Simone Wendler

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Simone Wendler (* 1955 in Cottbus ) is a chemist and journalist. Until her retirement, she was chief reporter for the Lausitzer Rundschau .

Life

After graduating from high school, Wendler studied chemistry with a diploma and worked in this profession until 1990, for many years in the meat combine, in 1984 Wendler switched to the hospital laboratory. In 1989 she took over the press work of the SDP , which later joined the SPD . After the fall of the Wall , she reported for the Berliner Tagesspiegel as a journalist from southern Brandenburg. From 1997 to 2000 she worked as a freelance journalist for daily newspapers and public broadcasters. On October 1, 2000 she became chief reporter for the Lausitzer Rundschau in Cottbus.

In the GDR it was spied on under the object name Poet , because it was suspected that it could become a “tool of the class enemy ”.

Investigation of a corruption affair

In November 2000, Wendler received a package without a sender. Based on the papers contained therein, it published on 29 November 2000 article "felt and corruption in Cottbus?" So did leading employees of the municipal building economic GWC years in the awarding of contracts certain companies preferred properties were without public tender had been sold and Politicians had benefited or looked the other way. According to Wendler, this also had something to do with criminal MfS cliques.

Wendler was threatened, and a stone is said to have been thrown through the window of her living room. The police had started an investigation.

A newspaper war broke out in Cottbus , there was talk of a defamation campaign and Lusatian interrogation games . She was awarded two journalist awards for her attempt to convey the value of press freedom. A GWC employee was convicted of misappropriating files. The Chamber of Commerce admitted errors. There were dismissals at GWC.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ netzwerkrecherche.org: Local: Simone Wendler. November 7, 2012, accessed December 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Brinkbäumer: NEWSPAPERS: Mother Courage from Cottbus . In: Der Spiegel . tape 36 , September 3, 2001 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 15, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Smooth transition. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ FOCUS Online: The phantom of the Stasi. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
  5. ↑ https://www.lr-online.de/lausitz/cottbus/ex-gwc-chef-thiessat-wegen-aktenunterschlagung-ver Judt_aid- 3203793
  6. ^ The https://www.tagesspiegel.de/themen/brandenburg/cottbuser-affaeren-handelskammer-gibt- Fehler-zu/ 251834.html
  7. ↑ https://www.lr-online.de/nachrichten/angeklracht-beteuert-unschuld-und-teile-aus_aid-4004565
  8. ↑ Laureate 2002: Simone Wendler - Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Journalist Prize "Long Breath" goes to Simone Wendler. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wendler, Simone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus