Michaela Wiegel

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Michaela Wiegel (* 1968) is a German journalist .

After graduating from high school in Bremerhaven in 1987, she studied political science , history and philosophy. After graduating from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (" Sciences Po ") in 1993, Wiegel acquired a Master of Public Administration (MPA) at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (as McCloy Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation ) in 1995 .

Journalistic activity

Wiegel wrote an article for Nordsee-Zeitung when she was still at school, after graduating from high school she started working there as a trainee and later as an editor. In 1995 she joined the political news department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as an editor . In 1997 she aroused resentment in one sentence about Malcolm Rifkind :

"As if his speech hadn't completely convinced him, the Jew Rifkind concluded - ironically apologetically - with the German Luther word ..."

This incident was received much more strongly in English-speaking countries than in German-speaking countries.

Since February 1998 she has been reporting as a political correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for France from Paris. Your contributions deal, among other things, with French football. Over a long period of time before and after the turn of the millennium, Wiegel researched and published the Leuna affair . In 2006 she wrote an article about the presidential candidate Ségolène Royal for EMMA .
At the end of 2011, Wiegel was a panelist alongside Andrea Nahles in a panel discussion organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin on the subject of primary elections as citizen participation . In February 2012 she took part in a discussion with Hubert Védrine , Laurent Joffrin and Ruolin Zheng, which was recorded by arte .

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty and the Franco-German Year proclaimed for it , Wiegel was invited to many festive events as an expert on Franco-German relations. At the presentation of the Franco-German Journalism Prize in June 2012, she discussed the Élysée Treaty and the euro crisis with Alfred Grosser and Daniel Cohn-Bendit ; in November of the same year at the Goethe-Institut Paris with Jean-Louis Bianco , Matthias Fekl and Günter Gloser on the German-French cooperation (moderation Hélène Miard-Delacroix ). In January 2013 Wiegel wrote an article for the France dossier of the Federal Agency for Civic Education ; At the end of the same month, at a ceremony by the Senate and the Institut français in Bremen's town hall, she took part in the panel discussion with Willi Steul and Daniel Vernet . In September 2013 Wiegel was one of the participants in the discussion at the 58th annual congress of the Association of German-French Societies for Europe in Bonn, alongside Angelica Schwall-Düren and Christophe Braouet .

At the beginning of 2014, Wiegel discussed France's complicity in the genocide in Rwanda in an article for the FAZ . At the end of April 2014, she moderated a discussion event on the “2014 Year of Commemoration” in the Palais Beauharnais in Paris, which was attended by Jean-Jacques Becker and Arndt Weinrich, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French counterpart Laurent Fabius . After Frank Schirrmacher's death , Wiegel was named as a possible successor for his post.

Her portrayal of the politically weak French President François Hollande in comparison to the strong German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the summer of 2014 was followed closely abroad. In November 2014 Wiegel was in conversation with Hans-Gert Pöttering and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing about “Tomorrow's Europe” at the Academy of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin .

At the beginning of 2018, Wiegel addressed a current event in France, the affair surrounding the former President Nicolas Sarkozy and the alleged donations of money by the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi in support of Sarkozy's presidential election campaign in 2006/2007.

In 2018 Michaela Wiegel published two long documentary films about France's new President Emmanuel Macron together with the France correspondent of ARD, Mathias Werth , and with the journalist Kathrin Wildhagen : "Monsieur Macron - A year, a balance sheet" (ARD) and "The President - Macron moves France ”(Phoenix).

Michaela Wiegel is married and has three children.

Honors

Works

  • Nicolas Sarkozy's picture of Germany . In: Frank Baasner (Ed.): France Yearbook 2009 . French views of contemporary Germany. Springer-Verlag , 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17348-1 , p. 55 ff.
  • Massimo Nava, Sophie Pedder, José Font Marti, Michaela Wiegel: Désirs de France: Quinze correspondants de la presse internationale nous regardent et interrogent notre avenir. Editions Michalon, 2007, ISBN 9782841863860 (The wishes of France: Fifteen correspondents of the international press observe and question our future)
  • Confidential coexistence . In: Werner Weidenfeld : Communicating reforms: Challenges to politics . Verlag Bertelsmann-Stiftung , 2007, ISBN 978-3-89204-910-4 , pp. 70 ff.
  • Armenia's lawyer on the Seine: Chirac's legal advisor Patrick Devedjian . In: Huberta von Voss (Ed.): Portrait of a Hope - the Armenians. Life pictures from all over the world. Verlag Hans Schiler , 2005, ISBN 978-3-89930-087-1 , p. 259 ff.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Rudolf Augstein: Nothing there, it is burned. In: Der Spiegel, March 3, 1997.
  2. ↑ a b The Robert Goldmann Scholarship of the City of Reinheim in 2013 goes to Michaela Wiegel ( Memento of the original from January 9, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echo-online.de
  3. ↑ a b FAZ Redaktion, http://www.faz.net/redaktion/michaela-wiegel-11104455.html
  4. ^ Christopher Story: The European Union collective. Enemy of its member states. A study in Russian and German strategy to complete Lenin's world revolution. Edward Harle, 2002. ISBN 978-1-899798-01-8 , p. 246.
  5. ^ Melvin J. Lasky : The Language of Journalism: Newspaper culture . Volume one. Transaction Publishers, 2002, ISBN 978-1-4128-3755-2 , p. 248 ff.
  6. ↑ Jochen Müller: Of fighting machines and ball artists: Foreign perception and sports reporting in the German-French context. A press and television analysis. Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-86110-366-0 , pp. 554 f.
  7. ^ Ulrich Lappenküper : Mitterrand and Germany. The riddled Sphinx . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-71232-2 , p. 333.
  8. ^ Open primaries for the Parti Socialiste in France . Announcement on the DGAP eV website
  9. ↑ Video on the arte.tv website ( memento of the original from January 17, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  10. ↑ Video recording of the panel discussion ( memento of the original from January 11, 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. , Media library of the Saarländischer Rundfunk @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pfaj.eu
  11. ↑ Invitation in the ParisBerlin magazine . ( Memento from January 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) November 6, 2012.
  12. ↑ And tomorrow you are president! Education and structure of the political elite in France.
  13. ↑ Announcement on the official website of the anniversary ( memento of the original from April 3, 2013 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. , accessed January 11, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elysee50.de
  14. ↑ Marcus Klöckner: Genocide in Rwanda: "A political collateral damage". Conversation with the Africa expert Werner Ruf on Telepolis
  15. ↑ 9Point - the Debattenrundschau from April 17, 2014 , accessed on perlentaucher.de on January 11, 2015.
  16. ↑ Report of the Foreign Office ( Memento of the original from January 11, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.allemagne.diplo.de
  17. ↑ Robert Vernier: Heart for the arts. In: FOCUS Magazin No. 36 (2014).
  18. ^ Alison Smale , Liz Alderman: Growing Imbalance Between Germany and France Strains Their Relationship. Article of the New York Times of 21 September, 2014.
  19. ↑ Invitation on the KAS website
  20. ^ Wiegel, Michaela: Illegal campaign donations: France's former President Sarkozy in police custody, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/frankreichs-ex-praesident-nicolas-sarkozy-in-polizeigewahrsam -15503053.html , March 20, 2018.
  21. ↑ Décret du 13 juillet 2012 portant promotion et nomination , JORF n ° 0163 du 14 juillet 2012 page 11564 texte n ° 4, on: legifrance.gouv.fr (French).
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SURNAME Wiegel, Michaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968 or 1969