Roger de Weck

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Roger de Weck (2010)

Roger François Philippe de Weck (* 17th October 1953 in of Friborg , heimatberechtigt ibid) is a Swiss journalist and manager . From the beginning of 2011 to the end of September 2017, he was Director General of the Swiss Radio and Television Company (SRG SSR) .

Life

After studying economics with a focus on economic history at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), the bilingual Swiss entered journalism as a business editor and Zurich correspondent for the Tribune de Genève . With Max Mabillard , he published the bestseller Scandale au Crédit Suisse (in German, The Chiasso case ) in 1977 about a financial scandal at the major bank Credit Suisse , then still the Swiss credit institution . In 1979 he moved to Zurich Weltwoche as a business editor . From 1983 on he worked for the Hamburg weekly newspaper Die Zeit as a political editor , Paris correspondent, reporter and - after a year at the publishing house - as head of the economic department. In 1992 he returned to Zurich as editor-in-chief of the Tages-Anzeiger . In 1997 he moved again to Hamburg to time , this time as Chief Editor.

From 2001 to 2010 Roger de Weck was a freelance publicist. He wrote for print media in Germany, France and Switzerland. He also moderated the television program Sternstunde Philosophie on Swiss television on a regular basis . From 2004 to 2010 he was President of the Board of Trustees of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies . De Weck is a lecturer at the College of Europe in Bruges and Warsaw / Natolin, board member of the Aachen Charlemagne Prize , editor of the foreign policy book series Standpunkte of the Körber Foundation and honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne (2006) and the University of Freiburg . In 2004 he received the Davos Media Prize .

On May 18, 2010, he was elected as the successor to Armin Walpen as General Director of SRG SSR on January 1, 2011 . He was succeeded on October 1, 2017 by Gilles Marchand .

Roger de Weck lives in Zurich and Bern. He is married and has four children, including the editor and editor Margaux de Weck and the actress and author Laura de Weck . He is the son of the Swiss banker Philippe de Weck .

Varia

Roger de Weck was nominated along with five or six others as a possible winner of the Arosa Humor-shovel 2013 and 2014, a jury prize of Arosa - Humor Festival . In 2014 he won this election.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Stuttgart Academy for the Spoken Word .

Publications

  • The Chiasso case (with Max Mabillard). Tribune, Geneva 1977.
  • Cow Swiss and Swabians. Swiss, Germans and their love-hate relationship (Ed. With Jürg Altwegg ). Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-312-00315-6 .
  • After the crisis. Is there another capitalism? Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-312-00454-6 .
  • Are the Swiss the better Germans? The hatred of the small differences (with Jürg Altwegg). Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-312-00457-7 .
  • The Power of Democracy - An Answer to the Authoritarian Reactionaries . Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-42931-0 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary doctorates - University of Lucerne. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ Dies Academicus 2010. In: Website of the University of Freiburg. November 15, 2010.
  3. ↑ Roger de Weck becomes the new General Director of SRG. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 18, 2010.
  4. ↑ Gilles Marchand succeeds Roger de Weck. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. November 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ Martin Spieler , Simon Bärtschi : "Unlike at Paradeplatz, we are not primarily driven by money." In: Sunday newspaper . March 31, 2013 (interview).
  6. ↑ Eleven days of snow and humor in Arosa. In: Aroser newspaper . November 29, 2013, p. 1 ff.
  7. ↑ Arosa humor scoop goes to SRG General Director Roger de Weck. In: Blick.ch . December 6, 2014, accessed December 6, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Academy for the Spoken Word | Board. Retrieved March 2, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Ralph Gerstenberg: Property obliges! In: Deutschlandfunk . November 16, 2009 (review).
  10. ↑ Uwe Jean Heuser : How to save capitalism. In: The time . November 20, 2009 (review).
  11. ↑ The Power of Democracy: An Answer to the Authoritarian Reactionaries by Roger de Weck. In: suhrkamp.de . Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Weck, Roger de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weck, Roger François Philippe de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss publicist and manager
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg im Üechtland , Switzerland