Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington (birth name: Greek Αριάννα Στασινόπουλος, Arianna Stassinopoulos, born July 15, 1950 in Athens ) is an American non-fiction writer and journalist of Greek origin. She is co-founder and chief editor of the online newspaper The Huffington Post. Because of its influence as a political blog author she was called " Citizen Huff " and " the queen of bloggers ".

Life

Her mother separated from her father, a newspaper publisher, because of his infidelity, as Arianna was eleven years old. In 1969 she moved to England to study at Girton College, University of Cambridge, for which she had won a scholarship. At age 21, she became president of the debating society Cambridge Union; her degree in economics, she finished a master's degree. Then she moved to London, where she and 1980 with her partner, the journalist Bernard Levin, lived. After the relationship was broken, she moved to New York City. In the 1980s she wrote biographies of Maria Callas and Pablo Picasso.

In 1986, she married Michael Huffington, an oil millionaire, film producers and Republican politicians. The marriage produced two daughters went out of, was divorced in 1997, one year before Michael Huffington came out as bisexual.

End of the 1990s, their political positions changed. Huffington says of himself that she was a " former rights, which evolved into a progressive and compassionate populist " has ( "former right- winger Who Has evolved into a compassionate and progressive populist "). In 2003, she appeared in California as an independent candidate in the recall of Governor Gray Davis with the slogan "The hybrid versus the Hummer ," by which she was referring to the preference of the ultimately victorious Arnold Schwarzenegger for sport utility vehicles. She withdrew a week before the election and called on voters to vote against the recall; with 0.55% received the fifth- best result.

In the 2004 presidential campaign she declared her support for John Kerry in the Daily Show.

, A year after they had founded together with Kenneth Lerer, the Huffington Post in 2006, Time magazine placed the Huffington on the list of 100 most influential people. 2007 to 2008 appeared a collection of her columns in German translation on the website of Focus. 2008 published their contributions in the form of a separate column in the magazine Focus.

Arianna Huffington lives with her sister and her two daughters in Brentwood, a suburb of Los Angeles.

Criticism

Huffington was accused in 1981 for her book Maria Callas of plagiarism; the claims were settled out of court in the same year. The Callas biographer Gerald Fitzgerald had been paid in the low five-figure range (in the low five figures ) is a sum.

Lydia Gasman, a professor of art history at the University of Virginia, claimed that Huffington Picasso Biography of 1988 ( Picasso: Creator and Destroyer ) addresses issues that are similar to those in her unpublished four-volume Ph.D. thesis. "She has me twenty years of my work stolen," Gasman said in 1994 ( "What she did what steal twenty years of my work "). Gasman but not sued Huffington. Maureen Orth also reported that Huffington greatly in their 1993 published book The Gods of Greece have served ( borrowed heavily ).

The Picasso biography is based, according to the author on literature studies, interviews with all the people who knew him and of which the author could find, especially with Picasso's former companion Françoise Gilot, as well as visiting some museums and exhibitions. The author focuses on Picasso's relationships with his women and is less concerned with his work and its significance. Therefore, the biography is considered unbalanced; they ride, around so the criticism in detail on his weaknesses and solidarisiere primarily with Picasso's women. The view of the author, Picasso could not claim the rank of artist of the century, provoked the opposition of his followers. Olivier Widmaier Picasso, his grandson claims in his Picasso biography, the author of First Instance distorted in search of sensations even the truth in order to besmirch the memory of his grandfather. He refers to the presumption of homosexual activity, at least in youth, which, however, only can be justified by a drawing and unsecured remarks the author.

Filming

The movie Surviving Picasso should first be turned to the biography of Françoise Gilot; this pulled back their approval, however. Then the biography of Huffington was applied, which in turn essentially on the biography of Gilot and discussions based on these time with her.

Trivia

In May 2010, Huffington had in which she plays a cameo role in an episode of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother herself.

Publications

• The Female Woman. 1974 The feminine woman. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1974, ISBN 3-492-02084-4

• The Callas. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-455-07380-8; Knaur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-426-02315-6

• Picasso. Genius and violence - a life. Earthscan, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-426-26399-8; ibid, 1991, ISBN 3-426-02440-3; Hugendubel, Kreuzlingen / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7205-2858-8