-5 (ePDF)

Web links

Commons : Volker Herres  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Die Träger Deutsche Journalistenschule eV., Accessed on May 7, 2017
  2. ↑ Statements about the Nazi era: NDR fires Eva Herman . In: SPIEGEL ONLINE . September 9, 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ See DasErste.de : New NDR "Tatort" commissioner from Hamburg: Grimme Prize Winner Mehmet Kurtulus ( Memento from May 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ See welt.de
  5. ↑ Cf. ard.de ( Memento from June 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ presseportal.de: Summer cinema in the first
  7. ↑ Christoph Twickel: Cell phone scandal: ARD justifies a lack of focus. In: Spiegel online. October 25, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Timo Nöthling: “Brennpunkte” much more popular than 2012. In: Quota Meter. December 27, 2013, accessed December 29, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Theme evening in the First: After the TV film "As you are", the new format "Show me your world" starts with Kai Pflaume. In: DasErste.de. May 8, 2013, accessed January 3, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Today anyone can become a victim of data misuse. In: DasErste.de. March 2013, accessed January 3, 2014 .
  11. ^ ARD program: Comedy instead of Beckmann ( German ) . In: sueddeutsche.de , June 20, 2014. Accessed May 7, 2016. 
  12. ↑ New in the first from autumn: TALK on Tuesday. May 19, 2019, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  13. ^ ARD: program scheme reform on Sunday. December 6, 2019, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Volker Nünning: ARD program directorate is responsible for media library. December 17, 2019, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  15. ↑ morgenpost.de: Volker Herres does not want to become RBB director
  16. ↑ Report in the Bild Zeitung (accessed December 9, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Herres, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist and program director of ARD
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuxhaven , Lower Saxony