Melanie Bergermann

Melanie Bergermann (* 1980 ) is a German investigative journalist . She heads the department "viewpoints" in the Wirtschaftswoche .

Career

During her political science studies , Bergermann wrote for North Rhine-Westphalian regional newspapers and Radio Kiepenkerl from 1999 to 2003 . From 2003 to 2005 she worked as a freelancer for the Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung and the ZDF . From 2005 to 2006 she completed a traineeship at the Holtzbrinck School for business journalists . From 2006 to 2009 Bergermann was the corporate editor “Banks” at Wirtschaftswoche . In August 2009 she switched to Gruner + Jahr , where she wrote as a corporate editor for banks and insurance companies for Capital , Financial Times Deutschland , Impulse and Börse Online . In 2009 Bergermann was listed in the "Top 30 to 30 of 2009" by Medium Magazin . In July 2012 she returned to Wirtschaftswoche to set up an investigative team there. In 2018 Bergermann took over the management of the "Blickpunkte" department of Wirtschaftswoche .

Awards

• for “I cheated you”, a cover story published in Wirtschaftswoche about sales pressure in the financial sector
  • Henri Nannen Prize 2009 in the category "Best Investigative Achievement"
  • German Journalism Prize Economy | Stock exchange | Finance (djp) 2008 in the department "Bank & Insurance"
• for her contribution "Finger weg!" in Wirtschaftswoche about the machinations of the S&K group
  • Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism 2013
  • Business Journalist of the Year for Medium Magazine 2013
• for the “Bullshit Banking” contribution on money laundering via the direct bank N26
  • German Journalism Prize Economy | Stock exchange | Finances (djp) 2019 in the department "Bank & Insurance" as well as special award Fintech

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Top 30 to 30 of the year 200 . In: Medium magazine . September 16, 2009.
2. ↑ WirtschaftsWoche is heavily expanding and restructuring . In: Wirtschaftswoche . April 4, 2012.
3. ↑ People 04 - 2018 . In: mmm.verdi.de . 2018.
4. ↑ Melanie Bergermann: I cheated on you . In: WirtschaftsWoche . February 2, 2008.
5. ↑ Melanie Bergermann, Martin Gerth, Max Haerder, Matthias Kamp, Florian Zerfaß and Thesie Kness: Hands off! Where better not to invest . In: Wirtschaftswoche . 1st February 2013.
6. ↑ Journalist Prize Dossier . In: Wirtschaftswoche . 2013.
7. ↑ The celebration of the journalists of the year 2013 . In: Medium magazine . 5th February 2014.
8. ↑ Melanie Bergermann: Bullshit Banking . In: WirtschaftsWoche . October 12, 2018.