Markus Koch (journalist)
Markus Koch (born April 10, 1971 in Königstein im Taunus ) is a German television journalist, producer and non-fiction author. He became known from 1996 through his reports from the New York Stock Exchange for the television station n-tv . Koch has been producing his own web and television formats in New York and Berlin since 2007. In addition to numerous nominations, the native of Hesse was named Journalist of the Year 2019 by the German Derivatives Association . In 2017 his talk series “On the Couch by Markus Koch” was recognized by the Friedrich and Isabel Vogel Foundation for outstanding business journalism.
Life
When Markus Koch was eight years old, his family emigrated to Liberia . The stepfather, a surgeon, had answered President Tolbert's call , who made him personal physician and chief physician of the JFK hospital in Monrovia . Three years later, in 1982, Koch and his mother returned to Germany without their stepfather, who had become addicted to alcohol. A little later, the two of them moved to the small town of Schlüchtern in Hesse , where their grandparents had retired. Koch attended the local high school and during this time he developed his enthusiasm for the stock market, taking part in the savings bank stock market game, attending specialist lectures in Frankfurt and taking a vacation job with Dean Witter . Koch made real equity investments not only with his own money, but also with that of relatives and teachers. After successes in the meantime, he made heavy losses with bad speculation financed by loans. At the age of 19 he had amassed a mountain of debt of more than DM 70,000.
He began an apprenticeship at the Düsseldorf private bank Trinkaus & Burkhardt . Because of his tight financial situation, he worked at the brokerage firm Hornblower Fischer. However, this double burden was not sustainable, which is why he broke off his apprenticeship and initially continued to work at Hornblower. With the aim of becoming a broker , he entered the USA in 1992. In New York he looked in vain for half a year for a suitable job; he did not have a work permit and was considered illegal alien by the immigration authorities .
After working for Heiko Thiemes American Heritage Funds for free , Koch got a job at the Bear Stearns brokerage house . Koch saw a market niche in the scarce German-language coverage of Wall Street , and so in 1994 - together with a colleague from Bear Stearns - he founded the press agency IRM Services . In early 1995, Koch left Bear Stearns. In April 1996, Koch welcomed television viewers for the first time to the news channel n-tv . In the years that followed , his employees included Katja Dofel , who joined him in 1997, and Jens Korte , who began working for him in 1999. In 1999, the agency was renamed Wall Street Correspondents ; In 2000 the Handelsblatt publishing group acquired a 25 percent stake in the company.
In 2008, the series of reports in 70 days around the world was broadcast on n-tv, in which Markus Koch reported in a relaxed manner about the economy and individual companies from eight countries on four different continents. In 2009, Backstage Wall Street , an illustrated book created by Koch and Dirk Eusterbrock , was nominated for the German Photo Book Prize. With Iron Trader , Koch started an online trading contest in 2011 that combines elements from the casting show and the stock market game.
Koch is also the founder of the non-profit association Börsianerhandel - an aid project for children and patron of the stock exchange license of the Federal Association of Stock Exchange Associations at German universities, which has already been completed over 10,000 times across Germany.
Works
- Recipes for success from the stock exchange cook , Finanzbuch-Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-932114-40-X
- And where are the customers' yachts? (as editor with Fred Schwed), Finanzbuch-Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-898790-18-5
- Backstage Wall Street (with Dirk Eusterbrock), Finanzbuch-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-89879-369-9
- End station parquet , Finanzbuch-Verlag, Munich 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ moderator / author. Markus Koch. n-tv.de
- ↑ # DDV Prize for Business Journalists / Markus Koch Journalist of the Year @KochWallStreet. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
- ^ Friedrich and Isabel Vogel Foundation. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Handelsblatt participates in Wall Street Correspondents, Inc. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
Web links
- Markus Koch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cook, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königstein im Taunus |