Christian Kämmerling

Christian Kämmerling (born September 21, 1953 in Berlin ) is a German journalist . Together with Andreas Lebert , he is considered to be the inventor of the SZ magazine .

Life

In 1990 Kämmerling joined the founding editorial team of SZ-Magazin, in 1996 he took over the chief editor , together with Ulf Poschardt . In 2000, Kämmerling and Poschardt had to leave the magazine after their borderline journalism provoked the biggest media scandal of the year: the exposure of the fake interviews by Hollywood reporter Tom Kummer .

From 2003 to 2004 he worked as an author for the magazine Die Weltwoche . In 2004 he developed the lifestyle supplement Why not! For the Handelsblatt publishing group . , 2006 the comeback of the legendary FAZ magazine for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 2004 to 2007, Kämmerling was also a media advisor to Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz .

Kämmerling is a member of the Art Directors Club and a jury member of the Lead Academy . His concept journalism has received multiple awards. The most spectacular example is the issue of SZ-Magazin (No. 46/1993) designed together with the American artist Jenny Holzer , the title page of which was printed with the blood of raped Yugoslav women to draw attention to the subject of war violence. The shocking magazine led to a socially controversial discussion across Germany.

Since 2005 Kämmerling has been the owner and managing director of the creative agency Contrix GmbH in Hergiswil ( Switzerland ) and advises leading commercial companies. For the Italian automobile company Ferrari he developed the magazine "Enzo", for the British automobile company Lotus he was the editor of the magazine of the same name in New York. The magazine was nominated in 2012 by the American Society of Publication Designers as the best magazine of the year. In collaboration with the Swiss advertising agency Studio Achermann, he launched numerous publications for Swisscom in Bern and Migros in Zurich.

Kämmerling is married to Lisa Feldmann , the former editor-in-chief of the largest Swiss women's magazine, Annabelle . He has two children and lives in Zurich and Saint-Paul de Vence .

In 2014 Kämmerling published the novel "Sirius" under the pseudonym Jonathan Crown. The novel describes the fictional biography of a Jewish dog who escaped the horrors of the Third Reich, made a career as a film star in exile in Hollywood and ended up in Berlin again during World War II, side by side with Adolf Hitler in the Führerbunker. "The sensation dog of the literary season" (SPIEGEL), originally published by the German publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch, became an international bestseller, published in England, Italy, France, Holland and Spain. The New York publishing house Scribner, publisher of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Stephen King, brought "Sirius" out in 2016 in the USA. In 2017 "Sirius" was awarded the prestigious "Prix du Cercle de l´Union Interalliée" literary prize in France.

literature

• Borderline journalism. In: Die Zeit , No. 26/2000
• SZ magazine No. 46/1993 (PDF; 108 kB)