Klaus Stimeder

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Klaus Josef Stimeder (artist name JM Stim ; born March 17, 1975 in Schärding / Inn ) is an Austrian author and journalist who lives in the USA ( New York and Glassell Park , Los Angeles ). In Austria and Germany , the former foreign policy reporter became the founder and editor of the monthly magazine Datum as well as co-author of the biography “Nevertheless. The Oscar Bronner Story "known.

Klaus Stimeder in Toronto 2012

Youth and journalism

Klaus Stimeder grew up in a middle-class family in the Upper Austrian border village of Obernberg am Inn . From an early age, his maternal uncle , who lived in Salzburg , had a great influence on him, the teacher and hobby writer Franz Martin, whom he visited regularly as a teenager. In Martin's apartments at the time (he lived in Schloss Freisaal , among others ), numerous contemporary artists and writers, whose works and lifestyles have made a lasting impression on Stimeder since his student days in the early 1970s (including HC Artmann , for whose readings Martin has been providing musical accompaniment since the late 1960s ), frequented Martin's apartments delivered, Thomas Bernhard , Peter Handke , Lucas Suppin and the painter Kiki Kogelnik ).

After graduating from high school and studying history, political science and American studies at the University of Vienna , Klaus Stimeder began his journalistic career in the foreign policy department of the weekly magazine Format , founded in 1998 , where he mainly devoted himself to war and crisis reporting.

At the end of 1999 he quit Format and moved to the United States, where he first worked for the New York state newspaper and then as a freelance journalist. Following the example of the "Code of Ethics" of the New York Times , which he had got to know during his time in New York, he later wrote the first written editorial guidelines for a medium in Austria.

After he returned to Vienna at the end of 2000 , he began to write in the “City Life” section of the city newspaper Falter . At the same time he worked - repeatedly interrupted by stays in war and crisis areas (between 1998 and 2003 including Kosovo , Afghanistan , Israel , Northern Ireland and Iraq ) - as an online editor with the changing focus on foreign policy, culture and finally panorama at derstandard.at , the website of the Viennese daily newspaper Der Standard , and as an author for magazines and newspapers in German-speaking countries.

At the end of 2002, Stimeder returned to Format after an interlude in Berlin as an employee in the local section of the Tagesspiegel , but left the paper after a year. He then worked for a year as a sports editor at Standard , where he mainly devoted himself to football coverage.

Media founder and publisher

At the end of 2003, while his "Standard" commitment was still in progress, he and financial advisor Johannes Weyringer founded the monthly magazine Datum - Seiten der Zeit in Vienna , the zero of which was presented in May 2004. The goal of Datum was to become the Austrian equivalent of magazines like “New Yorker” and Die Zeit , Hamburg in the long term .

As publisher and editor-in-chief (2003–2009) Stimeder was able to win the artist Günter Brus and the philosopher Franz Schuh as columnists. Under Stimeder's direction, Datum received several Austrian and foreign awards. In September 2005, Tyler Brûlé named Datum magazine “International best news magazine” in the Financial Times .

Since 2000, Stimeder has been a guest lecturer at universities and colleges. a. at the Vienna University of Applied Sciences , Journalism, at the German Department of Northwestern University , the Deutsches Haus at New York University , the University of Minnesota , the University of Ottawa and the Connecticut Council of Language Teachers.

For his work with young journalists, the trade journal Der Österreichische Journalist named him the head of the "best journalism school in Austria".

In 2007 he co-initiated a series of literary events at the Vienna Rabenhof Theater , in which authors such as Chuck Palahniuk , Ian Rankin , Robert Menasse , Sven Regener , Juli Zeh , and Manuel Andrack appeared.

In 2008, together with Eva Weissenberger, he published the biography “Nevertheless. The Oscar Bronner Story ”(Ueberreuter), the story of the founder of trend and profil magazines , the daily newspaper“ Der Standard ”and the online portal“ derstandard.at ”. "Nevertheless" was received positively by the critics, but the book fell short of expectations when it came to sales. The book has now been published in English translation: “Despite Everything. The Oscar Bronner Story ”and was presented in New York in May 2013 during a panel discussion with the author, Oscar Bronner, John R. MacArthur and ex-Viennese Frederic Morton .

In the course of Datum's expansion to Germany, where the magazine has been available at large sales outlets such as airports and train stations since summer 2009, he moved from Vienna to Berlin. In addition to his work for Datum, he hosted the "Salon A" series of events he initiated, the "Austrian Cultural Salon in Berlin".

In the summer of 2010, Stimeder sold his shares in Datum to Johannes Weyringer and emigrated to the USA, where he has since lived as a freelance journalist and author under the name Joseph Martin Stim.

Klaus Stimeder (left) at a reading of "Here is Berlin" in Washington, DC in October 2012 (with Tim Mohr )

His book “Hier ist Berlin”, an essay about the German capital, published in 2011, was translated into English, French, Portuguese and Spanish and took him on a reading tour through the USA, Canada, Germany, Austria and Spain.

In 2015 he published the volume “Stories 1995–2015”, a selection of his journalistic works from the past 20 years. Michael Frank wrote the foreword , the title illustration is by Nicolas Mahler .

Publications

  • Stories 1995-2015 , redelsteiner dahimene edition, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-9503359-8-9
  • Here is Berlin , Rokko's Adventures, Vienna 2012, ISBN 3-200-02476-3
  • Nevertheless. The Oscar Bronner Story (with Eva Weissenberger), Ueberreuter, Vienna, 2008, ISBN 3-8000-3888-9 (in the 2013 edition of rde he used his artist name JM Stim)
  • The Original Kings Of Comedy , in: Andreas Ungerböck and Gunnar Landsgesell (Eds.): Spike Lee. Bertz + Fischer, Vienna, 2006, ISBN 3-929470-87-X
  • Pushing an elephant up the stairs , in: Christl, Reinhard: How do I become a journalist? Ways to dream job , LIT, Vienna, 2007, ISBN 3-8258-0466-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Use of the pseudonym for example as a book author and in public appearances .
  2. ↑ Author's Twitter profile .
  3. ↑ a b Claudia Werner: "The Eternal Worker"; Portrait in Der Österreichische Journalist from February 24, 2006, p. 28
  4. ^ Code of ethics of the New York Times
  5. ↑ Editorial guidelines by date ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2015 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. (PDF; 137 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.date.at
  6. ↑ Authors - Imprint - FOCUS Online intern . Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  7. ↑ Article by Klaus Stimeder . Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  8. ↑ Article by Klaus Stimeder . Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  9. ↑ Martina Stemmer: "Die Qualitätstreber", in: Falter "of June 22, 2005, p. 21
  10. ↑ List of awards on datum.at ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.date.at
  11. ↑ Ones to watch, read, listen and drink to ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. , FT.com, September 10, 2005 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ft.com
  12. ^ Columnists: Tyler Brûlé , FT.com
  13. ↑ Lecturers at the Institute for Journalism ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fh-wien.ac.at
  14. ↑ Brief portrait on derstandard.at
  15. ↑ Conversation with Florian Reischauer and Eric Jarosinski
  16. ↑ a b University of Minnesota program
  17. ↑ a b Announcement ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Austrian Foreign Ministry @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmeia.gv.at
  18. ↑ Conference program 2012 , p. 11
  19. ↑ www.journalist.at
  20. ↑ Press review on datum.at ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.date.at
  21. ↑ ebook at amazon.com
  22. ↑ Book Presentation: Despite Everything. The Oscar Bronner Story. . Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  23. ^ The Austrian Journalist , January 25th / January 2009, page 30
  24. ↑ Salon A ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.date.at
  25. ^ About / Work. In: "JM Stim". Archived from the original on July 13, 2011 ; Retrieved on November 5, 2012 : “In the wake of Datum's expansion to Germany, in the spring of 2009 Stim moved to Berlin, where he lived until the fall of 2010. For personal reasons, he sold his stakes in the magazine and moved to New York City. "
  26. ^ "Was never a publisher in the brain" - derstandard.at
  27. ↑ “Falter” No. 29/10 of July 21, 2010, p. 21. ( Online at derbernold.at )
  28. ↑ http://www.rokkosadventures.at/hereisberlin/
  29. ↑ List of translations on www.barnesandnoble.com
  30. ^ Reading at the German House of NYU
  31. ↑ Information about the readings in Spain: [1] , [2] [3]
  32. ↑ http://www.rdedition.com/stories.html
personal data
SURNAME Stimeder, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stimeder, Klaus Josef (full name); Stim, Joseph Martin (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Schärding