Christiane zu Salm

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Christiane zu Salm, in September 2017

Christiane zu Salm (born Hansen , born October 2, 1966 in Mainz ) is a German media entrepreneur and art collector.

From 1998 to 2001 she was managing director of MTV Central Europe, then until 2005 managing director and shareholder of the private broadcaster tm3 , which she converted into the raffle channel 9Live in September 2001 . Christiane zu Salm has been the owner of Nicolai Verlag in Berlin since February 2016 .

Life

Christiane zu Salm was born in Mainz in 1966 as the daughter of the publisher Volker Hansen and his wife, a home economics teacher. There she attended the Catholic girls' high school Maria Ward School . From 1985 to 1988 she did an apprenticeship as a bookseller at S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt am Main . In the same year she started at the Ludwig-Maximilians University , a Munich business studies , which she completed with a focus on strategic management and marketing 1,992th

In 1993 she became an executive assistant at UFA Film- und Fernseh GmbH under Bernd Schiphorst in Hamburg. In 1994 she became head of the Merchandising & Music Production department at Grundy UFA TV Produktions GmbH in Berlin, where she founded a music publisher and a music label. From 1995 to 1997 she was director of the children's program at UFA Fernsehproduktion GmbH .

In 1997 she started her own business as managing partner of the music publisher Media Branding GmbH . In 1998 she became managing director of MTV for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In March 2001, she left the station to Chairman and Managing Director of Euvia Media AG , the purchasing and operating company , sonnenklar TV to be. In 2001 she became managing director and shareholder of the private broadcaster tm3 , which had broadcast the UEFA Champions League the previous year . In the same year, zu Salm converted the station, which now sublicensed the rights to RTL , into the competition station 9Live . The 9Live Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG was financed mainly by controversial call-in contests . After selling her shares in sonnenklar TV and 9Live to ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, she gave up this activity in September 2005. She was then a member of the Advisory Board of the auction house Phillips de Pury & Company until 2008 .

From February 2006 to March 2008 she sat on the German advisory board of the Spanish hotspot network FON . In spring 2007 she set up the media fund About Change Ventures , which invests in digital media companies in Germany and abroad.

Christiane zu Salm has been a member of the board of directors of the Swiss media group Ringier AG since 2007 . From 2008 to 2012 she was also a member of the Monopolies Commission .

From April 2008 to November 2008 she was a member of the board of directors of Hubert Burda Media and headed the Cross Media department created especially for her . Internet TV, mobile phone TV and cross-media formats for various media were among her areas of responsibility. In November 2008 she left the group again; For personal reasons, she asked for her contract to be terminated early, but remained an advisor to the publisher until the end of 2009.

As a senior advisor at the investment bank JPMorgan , she was entrusted with the areas of M&A and investment banking . She taught media management as a visiting professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin . Zu Salm is a member of the Bertelsmann Foundation's expert commission on the compatibility of family and career . In 2016 she acquired the Nicolai Verlag in Berlin.

From November 2007 to 2010 she showed selected works from her art collection in the new Chipperfield building on Kupfergraben in Berlin, including works by Kurt Schwitters , Isa Genzken and Pae White .

Private

The manager married Ludwig Prinz zu Salm-Salm in 1995 . The marriage was divorced in 2002.

Later she lived with Georg Kofler , the former CEO of the TV channel Premiere , together. They married in 2010 and have had a daughter since 2004.

Works

  • Christiane zu Salm: Magic machine interactive television? TV future between blossom dreams and business models. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-409-12637-6 .
  • Christiane zu Salm: Manifesto Collage: On the concept of collage in the 21st century. Defining Collage in the Twenty-First Century. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86984-340-7 .
  • Christiane zu Salm: I was that person. Obituaries for your own life. Goldmann, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-442-31350-1 .
  • Christiane zu Salm: Live on. After losing a loved one. Goldmann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-31382-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christiane zu Salm strengthens the board. In: Focus , December 11, 2007.
  2. ↑ a b Christiane zu Salm buys the Berlin publisher Nicolai. In: Spiegel Online . February 8, 2016, accessed September 27, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Marcel Laskus: »Nobody trusts you anyway«. Christiane zu Salm was the first woman in Germany to head a television station. She was ridiculed as a pop princess and yet overtook the competition. Today she turned her back on the industry. In: Die Zeit , No. 16 of April 8, 2020, p. 28.
  4. ↑ Christiane zu Salm invests in digital media. In: Heise online , April 14, 2007.
  5. ^ Monopolies Commission: Members ( Memento of May 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ New job at Burda. In: Manager Magazin , December 11, 2007.
  7. ↑ Isabell Hülsen: Hubert Burda's Crown Princess is leaving. In: Spiegel Online , November 10, 2008.
  8. ^ The members of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Family Expert Commission. In: Bertelsmann Foundation ( PDF ; 50 kB).
  9. ↑ About Change, Collection ( Memento from July 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Salm, Christiane too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hansen, Christiane (maiden name); Salm, Christiane too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd October 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz