Miriam Meckel

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Miriam Meckel at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018
Miriam Meckel (2017)

Miriam Meckel (born July 18, 1967 in Hilden ) is a German communication scientist . She is a publicist , professor for media and communication management at the University of St. Gallen and founding publisher of the ada educational initiative.

Life

Miriam Meckel's father Norbert, a theologian, was the headmaster of the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf-Benrath from 1975 to 1993 . After graduating from high school at Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium, she studied journalism and communication science, sinology , political science and law in Münster and Taipei from 1986 to 1993 . She received her degree in communication studies in 1994 in Münster with the work Television without Borders? Europe's television between integration and segmentation to the Dr. phil. PhD .

Meckel lives and works in St. Gallen , Berlin and Düsseldorf . Her life partner was the German television journalist Anne Will , with whom she entered into a registered civil partnership on August 19, 2016 . In November 2019, the couple announced their separation.

Act

Since 1990, Miriam Meckel has worked as a television editor for the West 3 Aktuell newsroom at Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne and Düsseldorf, and as a freelancer for the VOX television company for the Welt-Vox program . From 1994 to 1995 she was head of the service and presenter at RTL West Live , from 1995 to 1999 a presenter at Westdeutscher Rundfunk, including for the political magazine Westpol and the WDR midday magazine NRW am Mittag . In 2006/2007 she moderated the monthly talk format Miriam Meckel - Viewpoints on n-tv .

In 1995, one year after completing her doctorate, she took on a substitute professorship at the Institute for Communication Studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. In 1999 she became a full university professor and executive director of the institute.

Since October 2005 she has been a professor of corporate communications ( "Corporate Communication") and one of the four directors of the Institute for Media and Communications Management of the University of St. Gallen . In addition to the two already mentioned fields of international communication and media economics, her research areas are . In addition to the professorship, she became a partner of the PR consultancy Brunswick Group and took over the construction of the Berlin office of the consulting firm for financial communication and crisis PR.

Miriam Meckel (2010)

In September 2008, Meckel experienced a breakdown in Berlin, the doctor's diagnosis was: severe exhaustion in connection with an infection. In 2009 she spent five weeks in an Allgäu clinic. In 2010 she published the book Letter to My Life , in which she describes her experience with burnout syndrome .

From October 2014 to March 2017 she was the first woman to be editor-in-chief of Wirtschaftswoche . In this role, like her former partner, she campaigned for statutory quotas for women in management positions, as women achieved “higher returns and better results”. From April 2017 to December 2018 she was the publisher of Wirtschaftswoche.

She has been the founding publisher of the ada education initiative since January 2019 and has also been part of the extended management team of the Handelsblatt Media Group since October 2019.

In 2014, Bavaria Film shot a film on the subject of burnout on behalf of ZDF and directed by Urs Egger, based on motifs from the book Brief an mein Leben . The actress Marie Bäumer can be seen in the lead role.

politics

From March 2001 to October 2002, Meckel was State Secretary for Media and government spokeswoman for Wolfgang Clement in North Rhine-Westphalia . After Clement's successor Peer Steinbrück took office , she was State Secretary for Europe, International Affairs and the Media from November 2002 to June 2005. The non-party Meckel turned down an offer to run for the SPD in the mayoral election of Münster.

Mandates and engagements

Miriam Meckel is a member of the German Society for Media and Communication Studies (DGPuK) and the International Communication Association (ICA). She is on the advisory board of Message , an international journal for journalism, and the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (IfP). As a member of the international jury of the Development Gateway Foundation at the World Bank , she helped develop the Development Gateway Award (Petersberg Prize).

Since September 2007 she has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Investor Relations Association. V. (DIRK).

Meckel is one of the supporters of the Charter of Digital Fundamental Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

honors and awards

Fonts

  • Television without borders? Europe's television between integration and segmentation. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1994, ISBN 3-531-12620-2 .
  • Global journalism. Professional media communication in global society. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-531-13422-1 .
  • International communication. An introduction. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-531-12681-4 .
  • Media myth? The staging of celebrities and fate using Diana Spencer as an example . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-531-13291-1 .
  • News journalism on television . UVK-Medien, Konstanz 2000, ISBN 3-89669-234-8 . (Practical Journalism Series, Volume 38)
  • Editorial management : approaches from theory and practice. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1999, ISBN 978-3-531-12980-8 .
  • The happiness of inaccessibility. Ways out of the communication trap . Murmann, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86774-002-9 .
  • Letter to my life - experiences with burnout . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3498045166 .
  • NEXT - memories of a future without us . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-498-04523-4 .
  • as co-author: Miriam Meckel, Christian Fieseler, Jan Gerlach: The discourse on net neutrality. Report  (= DIVSI discussion contributions). German Institute for Trust and Security on the Internet, Hamburg 2013 (accessed on May 17, 2017).
  • We're disappearing: humans in the digital age . Living intelligently - A series of essays, Kein & Aber, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3036956527 .
  • My head is mine: a journey through the brave new world of brainhacking. Piper, Munich 2018.
  • as co-authors: Miriam Meckel, Daniel Rettig: Serendipity: 77 accidental discoveries that made history. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3036957876 .

Lecture

literature

Web links

Commons : Miriam Meckel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Will: First statement about the wedding. gala.de, August 23, 2016
  2. ↑ Sarina Pfauth: Miriam Meckel: Frau Nimmersatt and her burn-out .
  3. ↑ History annettegymnasium.de,
  4. ↑ a b Denisa Richters: Miriam Meckel: 'The harbor has something of New York' .
  5. ↑ Barbara Schmid: Positive thinking. In: Der Spiegel , No. 12/2001, p. 42.
  6. ↑ Miriam Meckel: Life between university and politics. In: rp-online.de. RP Digital GmbH, November 18, 2007, accessed December 18, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Talk moderator and journalist: Anne Will and Miriam Meckel say yes. Spiegel online , August 22, 2016.
  8. ↑ Anne Will and Miriam Meckel: Separation after three years of marriage! Retrieved November 11, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Miriam Meckel builds new Brunswick office on Horizont Online from October 6, 2005
  10. ↑ Sandra Kegel: Diagnosis: Total exhaustion, in: FAZ No. 58, March 10, 2010, p. 29.
  11. ↑ Sandra Kegel: Diagnosis: Total exhaustion, in: FAZ No. 58, March 10, 2010, p. 29.
  12. ↑ Julia Jüttner: Miriam Meckel suffered from burnout , in: Spiegel-online, December 19, 2009.
  13. ↑ Editor-in-chief of “Wirtschaftswoche”: Miriam Meckel becomes boss . TAZ . May 8, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  14. ↑ pro-quote.de: "The undersigned: Anne Will." Retrieved May 22, 2015.
  15. ↑ Power of Monets , Chefsache - Blog of the Wirtschaftswoche editor-in-chief, March 6, 2015
  16. ↑ After four years: CFO Ingo Rieper is leaving Handelsblatt Media Group, followed by Austria boss Oliver Voigt meedia.de, October 26, 2018
  17. ^ Munich Film Festival . Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  18. ↑ The Extra Social Democratic . In: taz of November 4, 2005
  19. ↑ The virtual media expert: Miriam Meckel . In: taz of April 5, 2004
  20. ↑ Prime Minister Armin Laschet awards the State Order of Merit to ten citizens. State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia , July 1, 2020, accessed on July 1, 2020 .
  21. ↑ FAZ of November 13, 2010, page 52: Functioning or living
personal data
SURNAME Meckel, Miriam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communication scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilden