Das Bild des Bundesamtes für Verfassungsschutz in den Medien. Eine Frame-Analyse ausgewählter Presseberichterstattung über den deutschen Inlandsnachrichtendienst

This article examines which frames determine the media discourse on the biggest German domestic intelligence service – the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz – and how these frames have developed. To answer these questions a frame analysis is carried out. A total of 221 articles in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung published between 1 November 2011 and 31 December 2019 are analyzed. The findings support previous observations, according to which a skeptical attitude towards their intelligence services prevails in German society.