Wilfried Huismann

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Wilfried Huismann (born January 3, 1951 in Godensholt near Apen ) is a German journalist , author , filmmaker and three times winner of the Adolf Grimme Prize .

Live and act

Huismann studied social sciences and history in Marburg and Hanover before he went to Santiago de Chile as a development worker in 1981 and began his journalistic work in 1982, initially as an author of radio features. From 1986 he worked for the political television magazine Monitor .

Huismann is the director of an extensive international co-production entitled Lieber Fidel - Marita's Story (2000), which traces Marita Lorenz's love for Fidel Castro , is also the author of the ARD series Political Murder and works with the WDR - die story editorial team such as: The Henry Kissinger case (2001), The Devil's Apprentice (2002), Treason in Santiago - Who Shot Salvador Allende (2003), Icy Cold - Pinochet's Plan Z (2003), Russian Roulette - The Agents, the Kremlin and that Chancellery (2004).

He became known to the general public through his documentary about the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy , which the ARD broadcast on January 6, 2006. Huismann presented some new documents and statements from contemporary witnesses that he had come across during his three years of research. In his opinion, they prove the thesis that the Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro was the client of the alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald . While the film was nominated for the Hollywood Award on the one hand , the theses in Germany led to ongoing discussions in specialist circles and in the print media.

The WDR employee Ekkehard Sieker, together with the author Lothar Buchholz , published the 160-page study Rendezvous in mid-September 2006 with the quota , in which central theses of the film are critically questioned and questioned.

Huismann lives with his family in Bremen .

Black Book WWF 2012

On April 20, 2012 the WWF -critical book WWF by Huismann was published. In his book, Huismann criticizes the WWF's proximity to industry, its colonial past and its lack of transparency, as well as its participation in ecologically controversial projects and the acceptance of donations from companies. Huismann describes the cooperation with large corporations as the green indulgence trade : The WWF sits on various committees where corporations receive certificates for sustainable production while at the same time destroying the primeval forests and poisoning the environment with chemicals. Furthermore, the indigenous peoples would repeatedly suffer from the protection projects for tigers, gorillas etc. These peoples would be expelled from the protected areas, their traditional settlement areas. Huismann also criticized the WWF's support for salmon farming. A salmon expert from WWF Norway is said to have been paid one hundred percent by Marine Harvest for years .

The WWF describes Huismann's accusations as "half-truths" and, even before the book was published, put pressure on the Random House publishing group to prevent publication. The black book was available in stores for a week until the WWF wrote to large booksellers through a law firm to claim injunctive relief. Although the WWF was unable to obtain an injunction against the Black Book and the trial before the Cologne Regional Court had only just been scheduled and the sale was thus not prohibited, it nonetheless disappeared from large parts of the market; large booksellers such as Amazon , Thalia , Libri , KNV and Weltbild removed the book from their range. The FAZ said, as Burkhardt Müller-Sönksen , media spokesman of the FDP - Bundestag faction of self-censorship of the wholesalers.

However, it could still be obtained from the Random House publishing house. Buchhandel.de , the stock exchange association of the German book trade subsidiary MVB and other smaller dealers such as Osiandersche Buchhandlung and eBuch continued to offer the book. On June 2, the FAZ made the events public and the affair was subsequently picked up by other print media such as Stern and Focus . By this time the publisher had already sold around 5,000 books.

On July 26, 2012, an out-of-court settlement was reached between WWF, the publisher and the author. For the 3rd edition of the book, 21 text passages will be deleted or revised. The interview with WWF employee Dörte Bieler had to be deleted from the second edition of the book after the court decision on June 15.

Huismann had the interview about the negative consequences of palm oil cultivation with WWF employee Bieler shortly after her presentation at the World Ethanol 2010 conference in Geneva on the subject of bioenergy 2010. It was the only interview Huismann received with the WWF. According to the WWF, the personal rights of the WWF employee were grossly violated in the first edition of the book, so that WWF, the Random House publishing group and the author Huismann agreed on a settlement regarding personal rights on July 25, 2012, after which the WWF Employee no longer cited, her picture can no longer be used and her name should no longer be mentioned. According to the Süddeutscher Zeitung (SZ), Huismann and publishing legal advisor Rainer Dresen agreed in June 2012 that the WWF expert would no longer be quoted by name in an interim edition, but only called "anonymous biomass consultant".

The existing books of the first two editions could be resold by the trade without any editions. The basic thesis of the book, that the WWF serves as a “green washing facility” for greenwashing companies , was not affected by an out-of-court settlement. The SZ headlined accordingly: Green washing facility remains green washing facility . According to Huismann's book, global players such as Coca-Cola , Shell , Monsanto , HSBC , Cargill , BP , Alcoa and Marine Harvest would have benefited from the “green” image of the WWF through greenwashing in order to be able to go about their business unchanged while the WWF had funds I received millions from these connections.

According to the WWF, the Cologne Regional Court falsified several factual allegations on December 11, 2013 - according to WWF, "key statements of the documentary" The Pact with the Panda "" from the film The Pact with the Panda as untrue. The WWF Black Book is based on that documentation. In December 2014, it was determined in an appeal process that Huismann had not complied with the due diligence of the press . He and the broadcasters SWR and WDR are not allowed to repeat the corresponding statements from the documentation. Similar allegations were made when Huismann filmed a similar documentary about the Marine Stewardship Council's eco-seal in 2018 . The staging approaches in »The Fish Seal Business - The Dark Side of the MSC« also lack a duty of care in the press.

In 2014 an English-language version was published - renamed from "The Silence of the Pandas" to PandaLeaks - The Dark Side of the WWF . Huismann stated in an interview published in November 2014 that since no major English-language publisher would have wanted to publish the book, it was necessary for the author to buy back the foreign rights for his book and set up a “mini-publisher” in order to publish the book in English and financed my own translation. As an example from the book PandaLeaks , Huismann used the recent WWF campaign to save the orangutan in Indonesia . There were there - so Huisman - not a single orangutan rescue project of WWF in Indonesia, and most orangutans would not live in the national parks to their care, WWF is trying, but in secondary forests that are currently on the palm oil industry cut down would. WWF, according to Huisman traditionally having a proximity to the energy and agricultural industry have, for example, but in 2007 a cooperation agreement with Wilmar International completed as the largest palm oil producers in the region, with the aim of biofuels ( bio fuel ) to produce. Two thirds of the large orangutan populations in the area were destroyed by the necessary clearing alone. The WWF therefore shares responsibility for the killing of far more orangutans than would be saved by the WWF's protective measures in the national parks. Huismann himself described as his "core thesis" that the WWF, which no longer employs classic nature conservationists in its management, but staff with high salaries coming from the economy and the public relations sector, pursues a business model , "with nature, with the Animals to earn a lot of money with the compassion of humans for the endangered nature ”. The WWF therefore sees the credibility of its business model threatened by Huismann's critical reporting. Due to the lawsuit by WWF and the subsequent out-of-court settlement, not only had passages in the German and English language versions had to be deleted and rewritten, but legal disputes over the film "Silence of the pandas" made by Huismann had also been ongoing for years that blocked both its broadcast and its international distribution.

Awards

Huismann received numerous awards, for example three Adolf Grimme prizes for Das Totenschiff (1994), Wanted is ... The Secret of the 1972 Olympic Assassination (1996), Power Player - Friedrich Hennemann and the Fall of the Bremer Vulkan (1999).

In 1995, Huismann was also awarded the Fritz Singer Prize for his report Das Totenschiff . For the report Gesucht wird… The guilt of the volcano bankruptcy Huismann was awarded the Ernst Schneider Prize in 1998 together with Klaus Schloesser .

In 2009, at the New York Festival in New York , he received the “Gold World Medal” in the “National / International Affairs” category for his documentary Snapshot with Che . In 2012, he received the renowned Otto Brenner Prize for critical journalism for The Pact with the Panda .

Filmography

  • 1988: Franca Magnani (with Albrecht Reinhard)
  • 1990: Submerged camera - photography in the resistance
  • 1991: The Mafia East (with Jürgen Thebrath)
  • 1991: Bremen-Baghdad (with Rainer Kahrs)
  • 1992: Cool to the Heart: Portrait of the Trustee President (with Jürgen Thebrath)
  • 1993: The boy with the angel face
  • 1994: The death ship
  • 1995: The fate of the kidnapped children
  • 1996: We are looking for ... The secret of the 1972 Olympic attack
  • 1998: The death of Pharaoh: Anwar al Sadat
  • 1999: Biedermanns Reich (with Moni von Behr)
  • 1999: Power player - Friedrich Hennemann and the sinking of the Bremer Vulkan (with Klaus Schlösser)
  • 2000: Dear Fidel - Marita's story
  • 2001: The Henry Kissinger case
  • 2002: The devil's apprentice
  • 2003: Ice cold - Pinochet's Plan Z
  • 2003: Treason in Santiago - Who Shot Salvador Allende?
  • 2004: Russian Roulette - The Agents, the Kremlin and the Chancellery
  • 2006: Rendezvous with Death: Why John F. Kennedy Had to Die
  • 2007: Snapshot with Che
  • 2009: Tatort script: Sink ships (with Philip LaZebnik)
  • 2010: Tatort script: Sleeping Dogs (with Dagmar Gabler)
  • 2010: Salmon Fever (with Arno Schumann )
  • 2011: The pact with the panda
  • 2014: Tatort script: Brothers (with Dagmar Gabler)
  • 2015: Tatort script: Who sows the wind, reaps the storm (with Boris Dennulat and Dirk Morgenstern)
  • 2016: Bolivia and the "right" to child labor (ARTE report)
  • 2016: King of Cocaland- UN loses War on Drugs, 52 min. (German: tax money for the cocaine mafia?)
  • 2018: The fish seal business - the dark side of the MSC, 52 min. (WDR)
  • 2019: Colonia Dignidad - From the inside of a German sect, 4 parts, 52 min each. (ARTE / WDR, as a two-parter in Das Erste)

Works

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FAS: “Book trade kisses before WWF” June 3, 2012. p. 1.
  2. ^ Random House publishing group: Wilfried Huismann: Black Book WWF. Dark shops under the sign of the panda. April 19, 2012, accessed March 9, 2018 .
  3. ^ Huismann: Black Book WWF. Gütersloh 2012
  4. ↑ Stefan Tomik: Environmental Protection: "The WWF is schizophrenic" . In: FAZ.NET . June 3, 2012, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 9, 2018]).
  5. ↑ a b Stefan Tomik: WWF is pushing critical book off the market. In: FAZ.net . June 2, 2012, accessed December 14, 2014 .
  6. ↑ www.buchreport.de, The Disappeared Black Book
  7. ↑ www.buchreport.de, We don't cuddle
  8. ↑ a b c d Settlement in the dispute over the "Black Book WWF" - green washing facility remains green washing facility ( memento from November 8, 2014 on WebCite ) , sueddeutsche.de, July 26, 2012, by Lars Langenau, archived from the original on November 8, 2014.
  9. ↑ The pact with the panda - What the WWF is hiding from us , WDR 2011, broadcast: June 22, 2011, documentary by Wilfried Huismann.
  10. ↑ The panda defends itself - with new claims ( memento of November 9, 2014 on WebCite ) , zeitpunkt.ch, by Wilfried Huismann, archived from the original on November 9, 2014.
  11. ↑ a b Documentary criticizes the WWF - A panda with scratches ( memento from November 9, 2014 on WebCite ) , taz.de, June 22, 2011, by Susanne Hamann, archived from the original on November 9, 2014.
  12. ↑ a b "The Pact with the Panda" and "Black Book WWF" - Result of the legal dispute - This can no longer be said about the WWF ( Memento from November 9, 2014 on WebCite ) , wwf.de, [no publication date], Archived from the original on November 9, 2014.
  13. ↑ a b WWF International accused of 'selling its soul' to corporations ( Memento from November 8, 2014 on WebCite ) (English). The Guardian (The Observer), October 4, 2014, by John Vidal, archived from the original on November 8, 2014.
  14. ↑ "The Pact with the Panda" - WWF informs - Court approves WWF - Several untrue factual allegations may no longer be published ( memento of November 9, 2014 on WebCite ) , wwf.de, [without date of publication], archived from the original on November 9, 2014.
  15. ^ "The pact with the panda" and "Black Book WWF". Accessed on October 17, 2015.
  16. ↑ Christopher Zimmermann: Are sustainability seals just a consumer deception? The sea fish example in THE BUSINESS WITH THE FISH SEAL. THE DARK SIDE OF THE MSC . In: Susanne Kaul, Stephan Lange (Ed.): Political goals and aesthetic strategies of environmental documentary films. An interdisciplinary approach . tape 70 . Thünen Report, Braunschweig 2020, p. 87-100 .
  17. ↑ Markus Kügle: “No one wants to see dolphins dying!” - The audiovisual arguments for murder in THE BUSINESS WITH THE FISH SEAL. THE DARK SIDE OF THE MSC . Ed .: Susanne Kaul, Stephan Lange. tape 70 . Thünen Report, Braunschweig 2020, ISBN 978-3-86576-205-4 , p. 101-116 .
  18. ↑ Panda sharps its claws - English "Black Book WWF" in bookshops ( memento from November 8, 2014 on WebCite ) ( MP3 ( memento from November 8, 2014 on WebCite ): 9:03 min.), Free-radios.net, interview by Wilma Rall with Wilfried Huismann on Radio RaBe - Bern 11, November 7, 2014, archived from the original ( MP3 ) on November 8, 2014.
  19. ↑ "Honor for Bremen filmmakers" ; Press release from Radio Bremen from January 27, 2009 (accessed January 29, 2009).
personal data
SURNAME Huismann, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Apen