Guido Mingels
Guido Mingels (born June 12, 1970 in Dagmersellen ) is a Swiss journalist .
Life
Guido Mingels was born as Guido Egli in 1970 in Dagmersellen near Lucerne and grew up there. Until 1998 he studied German , philosophy and linguistics at the Universities of Bern , Frankfurt am Main and Berlin . In May 2002 he took the name of his wife Annette Mingels ; since then he has been drawing as Guido Mingels.
His first journalistic position was the Berner Zeitung , where he stayed for two years. From 2001 he worked as a freelance journalist for the Berliner Tagesspiegel , for Das Magazin des Tages-Anzeiger and for other Swiss publications, as well as for Geo . From 2002 Mingels worked for the magazine des Tages-Anzeiger in Zurich, first as an editor, then as deputy editor-in-chief and from 2009 as a reporter from New York . In 2011 he switched to Spiegel . There he was Deputy Head of Corporate Affairs from April 2016 to February 2018 and has been a correspondent in San Francisco since July 2018 .
Works
- Travel inland. Reports from Switzerland. Photographs: Andri Pol , Applaus, Zurich 2012. ISBN 978-3-03774-055-2
- Everything used to be worse. Why we are doing better and better despite wars, diseases and disasters. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich / Spiegel-Verlag, Hamburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-421-04768-7
- Everything used to be worse 2. New facts, why we are doing better and better despite wars, diseases and disasters. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich / Spiegel-Verlag, Hamburg 2018. ISBN 978-3-421-04834-9
Awards
- For the report Rocco is dead , published in the magazine , No. 17/2001, he was nominated in 2001 for the Axel Springer Prize for young journalists.
- For his work Josef, the Panzerknacker in the Tages-Anzeiger magazine, he was awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in 2003.
- In 2012 he received the Henri Nannen Prize in the Best Documentation category, in a team with Ferry Batzoglou , Manfred Ertel , Ullrich Fichtner , Hauke Goos , Ralf Hoppe , Thomas Hüetlin , Christian Reiermann , Cordt Schnibben , Christoph Schult , Thomas Schulz and Alexander Smoltczyk , for “A bomb idea”, appeared in the mirror
Web links
- Brief portrait of Guido Mingels on the Stern website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guido Mingels changes to «Spiegel» , Klein Report, August 1, 2011, accessed on October 1, 2011.
- ↑ Guido Mingels in Skoobe. Retrieved November 19, 2018 .
- ^ Egon Erwin Kisch Prize: An overview of all winners
- ↑ A bomb idea, Der Spiegel, H. 39/2011, September 26, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mingels, Guido |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Egli, Guido |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dagmersellen |