Ariane Lauenburg

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Ariane Lauenburg (born in Hamburg ) is a German journalist specializing in finance . She works as an editor at the Stiftung Warentest in Berlin and writes for the consumer magazine Finanztest and the Foundation Portal test.de .

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Ariane Lauenburg studied sociology at the Free University of Berlin . After graduating in 1981, she completed an internship at the daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel in Berlin, where she worked as an editor for three years. She was press spokeswoman for the Berlin Senate for Health and Social Affairs and city hall correspondent for the Berliner Morgenpost .

Since 1991 Lauenburg has been the editor of Stiftung Warentest's financial test magazine in the section “Investments, old-age provision, loans and taxes”. She is also one of the regular authors of the financial test yearbook . She is considered an expert on the " gray capital market " and was involved in the 1999 special issue Geldanlage: Grauer Kapitalmarkt , in which a "warning list" lists 250 dubious providers and intermediaries.

As a financial expert from Stiftung Warentest, Lauenburg is repeatedly quoted and interviewed by the media. In connection with the consulting practice of the investment company AWD and its founder Carsten Maschmeyer , whose methods Lauenburg has been observing since the mid-1990s, she warned against financial products from AWD, especially closed-end funds . She was interviewed about this in the report by Panorama Der Drückerkönig und die Politik broadcast by ARD in 2011 . She accused the AWD of "systematically providing incorrect advice" to its customers. In an interview with Deutschlandfunk , she advised investors to file a lawsuit through a lawyer who specializes in capital investment law.

In 2009 she uncovered violations of data protection regulations at Postbank . The documentation Die Falschberater von ZDFzoom from 2013 on the consulting practice of Postbank also referred to research by Ariane Lauenburg.

In 2009, Lauenburg was one of the nine nominees for the “Long Breath” journalism prize awarded by the German Association of Journalists in Berlin-Brandenburg for their reports on the excesses of the German and international capital markets .

Attacks on Lauenburg

According to a press release by the German Union of Journalists from spring 2019, Lauenburg was the victim of insults and defamation on the Internet. This went as far as the death threats she received via email. The attacks were preceded by an investigative article by Ariane Lauenburg on the online portal “Gerlachreport” registered in the USA and by the entrepreneur Rainer von Holst. Finanztest had reported several times since the summer of 2017 how the entrepreneur is said to have cheated investors.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ariane Lauenburg: Approaches to a sociological theory of everyday storytelling , diploma thesis, FU Berlin 1981, archive library of the Free University Berlin, OCLC number: 918024845
  2. ^ TAZ archive, July 15, 1987
  3. ^ Ariane Lauenburg , at: rbb88.8, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
  4. ↑ ver.di8 editors, October 14, 2019 . Deviating from 1990 according to rbb888.de
  5. ↑ Imprint Stiftung Warentest (accessed on May 11, 2020)
  6. ↑ S. Weidner: "Formalities alone are of little help". Interview with Ariane Lauenburg, expert for the gray capital market at the “Finanztest” magazine . the daily newspaper, September 23, 2004
  7. ↑ Dubious advisors promise high returns without risk , from: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 10, 1999, No. 288, page 25
  8. ↑ Frank Donovitz: At the "gray market" runs the year-end rally , Die Welt, December 10, 1999
  9. ↑ Markus Zydra: AWD founder Carsten Maschmeyer. Earlier consulting practice partly unlawful , Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 10, 2011
  10. ↑ Christoph Lütgert, Kristopher Sell: Order character assassination? Too much of the honor! Panorama, August 16, 2017
  11. ↑ Panorama: The Drückerkönig and Politics , ARD Mediathek, January 12, 2011
  12. ↑ Markus Grill: Dispute over critical report Maschmeyer lawyer presses TV directors , Spiegel Online, January 11, 2011
  13. ↑ Internal AWD list proves incorrect advice in thousands of cases , NDR Press and Information, March 9, 2011
  14. ↑ Indications that AWD commissions are too high for closed funds . Ariane Lauenburg in conversation with Jule Reimer, Deutschlandfunk, December 9, 2011
  15. ^ Niels Kruse: Serious allegations against the Postbank , Stern, October 26, 2009
  16. ^ Carsten Kloth: data affair. Independent representatives can view Postbank accounts , Der Tagesspiegel, October 27, 2009
  17. ↑ The false advisors. In the clutches of Postbank , documentation by Ute Waffenschmidt / ZDFzoom, on: ARD Phoenix, November 13, 2013
  18. ↑ Elisabeth Binder: Award Newspapers with Passion The journalist award “Long Breath” honors courageous and persistent journalists. In: Der Berliner Tagesspiegel. Tagesspiegel, October 23, 2009, accessed on May 9, 2020 .
  19. ↑ The price - JVBB - Journalists' Association of Berlin-Brandenburg. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .
  20. ↑ dju declares solidarity with the Berlin journalist Ariane Lauenburg. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Günter Herkel: Lies have very long legs online, verdi.de, October 2, 2019
  22. ↑ Sebastian Hölzle: Stiftung Warentest defends itself: Dispute over the deletion of Google hits , Münchner Merkur .de, June 18, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Lauenburg, Ariane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauenburg – Hennig, Ariane (previously married)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg