Melanie Amann

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Melanie Amann (2019)

Melanie Amann (* 1978 in Bonn ) is a German lawyer and journalist who works for the news magazine Der Spiegel and has headed its capital city office in Berlin since February 1, 2019 .

education and profession

Melanie Amann grew up in Siegburg and passed the Abitur there. She studied law at the Universities of Trier , Aix-Marseille III and at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After the First State Exam Amann in 2003 joined the Journalism and attended the German School of Journalism in Munich . Internships took her to the Bonner General-Anzeiger and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, among others . Amann was editor of the Financial Times Deutschland , for which she mainly wrote about the Middle East , and from 2006 member of the business editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ; There she was in charge of legal topics and the labor law section of the weekly supplement Beruf und Chance.

2011 Amann doctorate at Volker Rieble at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with the work of the workforce vote on an operational constitutional issue to Dr. iur. In her dissertation , Amann developed a concept for increased direct participation and self-determination of employees in the company.

Melanie Amann has been an editor in the capital city office of the news magazine Der Spiegel since 2013 , which she has been running with Martin Knobbe since February 1, 2019 . Amann mainly writes about the CDU and the alternative for Germany . Amann also writes on legal topics and is a guest member of the justice press conference in Karlsruhe.

Amann is a regular guest on talk shows such as Phoenix-Runde, Markus Lanz, Anne Will or the press club as well as on other television programs.

In 2015, Medium Magazin ranked Amann among the ten leading political journalists in Germany.

"Fear for Germany"

In 2017 Melanie Amann published the book Angst für Deutschland in Verlag Droemer Knaur , a new edition of which was published in May 2018. Another new edition has been announced for 2019. The book - in the opinion of Toralf Staud "carefully researched" - deals with the rise of the AfD from the founding of the party to its first successes as an anti- euro party to the transition to an openly anti-immigrant and Islamophobic party, as well as its financing, functionaries and political strategies . In Matthias Kamann's opinion , Amann sees more or less existential fears as the motives of the AfD officials.

Volunteering

In 2001 Amann was on the founding board of the Berlin Debating Union , from 2003 to 2004 she was President of the Association of Debating Clubs at Universities and, from 2004 to 2005, editor-in-chief of achte minute, a multilingual magazine for the European debating scene.

Works

  • The workforce vote. Writings on labor law and commercial law, Volume 73. Peter Lang , Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-63279-6 .
  • Fear for Germany. The truth about the AfD: where it comes from, who leads it, where it is heading. Updated and expanded edition. Droemer , Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-27763-8 .

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  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: You edit, write and design. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main 2008.

Web links

Commons : Melanie Amann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: You edit, write and design. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  2. ↑ Center for Industrial Relations and Labor Law at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich: Activity Report 2011, p. 43 (accessed on October 27, 2018).
  3. ↑ Publisher's information , peterlang.com (accessed October 27, 2018).
  4. ↑ Melanie Amann: Fear for Germany. The truth about the AfD: where it comes from, who leads it, where it is heading. Updated and expanded edition. Droemer , Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-27763-8 , author information (blurb).
  5. ↑ Amann and Knobbe head “Spiegel” capital office, politics & communication from January 29, 2019 (accessed January 30, 2019).
  6. ↑ Marvin Schade: Renovation in the Spiegel capital city office: With these people, editor-in-chief Klusmann wants to promote the editorial merger. Meedia, October 22, 2018 (accessed October 27, 2018).
  7. ^ Justizpressekonferenz eV: Members, justizpressekonferenz.de (accessed on October 27, 2018).
  8. ↑ Martin Kaul : Journalisten des Jahres 2015, mediummagazin.de (accessed October 27, 2018).
  9. ↑ German National Library: Catalog entry (accessed on October 27, 2018)
  10. ^ German National Library: Catalog entry (accessed October 27, 2018).
  11. ↑ perlentaucher.de for the 2017 edition (accessed on October 27, 2018).
  12. ↑ Former members of the editorial team, Achteminute.de (accessed October 27, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Amann, Melanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn