Fridolin Luchsinger

Fridolin Luchsinger (born March 6, 1939 ; resident in Schwanden GL ) is a Swiss journalist .

Life

Fridolin Luchsinger studied Romance studies at the University of Zurich and was then a secondary teacher in Bergün from 1959 to 1963 . In 1963 he switched to journalism and was sports editor until 1968 and sports director of the daily newspaper Blick from Ringier- Verlag from 1968 to 1974 .

From 1974 to 1978 he was editor-in-chief of Blick , from 1978 to 1983 editor-in-chief of SonntagsBlicks and in 1984 editor-in-chief of Schweizer Illustrierte . Then he took over the editor-in-chief of the women's magazine annabelle until 1986 . In 1987 he became the first editor-in-chief of the newly founded SonntagsZeitung of the Tamedia- Verlag. From 1989 to 1996 he was again editor-in-chief of Blick and at the same time of SonntagsBlick and from 1996 to 1997 editor-in-chief Blick / SonntagsBlick , before taking over the management of the Ringier School of Journalism in 1997, which he held until his retirement in 2009. For the first six years of this period he was both corporate spokesman and general secretary of Ringier, but resigned from this position in 2002 because his concept of communication was no longer accepted.

Luchsinger was a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Media Database (SMD) and from 1997 to 2001 a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Dispatch Agency (sda).

In 2009 he published the book Toni & Fred. My dog, my wife and I (Thesis Verlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-908544-77-7 ).

He is married to the journalist Christine Walch and has two daughters, Barbara (* 1964) and Selina (* 1966). Since his retirement he has lived in Einsiedeln and in the Upper Bavarian Chiemgau .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ringier spokesman Fridolin Luchsinger resigns. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 17, 2002.