Beate Wedekind

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Beate Wedekind (2013)

Beate Wedekind (born April 13, 1951 in Duisburg ) is a German journalist, author, event organizer and TV producer.

biography

After completing secondary school in 1968, Wedekind completed a banking apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank . She then worked as a flight attendant at the Condor airline for two years . After working for an advertising agency for a year, she worked for two years as a secretary in the development service in Ethiopia from 1975 , and in 1978 as a foreign language secretary at the Free University of Berlin .

After a traineeship at the Berliner Zeitung Der Abend from 1979 to 1981 Wedekind worked as a local editor for the Bild-Zeitung Berlin. In 1982 she first became the Bunte editor at Burda-Verlag in Offenburg, later headed the entertainment department and finally became the managing editor. In 1985 she took over the overall organization of the annual Bambi Awards .

In the ZDF her mission launched in December 1986. My Rendezvous , which was soon stopped because of disagreements with the transmitter. In the television program Hessen 3 she then moderated the talk show Zeil um ten and on MDR television 1992 the monthly live broadcasted talk show MDR-Club from the New Theater in Halle .

In 1988 Wedekind became editor -in- chief of the German edition of the French women's magazine Elle at Burda-Verlag . In 1990 she also took over the editorial management of Elle Decoration and in April 1991 the chief editor of the Burda magazine Ambiente . As of June 1, 1992, Wedekind was editor-in-chief of Bunten, the first woman to head a German magazine with a readership of millions. At the beginning of May 1993 the Burda publishing house announced that Wedekind had been released from her responsibility as editor-in-chief of the Bunter “because of illness”. Wedekind himself declared the departure with a deep exhaustion - burn out .

In December 1993, the new entertainment magazine Gala was taken over from Ehrlich & Sohn-Verlag, a subsidiary of Gruner + Jahr, which it developed to market readiness.

In 1997 she settled in Berlin and founded Beate Wedekind Productions PR Publications GmbH. From 1997 to 2001 she ran the "Pictureshow" gallery in Berlin-Mitte, which was dedicated to contemporary art (painting and photography) with a socio-political background. With Beate Wedekind GmbH she organizes events for various companies; She also produced (from 1997 to 2007) the presentation of the film and television award Die Goldene Kamera for ZDF. She is significantly involved in the development of the concepts for the charity gala Ein Herz für Kinder and the Laureus World Sports Awards and produced with Michael Mittermeier and Jerry Lewis . In addition, she is involved in Ethiopia for the Karlheinz Böhm Foundation Menschen für Menschen . For Karlheinz Böhm's 80th birthday, she produced the TV show A Life for Africa for ZDF , which raised more than 6 million euros for the people of Ethiopia. In 2008, Til Schweiger commissioned her to develop an audience award for the German film. Since 2009 she has been a columnist for the online magazine The European .

Wedekind lives in Berlin, Ibiza and Addis Ababa .

Works (selection)

  • Beate Wedekind: New York Interiors . Taschen Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-8228-3565-X .
  • Beate Wedekind: Alpine Interiors . Taschen Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-8228-7614-3 .
  • Beate Wedekind: At any price . Ullstein Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-548-24791-1 .
  • Susanne Juhnke, Beate Wedekind: In good and bad days. My life (biography about Susanne Juhnke). Droemer / Knaur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-426-77778-9 .
  • Beate Wedekind: Nagaya means peace: Karlheinz Böhm and his Ethiopia Aid . Report book. 2nd Edition. Rütten & Loening-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-352-00659-3 .
  • Beate Wedekind, Karlheinz Böhm: My Life - Searching Will Find. The autobiography . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89910-383-0 .
  • Almaz Böhm, Beate Wedekind: No way too far - My life between Africa and Europe (biography about Almaz Böhm). Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89910-392-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wedekind, Beate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author, event manager and TV producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg