Bernd Ziesemer

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Bernd Ziesemer (born August 17, 1953 in Bückeburg ) is a German journalist and columnist for Capital magazine. He writes for numerous business media such as Bilanz, Handelsblatt and Wirtschaftswoche. The former editor-in-chief (2002–2010) of the business and financial newspaper Handelsblatt was from October 2010 to April 2014 managing director of the corporate publishing division of the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house .

Life

Ziesemer attended the Henri Nannen School , which he successfully completed in 1983. Then worked as a journalist, including as a correspondent for news agencies in Bonn and Frankfurt am Main . Between 1985 and 1987 he was the foreign policy editor of Wirtschaftswoche in Düsseldorf , from 1987 to 1990 he was head of the politics department in the same house. Between 1990 and 1994 he worked as office manager for the Handelsblatt and Wirtschaftswoche in Moscow . During this time he published the German translation of the “500-day plan”, the first programmatic document by the Russian economic reformers around Grigori Jawlinski and Jegor Gaidar . In 1995 Ziesemer became Tokyo correspondent for Wirtschaftswoche, which he remained until the end of 1997. He then wrote for a while for Wirtschaftswoche, before he was appointed deputy editor-in-chief of the Handelsblatt in 1999. In 2002 he was promoted to editor-in-chief there. In addition, between January 2003 and August 2005, while Handelsblatt was cooperating with Wall Street Journal Europe , he was honorary Assistant Editor of the Wall Street Journal. In 2010 he gave up the editor-in-chief of the Handelsblatt.

Act

Since working in the editor-in-chief of the Handelsblatt, Ziesemer has written various leading articles and essays on fundamental questions of economic and foreign policy, which have been published in various foreign newspapers in addition to the Handelsblatt. At the same time he published several books, including Die Neidfalle - How resentment paralyzes our economy , a critical examination of German society.

Political past

Ziesemer was a member of the Maoist KPD in the 1970s . Together with Karl Schlögel and Willi Jasper , he wrote a basic account of this period in 1980 in the book Party's Broken - The Failure of the KPD and the Crisis of the Left .

Others

In the 1980s and 1990s, Ziesemer dealt intensively with the People's Republic of China , which he traveled frequently. Based on these experiences, he wrote the book On the Back of the Dragon - Asia in China's Force Field in 1989 , which critically examines the power politics of the Beijing leadership. Afterwards Ziesemer published a whole series of articles and essays critical of China.

Awards

For his commitment to freedom and human rights in China, Ziesemer was awarded a journalism prize in 2005 by the International Society for Human Rights ISHR . In 2009 Ziesemer was honored as editor-in-chief of the year 2009 by Medium Magazin .

Corporate governance

Ziesemer is heavily involved in corporate governance issues . For many years he supported the Institute for Corporate Governance (ICG) at the University of Witten / Herdecke , where he was a visiting lecturer. Ziesemer has been honorary chairman of the board of the Cologne School of Journalism since 2016. He also teaches at the Holtzbrinck School for Business Journalists in Düsseldorf.

Works

  • Karl Schlögel, Willi Jasper, Bernd Ziesemer: Party broken. The failure of the KPD and the crisis of the left. Edition VielFalt by Olle and Wolter, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88395-704-6
  • On the back of the dragon. China on the way to becoming a world power. Busse Seewald, Herford 1989, ISBN 3-512-00948-4
  • The envy trap. How envy paralyzes our economy. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main; New York 1999, ISBN 3-593-36185-X
  • Pioneers in the German economy. What we can learn from the great entrepreneurs. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main; New York 2006, ISBN 978-3-593-38121-3
  • A Brief History of Economic Unreason. German economic policy and the law of unintended consequences. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main; New York 2007, ISBN 3-593-38235-0
  • A private against Hitler. Looking for my father. Hoffmann and Campe, Frankfurt / Main; February 2012, ISBN 978-3455502541

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Journalists of 2009 . In: Medium Magazin online on December 21, 2009, accessed on January 14, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Ziesemer, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and editor-in-chief of the Handelsblatt
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckeburg