Menso Heyl
Menso Heyl (born September 2, 1949 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist. He was editor-in-chief of the Hamburger Abendblatt .
Life
Heyl was born in Hamburg and attended Wilhelm-Gymnasium , where he graduated from high school in 1969. He studied history, constitutional law and ethnology. His hobby is cruising , which he reported on several times.
Heyl began his journalistic career in 1977 with a two-year editorial traineeship at Harburg Ads and News . From 1979 to 1984 he worked as an editor and deputy local manager at Hamburger Abendblatt, where he was a fellow at Duke University ( North Carolina ) in 1983 on a grant from the German Marshall Fund . In 1985 he worked as a senior editor at the television magazine Funk Uhr , but in the same year switched to the tabloid Bild am Sonntag as chief reporter . In 1990 he was appointed deputy editor-in-chief of the Dresdner Morgenpost . From 1992 onwards, Heyl was the editorial manager of the Hamburg edition of Bild .
In 1998 Heyl became deputy editor-in-chief of the Hamburger Abendblatt and in July 2001 its editor-in-chief as successor to Peter Kruse .
During Heyl's tenure as editor-in-chief, an additional Sunday evening paper was published, which was then discontinued. In October 2008 he was replaced by Claus Strunz . Heyl became the coordinator for journalistic questions and projects, based at the Springer board chairman Mathias Döpfner .
In 2010 Heyl took over the post of editor of the sailing magazine Yacht .
From 2007 to 2010 Heyl was a member of the Hamburg Max Brauer Prize Board of Trustees of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS , and has been on the Advisory Board of the Robin Aid Foundation since 2009.
Works
- Menso Heyl (ed.): The Hamburg silver treasure . Hirmer, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7774-7660-9
- Menso Heyl, MaryAnn Heyl: Ostseeschleife: A timeless sailing summer . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-7688-3255-7
Web links
- Short biography at the Allgemeine Hamburger Presseclub ( Memento from September 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article in the online edition of the yacht March 11, 2010
- ^ Announcement of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers from April 27, 2001
- ↑ Menso Heyl leaves, Claus Strunz comes In: Hamburger Abendblatt online from July 11, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hey, Menso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |