Ulrike Herrmann

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Ulrike Herrmann, 2019

Ulrike Herrmann (born January 13, 1964 in Hamburg ) is a German business journalist and publicist .

Life and career

Ulrike Herrmann grew up in a suburb of Hamburg "where everyone believed in social advancement". She was a typical child of the middle class. She presented this background of origin in her second publication in 2010, Hurray, we may pay. The self-deception of the middle class is critical.

After completing an apprenticeship as a bank clerk at the Bayrische Vereinsbank , Ulrike Herrmann graduated from the Henri Nannen School . She then studied history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin .

She then worked as a research assistant at the Körber Foundation and worked as press spokesperson for the Hamburg Senator for Equality, Krista Sager .

Herrmann has been an editor at Berlin's taz since 2000 . There she was initially head of the opinion desk and parliamentary correspondent. She has been a business correspondent since 2006. From 2008 to 2014 she was also a member of the board of directors of the taz publishing cooperative .

Herrmann often takes part in current political discussions on radio and television, including the TV show Presseclub and the TV station Phoenix .

Memberships

Prizes and awards

  • 2015: Prize for business journalism from the Keynes Society for her contributions to the taz
  • 2019: Otto Brenner Prize "Special" "for your critical and pointed business journalism with a good sense of the welfare state"

Publications

Herrmann has published on socio-political and economic-political topics since 2008. In Getting Older, New Dare (2008), which she wrote together with Martina Wittneben, 12 older people are portrayed who refute the usual stereotypes of retirement. In the next few works she turned to economic and historical topics.

In Hooray, we may pay (2010), she presents her view that the middle class conceitedly see themselves as part of the privileged and socially isolated elite . It allies itself with the upper class against the lower class, into which it threatens to slip itself. This “self-deception” of the middle class in Germany with regard to their role in society is promoted by lobbyists and the media.

The victory of capital (2013) analyzes in particular the historical roots of capitalism . As a result of certain developmental conditions, it is a historical phenomenon and thus in principle transitory. In her analysis shestrictlydelimits the terms market , money and capital from one another, since serious misunderstandings have arisen from their mixing or confusion.

That the neoclassical doctrine of economics has become a quasi-religious dogma is the thesis of her book No Capitalism Is Also No Solution (2016). The suppression of the real classics is also dogmatic: these are rejected as "outdated" and no longer taught. “Today's economy acts as if Smith, Marx and Keynes were yesterday - and they stay in the day before yesterday.” The modern mathematical models of economics are constructed as if the economy consisted only of barter and as if industrialization never had it given.

In her bestseller Deutschland, ein Wirtschaftsmärchen (2019), she deconstructs what she believes is a legendary portrayal of the economic miracle and the social market economy, which continues to have an impact today in economic malpractices such as export orientation and restrictive monetary policy.

Fonts

  • Getting older, daring new things: twelve portraits . With Martina Wittneben. Ed. Körber Foundation, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89684-069-1 .
  • Hurray, we can pay. The self-deception of the middle class . Westend Publishing House. Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-938060-45-2 ; 5th edition 2012. Piper, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-26485-3 .
  • The victory of capital. How wealth came into the world. The story of growth, money and crises . Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-86489-044-4 , Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-30568-6 .
  • No capitalism is also no solution. The Crisis of Today's Economy or What We Can Learn From Smith, Marx and Keynes . Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-86489-141-0 .
  • Germany, an economic fairy tale. Why is it no wonder that we have become rich . Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-86489-263-9 .

Web links

Commons : Ulrike Herrmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Basics. Friday, September 8th, 2016, accessed on January 24th, 2020 .
  2. Ulrike Herrmann . In: Network Research. 2011. Retrieved January 23, 2012 (portrait).
  3. ^ Körber Foundation Hamburg: Ulrike Herrmann: KörberForum . Archived from the original on December 26, 2015. Retrieved December 26, 2015.
  4. ^ The interactive ones: Herrmann, Ulrike - Westend Verlag GmbH .
  5. taz.de: Imprint .
  6. ^ AFS Board of Trustees. Retrieved July 6, 2019 .
  7. Bayerischer Rundfunk: alpha forum: Ulrike Herrmann in conversation with Rigobert Kaiser. October 14, 2016, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  8. Bayerischer Rundfunk: alpha forum: Ulrike Herrmann in conversation with Rigobert Kaiser. October 14, 2016, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  9. ^ Otto Brenner "Special" Prize - Ulrike Herrmann. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .