Giovanni di Lorenzo

Giovanni di Lorenzo ( born March 9, 1959 in Stockholm ) is a journalist and author. He is chief editor of the weekly Die Zeit, co-editor of the Berliner Tagesspiegel and host of the talk show 3 nach 9 at Radio Bremen. He owns the Italian and German citizenship, the latter since 2004.

Life

Di Lorenzo grew up as the son of Italian Carlo di Lorenzo and the German Marianne Matull first in Italy, from the age of eleven with his mother and his twin brother Marco in Hanover, where he attended first the Ratsgymnasium and later through high school the Tellkampfschule. He studied at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich Communication Studies, Modern History and Politics. His master's thesis he wrote about strategy and promotion of private television in Italy using the example of the Networks of Silvio Berlusconi.

Since 2005, he is dating presenter Sabrina Staubitz and, together with her ​​daughter.

Profession

His journalistic work that began in 1979 at the Hanover newspaper Neue Presse ( to 1982 ), where he met his journalistic mentor Michael Radtke. He also worked for the city magazine Skullsplitter.

First experiences on television made ​​di Lorenzo Live from the Alabama, the weekly youth magazine of the Bayerischer Rundfunk. As of March 1984, he completed the moderator team and was honored in 1986 together with his colleagues for a program about AIDS with the Adolf- Grimme-Preis in silver. In 1988 and 1989 he hosted the ARD culture report live from the Munich Film Festival. Since 1989, the TV talk show is mitmoderiert 3 by 9 by him.

From 1985 to 1986 he worked on the redesign of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and the Munich City Gazette as a consultant. In May 1987, di Lorenzo member of the domestic political editorial in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, from May 1994 until the end of 1998 Head of the features reserved for page three. In early 1999, he became chief editor of the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. Since August 2004 he has been editor in chief of appearing also in the publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and also one of currently three editors of the Tagesspiegel.

In November 2011 he published a four -page interview with Karl -Theodor zu Guttenberg in the weekly Die Zeit, and shortly thereafter with Guttenberg a common book. Length and content of the interview had numerous reader complaints result and have been criticized by a large part of the German press: He was accused of particularly lack of distance before, if not advertising. Di Lorenzo replied that Guttenberg a forum could be given, since it is neither extremist nor is criminal. A return Guttenberg does not depend on him as a journalist, but from the voters. In April 2012, he told the Berliner Zeitung that the book was a mistake that he regretted.

Others

Di Lorenzo's first newspaper article was published under the pseudonym Hans Lorentz, as the responsible editor di Lorenzo kept the name for an artist name, and this seemed to be imaginative.

1992 was di Lorenzo co-organizer of the first German fairy lights against xenophobia under the motto Munich - a city says no.

Because of his book on a right-wing radicals in 1984 di Lorenzo was visited by the then presenter Amelie Fried for a program about the subject right-wing extremism at Live from the Alabama. They shared the common period of study. In the same year took over the Mitmoderation di Lorenzo. Di Lorenzo: "I came as a guest and went as moderator. " 1998 " revenge " is di Lorenzo at Amelie Fried, as a successor for the deceased Juliane Bartel was sought at 3 after 9. From 1998 until the departure of Fried August 2009 she moderated the talk show together. From September 2009 to January 2010 was Charlotte Roche alongside Lorenzo di presenter of the format.

In 1987, he turned for the Bavarian Radio, the series Letters from Italy, where he reported alternating with Aviva Ronnefeld of Italian gems (cities and regions).

Di Lorenzo is committed to the Reappraisal of the SED dictatorship, since 2003 he is a founding member of the Friends of the Memorial Berlin- Hohenschonhausen.

In February 2010, di Lorenzo turned on in the Hartz IV debate, in which he " in the social networks mass immigration " imputed one. Friday Editor in Chief Philip Grassmann described this as " xenophobic " and held out that proof of maintenance is required with the reform of family reunification ( 2005).

Di Lorenzo sits on the Board of Journalists Network.

In addition, Giovanni di Lorenzo committed volunteer for the German Bone Marrow Donor Center.

Awards

• 2009 Julius Hirsch Award - Honorary Prize of the Jury
• 2007 Chief Editor of the Year - Awarded by the medium - magazine
• 2007 Hildegard -von -Bingen Prize for Journalism
• 2006 Media Award for Voice Culture - Division Press
• 2005 Premio Ischia, one of the most respected Italian journalist prices; " Horizon " Man of the Year in the category "Media and Media "
• 2001 Prize of the European press - RAI / Radiotelevisione Italiana
• 2001 Golden Pen for his work as editor in chief of the daily mirror
• 2001 Munich shines
• 1993 Theodor Wolff Prize
• 1992 Bambi
• 1986 Adolf Grimme Prize

Writings

• Stefan, 22, German right-wing terrorist: "My dream is the dream of many ." Rowohlt, Reinbek 1984, ISBN 3-498-03827-3.
• Our generation has values ​​. But what? Foundation President Theodor Heuss-Haus, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-9809603-6-6.
• On a cigarette with Helmut Schmidt. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2009; Paperback ibid. 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04215-3.
• What do you like? What is important in our lives - a search (with Axel Hacke ). Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2010; Paperback ibid. 2011, ISBN 978-3-462-04372-3.
• Clouds, Simon and the rainbow ( with Sabrina Staubitz ). Carlsen, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-551-05200-1 ( Pixi Books, No. 1807).
• Initially failed: Karl -Theodor zu Guttenberg in an interview with Giovanni di Lorenzo. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-30584-9.
• Do you understand that, Mr. Schmidt? Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-462-04486-7.