Julia Friedrichs

Julia Friedrichs (born December 15, 1979 in Gronau / Westphalia ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

As a student, Friedrichs wrote the first articles that appeared in the Westfälische Nachrichten in Gronau. She passed the Abitur at the Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium, then studied journalism in Dortmund and Brussels . After a traineeship at Westdeutscher Rundfunk , she works as a freelance writer for the WDR editorial offices Monitor and Realtime .

In 2005 she took part in the recruitment process of the McKinsey management consultancy for research purposes . She was offered a position as a consultant (with a starting salary of more than 60,000 euros and a company car), but she turned it down. A critical documentation of their experiences was advised & sold by Thomas Leif , among other things, in Die Zeit and (in a longer version) , as well as in her non-fiction book Gestatten: Elite. In the footsteps of the mighty of tomorrow. released.

In 2007, Friedrichs was awarded the Axel Springer Prize for young journalists and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for the social report Abgehetzt - Leben in der Unterlass . She became known to a wider public through her book Permit: Elite , published in February 2008 . This was followed in April 2009 by her book Third Class Germany , which she wrote together with Eva Müller and Boris Baumholt. It deals with the topic of social justice . In Ideale - In Search of What Matters , published in October 2011, is about people with their own visions, of what they want to achieve and how they work to make their ideas come true. In her most recent publication Wir Erben: What Money Makes With People , she critically examines the consequences of large inheritances and their consequences for the distribution of wealth in Germany.

Friedrichs lives with her partner and two children in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Awards

• 2007: Axel Springer Prize in the television category
• 2014: Media award for educational journalism from the Deutsche Telekom Foundation in the print category.

Fonts

• Allow: Elite - on the trail of the mighty of tomorrow. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-455-50051-6
• Germany third class - life in the lower class (together with Eva Müller and Boris Baumholt). Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-455-50112-4
• Ideals: In search of what matters. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-50187-2
• We inherit: what money makes to people. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8270-1209-8
• Instructions for use for Werder Bremen. Piper Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-4922-7683-2

On the radio

• "I do not like it! - Why Facebook is annoying and does not make the world a better place ”dradio - Political Features from August 17, 2012, 7:20 am
• Lillifee under the Christmas tree A feast of pinkification , political feature section on Deutschlandradio Kultur on December 21, 2012

Web links

• Julia Friedrichs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Julia Friedrichs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Julia Friedrichs at perlentaucher.de
• McKinsey and I , report on the application to McKinsey in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit from May 18, 2006
• “I was shocked by private kindergartens” , interview in Wirtschaftswoche magazine on February 27, 2008
• “In Germany there is no equal opportunities” , interview with Julia Friedrichs on Cicero Online about her book Germany third class
• Hartz I . Report by Julia Friedrichs about Peter Hartz . In: The time. 41/2011. October 6, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julia Friedrichs in: Axel Springer Prize ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 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. 
2. ↑ Media Prize Educational Journalism of the Deutsche Telekom Foundation