Joachim Widmann

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Joachim Widmann (* 1963 in Cologne ) is a German journalist and writer. Since October 2012 the former editor-in-chief of the news agency ddp as well as the local newspapers and internet sites around the Bamberg Franconian Day has been running the Berlin School of Journalism together with the journalist Olaf Jahn . Together with Olaf Jahn, Joachim Widmann also heads the bsjk Berlin School for Journalism and Communication GmbH , which was founded at the beginning of 2014 .

Life

After studying German language and literature, journalism and art history in Marburg, Coventry and Berlin and training as an editor at the Berliner Tagesspiegel (joined in 1989), Widmann worked for the Potsdamer Neuesten Nachrichten (head of service, 1991), the Märkische Oderzeitung (deputy des Local bosses in Frankfurt / Oder, 1993), the Berliner Zeitung (Blattmacher foreign, 1996), the newspaper Die Welt (Blattmacher foreign, 1999), the Netzeitung (Deputy Editor-in-Chief, 2001), the news agency ddp Deutscher Depeschendienst GmbH , Berlin (Editor-in-Chief , 2005), and at the regional publishing house Mediengruppe Oberfranken in Bamberg (editor-in-chief, 2010).

After two non-fiction books on GDR topics, Widmann's first thriller, "Schmitts Hell - Verrat", was published in 2015. In the meantime (as of July 2018) four more thrillers have appeared. All are part of a series with the protagonist Sibel Schmitt, a Berlin police officer with Turkish roots.

Fonts

  • "We'll get you soft." Reports from everyday life in a dictatorship. Bouvier, Bonn 1997. ISBN 3-416-02672-1 (on victims of the GDR state security)
  • (with Katja Havemann): Robert Havemann or How the GDR took care of itself. Berlin, Munich 2003
  • Schmitt's hell - treason. Thriller, Berlin 2015
  • The woman in the red dress, Thriller, Berlin 2016
  • Schmitt's hell - countdown. Thriller, Berlin 2016
  • Schmitt's hell - decision. Thriller, Berlin 2017
  • Self-defense, thriller, Berlin 2018
  • Shitstorm, Thriller, Berlin 2020

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BJS repositions itself: Volkmar leaves, Jahn and Widmann come BJS press release from June 18, 2012, accessed on June 18, 2012
  2. ↑ kress.de: Mediengruppe Oberfranken: editor in chief Joachim Widmann goes , accessed 21 November 2011
personal data
SURNAME Widmann, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and editor-in-chief
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne