Bernd Runge (publisher)
Bernd Runge (* 1961 in Rostock ) is a German media manager and publisher.
Life
Born in Rostock, he studied "International Relations" and journalism in the GDR and the USSR . He started his career as an ADN correspondent in Hungary. After German reunification , he completed a trainee training at Axel Springer Verlag . Then he was editor-in-chief of the French edition of the magazine Gala (Verlag Gruner & Jahr). Briefly working as managing director of Jahreszeiten Verlag , his publisher Thomas Ganske dismissed him due to a disrupted relationship of trust.
For eleven years he managed the Condé Nast publishing house , the German branch of the US publisher Advance Publications . As Vice President he was also responsible for international business, especially in Eastern Europe. In 2003, the specialist magazine Horizont named him “Media Man of the Year”. In Germany, Runge introduced the magazines Glamor and Vanity Fair, among others . When the failure of Vanity Fair became apparent, he left the publisher in December 2008.
According to research by the news magazines Focus and Spiegel, Runge had worked in the GDR for years as an unofficial employee with the code name "Olden" for the Ministry for State Security . The US publisher Advance Publications then expressed its confidence in Runge.
From 2009 to 2012 has been Runge CEO ( CEO ) at the international auction house Phillips de Pury & Company in London . Since 2011 he has been publishing German and Russian editions of Interview magazine with the entrepreneur Wladislaw Jurjewitsch Doronin . Since 2014 he has also been editor-in-chief of the German edition of Interview.
Web links
- Out for Condé Nast boss Bernd Runge , in: Meedia, December 1, 2008
- The trouble with exporting glamor , in: The Guardian , February 18, 2008
- Bernd Runge in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Extremely zealous and full of initiative , in: Focus , May 12, 2004
- ^ Comrade Glamor . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 2004 ( online ).
- ^ "Press release Condé Nast: Chairman trusts Bernd Runge" ( Memento of May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), ots original text, May 10, 2004
- ↑ Michael McGinnis Named CEO of Phillips de Pury. In: GalleristNY of September 29, 2012
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Runge, Bernd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German media manager and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |