Volker Zastrow

Volker Zastrow 2010 in Marburg at an author reading

Volker Zastrow (* 1958 in Niebüll ) is a German journalist and author.

Life

Zastrow grew up in a small town. He stayed seated once at school. After graduating from high school, he studied history at the Free University of Berlin and became an assistant to Arnulf Baring . In 1990 he became editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 2006 to 2019 he headed the politics department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS). Zastrow has been writing as a simple author since October 2019, his successor at the head of the political section was Nikolas Busse . The reasons for the change were kept silent.

He published the results of his research on the Barschel affair in the FAZ on January 31, 1995 in a novel-like form . In 2006, his work “Gender - Political Gender Change” followed. In this, he takes a critical look at the concept of gender mainstreaming in two essays .

In 2009, in his book Die Vier , he described and analyzed the background story of those four SPD dissenters who thwarted Andrea Ypsilanti's election as Prime Minister of a minority government tolerated by the left . To do this, he evaluated months of research and interviews with numerous participants. Tissy Bruns wrote in the Tagesspiegel that his story draws its strength "from the description of the 'inner facts', the feelings and thoughts of the people involved" and his skill in making the career of the Federal Republic vivid in political careers.

In October 2010, he initiated a series of articles in the FAS, in which the work of the Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry (FSK) is vehemently criticized: Films approved for ages 12 and over would often contain “fecal language” and sexuality was less “reserved and sensitive”. represent. Among other things, it was about films that deal with homosexuality and the Holocaust . In his article Zastrow came to the conclusion that the FSK seal “from 12” is “harmful to young people”. The series of articles was partly mockingly criticized.

He also published an extensive text on the inevitability of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg's resignation .

Works

• Gender. Political gender reassignment . With illustrations by Anke Feuchtenberger . Waltrop / Leipzig, Manuscriptum 2006, ISBN 3-937801-13-8 .
• Frisian bagatelles . Manuscriptum, Waltrop 2006, ISBN 978-3-937801-12-4 (with 43 drawings by Hinnerk Bodendieck).
• The four: an intrigue . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-87134-659-0 .

Awards

In 2009, Zastrow was named Political Editor of the Year 2009 by Medium Magazin .

In 2012, Volker Zastrow was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize in the “General” category for his text How Ken lost his head from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung .

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Volker Zastrow in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ faz.de: Volker Zastrow
2. ↑ Volker Zastrow: Kleinstadt, afternoons, in: FAS No. 23, June 7, 2015, p. 44.
3. ↑ Volker Zastrow: Kleinstadt, afternoons, in: FAS No. 23, June 7, 2015, p. 44.
4. ↑ "FAS" policy chief Volker Zastrow only writes as an author, Nikolas Busse is his successor. In: turi2. Accessed October 31, 2019 (German). 
5. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Volker Zastrow. Change at "FAS" , October 30, 2019
6. ^ Norbert F. Pötzl: Märchenhaft conclusively , Spiegel, February 27, 1995
7. ↑ Gustav Seibt : With what eyes someone sees the world ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Comments on literary criticism, Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 10, 2009 
8. ^ Tissy Bruns : The Desperate of Hesse , Tagesspiegel, August 17, 2009
9. ^ FAZ, October 4, 2010
10. ↑ Sabine Horst: “Is it still possible, FAS? Another media campaign "epd Medien, October 20, 2010 ( Memento from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Volker Zastrow: Guttenberg's delayed resignation , FAS, March 6, 2011
12. ↑ The Journalists of 2009 . In: Medium Magazin online on December 21, 2009, accessed on January 14, 2010.
13. ↑ Theodor Wolff Prize Winner 2012 . at: www.theodor-wolff-preis.de, accessed on February 18, 2013.