Klaus Brinkbäumer

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Klaus Brinkbäumer (2018)

Klaus Brinkbäumer (born January 27, 1967 in Münster ) is a German journalist . From January 13, 2015 until the end of October 2018, he was editor-in-chief of the German news magazine Der Spiegel and publisher of Spiegel Online .

Life

Brinkbäumer grew up in Hiltrup . After graduating from the Kardinal-von-Galen-Gymnasium , he worked as a freelancer for the Westfälische Nachrichten (WN). He studied in Santa Barbara (California) and Munich and lives in Hamburg . The journalist completed his traineeship at Weltbild in Augsburg and attended courses at the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists in Munich.

Brinkbäumer researched together with Hans Leyendecker and Heiner Schimmöller the tax case Peter Graf (father of Steffi Graf ) and together with Clemens Höges the history of the Vizcaína , the ship that Christopher Columbus on his fourth and last voyage to the new world off the coast of today Panamas lost. For several years Brinkbäumer has mainly been writing foreign reports, for example about migration from Africa , but also about the American economic crisis of 2008 or people like Apple founder Steve Jobs and actor George Clooney . He is the author of many Spiegel cover stories and reported on four American presidential elections. In November 2016 he and Sonia Mikich (WDR) interviewed the incumbent US President Barack Obama in Berlin and the French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris in October 2017 .

On January 1, 2011, Brinkbäumer became a member of the editor-in-chief of the news magazine Der Spiegel , for which he had been a correspondent from New York for four years . From September 1, 2011 to January 12, 2015, he was deputy editor-in-chief at Spiegel . On January 13, 2015, he was appointed editor-in-chief with immediate effect.

As editor-in-chief, Brinkbäumer designed the digital paid service Spiegel Plus in 2015, which began in 2016 with the individual sale of items on Spiegel Online and was converted to a subscription model in May 2018. During his tenure, award-winning covers such as “The Last Witnesses” (about Auschwitz survivors), “The End of the World” and “America First” (both about Donald Trump, both drawn by exiled Cuban Edel Rodriguez) and award-winning texts like Markus Feldenkirchen's “Schulz story” about the election campaign of Chancellor candidate Martin Schulz or Das Kartell about the secret agreements of the German auto industry. On March 18, 2018, the mirror appeared with a new layout. In 2016, Brinkbäumer founded the pan-European investigative network "European Investigative Collabation" (EIC), which among other things cooperated with the disclosure platform "Football Leaks" and revealed tax tricks and black boxes in international professional football.

On August 22, 2018, it was announced that Brinkbäumer was to be released from his position as editor-in-chief. When the shareholders of the Spiegel publishing house recalled Brinkbäumer, managing director Thomas Hass cited "different views of how the Spiegel editorial offices should be brought together" as the reason. His successors on January 1, 2019 will be a team of editors-in-chief, including Steffen Klusmann as head and Barbara Hans . As of March 31, 2019, the contractual relationship with Spiegel was mutually terminated. Until then he worked as an author.

In April 2019, the weekly newspaper Die Zeit announced that Brinkbäumer would henceforth work as an author for the paper. He will mainly write for the Politics, Features, Dossier and Zeit-Magazin departments and will initially report from the USA where he has currently moved his center of life.

Brinkbäumer is a lecturer at the Henri Nannen School , the Hamburg Academy for Journalism and the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (ifp) in Munich. He is a jury member for the Nannen Prize and in his private life a member of FC St. Pauli and the Hamburg sailing club. He was multiple German youth volleyball champion and played for 1860 Munich in the Bundesliga. As a sailor, he and his crew became German runner-up in class J / 70 on Lake Constance in 2018 . Brinkbäumer is married to the journalist Samiha Shafy.

Books

  • Klaus Brinkbäumer, Hans Leyendecker , Heiner Schimmöller: Reiche Steffi, poor child - Die Graf , Spiegel-Buchverlag, 1996, ISBN 3-455-15005-5
  • Stefan Aust , Cordt Schnibben (Eds.): September 11th - History of a Terrorist Attack , Spiegel-Buchverlag / DVA , 2002.
  • Stefan Aust, Cordt Schnibben (eds.): Iraq - History of a Modern War , Spiegel-Buchverlag / DVA, 2004.
  • Klaus Brinkbäumer, Clemens Höges: The Last Journey - The Case of Christoph Columbus , DVA, 2004.
  • Cordt Schnibben (Ed.): Tsunami - History of a World Quake , Spiegel-Buchverlag / DVA, 2005.
  • Klaus Brinkbäumer: The Dream of Life - An African Odyssey , S. Fischer Verlag , 2006.
  • Klaus Brinkbäumer: Unter dem Sand , S. Fischer Verlag, 2007.
  • Klaus Brinkbäumer (Ed.): "70 - Der Spiegel 1947 to 2017", DVA
  • Klaus Brinkbäumer: Obituary for America , S. Fischer Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397232-0 .
  • Klaus Brinkbäumer, Samiha Shafy: The clever, funny, healthy, unrestrained, happy, very long life: the wisdom of centenarians. A trip around the world , S. Fischer Verlag , 2019.

Awards

  • 2015: Lead Awards, Cover of the Year, Gold: "The Last Witnesses"
  • 2016: ADC Awards, Cover of the Year / Magazine: Silver Nail for "Delivered", Bronze Nail for "The Last Witnesses"
  • 2016: Editor-in-chief of the year (medium magazine jury)
  • 2017: ADC Awards, Cover of the Year / Magazine: Grand Prix and Goldener Nagel for "The End of the World"
  • 2017: "Reporter of the World" for investigative journalism, awarded by the Spanish newspaper "El Mundo"

literature

  • Jan Friday: The down-to-earth. In: journalist , January 2015, p. 11.

Web links

Commons : Klaus Brinkbäumer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brinkbäumer editor-in-chief of SPIEGEL, Harms editor-in-chief of SPIEGEL ONLINE - SPIEGEL ONLINE . Spiegel Online website. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
  2. ↑ horizont.net: Details on the removal of Brinkbäumer. This is how managing director Thomas Hass is converting the mirror (accessed on 23 August 2018)
  3. ↑ a b KLAUS BRINKBÄUMER - from Hiltrup into the wide press world. (PDF; 2.3 MB) In: nabu-naturschutzstation-muensterland.de. 2013, accessed May 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ spiegelgruppe.de: Klaus Brinkbäumer is the new editor-in-chief of SPIEGEL, Florian Harms is the new editor-in-chief of SPIEGEL ONLINE (accessed on May 9, 2015)
  5. ↑ Christian Lohmüller: In addition to Martin Doerry: Brinkbäumer becomes Vice Editor-in-Chief at "Spiegel". kress.de, August 25, 2011, accessed on August 25, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Steffen Klusmann: "Der Spiegel" gets a new editor-in-chief . In: ZEIT ONLINE . August 22, 2018 ( zeit.de [accessed August 23, 2018]).
  7. ^ Karoline Meta Beisel, Claudia Tieschky: Soko Hamburg . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 22, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on August 23, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Editor-in-chief Klaus Brinkbäumer leaves SPIEGEL , spiegel.de, October 15, 2018
  9. ↑ Former SPIEGEL editor-in-chief Brinkbäumer becomes an author at ZEIT. April 3, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  10. ^ Klaus Brinkbäumer is the new "Spiegel" head of text . mediummagazin.de. Retrieved June 18, 2015
  11. ↑ NDR: The wisdom of the centenarians. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  12. ↑ The Journalists of 2009 . In: Medium Magazin online on December 21, 2009, accessed on January 14, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Brinkbäumer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster