Ursula Weidenfeld

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Ursula Weidenfeld, 2015

Ursula Weidenfeld (formerly Ursula Beyenburg-Weidenfeld ; born March 15, 1962 in Mechernich ) is a German business journalist .

life and work

After graduating from high school at Am Turmhof (Mechernich) , Weidenfeld studied economic history , German and economics at the universities of Bonn and Munich . In 1989 she was at the Bonn Department of constitutional, economic and social history with a thesis on the middle class of the 1950s doctorate . She took her first journalistic steps with the local edition Euskirchen of the Kölnische Rundschau . She completed her traineeship in 1992 at the Georg von Holtzbrinck School for Business Journalists in Düsseldorf and then went to the Holtzbrinck magazine Wirtschaftswoche .

From 1992 to 1994 Weidenfeld was Berlin correspondent for Wirtschaftswoche , then from 1995 to 1997 deputy head of department . In 1997 she moved from Wirtschaftswoche to the Berliner Tagesspiegel , where she became head of the economics department. In 1999 she joined the founding team of the Financial Times Deutschland in Hamburg , where she headed the company department. In October 2001 she returned to Berlin as head of the economy department at Tagesspiegel . She later became deputy editor-in-chief there. From May 2008 to January 2009 she was editor-in-chief of the G + J magazine impulse .

In addition to her journalistic activities, Weidenfeld works as a freelance presenter and commentator for various television and radio stations. She wrote regular columns in the Handelsblatt , which have also appeared in book form. In 2007 she was awarded the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Business Journalism and was appointed to its jury the following year. In 2012 she received the Karl Hermann Flach Prize .

In the winter semester 2014/15 and in the summer semester 2015 Ursula Weidenfeld represented the professorship for press journalism at the journalism seminar of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Publications

As an author:

  • Ursula Beyenburg-Weidenfeld: Competition Theory, Economic Policy and SME Promotion 1948–1963. Small and medium-sized enterprises in the field of tension between claims based on competition theory and economic policy pragmatism. Steiner, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-515-05799-4 (dissertation, University of Bonn, 1989).
  • Top job blues. The ups and downs of the manager world. The best columns from the Handelsblatt. Redline, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-636-01304-1 .
  • Career maker - career killer. Of soaring and falling in management. The best columns from the Handelsblatt. Redline, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-636-01460-3 .
  • with Margaret Heckel: Me, my colleague and his job. www.das-tut-man-nicht.de. Kreuz, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-7831-8046-6 .
  • with Michael Sauga: the end of the money. How banks and politics are gambling away our future. Piper, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-05534-5 .
  • with Jan Hiesserich: Focus on the CEO. Learning from the best on how to properly deal with the public. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50264-9 .
  • Ursula Weidenfeld: Government without a people. Why our political system no longer works , Rowohlt, Berlin 2017.

As editor:

Web links

Commons : Ursula Weidenfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farewell to Rudolph Greuel, longtime head of the Euskirchen local editorial team, on June 23, 2008. Available online (accessed June 30, 2008).
  2. ↑ Dr. Ursula Weidenfeld. Media days of the Robert Bosch Foundation. Available online (accessed June 30, 2008).
  3. ↑ Günther Bähr and Hubert Gude: No luck with the wife of "impulse" . In: Focus from January 8, 2009.
  4. ↑ Ludwig-Erhard-Preis für Wirtschaftspublizistik ( Memento from November 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung eV (accessed on June 30, 2008).
  5. ↑ Dr. Ursula Weidenfeld - journalistik.uni-mainz.de
personal data
SURNAME Weidenfeld, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beyenburg-Weidenfeld, Ursula (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Mechernich