New Journalism

The New Journalism (German New Journalism ) was a reportage style that emerged in the mid- 1960s. He departed from the usual journalistic practice as far as the authors wrote highly subjective and heavily relied on stylistic means, even if they are properly stuck to the facts.

The term New Journalism had Tom Wolfe coined the defined as editor of the anthology The New Journalism (1973 ) in his foreword uniqueness and importance of the new style. Essential representatives were Hunter S. Thompson, Truman Capote and Norman Mailer. The New Journalism be attributed: Gay Talese, Joe Eszterhas, Lester Bangs and George Plimpton.

The style was influenced by the literature of the Beat Generation of the 1950s with. Content, the authors turned to areas that other journalists neglected: for example, the new subcultures of pop music, the drug scene and various sports. For this purpose, a preoccupation with politics, which greatly differed in their radicalism of the other political coverage came.

For Tom Wolfe of the New Journalism filled a gap that had opened up, because in his opinion the authors of the literature of increasingly incomprehensible language were limited to purely formal playfulness and everyday substances neglected accordingly. The journalism on the other hand, as Wolfe, had retired to a bland objectivity that bury all life under the facts.

In Germany, the New Journalism because of the different kind than in the U.S. media landscape can not enforce. Representatives were Jörg Fauser and Axel Arens.