Wolfgang Storz

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Wolfgang Storz (born October 4, 1954 in Tuttlingen ) is a German social scientist and publicist . From 2002 to 2006 he was editor-in-chief of the Frankfurter Rundschau .

Life and Journalistic Beginnings

After graduating from high school in Balingen, Storz studied administrative sciences at the University of Konstanz and then received his doctorate in social science from the University of Tübingen .

Storz began his journalistic career with the Badische Zeitung in Freiburg im Breisgau , stations at Südwestfunk and ZEIT followed. From 1985 to 1996 he was parliamentary correspondent for the Badische Zeitung in Bonn . He was also a correspondent / author for Die Woche and the Deutsche Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt . From 1996 to 1998 he was head of the politics and news department of the Badische Zeitung in Freiburg.

In 1998 Storz moved to the executive board of IG Metall in Frankfurt am Main , for which he worked as editor-in-chief of the print media (including the member organ metall ) and media consultant.

Editor-in-chief of the Frankfurter Rundschau

At the end of 2000 Storz became the deputy editor-in-chief and head of the politics department of the Frankfurter Rundschau, on October 15, 2002 he became its editor-in-chief. SPD treasurer Inge Wettig-Danielmeier , as general trustee of the then FR majority shareholder, Deutsche Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft der FR, recommended a change in reporting on the emerging new party Die Linke in the 2005 election year , while Storz refused to exert influence. On May 16, 2006, the FR shareholders' meeting parted ways with Storz as editor-in-chief of the Frankfurter Rundschau . As of July 1, 2006, Uwe Vorkötter was the successor to this position . Storz saw the conflict with Wettig-Danielmeier as the “decisive reason” for the dismissal and went to the labor court. Wettig-Danielmeier accused Storz of rejecting her “recommendation” of “misunderstanding about editorial independence”, but denied that the contentious dispute was a reason for termination. According to Storz, it was about a critically differentiated reporting on the Left Party, the SPD treasurer accused the FR of becoming the “Left Party's propaganda sheet”. With a settlement in favor of Wolfgang Storz, the separation became legally binding on June 30, 2007.

further activities

From 2006 to 2007 Wolfgang Storz was a lecturer at the University of Kassel in the field of "Political System of the FRG - Statehood in Transition". Since 2006 Storz has been writing occasionally as a freelance writer for the weekly newspaper Freitag .

In 2010 and 2011, Storz was involved as an author in studies by the Otto Brenner Foundation (OBS) on the crisis in business journalism and the BILD depiction of the Greece and euro crisis in 2010. As a lecturer on the subjects of mass media and politics, he worked for the University of Kassel and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

In August 2015 Storz published a working paper entitled Querfront on various “journalistic active and stable interest groups”, which exemplified that it is possible today with relatively few resources to “establish a long-term counter-public beyond the traditional mass media”. In it it goes u. a. around Kopp-Verlag , Ken Jebsen and the media group “Compact” . The publication was criticized in part, among other things Storz was accused of inadmissibly generalizing about alternative media with a cross-front accusation. Storz replied that he did not want to sideline the critics from the alternative media and equate them all, but rather to expose questionable processes in some of these media. From the beginning of September 2015, the publication was no longer available from the Otto Brenner Foundation, as the Foundation claims to be examining the possible consequences of an impending legal dispute with Ken Jebsen after he and Storz made a number of mistakes and failed to do so in a broadcast of the study Research had proven what Storz had admitted to an Internet portal wrongly named in the study; in October 2015 it was published again in a "slightly revised version" on the Otto Brenner Foundation website.

Storz co-founded the monthly newspaper OXI in 2016 . In addition to his journalistic activities, Storz also works as a media and communications consultant.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Vita of Wolfgang Storz on his homepage . Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://www.bild-studie.de/autoren/
  3. ↑ ON OUR OWN BUSINESS: FR has a new editor-in-chief - FRI , 16 OCTOBER 2002
  4. ↑ Steffen Grimberg: Background to Storz 'dismissal from FR , taz, October 16, 2007
  5. ↑ Correspondence between Storz and Wettig-Danielmeier documented  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (from September 1, 2007)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.news-effect.com  
  6. ^ The treasurer and the fall of the "FR" boss , tagesspiegel (from August 31, 2007)
  7. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 21, 2007
  8. ↑ Uni KS, FB05 Social Sciences: Lecturer
  9. ^ Hans-Jürgen Arlt, Wolfgang Storz: Business Journalism in the Crisis. A study by the Otto Brenner Foundation. (PDF; 6.8 MB) OBS workbook 63, Frankfurt / Main, 2010.
  10. ↑ Study by the Otto Brenner Foundation: Printed matter "Image" - A brand and its maids , Frankfurt / Main 2011
  11. ↑ a b "Querfront" - career of a political-journalistic network . OBS working paper 18. ISSN  2365-1962 . Otto Brenner Foundation, Frankfurt am Main 2015, revised version October 19, 2015
  12. ↑ Interview in FR
  13. ↑ Susanne Stiefel (interview with Wolfgang Storz): "Of course radical criticism is necessary". In: context weekly newspaper. February 5, 2013, accessed June 8, 2016 .
  14. ^ Declaration by the OBS of September 7, 2015
  15. ↑ a b Declaration by Wolfgang Storz and the Otto Brenner Foundation from October 19, 2015
  16. ↑ Ken Jebsen: Me, Myself and Media # 9 - Research? Nothing! In: KenFM.de. September 2, 2015, accessed on December 27, 2019 (German).
  17. ↑ new germany: OXI Blatt & Blog. Economy for society: new monthly newspaper starts in May. In: presseportal.de. April 11, 2016. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Storz, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuttlingen