Franz Josef Wagner

Franz Josef Wagner (born 7 August 1943 in Olomouc) is a German author and journalist. He was editor-in-chief of Bild, launched Elle Germany and has written a number of books, at least one of which was adapted for the screen.

Life

His father was a teacher and his mother a teacher for household. In his childood, Wagner lived in Regensburg. After school he began to work for the newspaper Nürnberger Zeitung.[1] In 1960s he got a job as journalist at German newspaper BILD in Munich. From 1966 he worked as journalist for media company Axel Springer in Hamburg. There he worked as war correspondent and later editor-in-chief. In 1988, Wagner began to work as journalist for Hubert Burda Media in Munich.[2] There he was editor-in-chief for the magazine Bunte. Together with journalist Günter Prinz he started magazines Elle and Superillu and then in 1991 magazine Super1.[3][4] In July 1998 Wagner went back to company Axel Springer and became editor-in-chief as journalist for newspaper BILD.[5][6] He lost his work as editor-in-chief in 2000.[7][8][9][10] Since 2001 Wagner writes a columne Post von Wagner in newspaper BILD. As author Wagner wrote several books.

He is married, has one daughter and lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg.[11]

Books by Wagner

Novels
  • Das Ding, Blanvalet. Munich 1978. ISBN 3-7645-0854-X (1979 as film in German television station ZDF)
  • Im September, wenn ich noch lebe. Blanvalet. München 1979. ISBN 3-7645-5302-2
  • Big Story, Bertelsmann. Munich 1982. ISBN 3-570-01857-1
  • Wolfs Spur, Bertelsmann. Munich 1984. ISBN 3-570-00279-9

As ghostwriter
  • Udo Jürgens: Smoking und Blue Jeans – Jahre eines Traumtänzers. Lübbe. Bergisch Gladbach 1984. ISBN 3-7857-0378-3
  • Franz Beckenbauer: Ich – Wie es wirklich war. C. Bertelsmann. Munich 1992. ISBN 3-570-02079-7
  • Boris Becker: Augenblick, verweile doch … Bertelsmann. Munich 2003. ISBN 3-570-00780-4

Autobiography
  • Brief an Deutschland, Diederichs, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-424-35041-8

References
  1. Liebe Lehrer, liebe Eltern. In: Bild, 5 January 2008.
  2. Franz Josef Wagner, munzinger.de
  3. Tod in Bernau und die „Super!“-Zeitung: Das Gespenst der Einheit, tagesspiegel.de, 3 May 2011
  4. „Ewig währender Zeitungskrieg“, spiegel.de, Der Spiegel 24/1991, 10 June 1991
  5. Franz Josef Wagner, kress.de
  6. Franz Josef Wagner soll Chefredakteur der BZ werden, horizont.net, 22. June 1998
  7. Helmut Schümann: Molch-Affäre: Folgen einer Überschrift, tagesspiegel.de, 21 September 2000
  8. Die Tiefen des Scheiterns, taz.de, 29 September 2000
  9. Axel Springer: „Gossen-Goethe“ wird Springer-Edelfeder, manager-magazin.de, 26 October 2000
  10. FOCUS Online. "Franzi-Kritiker ging baden" (in German). Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  11. Franz Josef Wagner: Was kann ich überhaupt?, faz.net, 3. December 2001
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