Lutz Hachmeister

Lutz Hachmeister ( born September 10, 1959 in Minden, North Rhine -Westphalia ) is a German professor of Journalism, non-fiction author and film producer. He was for many years head of the Adolf Grimme Institute.

Life

Lutz Hachmeister studied communication science, sociology and philosophy in Münster and Berlin. He graduated in 1986 with a dissertation on the history of communication science in Germany from.

From 1987 to 1989 he worked as media editor of the Berliner Tagesspiegel, then from 1989 to 1995 as Director of the Adolf- Grimme -Institut in Marl, Westphalia.

From 1991 to 2001 he founded and led in consequence of the Cologne TV and Film Festival Cologne Conference. During the same period he was in the Cologne Society of media consultancy HMR International of which he is partner since 1995.

In 1999 he qualified as a professor of journalism at the University of Dortmund where she teaches media history and politics.

From 2000 to 2002 Hachmeister was chairman of the jury of the German Television Award.

Since 1997, he took over the direction and conception of documentary TV programs and documentaries, including Hotel Provencal, Riviera and Prison - Landsberg and the emergence of the Republic. His documentation Schleyer - A German Story was awarded the 2004 Adolf Grimme Award in gold as well as the Grimme Audience Award. At the Berlinale 2005, the documentary The Goebbels Experiment of Hachmeister and Michael Kloft premiere. 2009 received Hachmeister together with Mathias von der Heide German Television Award for the documentary Friendship - The Free German Youth. Hachmeister documentary The chefs and the stars, an " enlightening portrait of the three-star milieu " ( Nils Minkmar ), shows the work of nine top chefs under pressure from the annual assessment by the Michelin Guide. The docu-drama The Real American - Joe McCarthy (2011 /12), shown on U.S. television in a modified version under the title Enemies Within ( Smithsonian Channel), designated Pulitzer Prize winner Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal as a " work of irreproachable clarity " (" a work of impeccable clarity ").

In February 2006 Hachmeister opened the Scientific Institute of Media and Communication Policy ( IfM) in Berlin- Charlottenburg. It will be devoted to the previously neglected research into media policy in Germany, Europe and worldwide, and is funded in part by media companies, partly through public ( third-party) means.

From 7 March 2009 to 31 January 2010 Hachmeister was a member of the Media Council of the media authority of Berlin -Brandenburg.

In connection with the plagiarism scandal surrounding the CSU politician Karl -Theodor zu Guttenberg Hachmeister initiated in February 2011, a campaign in which he explained together with supporters, he would let his doctorate in protest as long rest, as zu Guttenberg as minister in will remain office.

Writings

  • Theoretical journalism. Studies in the History of Communication Studies in Germany. Wissenschaftsverlag Spiess, Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-89166-044-8 (Dissertation, University of Münster, 1986).
  • With Jan Lingemann: The feeling VIVA. German music television and the new social democracy. University, Department 03, Frankfurt am Main 1998 ( Paper of the Research Area families, youth and communication sociology).
  • The opponent researchers. The career of the SS leader Franz Alfred Six. Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-43507-6 ( review ).
  • Schleyer. A German history. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-51863- X ( Excerpt at litrix.de, PDF, 73 kB).
  • Nervous zone: politics and journalism in the Berlin Republic. DVA, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-04228-6.
  • Heidegger Testament. The philosopher, SPIEGEL and the SS Propylaea, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3549074473.
  • The television and its price. Materials for the history of the Adolf Grimme Prize 1973-1993. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 1994, ISBN 3-7815-1048-4 ( review ).
  • With Günther Rager: Who controls the media? The 50 largest media companies in the world. as Yearbook 2000. Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-42158- X.
  • As Yearbook 2005. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52832-5.

Filmography

  • 2003: Schleyer - A German history. Documentation 89 min Production: NDR
  • 2005: The Goebbels Experiment. Documentation 108 min, Book: Lutz Hachmeister and Michael Kloft
  • 2006: Bay of billionaires documentation, ZDF (45 min ); arte (79 min), Production: HMR Produktion GmbH
  • 2006: I, Reich-Ranicki. Documentation 105 min Written and directed by Lutz Hachmeister and Gert Scobel.
  • 2009: friendship! The Free German Youth. 90 min documentation, written and directed by Lutz Hachmeister and Mathias von der Heide, Production: HMR Produktion GmbH
  • 2010: The chefs and the stars, Documentary 90 min, Production: HMR Produktion / arte / WDR / NDR, sponsored by the Film Foundation NRW
  • 2011: Social Democrats. 18 months among comrades, Documentary 90 min, HMR Produktion / WDR / SWR / rbb
  • 2011: The Real American - Joe McCarthy, docu-drama, production ZDF / HMR Produktion GmbH, Book: Lutz Hachmeister, Simone Höller; Director: Lutz Hachmeister
  • 2011: In Search of Peter Hartz, documentation, production ECO Media TV / HMR commissioned by SWR, WDR and 3sat
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