Constantin Seibt

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Herbert Werner Constantin Seibt (born February 20, 1966 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a Swiss journalist and author .

Life

Seibt was born in Frankfurt am Main, his parents were German. When he was two years old, the family moved to Switzerland. Seibt later took on Swiss citizenship . Seibt grew up in Bassersdorf and attended the Rychenberg Cantonal School in Winterthur . This was followed by German studies at the University of Zurich , which he dropped out. In the parliamentary elections in 1999 and 2003 Seibt ran on the alternative list for the National Council , but was not elected.

Seibt has a daughter (* 2009) and another child and lives in Zurich .

journalism

Seibt was an editor and columnist at the university newspaper Zürcher StudentIn , published a crime thriller and worked as a freelance journalist, for example for the advertising week and with his very short story column for Basler Magazin . He also wrote a column on falsification of literature in the NZZ Folio .

From 1997 to 2005 Seibt was an editor for politics and economics and a columnist at WOZ Die Wochenzeitung . At the beginning he mainly wrote columns like the “ Monster Family ” and articles for the cultural section. Great attention was paid to his article on the Toywar known litigation to domain names . From 2001 he was part of the domestic editorial team, where he played an increasingly important role. Between September 2004 and December 2005 he wrote columns for Weltwoche on a regular basis .

In January 2006 he switched to the Tages-Anzeiger . One of his first topics as a reporter for the Tages-Anzeiger was the judicial processing of the Swissair grounding. The collected articles were published in 2007 in book form as “ The Swissair process ”. Seibt's mostly economic-political comments and analyzes regularly made waves in the online commentary columns, for example his analysis " The Right Farewell to Politics ", written in August 2011 , where Seibt received the criticism of capitalism by the conservative Charles Moore .

From May 2012 to July 2014, Seibt wrote for his blog called Deadline on tagesanzeiger.ch/ Newsnet on the subject of “ Journalism in the 21st Century”. Some of the articles were published in book form in November 2013 under the title Deadline - How to write better .

At the end of 2016, Seibt left the Tages-Anzeiger in order to a. with Christof Moser from Switzerland am Sonntag , who also gave up his position as Bundeshaus editor to work for his own start-up Republic . On May 13, 2017, the crowdfunding campaign for the partial financing of the media project “Project R” was launched and, according to Swiss campaign experts, beat all the crowdfunding records previously known in Switzerland within 24 hours, so that the republic on the same Day could be officially founded. The online magazine Republik was launched in 2018.

Prices

  • 2007: Journalist of the Year , Swiss Journalist trade journal .
  • 2008: Zurich Journalist Award in the “Newspaper” category for reports on the Swissair process.
  • 2012: Reporter of the Year , Swiss Journalist magazine .
  • 2013: Columnist of the Year , Swiss Journalist magazine .
  • 2016: Reporter of the Year , Swiss Journalist magazine .

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Werner Constantin Seibt in moneyhouse.ch , accessed on November 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ Constantin Seibt. In: theodor-schmid-verlag.ch, accessed on May 2, 2011
  3. ↑ a b consignment colon . Roger Schawinski in conversation with Constantin Seibt. In: Radio 1 from May 6, 2012 ( MP3 ; 51.20 MB)
  4. ↑ a b Constantin Seibt: Confessions of a German Secondo. In: Tages-Anzeiger from February 10, 2010
  5. ^ Election results for the National Council elections 1999. In: admin.ch , accessed on December 31, 2011
  6. ^ Election results for the National Council elections in 2003. In: admin.ch , accessed on December 31, 2011
  7. ↑ "Now he's also become a father and is involved in childcare." Christof Moser: "I am ready to disappoint expectations." March 21, 2019, accessed on March 22, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Columnists: We read our stuff for you ( memento of March 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), brief biographical information with photo. In: Columnist Night , 2005.
  9. ↑ Constantin Seibt: Power and power struggles in the WOZ. In: WOZ-Online. The weekly newspaper, October 5, 2006, accessed on June 11, 2019 .
  10. ^ Constantin Seibt: Art defeats commerce. Forget X-mas. Get online. Join E-War! (PDF; 25 kB) In: WOZ-Online. The weekly newspaper, February 3, 2000, accessed on May 30, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Constantin Seibt: Toywar II. (PDF; 23 kB) Commerce versus art giant. In: WOZ-Online. The weekly newspaper, February 8, 2001, accessed on May 30, 2012 .
  12. ↑ http://www.weltwoche.ch/expenses/2006-01/artikel-2006-01-editorial.html
  13. ^ Stefan Howald: Review - Swissair bankruptcy. Among the Romans and other heroes. In: WOZ-Online. The weekly newspaper, October 5, 2006, accessed on December 31, 2011 .
  14. ↑ Constantin Seibt: The right farewell to politics. [...] A comment. In: Tages-Anzeiger Online. Tamedia / Newsnetz , August 6, 2011, accessed December 31, 2011 .
  15. ↑ Constantin Seibt: 101. The horror of the conservatives. A director's cut. In: - Catalog of everything. Last Words Department, August 9, 2011, archived from the original on December 14, 2011 ; accessed on December 31, 2011 .
  16. ^ Charles Moore: I'm starting to think that the Left might actually be right. In: The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited, July 22, 2011, accessed December 31, 2011 .
  17. ↑ Constantin Seibt blogs for Newsnet. In: Tages-Anzeiger / Newsnet . May 2, 2012.
  18. ↑ Blog Deadline on tagesanzeiger.ch/ Newsnet
  19. ↑ Kaspar Surber: The big bet on journalism. In: WOZ The weekly newspaper . October 6, 2016.
  20. ↑ Edith Hollenstein: Constantin Seibt leaves the Tagi. In: persoenlich.com. October 6, 2016.
  21. ↑ The "Republic" is founded . In: Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger . April 26, 2017, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed April 27, 2017]).
  22. ↑ Constantin van Lijnden : Project R: A bottle of hope . In: The time . April 26, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 27, 2017]).
  23. ↑ ots: Constantin Seibt is “Journalist of the Year” in Switzerland. In: presseportal.de. December 3, 2007, accessed December 15, 2009 .
  24. ↑ Zürcher Journalistenpreis 2008. ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Three works and one complete work were awarded. In: Zürcher Journalistenpreis , accessed on December 31, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zh-journalistenpreis.ch
  25. ↑ Daniel Ryser named “Journalist of the Year” on November 29, 2016
  26. ↑ Thomas Wyss: When the sons with their father ... Interview in: Tages-Anzeiger . Updated May 31, 2012, accessed July 11, 2012.
  27. ↑ Constantin Seibt: Self-promotion - here in a self-experiment. In Tages-Anzeiger online / Newsnet . May 25, 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Seibt, Constantin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seibt, Herbert Werner Constantin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main