Dominik Wichmann

Dominik Wichmann (2014)

Dominik Wichmann (born September 6, 1971 in Munich ) is a German journalist and book author .

Life

Dominik Wichmann attended the Berlin School of Journalism and studied political science, philosophy and American cultural history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the University of Erfurt and Harvard University .

From June 2000 to April 2011 Wichmann was editor-in-chief of SZ-Magazin . 2006 Wichmann was at Dietmar Herz at the State School of the University of Erfurt with the work of faith Federal Republic: nation-building processes in the years 1982 to 1989 for Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

On July 1, 2011, Wichmann became deputy editor-in-chief at Stern . In January 2013, he was promoted to the position of co-editor-in-chief alongside previous bosses Thomas Osterkorn and Andreas Petzold . From May 2013 to October 2014 he was the sole editor-in-chief.

From September 2015 to February 2017, Wichmann worked at the international conference and innovation platform Digital Life Design (DLD) as editor-in-chief and additional managing director alongside DLD founder Steffi Czerny .

Wichmann then founded the Looping Group together with Robin Houcken, Peter Greve and Rüdiger Barth . The area of ​​activity of the company, which operates at several locations in Germany, is content marketing . As an advising publisher, he also advises the start-up conference “ Bits & Pretzels ”.

Dominik Wichmann teaches at the Henri Nannen School in Hamburg , the German School of Journalism in Munich and at the MAZ in Lucerne and is visiting professor at the Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL). He was a jury member for the CNN Journalist Award , the LeadAwards and the Arthur F. Burns Prize of the German Foreign Office in 2010 and 2011 . He was a member of the Art Directors Club .

The book "Between Two Lives", which he wrote with the politician and former Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle , who was suffering from leukemia , was on the Spiegel bestseller list for more than ten weeks and was described by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung as "probably the best politician book of recent years" .

In October 2018 Tina Turner published her second autobiography "My Love Story - Tina Turner - Die Autobiografie", which Wichmann wrote together with her and the US author Deborah Davis . The book has been translated into over 20 languages ​​and made it to the New York Times bestseller list .

Awards

In 1995 Wichmann received the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship . In 1996 he was awarded the Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalists. In the same year, Wichmann accepted the Arthur F. Burns Prize from the German Foreign Office and the Friedrich Vogel Prize for Business Journalists. In 2006 he was awarded the Golden Prometheus in the magazine journalism category as Journalist of the Year . In 2011 and 2013, Medium Magazin named Dominik Wichmann one of the editors-in-chief of the year.

Works

• Beyond utopia. American dreams. 2000, ISBN 3-8545-2731-4 .
• The house of the present. 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1147-3 .
• Lexicon of the early 21st century. 2005, ISBN 3-86615-222-1 .
• Don't say anything now: interviews without words. 2008 ISBN 978-3-86615-657-9 .
• As editor: Riddles of everyday life: The really important questions of humanity, answered by the Süddeutsche Zeitung magazine . 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-15602-3 .
• Twenty ten. 20 years - 10 volumes. 2010, ISBN 978-3-86615-774-3 .
• Together with Guido Westerwelle : Between two lives. Of love, death and confidence . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-4555-0390-6 .
• Together with Ulf Erdmann Ziegler : Bernd & Hilla Becher in conversation. Two interviews. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8296-0752-0 . (With 45 illustrations)
• With Deborah Davis: My Love Story: The Autobiography . 2019, ISBN 978-3328600596 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kirst, Nina: After 10 years at "SZ Magazin": Wichmann becomes vice-boss at "stern". In: kressreport. September 23, 2010, accessed on September 23, 2010 (German). 
2. ↑ On his own behalf: Dominik Wichmann becomes stern editor-in-chief , stern.de from January 14, 2013
3. ↑ New DLD editor-in-chief: Ex-stern boss Dominik Wichmann changes to Burda . meedia.de, June 17, 2015, accessed October 15, 2015.
4. ↑ Dominik Wichmann strengthens the DLD team as editor-in-chief and managing director at the side of Steffi Czerny . ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. hubert-burda-media.de, June 17, 2015, accessed on October 15, 2015.  
5. ↑ Lecturers . MAZ website , accessed on October 22, 2015.
6. ↑ ^{a b} IJP: Arthur F. Burns Prize. In: www.ijp.org. Retrieved August 30, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Cf. the ADC member list with: Dominik Wichmann - The stations of life . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , August 24, 2012. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
8. ↑ Spiegel bestseller list
9. ^ Jörg Thomann, FAZ
10. ↑ The Best Books of Fall 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2018 . 
11. ↑ The election of the journalists of 2013

Web links

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