Heribert Prantl

Heribert Prantl ( born July 30, 1953 in Nittenau, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria ) is a German jurist, journalist and author. He heads the department of internal politics in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich and in 2011 a member of the Editorial Board since January.

Life

Heribert Prantl is the eldest of three sons of his father of the same name, the Second Secretary and City Treasurer and Honorary Chairman of the Kolping work was, and his mother Julie Prantl, a master tailor. As a youth he was active in the Federation of German Catholic Youth and wrote from the age of 15 years for the newspapers of his region. He completed his high school education in 1973 at the Regen -Gymnasium Nittenau. After that, he did his military service ( last rank: Ensign of the reserve ) from Regensburg and Idar -Oberstein.

Prantl studied from 1974 to 1979 Law, History and Philosophy at the University of Regensburg and was then transported by the Catholic Cusanuswerk. In 1979 he took his first and in 1981 his second state exam. He was a research assistant at the chair of civil law, family law and German legal history at the University of Regensburg and was founded in 1982 with Dieter Schwab with the dissertation The journalistic information between exclusion law and the Public Domain. A study on the so-called news protection, indirect protection of journalistic information by § 1 UWG and exclusive agreement journalistic information for Dr. jur. ( magna cum laude) PhD. His work was awarded a research prize of the University of Regensburg and the House of Thurn and Taxis.

Prantl completed in addition to his legal studies, a journalism training as a fellow at the Institute for the Advancement Young Journalists ( traineeship at the Stuttgarter Nachrichten, when the new day, the Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Radiotelevisione Italiana ).

After graduation, he worked as a lawyer from 1981 to 1987, he worked as a judge at Bavarian district and regional courts, and as a prosecutor. In addition, he was press secretary of the District Court of Regensburg.

In 1988, he joined the profession and at the instigation of the then chief editors of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Hans Heigert and Dieter Schröder, inside political editor and author of many editorials in the SZ. He was also the author of numerous books and essays, political, political commentator for public radio stations and frequent guest on radio and television discussions. From 1992 to 1995 he was deputy chief of the department internal politics of the Süddeutsche Zeitung that he directs since 1995.

The wine classified as left- liberal Prantl is considered committed defender of a liberal and cosmopolitan law. " Decidedly, he calls for the observance of fundamental rights ", according to the award citation of the Scholl Award 1994 Prantl. His " clear voice " is " in the German media without equal ". About the criticism Prantl on the asylum law of the Federal Constitutional Court said Winfried Hassemer, judges in its second Senate, as presenter of award of the Siebenpfeiffer Prize 1999 Prantl: "It's judgment scolding in the sharpest intensification, by taking the court at the exact spot, where it is vulnerable: in solidity and seriousness of the protection of fundamental rights ". In his speech at the ceremony of the Arnold Freymuth Prize 2006 at Prantl former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called him the " third Senate " of the Federal Constitutional Court.

In his polemic We are many (2011) Prantl accuses finance capitalism, pointing out that the property also commits the banks within the meaning of the Basic Law and that the markets are not allowed to break away from the morality. It is an appeal to the responsibility of the financial market and politics: Europe is not based on the euro, but on its citizens that formed the foundation of democracy.

In July 2012, Prantl came with a portrait of the President of the Federal Constitutional Court Andreas Voßkuhle, in which he reported, among other things, a scene from the kitchen seemingly true to life, in the criticism. Prantl had written in a style that is suggesting that he had been personally Voßkuhle guest. This caused some remain puzzled about the supposed proximity of the two. When it turned out that Prantl knew the lively kitchen scene described only heard third party, which sparked a debate about journalistic and editorial care internal criticism, whereupon the SZ specially printed a clarification.

Prantl was several times as editor in chief of the mirror in conversation, most recently in 2013.

Prantl is a lecturer at the journalism schools in Hamburg and Munich, member of the Ethics Council of the Hamburg Academy of Journalism and a member of the PEN center of Germany. Since 2002 he is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bielefeld, 2010, he was appointed honorary professor there. In the summer semester 2011, he took the Theodor Herzl Lectureship of Poetry true in journalism at the University of Vienna. Since 2004, Prantl hired as the advisory board of the Foundation Pro Justitia that promotes the right of factual research. Prantl is a member of the Rotary Club Munich -Nymphenburg. He was also a board member of the Humanist Union. He sits in the Senate, which was founded by Helmut Schmidt and Kurt Biedenkopf German National Foundation. Since 2010 he is a member of the Advisory Board of the European Law Students' Association Germany eV

Private

Heribert Prantl lives in Munich. His long -time partner, the journalist Franziska Augstein, the daughter of the mirror - founder Rudolf Augstein. He has two children from a previous marriage.

Awards

  • 2013: Journalism Prize of the City of Munich

Writings

  • The journalistic information between exclusion law and the Public Domain. A study on the so-called news protection, indirect protection of journalistic information by § 1 UWG and exclusive agreement journalistic information. Publisher E. and W. Gieseking, Bielefeld 1983, ISBN 3-7694-0199-9
  • Germany - highly flammable. Investigation of the Bonn policy. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-446-17691-8
  • Heribert Prantl (ed.): Wehrmacht crimes. A German controversy. Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-455-10365-0
  • Are we still be saved? Incitement to resistance against a dangerous policy. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-446-18541-0
  • Red-Green - An initial assessment. Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-455-10383-9
  • Hans Leyendecker, Heribert Prantl, Michael Stiller: Helmut Kohl, the power and the money. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-88243-738-3
  • Heribert Prantl, Thomas Vormbaum (ed.): Legal Current Affairs 2000 in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden -Baden 2001, ISBN 3- 7890-7540 -X
  • Arthur Kaufmann / Heribert Prantl: What man to man owes. Carl Heymann Verlag, Cologne / Berlin / Bonn / Munich, Reprint 2001
  • Suspect - The strong state and the policies of internal uncertainty. Europa Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-203-81041-7
  • Heribert Prantl, Thomas Vormbaum (ed.): Legal Current Affairs 2001 in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden -Baden 2002, ISBN 3-7890-8298-8
  • Heribert Prantl, Thomas Vormbaum (ed.): Legal Current Affairs 2002 in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Berlin scientific -Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3- 8305-0618 -X
  • Heribert Prantl, Thomas Vormbaum (ed.): Legal Current Affairs 2003 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Berlin scientific -Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8305-0882-4
  • Heribert Prantl, Thomas Vormbaum (ed.): Legal Current Affairs 2004 in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Berlin scientific -Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8305-1062-4
  • Heribert Prantl: Pleasant Land - The destruction of social justice. Droemer Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-27363-2
  • Heribert Prantl in conversation with Hans -Jochen Vogel: Politics and decency. Why we can not live without values ​​. Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Basel / Wien 2005, ISBN 3-451-28608-4
  • Heribert Prantl, Nina von Hardenberg (ed. ): Black Red Grey. Ageing in Germany. Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86615-616-6
  • The terrorist as a legislator. How to do with fear policy. Droemer / Knaur 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-27464-4
  • Heribert Prantl, Robert Probst: Unity and justice and prosperity: How Germany became what it is. 60 years Federal Republic. Süddeutsche Zeitung / library; July 2009, ISBN 978-3-86615-727-9
  • Heribert Prantl: Democracy alarm. In: Wilhelm Heitmeyer (ed.): German states: Episode 8 Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​2010, ISBN 978-3-518-12602-8, pp. 296-304
  • The wrath of God - food for thought for the holidays. Süddeutsche Zeitung edition, Munich 2011, ISBN 3-86615-888-2
  • We are many: An indictment against finance capitalism. Süddeutsche Zeitung edition, Munich 2011, ISBN 3-86615-999-4
  • The world as editorial. The future of journalism. Picus, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85452-683-4
  • Alt.Amen.Anfang. - New ideas and approaches Edition Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3864971679
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