Patricia Riekel

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Helmut Markwort , Patricia Riekel (center) and Liz Mohn at the Bertelsmann Party 2013

Patricia Riekel (born June 19, 1949 in Haarlem , Netherlands ) is a German tabloid journalist and was editor-in-chief of the magazines Amica (discontinued in 2009) and Bunte as well as the German InStyle , which were or are published by Hubert Burda Media .

Life and accomplishments

Patricia Riekel was born in 1949 in Haarlem, the Netherlands, where her father August Christian Riekel had to emigrate after he was banned from working in Nazi Germany . When Patricia Riekel was five years old, the family moved back to Tutzing am Starnberger See, Germany, where they grew up with three siblings. After finishing school, she began an apprenticeship as a publishing bookseller, but broke it off and completed a traineeship at Münchner Merkur from 1968 to 1970 . She then worked for a year as an editor at Augsburger Allgemeine .

Then Riekel moved to the editorial team of the magazine Quick ( Bauer Media Group ). In 1974 she joined Burda-Verlag, where she worked in the editorial department of the women's magazine freundin . At that time she worked closely with Josef von Ferenczy and worked for him as an author.

After three years, Riekel left the Freundin editorial team to work as a freelance editor for the next 14 years. In this position she continued to contribute to the magazine freundin , but also wrote for print media such as Elle , Bild am Sonntag , Gong , Quick , Für Sie , Petra and others. Riekel produced a wide range of genres, from psycho series to daily horoscopes. In 1991 Riekel gave up her freelance editorial work and became deputy editor-in-chief of the current , the two and TV series . In 1995 she was appointed editor-in-chief of the current , which had been established in 1979 by Helmut Markwort and whom she met on this way. During this time she started the “Radio of the Woman” and made psycho broadcasts on Radio Gong 2000 , whose editor-in-chief was Markwort as well. Riekel also wrote non-fiction and screenplays. Two years later she moved back to Hubert Burda Media . There she took over the position of editor-in-chief of the magazine Bunte in 1997 . The year Riekel took office was the first year that a politician appeared on the cover: Gerhard Schröder . Since then, politics has been an integral part of every issue. In the same year the editorial management of InStyle was added, of which she became editor-in-chief - in addition to Bunten - in 1999.

In November 2003, the program Bunte TV started with Riekel as a presenter on ARD , which was discontinued in the spring of 2004 due to poor audience response. The late broadcast slot was named as the official reason for this. In the style of the print magazine, the series featured two prominent people in a home story every week .

In April 2016, the publisher announced that Riekel would give up the editor-in-chief of Bunten , which she had held for 20 years, on July 1, 2016. Her successor was Robert Pölzer . However, she remains the editor of the group “Burda Style”, which includes Bunte , Donna , freundin and Harper's Bazaar .

Private

Patricia Riekel is in a relationship with Helmut Markwort, the former editor-in-chief and publisher of the news magazine “ Focus ”, and lives in Munich-Herzogpark . Little is known about her private life.

Journalistic career

  • 1968–1970 traineeship at Münchner Merkur , Munich
  • 1970–1971 Editing of Augsburger Allgemeine , Augsburg
  • 1971–1974 Quick editorial staff , Munich
  • 1974–1976 editorial girlfriend
  • 1977–1991 worked as a freelance journalist for Elle , Bild am Sonntag , Cosmopolitan , Für Sie , Petra , Gong , Quick and others. a. Authored several non-fiction and screenplays.
  • 1991–1994 Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the current series , the two and TV series . Munich
  • 1995–1996 editor-in-chief of the current , Munich
  • 1997–2016 editor-in-chief Bunte
  • Since 1999 editor-in-chief of InStyle , Munich
  • 2003 host of the ARD magazine Bunte TV
  • 2005–2009 editor-in-chief Amica , Munich
  • Since 2006 chairwoman of the TRIBUTE TO BAMBI Foundation
  • Since 2009 editor of the magazines of the group "BurdaStyle"

Journalistic work

The Colorful was in the red, as Patricia Riekel 1997 took over the management. Since then, Riekel had re-established it step by step. In 2015, the magazine reached 3.51 million people a week, over three million of whom are female. It has the fourth largest budget of a German magazine, the Financial Times Deutschland estimates it at more than 50 million euros.

Riekel also became known in the course of her work through a dispute with Ernst August von Hanover in 1998 with large advertisements in the FAZ because of the reports on his wife Princess Caroline .

In an open letter to Renate Künast , Riekel defended the Bunter's research methods by stating that reporting on the private lives of politicians was part of the control function of the press.

The end of 2013 sued Jörg Kachelmann the Colorful u. a. to a total of more than 3.2 million euros in compensation for pain and suffering due to violations of personal rights. Riekel is then accused him in an editorial of Bunte to have assumed that he had staged a sham marriage to a better position in court.

Award

In 2002 Patricia Riekel was named “Media Expert of the Year” by the industry magazine Horizont .

engagement

As a member of the advisory board of Youth Against AIDS , Patricia Riekel supports an initiative for awareness-raising and prevention work initiated and led by young people.

literature

  • Patricia Riekel, Jens Corssen : Starting today, I am changing: Problem solving in life crises . Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-03108-3 .
  • Steffen Burkhardt: The oracle from the Arabellapark: Steffen Burkhardt on Patricia Riekel . In: Stephan Weichert, Christian Zabel (Hrsg.): Die Alpha-Journalisten: Germany's spokesman in portrait . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-938258-29-3 , p. 314-323 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with “Bunte” boss Patricia Riekel: “We humans need gossip”. In: RP Online . November 21, 2007.
  2. ↑ Alexander Antonoff: The eleventh commandment - Konsalik, Kolle and the communicator: The philosophy of the media manager Josef von Ferenczy. In: Welt Online . September 25, 2000.
  3. ↑ Christian Mayer: Patricia Riekel on Stars. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 143/2008, June 21, 2008, p. VIII.
  4. ↑ Don't say anything now, Patricia Riekel. In: SZ-Magazin . No. 26/2009.
  5. ^ Coverage of Bunte magazine from 2004 to 2015. In: Statista . Retrieved August 30, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Due to the article in the Bunter with the title Sonderflug mit einer Toten , Ernst August von Hannover placed advertisements in the FAZ and complained about dubious journalism on the part of Bunter. With the support of the Bunte publisher Hubert Burda , Patricia Riekel placed contraindications (also in the FAZ) and accused her opponent of wanting to operate censorship (see Gisela Freisinger: Hubert Burda: Der Medienfürst. Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2005) , ISBN 359337417X , pp. 360-361).
  7. ↑ "Bunte" boss Riekel points out to Künast the tasks of the press. In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 3, 2010.
  8. ↑ Stefan Niggemeier : Riekelhaft. In: Stefan Niggemeier's blog (about Patricia Riekel's editorial).
  9. ↑ Advisory Board. In: Youth against AIDS e. V. Retrieved March 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Riekel, Patricia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Haarlem , the Netherlands