Wolfgang Herles

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Wolfgang Herles, 2014

Wolfgang Herles (born May 8, 1950 in Tittling ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Wolfgang Herles was born in the Lower Bavarian town of Tittling (Passau district) and grew up in a Catholic home in Lindau (Lake Constance) , where his father worked as a secondary school teacher. In 1956 he started school and in 1971 passed his Abitur at the Bodensee-Gymnasium Lindau . He then attended the German School of Journalism in Munich from 1972 to 1973 .

From 1975 to 1980 Herles worked as a freelance radio journalist for Bayerischer Rundfunk as a correspondent in Bonn and studied German studies ( modern German literature ), history and psychology at the same time at the University of Munich . He acquired in 1977 a master's -degree and was 1982 on the relationship change between man and nature in the mirror of German literature since 1945 to Dr. phil. PhD. Herles was a member of the Junge Union , was considered a CSU-related and Catholic-conservative journalist and quickly made a career. From 1980 he worked as an editor for Report Munich , Tagesschau and Tagesthemen .

In 1984 Herles switched to ZDF , where he was the deputy chief editor-in-chief for internal politics, responsible for the conception and moderation of the political magazines Bonn direct and What now ...? took over. From 1987 to 1991 Herles was director of the ZDF studio in Bonn. Although his contract as studio manager was not due to end until November 1992, Herles asked the station in 1991 to transfer a new assignment. The CDU-affiliated members of the ZDF board of directors are said to have previously pushed for his replacement because Herles had repeatedly sharply criticized the then Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl . Herles defended the "revolution of 1968" against criticism and in 1991 pleaded for Bonn in the discussion about the seat of the Bundestag and Bundesrat .

Until 1996 he hosted the ZDF talk show live . Herles was editor-in-chief and presenter of the ZDF cultural program aspekte from 2000 to 2015 . He also moderated the book programs Fonts ( 3sat ) and to the point at Phoenix . From 2011 to 2015 he presented the literary program Das Blaue Sofa on ZDF . He is a vehement critic of the traditional separation in Germany between “serious” and “entertaining” literature.

He is currently the author of a regular column in the online newspaper and the monthly magazine Tichy's Insight by the publicist Roland Tichy under the title Herles falls on . In addition, he has been writing opera reviews for Friday since 2017 .

Private

Herles has been married to the journalist Barbara Lippsmeier since 1981, with whom he has two sons.

Publications

The Complacency (2015)

In his publication The Pleasers , Wolfgang Herles, like Ulrich Tilgner, criticized ZDF's “quota fetishism” , from which nothing is further than criticism, provocation and enlightenment. The media and politicians followed the “power of the market”, which led to a flat, homogeneous entertainment program and a drop in standards. Culture was increasingly being outsourced from the main program. The fee broadcasters would "dramatically miss" the task of being the fourth estate. Herles therefore advocates radical program reform, the abolition of pay-TV and financing from tax revenues.

“Television is underestimated because it is misused as a pure entertainment medium. But it is the last medium that could still achieve majorities - could also achieve with more serious, more contentious, more uncomfortable, more unconventional content. But we're not taking advantage of this opportunity. We broadcast endless sports, that's definitely not what the fees are for. We broadcast endless thrillers, we broadcast several thrillers every day, as if thrillers depict reality. These are the fairy tales of our time. And on the countless talk shows there is talk, but not really debated, because it always comes down to feeling. We are in a political situation in which feeling - welcome culture only as an example, against which I have nothing - but feeling is more important to us than knowing and more than reflecting. "

In her review on Deutschlandfunk , Brigitte Baetz agrees with the criticism of the loss of substance in the political debate and the flattening of television programs, but acknowledges Herles to be mistaken when he recommends that the public service programs should largely forego sport and entertainment in favor of the cultural program. This would turn them into special interest channels, which would then be “programmed backwards on the remote control” in competition with the commercial channels. In addition, the model of financing through taxes instead of fees is constitutionally questionable, since the broadcasters would have to be remote from the state .

Hans-Peter Siebenhaar ( Handelsblatt ) appreciates Herles' portrayal as an “unknown interior view” of an upright journalist on public broadcasting, who is “still not protected from the pinching of the parties”. Siebenhaar considers the establishment of a non-party foundation as the carrier of the broadcasting corporations and tax financing as with other cultural institutions to be tempting, but points out the risk of government influence: “Who pays creates.” Herles' core demands are more topical than ever and demand one fundamental reform of public service broadcasting.

Rudolf Walther ( SZ ) considers Herles' diagnosis and therapy to be correct, but complains that the book is coming too late because Herles would have presented his criticism better when he was still responsible for the editorial work.

Publications

  • Self-portrait of childhood and youth in: Florian Langenscheidt (Ed.): With us at home. Celebrities talk about their childhood. Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-430-15945-8 .
  • The Change in Relationship between Man and Nature as Reflected in German Literature since 1945 (1982) University publication , ISBN 3-88099-125-1 .
  • The (double) forgery - Notes on the relationship between literature and journalism using the example of the novel by N. Born In: 'Romanticism and Modernism. Festschrift für Helmut Motekat '(pp. 213–223) Editor: Erich Huber-Thoma (1986) Lang, ISBN 3-8204-8215-6 .
  • National Rush - Scenes from the Pan-German Power Struggle (1990) Kindler, ISBN 3-463-40140-1 .
  • Joy Shared - The First Year of the Third Republic (1992) Kindler, ISBN 3-463-40175-4 .
  • We must not be silent - a political conversation with Heinrich Albertz (1993) Kindler, ISBN 3-463-40213-0 .
  • The Saumagen Syndrome - the Germans and their politicians (1994) Kindler, ISBN 3-463-40237-8 .
  • Richard von Weizsäcker - Spirit, Measure and Style - the biography of a political personality (1994) ZDF-Video / BMG.
  • The Power Players - Behind the Scenes of Large Corporations (1998) ECON, ISBN 3-430-14376-4 .
  • A dazzling society - Roman (1996) Goldmann, ISBN 3-89667-005-0 .
  • Fusion Roman (1999) Hoffmann and Campe, ISBN 3-455-02805-5 .
  • The depth of the talk show Roman (2004) dtv, ISBN 3-423-24382-1 .
  • We are not a people - a polemic (2004) Piper, ISBN 3-492-04663-0 .
  • Then choose nicely - How we ruin our democracy (2005) Piper, ISBN 3-492-04862-5 .
  • Neurose D: Another history of Germany (2008) Piper, ISBN 3-492-05099-9 .
  • Example talk show . In: Sascha Michel / Heiko Girnth (Hrsg.): Polit-Talkshows - Bühnen der Macht. A look behind the scenes. Bonn: Bouvier (2009), pp. 33-38, ISBN 978-3-416-03280-3 .
  • The Conductor (2011) Fischer Verlag
  • Susanna im Bade (2014) Fischer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-104-02712-8 .
  • The Complacency - Against Conformism in the Media and Populism in Politics (2015) Knaus, ISBN 978-3-8135-0668-6 .
  • Sahra Wagenknecht - Rot, Rosa, Sahra , 30-minute TV portrait in the MDR series CVs

Honors

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Herles  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b coat of history . In: Der Spiegel , July 15, 1991, p. 81. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ Statements Herles during the literature radio broadcast on Deutschlandradio
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Herles - Tichy's insight . In: Tichy's insight . ( tichyseinblick.de [accessed on February 16, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Herles falls on Archives - Tichy's Insight. In: Tichy's insight. Retrieved September 29, 2016 .
  5. ↑ The Complacers. Against conformism in the media and populism in politics. Knaus-Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8135-0668-6
  6. ↑ Rudolf Walther: ZDF-Journalist-uebt-Medienkritik, quota sect: ZDF journalist practices media criticism , review in Der Standard from October 30, 2015, accessed July 15, 2019
  7. ↑ Rudolf Walther: "Quote junkies", "conformists". In: sueddeutsche.de . October 12, 2015, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Brigitte Baetz: Wolfgang Herles: "The Complacency" The night watchman's quotas , Deutschlandfunk, September 14, 2015
  9. ↑ The media commissioner: The accounting with the quota madness . ( handelsblatt.com [accessed November 26, 2016]).
  10. ^ Rudolf Walther: Media: "Quota junkies", "Konformisten" . In: sueddeutsche.de . ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on November 26, 2016]).
  11. ↑ Angela Merkel becomes a fictional character ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  12. ↑ CVs: Sahra Wagenknecht , MDR of July 11, 2019, accessed July 15, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Herles, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Tittling