Günter Wallraff - Die ersten Reportagen, Die "Anti-BILD-Trilogie
Wallraff's father was first a worker and later an employee at Ford in Cologne. When the father died, Günter Wallraff was 16 years old. His mother came from a southern French Huguenot family , her parents were piano makers. Wallraff wrote some poems when he was in high school and sent them to Heinrich Böll , with whose nephew he was friends. After the 10th grade he left high school and began an apprenticeship as a bookseller, which he completed in 1962.
Wallraff submitted his application for conscientious objection only two months before the draft, so he was drafted on July 1, 1963. When the application was rejected at the end of September, he immediately filed an objection. After recoring from a traumatic brain injury as a result of a fall, he was first sent to a civilian psychiatrist and then to the neurological-psychiatric department of the German military hospital in Koblenz . At the beginning of 1964 he was finally declared permanently incapable of use - the military medical diagnosis was abnormal personality. During this time he wrote a diary and was later encouraged to publish it by Böll.
The first reports
Between 1963 and 1965 Wallraff worked as a worker in various large companies, including a sintering t at a Thyssen steelworks . The union newspaper Metall printed the first reports in 1965, with which he first caused a sensation. In the following year Wallraff published a first anthology We need you - As a worker in German industrial companies (paperback edition 1970: industrial reports ). The reports provided authentic insights into the industrial working world . After Wallraff became known for his industrial reports, he joined the Dortmund group 61 in 1965at. In the following year he worked first for the Hamburger Morgenpost , then for the magazine pardon , and from 1968 onwards for the magazine Beton .
Despite so-called Wallraff profiles in the boardrooms of the companies he "visited", with which other HR offices should be warned, he was able to continue his research undetected by always adopting a different identity. In 1969, for example, 13 unwanted reports appeared, for which he slipped into the role of an alcoholic in a psychiatric clinic, a homeless person, a student looking for a room and a potential napalm supplier for the US Army . After the book was published, he was charged with presumption of office because he had pretended to be Ministerialrat Krör of a civil committee of the Federal Ministry of the Interior on the phone at various companies . TheFrankfurt am Main district court acquitted him on December 9, 1969, justifying this with the public's right to information.
In 1971 ZDF broadcast the television report Flucht vor den Heimen , written by Wallraff, which dealt with welfare education. In the same year he joined the writers' association PEN Club and researched more and more together with other authors. So in 1973 you appeared up there - we down there and immediately became a bestseller. While Bernt Engelmann was scrutinizing the views and habits of directors of the Gerling Group, Wallraff was acti in the role of a small employee. In 1974 ZDF showed the television game Instigations against Unknown .
In 1982, the Münster Higher Administrati Court dismissed Wallraff's complaint against the surillance of his telephone in March 1974 in an appeal , and described the implementation as lawful.
The Anti-BILD Trilogy
In 1977 Wallraff worked for three and a half months as an editor at the Bild newspaper in Hanor . In the bestseller The lead story. The man who was with Bild Hans Esser describes his experiences in the local editorial office in Hanor and reports serious journalistic omissions and unclean research methods to the Bild-Zeitung. The German Press Council thereupon issued six reprimands against the Bild newspaper and also reprimanded Wallraff for his "inadmissible undercor research". The Axel Springer AGWallraff then sued seral times, so that he had to lea out some passages in the second edition. These parts of the text, which were mainly limited to rbatim quotations from individual picture editors, were displayed demonstratily blackened from the second edition .
The broadcast of the documentary film Informations aus dem Hinterland , produced by WDR in 1977, was refused by the then television director Heinz Werner Huebner because the Axel Springer Verlag heard of the production and was "ry angry". The film was later shown in some arthouse cinemas.
In 1978, Wallraff set up the aid fund "If picture lies, ht against it" in order to provide legal support to those affected by picture reporting. In 1979 the book Witnesses for the Prosecution was published. The picture description continues . This was the first time that many of those affected and long-term employees of the newspaper expressed themsels. The "Bild" manual followed in 1981 . The picture manual up to picture failure as a kind of legal advice for injured parties.
In the same year, the series of lawsuits initiated by Axel Springer AG , which serd to repress the t, came to an end. The Federal Court of Justice ruled largely in Wallraff's favor. Axel Springer AG lodged a constitutional complaint against this with the Federal Constitutional Court . In its landmark judgment of January 25, 1984 , hower, this only criticized the sometimes rbatim description of an editorial conference.
1987 ga concrete -Herausgeber Hermann L. Gremliza known that he is anti-IMAGE Trilogy as the majority of the ghostwriter wrote. Wallraff did not file a lawsuit, nor did he take any public position on the allegations. [5] [6] [7]
At the bottom
Main article: At the ry bottom
From 1983 Wallraff worked for two years as a Turkish guest worker Ali Lent Sinirlioglu at various companies, including McDonald's and Thyssen . He also took part in clinical studies in the field of pharmaceutical research . He described his experiences, which were perceid as extremely negati, from the tone of dealing with guest workers to tax-saving tricks by companies to the violation of elementary occupational safety rules in detail in the book Entire Below , which was created in collaboration with seral co-authors. Later he founded the aid fund Foreigners Solidarity. The documentary at the ry bottom appeared in 1986.
With Abdullah Öcalan in Syria
In December 1996 Wallraff met with the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan in a Syrian training camp to talk to him about The Suras Apos by the Kurdish dissident Selim Cürükkaya , who was threatened with death because of this book. Wallraff was warmly receid by Öcalan thanks to his role as a Turkish worker Ali (e at the bottom ), but failed with regard to the revocation of the murder order. The conrsation was reprinted from the time ..
More cort research
Wallraff was doing research in Japan as an Iranian worker back in the 1990s. The accompanying report receid attention on Japanese television.
Wallraff has been researching in Germany since May 2007 for the revid Zeit magazine "Leben".
While doing research for the first report in this series, he sold system lottery tickets from LottoTeam in a CallOn call center through direct sales . Since the industry is not hiring "older people", Wallraff assumed the identity of a man 16 years younger with the help of a makeup artist . Wallraff reported on the methods used there and in a ZIU-International call center and criticized, in addition to harassment of those called, misinformation of employees and systematic violations of the law against unfair competitionand attempts to force contracts to be concluded through untruthful allegations and intimidation of those called. In Nomber 2007, ZDF broadcast the documentary Rip-off when calling.
For the second report in this series, Wallraff worked for a month in 2008 for Gebr. Weinzheimer Brotfabrik from Stromberg , whose only customer at the time was the food discounter Lidl, and published the article " Our daily bread " in "Zeit-Magazin ", in which he added the bad Pay criticized working conditions, safety deficiencies and hygienic conditions. Lidl responded to the publication with a public statement, and Bernd Westerhorstmann, the owner of the baking factory, filed a complaint against Wallraff for trespassing. According to information from the NDR, hower, the bakery agreed to pay its employees abo the tariff in the future.
In January and February 2009 Wallraff researched homeless shelters in Cologne , Frankfurt (Main) and Hanor, among others , and made a "record" himself to examine the living conditions of people without a permanent residence. In doing so, he uncored numerous abuses in the homes: some were locked from the inside at night, there was a climate of fear and violence and there was a lack of care staff. There must be more social workers who turn to the local people. Wallraff himself sees homelessness as an increasingly central issue in the economic crisis that could soon affect eryone.
In April 2009, Wallraff uncored another data scandal at Deutsche Bahn in the Zeit newspaper.
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