Roger Köppel

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Roger Köppel
Roger Köppel (2018) at Weltwoche on the road

Roger Jürg Köppel (born March 21, 1965 in Zurich ; entitled to live in Küsnacht ZH and Widnau ) is a Swiss journalist , media entrepreneur , publicist and politician ( SVP ). Since 2001 he has been editor-in-chief and publisher of the weekly magazine Die Weltwoche , with a two-and-a-half-year interlude as editor-in-chief of the German daily newspaper Die Welt (2004–2006). He has been a member of the Swiss National Council since 2015 .

biography

family

Roger Köppel is the son of a secretary and a building contractor, a trained bricklayer. His parents died when he was a teenager. His maternal grandparents emigrated from Germany to Switzerland after the Second World War . He grew up in Kloten and Bülach , in the mother's apartment with his brother ten years older and his girlfriend. Köppel is married to Bich-Tien Köppel, who came to Switzerland from Vietnam when she was 4 years old as the daughter of two asylum seekers. Köppel has four children with his wife and lives in Küsnacht in Zurich .

Education and years of work

In addition to his basic studies in economics and social history, Köppel began his journalistic career in 1988 with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) and worked there for around seven years in various departments, including sports and film editing. In one biography, Köppel is accused of having adopted a review of the film Jurassic Park (1993) from The New Yorker magazine almost unchanged , without citing the source.

In 1995, Köppel completed his studies in political philosophy and economic history in Zurich with a licentiate . He wrote his licentiate thesis - with the title Authority and Myth: Carl Schmitt and the re-enchantment of state violence (1916–1938) - with the philosopher Georg Kohler .

From 1994 he was the cultural editor of the Tages-Anzeiger . Three years later he was appointed editor-in-chief of the Tages-Anzeiger magazine , he was in charge of the weekend supplement from October 1997 to July 2001. In the spring of 2000 he became deputy editor-in-chief of the Tages-Anzeiger and at the end of 2001, after completing a Harvard post-graduate degree, he would have New York - to become foreign correspondent for business and culture.

The world week

In June 2001, Köppel accepted the offer to lead Weltwoche , which had been suffering from declining circulation for years, as editor-in-chief. Shortly afterwards, Weltwoche was sold to financial investors around the Ticino financier Tito Tettamanti . The traditional paper was reoriented in terms of content and form. The classic newspaper format of Weltwoche has been converted into a magazine format . The editorial team was largely changed. Some authors and editors left the paper in protest.

The Weltwoche was a right-wing trimmed course. With politically provocative and aggressive articles and comments, she opposed the “left-liberal journalism mainstream” (Köppel). Weltwoche journalists spoke of the fact that Köppel wanted to lead the paper on a neoliberal course and specifically replace previous editors with people close to him. Köppel accused the other Swiss media of having a fundamentally negative attitude towards SVP politician Christoph Blocher . Before the parliamentary elections in 2003 , Köppel pleaded expressly for Blocher to belong to the Federal Council . He also praised the Swiss People's Party (SVP) as the Swiss party that is most likely to promise successful bourgeois politics. The EU critic Köppel judged the criticism expressed in large parts of Europe of Blocher and his SVP to be false. Blocher is not a Haider or Le Pen , but “a nuclear fusion of Margaret Thatcher , Ronald Reagan and Franz-Josef Strauss ”. The change of course of a weekly newspaper based on the Weltwoche was discussed in the book Bad News by Bruno Ziauddin . Ziauddin had worked for seven years as deputy editor-in-chief at Köppel's side at Weltwoche .

Economically, in 2003 World Week made a profit for the first time after several years of losses. The circulation initially increased and then fell again during Köppel's tenure. When Köppel took office in 2001, Weltwoche had a circulation of 78,000, which rose temporarily to 91,000 by the end of 2003.

Change to the world and return to the world week

In the spring of 2004, Köppel left Weltwoche because he had received an offer from Axel Springer Verlag to be editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Die Welt . There he worked under the leadership of the former editor-in-chief and new publisher Jan-Eric Peters .

At the beginning of November 2006, Köppel surprisingly returned to Weltwoche . As a publisher and editor-in-chief, he took over the majority of shares in Weltwoche Verlags AG, which he had previously founded . Before the end of the year, he announced the takeover of all shares in Weltwoche Verlags AG, although he never disclosed where the money required for this came from. The circulation of Weltwoche rose slightly from 82,849 in 2006 to 85,772 in the following year, but then slowly fell to 77,800 copies in 2011. This decline in readership increased significantly in the following years, so that the circulation 2014 was only 58,410 copies. By 2018 it fell further to 40,924, which means that Weltwoche lost over half of its circulation between 2007 and 2018. Köppel is on the board of directors of Köppel Holding AG and Weltwoche Verlags AG.

politics

On February 26, 2015, he announced that he would stand for the national conservative Swiss People's Party (SVP) in the National Council election on October 18, 2015 . He wants to continue to exercise his function as editor-in-chief and publisher of Weltwoche . Among other things, he cited the political situation in Switzerland at the time and its relationship to the European Union as motives for this . Despite being number 17 on the list, he received the most votes on the SVP list and was thus elected to the National Council. It received a record number of 178,090 votes. In the National Council, he took a seat in the Foreign Policy Commission. None of the council members are absent as often as Köppel. Since his election he has missed more than one in five votes.

On October 20, 2019, he was re-elected to the National Council with 121,098 votes. This again achieved the best result in the Canton of Zurich. He clearly missed the election to the Council of States with around 107,500 votes, whereupon he withdrew in favor of Ruedi Noser for the second ballot .

public perception

In 2004, Köppel received the Liberal Award 2004 from the Young Freisinnies of the Canton of Zurich (JFZH), and in 2006 he was voted “Journalist of the Year” by the industry magazine Schweizer Journalist . In 2007 he and the editorial team of Weltwoche were awarded the Swiss-Russian Journalism Prize. In 2010, Köppel received the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Business Journalism .

In 2007 it became known that he had rewritten his own Wikipedia article.

Köppel often appears on German talk shows . At hart but fair on December 2, 2009, he defended the result of the Swiss referendum on the ban on minarets and declared that he himself had voted for the ban on minarets. Köppel described the referendum as a “shining example of democracy in Europe”.

When buying the tax evaders CDs with data from alleged tax evaders in Switzerland, Köppel said that this corresponds to the "installation of a cross-border block attendant system" and advised Switzerland to sue the federal government in Berlin for inciting industrial espionage and German ministers who were involved in the Drive to Switzerland to arrest. The latter statement he repeated on February 2, 2010 in the broadcast Munich round of the Bavarian radio. He took the same position on February 3, 2010 in a discussion in hard but fair , even if he did not repeat any of the sharp formulations.

He had a weekly column on the Swiss radio station Radio 1 , which was always broadcast on Thursday mornings. From 2010 to 2015, he discussed current topics with radio boss Roger Schawinski every Monday in the format Roger versus Roger .

At Günther Jauch's , Köppel discussed the refugee problem with a former refugee and Heribert Prantl . In a later interview, Köppel summed up his argument as follows: Wanting to take in all of the “damned people of the world” in Europe was “irresponsible moral megalomania” with youth unemployment rates of up to 50 percent. The illegal immigration across the Mediterranean must be fought strict. By closing the route and not raising any hopes, you save lives. In the case of refugees from Syria, the main responsibility lies with the neighboring states.

In 2014 he was accepted into the Kämbel guild .

The German-Swiss artist and philosopher Philipp Ruch , founder of the Center for Political Beauty , staged a controversial expulsion of the devil from Köppel in 2016. A theatrical performance and an action , a "Saubanner procession to his house", were carried out. In addition, the internet portal schweiz-entköppeln.ch was set up, on which curses could be pronounced against him.

literature

Web links

Commons : Roger Köppel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint of the Weltwoche .
  2. ↑ Lucie Machac: "Bern is giving away the core values ​​of Switzerland". In: Berner Zeitung . March 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ «The opposite position to the mainstream is always correct». In: Medienwoche. February 28, 2015.
  4. ↑ Schawinski - Roger Köppel at Schawinski. In: YouTube. Retrieved March 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Your daughter is born. In: Schweizer Illustrierte . April 28, 2014.
  6. ↑ Roger Köppel on the website of the Swiss Parliament, accessed on December 3, 2019.
  7. ↑ Simon Widmer, Pascal Blum, Bernhard Odehnal, Thomas Knellwolf: After the forgery scandal: "Weltwoche" checks Relotius texts. In: Tages-Anzeiger online. December 23, 2018, accessed on December 23, 2018 : “Köppel himself has also been convicted of copying. When he was still writing for the NZZ, he took over a review of the film “Jurassic Park” almost 1: 1 from the “New Yorker” without citing the source, writes Daniel Ryser in his Köppel biography. "
  8. ↑ a b Marcel Rosenbach : His "world" is opinion . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 2004, p. 236-238 ( Online - Oct. 18, 2004 ).
  9. ^ Barbara Heuberger: A construction site. In: plain text . January 25, 2002. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
  10. ↑ "Blocher is very different from Haider". In: derStandard.at . March 5, 2008.
  11. ↑ Inside "Weltwoche". In: Tages-Anzeiger . January 28, 2016.
  12. ↑ Weltwoche tariffs 2014. ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Weltwoche (PDF; 2.2 MB). Retrieved February 8, 2014.
  13. ↑ Roger Köppel supposedly owns "Weltwoche" alone. In: Basler Zeitung . January 19, 2012.
  14. ↑ WEMF Edition Bulletin 2007 ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), p. 20 (PDF; 171 kB).
  15. ↑ WEMF circulation bulletin 2014 ( Memento of February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), p. 34 (PDF; 790 kB).
  16. ↑ WEMF circulation bulletin 2018 , p. 36 (PDF; 796 kB).
  17. ↑ Roger Köppel in the Swiss commercial register.
  18. ↑ Johanna Wedl: Köppel “doesn't want to stand on the sidelines”. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 26, 2015.
  19. ↑ Roger Köppel outclasses three SVP national councilors. In: Handelszeitung . October 18, 2015, accessed January 4, 2018.
  20. ↑ Roger Köppel sets Swiss record. In: SRF . October 18, 2015.
  21. ↑ Roger Köppel on the website of the Federal Assembly ( submitted proposals ) . Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  22. ↑ Nobody is absent as often as Roger Köppel. In: Tages-Anzeiger. December 7, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
  23. ↑ Roger Braun: RESULTS OF NATIONAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS : ZURICH In: Aargauer Zeitung of July 4, 2019.
  24. ↑ RESULTS OF NATIONAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS: ZURICH In: Swiss Parliament. 3rd December 2019.
  25. ↑ Elections 2019: Köppel withdraws in favor of Noser In: Nau.ch. October 28, 2019.
  26. ^ Winner Liberal Award 2004: Roger Köppel: liberal counterpoint in the media landscape. In: Liberal Award website. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  27. ↑ Swiss-Russian Journalist Prize awarded for the second time ( Memento from August 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: Website of the Switzerland / Russia Cooperation Council. June 5, 2007.
  28. ↑ Thomas Zaugg: Köppels Wikipedia ( Memento from February 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: The magazine . No. 36, September 7, 2007.
  29. ↑ Daland Segler: Propagandists of Fear. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 3, 2009.
  30. ↑ Reinhard Mohr : Dreaming of the Toblerone Republic. In: Spiegel Online . December 3, 2009.
  31. ↑ Roger Köppel: Greed dictates the law. In: Stern.de . February 2, 2010.
  32. ↑ Melanie Ahlemeier : TV review: Hard but fair. A Swiss only shouts: Scandal! In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 4, 2010.
  33. ↑ "Roger versus Roger" probably continues. In: persoenlich.com . 3rd February 2015.
  34. ^ Off for the show "Roger versus Roger". In: persoenlich.com. 5th September 2015.
  35. ↑ "In retrospect you can always say everything more clearly". In: persoenlich.com. April 21, 2015.
  36. ↑ Edgar Schuler: Roger Köppel is now Kämbel-Zünfter. In: Tages-Anzeiger / Newsnet . November 16, 2014.
  37. ↑ Jürg Altwegg: Swiss theater excess. Voodoo and stink fish. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 18, 2016, accessed February 18, 2016.
  38. ^ Jean-Martin Büttner: The hardenings of Roger Köppel. In: Tages-Anzeiger from September 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Köppel, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köppel, Roger Jürg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist, publicist, media entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich