With the Bergson Academy, we aim to shed light on the current issues of our time with various experts from different perspectives. A look at the daily press shows how important the debate on media and personal rights is in this sense:
"Following objections from music star Herbert Grönemeyer, the Greens have removed a video of Robert Habeck from the internet. A corresponding post on X was deleted, and the video was also no longer visible on Habeck's Instagram account. In it, Habeck had hinted at his candidacy for the Green Party's chancellorship a day later on Thursday last week. He hummed Grönemeyer's hit "Zeit, dass sich was dreht". Grönemeyer then banned the Greens, as he had previously banned the CDU, from using his song for the election campaign. Grönemeyer's media lawyer Christian Schertz told the German Press Agency: "Today we have also called on the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party and Mr. Habeck to refrain from using songs by Herbert Grönemeyer and specifically the song "Zeit, dass sich was dreht" for election campaign purposes in future." (Berliner Zeitung).
With our current academy event "Was darf Journalismus", we are getting to the bottom of topics like this with personalities such as Herbert Grönemeyer's lawyer.
Our panel:
Simon Bergmann is a partner at the law firm Schertz Bergmann in Berlin. The law firm specializes in the areas of press, copyright and media law as well as intellectual property law. The firm's clients include Herbert Grönemeyer, Till Lindemann and Günther Jauch.
Sönke Iwersen has headed the investigative team at Handelsblatt since 2012. In 2011, he was named Business Journalist of the Year, among other things for his reporting on the incentive culture in the insurance industry (Ergo-Budapest affair). Iwersen is a three-time winner of the Wächterpreis (2012, 2015, 2019) and was honored with the Henri Nannen Prize in 2013.
On this evening, we also want to explore the question of how journalistic truth can be defined and where the line is drawn between the need for information on the one hand and personal rights on the other.
