Artur Jung

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Artur Jung (born June 30, 1960 in Haarbrücken , Neustadt near Coburg ) is a German film journalist , film critic and editor-in-chief of the film magazine Cinema .

Life

After his internship at the test magazine HiFiVision in Stuttgart - where he was mainly trained by Harald Kuppek, who later became the founding editor of Computer Bild , Computer Bild Spiele and AudioVideoFoto, he began his journalistic career as a film editor at the popular magazine VideoMagazin in Munich. He then worked in the Munich office of the Milchstrasse publishing group , where he worked for the industry journal VideoMarkt and the film magazine Cinema .

In 1988 he took over the post of head of service at VideoMarkt in the Hamburg Milky Way, the headquarters of the publishing group of the same name. In 1990 he moved to the book editorial team of the Milchstrasse publishing group, of which Willy Loderhose was the editor-in-chief. There he worked as an editor and author in Hamburg and Los Angeles and wrote a. a. the Cinema film yearbooks, the world's first biography of Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme and Action Fighters, a star guide of modern martial arts film.

In 1994 he joined the consumer magazine VideoPlus as deputy editor-in-chief. After the magazine was closed, he took over the travel department of AMICA magazine in 1995, only one year later he was hired as deputy editor-in-chief of the film magazine Cinema. After twelve years in this position, he took over the editor-in-chief of the film magazine from Helmut Fiebig . In addition to his work as editor-in-chief, Artur Jung is the initiator of the Jupiter award , the audience film award from Cinema magazine .

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