Dietmar Bartz

Dietmar Bartz (2018)

Dietmar Bartz (born April 1, 1957 in Duisburg ) is a German journalist .

Bartz grew up in Ratingen and completed his training in 1979 at the main state archive in Düsseldorf and at the archive school in Marburg with a career examination for senior archive service (Dipl.- Archivist (FH)). From 1980 he studied art history , history and German at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the University of Hamburg . After dropping out of his studies, he completed a traineeship at taz in Bremen .

From 1988 to 1991 he was the business editor at taz in Berlin and then until 1994 head of the business department at Wochenpost in Berlin. For four years he worked as a freelance business journalist in Prešov ( Slovakia ). This was followed by further activities in Germany, from 1998 to 2001 as head of the service at mare in Hamburg and until 2006 as opinion editor at taz. From 2002 to 2005 he was also part of the editorial team of the German edition of Le Monde Diplomatique . From 2007 to 2009 he was head of duty at the German edition of Vanity Fair . He held the same position in 2012 for the German edition of Interview . He also works as a project manager and media consultant.

With communication designer Ellen Stockmar, he has been running the “Atlas Manufaktur” project for the production of orientation media (including meat atlas) since 2012 .

In the course of his reporting on the collapse of the Cologne city archive , Bartz coined the term Cologne flakes .

Publications (selection)

• Confusion in the internal market. AV-Verlag, Augsburg 1990, ISBN 3-925274-34-0
• Understand the economy. Eichborn-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-8218-1446-2 . 3rd edition under the title Economy from A to Z. 2002, ISBN 3-8218-3944-9
• Sailor's language. From ropes, Pütz and shrouds. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2007, 2nd edition 2008, 3rd edition Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-86539-344-9
• as co-editor or editor: Atlas of Globalization. 4 issues 2003–2012. Le Monde Diplomatique, Berlin, most recently ISBN 978-3-937683-39-3
• Iraq Economic Report 2011/2012. In: Iraq + me. Published by Media in Change and Transition, Berlin 2011, no ISBN, pp. 102–128
• (Editor :) Southeast Europe. The small subcontinent. Edition Le Monde Diplomatique, Berlin 2014, ISBN 3-9376-8344-5
• (Project management, with own contributions :) Meat Atlas (4 issues 2013-2018), Europe Atlas (2014), Soil Atlas , Coal Atlas (2015), Group Atlas (2017), Energy Atlas , Atlas of Work (2018), Agricultural Atlas , Atlas der Migration , Mobility Atlas (2019), Insect Atlas (2020), also in numerous foreign-language editions
• (Main author :) Above. Your flight attendant, published by Heinrich Böll Foundation and Airbus Group, also in English under the title Aloft. An Inflight Review (2016)

Web links

Commons : Dietmar Bartz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Atlas Manufactory, website
• Literature by and about Dietmar Bartz in the catalog of the German National Library