Dennis Betzholz

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Dennis Betzholz (* 1985 in Oberhausen ) is a German journalist , author and publisher .

Life

After graduating from high school, Dennis Betzholz studied applied communication and media science at the University of Duisburg-Essen . During this time he worked as a freelance journalist for the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. From 2009 he volunteered at the Westfälische Rundschau in Dortmund and attended the journalism school of today's Funke media group . After permanent positions at the Westfälische Rundschau (“society department”) and at the General-Anzeiger Bonn , he worked as a freelance journalist for the magazines Der Spiegel and Stern as well as Die Welt am Sonntag. In 2015 he became editor of Welt am Sonntag in Hamburg.

A year earlier, Dennis Betzholz founded the book publisher Plötz & Betzholz with the author Felix Plötz , which specializes in personalities from social media (especially YouTube) as authors. In 2015, the publisher was awarded the Frankfurt Book Fair's wildcard and thus prevailed over 180 other publishing startups in the international competition. In 2016 the Ullstein book publishers took over the young publisher. Betzholz continues the publishing house together with Plötz as managing director to this day. The publisher has already produced several SPIEGEL bestsellers. The two publishers were nominated for the Young Excellence Award of the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2016 for their work.

Works

  • with Felix Plötz: Palms in Castrop-Rauxel. Make your life extraordinary! Betzhold & Plötz, Bad Honnef 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045743-2 . (New edition 2017 under the title Palmen in Castrop-Rauxel: From the courage to realize dreams . Redline Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86881-686-0 .)
  • with Benjamin Fokken: I am me - and we are many. Plötz & Betzholz, Bad Honnef 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049078-1 .
  • Everything will be different with you, baby! Knaur, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-426-21454-1 .

Awards

  • Betzholz was nominated for his report “The fairy tale of good play”, published by Stern , in 2014 for the German Reporter Award in the category “Best Freelance Reporter” and in 2015 for the Henri Nannen Award (longlist). He also received the Konrad Duden Journalist Prize and the Lorry for this contribution .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 3 startups in the publishing industry that we will hear from later . In: t3n News . ( t3n.de [accessed October 19, 2017]).
  2. ^ Ullstein book publishers: Plötz & Betzholz. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ # yeaward16 - the candidates (8/10) / Plötz & Betzholz: Books for the YouTube generation. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Bernd Wilken - adminion: Reporter-Forum: 2013. Accessed on October 19, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Stern / Gruner + Jahr: Henri Nannen Prize 2014: The best works in the German-language press . stern / Gruner + Jahr, 2014, ISBN 978-3-652-00376-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ↑ Discover Wesel - The Prize Winners. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  7. ↑ BILD reporter Tobias Kindel honored with the "Lorry" . In: bild.de . ( bild.de [accessed on October 19, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Betzholz, Dennis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen