Julia Jäkel

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Julia Jäkel in 2017

Julia Jäkel (born November 13, 1971 in Mainz ; real name Julia Jäkel-Wickert ) is a German manager . She was appointed to the executive board of the publishing house Gruner + Jahr in 2012 , was its chairman from 2013 and has been the chief executive officer since 2015 . Under her leadership, the publishing house was radically rebuilt, especially through the expansion of digital offerings. Jäkel is a member of Bertelsmann's Group Management Committee and chair of the Bertelsmann Content Alliance .

origin

Jäkel was born in Mainz in 1971 . Her parents and grandparents worked as doctors. After graduating from the Gutenberg School in Wiesbaden , Jäkel studied history , political science and economics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and Harvard University . In 1996 she completed her studies with a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from the University of Cambridge .

Jäkel has been married to the journalist Ulrich Wickert since 2003 . The relationship resulted in two children (* 2012).

Career

In 1997 Jäkel went through the Bertelsmann Entrepreneurs Program and then switched to Gruner + Jahr. After a brief stint as managing editor of the Gala , she was part of the founding team of the Financial Times Deutschland in 1999 . At first Jäkel acted as deputy managing editor and spokeswoman for the business newspaper. In 2001 she became the publishing director for editions of the Financial Times Deutschland. After five years with the Financial Times Deutschland, Jäkel moved back to Baumall in 2004 and rose to become the Brigitte Group's publishing director .

In 2008, Jäkel initially took over the management of the “G + J Exclusive” group, which Gruner + Jahr merged with the “G + J Living” group in the same year. She was responsible for Chefkoch.de , Food & Drink , National Geographic Germany , Schöner Wohnen and various other magazines and digital offers. In addition, Jäkel took over the position of managing director of the Corporate Media division at Gruner + Jahr, which was expanded under her leadership. In the course of a reorganization of Gruner + Jahr in 2012, the number of media brands in Jäkel's area of ​​responsibility rose to over 20 and from then on also included Brigitte , Gala , Grazia and 11 friends .

In 2012 Julia Jäkel was appointed to the board of Gruner + Jahr. Jäkel was responsible for the German market and ran the business on an equal footing with Torsten-Jörn Klein and Achim Twardy. One of Jäkel's first decisions as a board member was to discontinue the deficit Financial Times Deutschland . Half a year after taking office, she finally took over the chairmanship of the board of Gruner + Jahr. In the following years Jäkel promoted the journalistic work, pushed the online offer of Gruner + Jahr and improved the relations with the parent company Bertelsmann. With the change in the legal form of Gruner + Jahr at the beginning of 2015, the management board was transferred to a management team . Jäkel acts in the position of Chief Executive Officer , Oliver Radtke and Stephan Schäfer are also part of the management.

In 2016 Julia Jäkel was named "Media Manager of the Year" by Kress . Horizont awarded her the “Media Woman of the Year 2017” award. At the German Media Prize 2018 she was honored as "Media Personality of the Year".

literature

social commitment

Julia Jäkel has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the DFL Foundation since 2019 .

Web links

  • Information on the management on the Gruner + Jahr website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Jäkel in the Munzinger archive , accessed on August 1, 2016 ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
  2. ^ Evelyn Roll: Print and Paper . How Julia Jäkel changes the publishing house Gruner + Jahr. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 1, 2012, p. 3 .
  3. ↑ Ileana Grabitz : Gruner + Jahr appoints Julia Jäkel to the board . In: The world . September 7, 2012, p. 9 .
  4. ↑ Johannes Ritter: Julia Jäkel takes over the management of the publishing house. In: faz.net. September 11, 2013, accessed August 11, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Uwe Mantel: Gruner + Jahr is no longer a stock corporation. In: dwdl.de. December 18, 2014, accessed August 11, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Zeitschriftenverlag Gruner + Jahr: “We will radically change”. In: faz.net. September 11, 2013, accessed September 20, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Gruner + Jahr expands digital business. In: Abendblatt.de. July 4, 2016. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
  8. ^ Kai-Hinrich Renner: A radical new beginning . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . April 11, 2013, p. 15 .
  9. ↑ Katharina Brecht: Bertelsmann forges Content Alliance. In: horizont.net. January 29, 2019, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Stefanie Widmann: With three good drops on the island . Exhibition in Berlin. In: Wiesbadener Tagblatt . September 20, 2006.
  11. ↑ Götz Hamann: The emergency doctor . What moves Julia Jäkel? In: The time . No. 42 , October 9, 2014, p. 34 .
  12. ↑ Women at work. (PDF) Portraits, numbers and facts. AT Kearney, 2013, pp. 16-17 , accessed August 2, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Christian Meier: Julia Jäkel: The packaging artist. In: meedia.de. November 29, 2011, accessed August 30, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Petra Steinkirchner: From trainee to boss. Julia Jäkel - CEO of Gruner + Jahr. In: wiwo.de. September 7, 2012, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Ulrich Wickert secretly married . In: The world . March 6, 2003, p. 32 .
  16. ↑ Topic of the day: Ulrich Wickert remarried. In: spiegel.de. March 5, 2003, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Ulrike Winter: Ulrich Wickert will be a father again . In: Rheinische Post . December 7, 2011.
  18. ↑ Ulrich Wickert's wife gives birth to twins. In: welt.de. March 24, 2012, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Sonja Pohlmann: Julia Jäkel: woman at the wheel. In: tagesspiegel.de. September 6, 2012, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Armgard Seegers: The unusual and exciting way of Julia Jäkel. In: Abendblatt.de. October 29, 2015, accessed August 2, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Michael Hanfeld: She is the first and third in this covenant. In: faz.net. September 6, 2012, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  22. ^ Decision on January 15th . The fine-tuning of the "Financial Times Deutschland" is being tinkered with in Hamburg in a highly conspiratorial manner. In: The world . December 22, 1999, p. 39 .
  23. ^ The German Financial Times before the start . In: The Standard . February 14, 2000, p. 15 .
  24. ↑ FT starts on February 21st . In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 8, 2000, p. 31 .
  25. ↑ The "Financial Times" is learning German . In: Basler Zeitung . February 19, 2000.
  26. ↑ Julia Jäkel is now Head of Editions Publishing for the Financial Times . In: German printer . March 15, 2001, p. 77 .
  27. ↑ Team player without airs . In: horizon . April 15, 2004, p. 14 .
  28. ↑ Julia Jäkel becomes the publishing director . In: The world . November 26, 2003, p. 33 .
  29. ↑ Roland Pimpl: Julia Jäkel moves to "Park Avenue". In: horizont.net. May 29, 2008, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  30. ↑ Uwe Mantel: New managing director for G + J Exclusive. In: dwdl.de. May 29, 2008, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  31. ↑ How the staff carousel turns at Gruner + Jahr . In: Welt am Sonntag . August 17, 2008, p. 73 .
  32. ↑ Julia Jäkel takes over G + J Exclusive & Living. In: horizont.net. July 25, 2008, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  33. ↑ G + J Corporate Editors: From Audi to Telekom . In: Kressreport . November 26, 2010, p. 10 .
  34. ↑ Uwe Mantel: G + J is repositioning itself in corporate publishing. In: dwdl.de. October 22, 2009, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  35. ↑ Roland Pimpl: "Corporate Editors": G + J also sells all publishing services to companies. In: horizont.net. October 22, 2009, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  36. ↑ New G + J title groups: Agenda and Life. In: meedia.de. February 23, 2012, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  37. ↑ Henning Kornfeld: G + J renames publishing groups: Newly formed units are called Agenda and Life. In: kress.de. February 23, 2012, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  38. ↑ Christof Bock: Back chairs at Gruner + Jahr . In: Darmstädter Echo . 15th September 2012.
  39. ^ Kai-Hinrich Renner: A management trio for Gruner + Jahr . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . September 7, 2012, p. 25 .
  40. ↑ Lars Haider, Kai-Hinrich Renner: "I am not someone's vicarious agent" . In: The world . November 24, 2012, p. 34 .
  41. ^ Klaus Boldt: New leadership at Gruner + Jahr. In: Manager Magazin. April 10, 2013, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  42. ↑ Caspar Busse: Gruner + Jahr: All power for Jäkel. In: sueddeutsche.de. April 10, 2013, accessed August 2, 2016 .
  43. ↑ Roland Pimpl: Bet on the future . In: horizon . March 28, 2013, p. 1 .
  44. ^ Eckart Gienke: Big renovation at Gruner + Jahr . In: Heilbronn voice . September 11, 2013, p. 25 .
  45. ^ Baumall on course . With Julia Jäkel as CEO of G + J, relations with Gütersloh will improve. In: horizon . April 18, 2013, p. 14 .
  46. ↑ Peter Turi: Bertelsmann turns Gruner + Jahr into a GmbH. In: turi2.de. November 14, 2014, accessed August 11, 2016 .
  47. ↑ Marco Saal: G + J changes its legal form and extends it with Julia Jäkel and Co. In: horizont.net. November 14, 2014, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  48. ↑ Markus Wiegand: The “kress” readers have decided: Julia Jäkel, Giovanni di Lorenzo and Nora Beckershaus are the best in the industry in 2016. In: kress.de. December 8, 2016, accessed December 19, 2016 .
  49. ↑ These are the men and women of 2017. In: horizont.net. December 20, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2018 .
  50. ↑ Horizont Award: Julia Jäkel, Media Woman of the Year 2017. In: youtube.com. January 16, 2018, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  51. ↑ Anja von Fraunberg: Julia Jäkel is the media personality of the year . In: wuv.de from March 15, 2018, accessed on March 16, 2018.
  52. ↑ Julia Jäkel. DFL Foundation, accessed on January 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Jäkel, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jäkel-Wickert, Julia (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and manager
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz