Udo Ludwig

Udo Ludwig (* 1958 in Werl ) is a German journalist . He is considered one of the best-known representatives of investigative journalism in Germany and, through many years of research, one of the most intimate connoisseurs of the doping scene , especially in German cycling . As an editor he works mainly for the Hamburg news magazine Der Spiegel . The main focuses of his work are the areas of sport, medicine and consumer protection , which does not exclude other topics.

Life

After graduating from the Mariengymnasium in Werl, Ludwig did his traineeship at the Westfalenpost , where he then worked for some time as an editor. He completed a subsequent study of social sciences and sports science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster in 1984 with an exam. Then he stayed in Kenya for half a year . He then worked as a freelance journalist for daily newspapers and weekly magazines. He has been with the news magazine Der Spiegel since 1990 , initially in the sports department and since then in the Germany department.

In addition to his numerous contributions to the Spiegel (among other things, the cyclist Jörg Jaksche revealed his doping for the first time in an interview in June 2007), Udo Ludwig has also published several monographs in book form as a sole author or with co-authors. Ludwig also works for the Bertelsmann referents agency , currently (2010) also a lecturer in research training at the Hamburg Media Office (an institution of the Hamburg Evangelical Lutheran Church District Association in the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church ). He is also a lecturer at the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists in Munich (Journalism School of the Catholic Church) and at the semi-state Hamburg Media School . Since September 1, 2016, Ludwig has been Head of Sport at “Spiegel”.

In his private life, Ludwig is an active athlete himself ( handball player and marathon runner ). He lives with his family in Hamburg.

Fonts

• with Ulrich Roth , Michael Roth : Our life, our disease - The correct way to deal with prostate cancer. Zabert Sandmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89883-263-2 .
• Crime scene hospital: how patients become victims. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-421-04386-3 . Paperback edition: Goldmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-12994-2 .
• with Werner W. Franke : The betrayed sport. Perpetrators, victims and what we need to change. Zabert Sandmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89883-185-7 .
• Cabal and love: Sports journalists at daily newspapers and professional football clubs (= Münster writings on physical culture. Volume 7). Lit, Münster 1987, ISBN 3-88660-377-6 .
• with Matthias Brendel : On the trail of fraudsters. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch in the FAZ Institute for Management, Market and Media Information, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-89843-092-8 .

Awards

• 2009: German Journalist Prize (one of the two shared 1st prizes in the “Bank & Insurance” category; together with co-authors Klaus Brinkbäumer , Frank Hornig, Hauke ​​Goos and Christoph Pauly) for the Spiegel article “Gorillas Spiel” about the fall of the Bank Lehman Brothers .
• 2008: Henri Nannen Prize (together with Matthias Geyer, Lothar Gorris and Detlef Hacke) in the “Best investigative achievement” category for the contribution to doping in German cycling in the magazine Der Spiegel.
• In 2016, Ludwig was awarded the Nannen Prize in the “Best Investigation” category as a member of a SPIEGEL team together with Jörg Schmitt , Rafael Buschmann , Gunther Latsch, Jürgen Dahlkamp and Jens Weinreich . The work for the article Sommer, Sonne, Schwarzgeld , which appeared in October 2015, is honored. He addressed the presumably bought award of the 2006 soccer World Cup and led u. a. on the resignation of Wolfgang Niersbach as DFB President.

Web links

• Literature by and about Udo Ludwig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Contributions by Udo Ludwig in Der Spiegel
• Brief portrait at the publishing house Zabert Sandmann

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Author portrait of the Research Academy by Matthias Brendel in Hamburg (PDF; 29 kB)
2. ↑ Speaker portrait , with a link to an interview ( memento of the original from March 16, 2011 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. 
3. ^ Website of the Hamburg media office on Udo Ludwig
4. ↑ The lecturers of the journalism course ( memento of the original from April 2, 2010 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. 
5. ↑ Meedia editorial team: Summer fairy tale revealer Udo Ludwig is the new head of sports at Spiegel ›Meedia. June 15, 2016, accessed September 22, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Cover story "Gorillas Spiel", Der Spiegel, 11/2009, pp. 40–52.
7. ↑ djp winner 2009
8. ↑ Henri Nannen Prize, Prize Winner 2008 ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (with links to some Spiegel articles about doping in German cycling that were created in collaboration with Ludwig)