Uwe Knüpfer

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Uwe Knüpfer (born January 24, 1955 in Herne ) is a German journalist and book author. Among other things, he worked as editor-in-chief for the WAZ media group and for the social democratic monthly newspaper Vorwärts .

Life

After an internship at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ), Uwe Knüpfer worked from 1984 to 1990 as a reporter, science editor and press spokesman (for the Ministry of Science and Research North Rhine-Westphalia). From 1990 to 1992 he was part of the WAZ Bonn office. From 1992 to 2000 he reported on North American politics as a foreign correspondent based in Washington, DC for a number of German and Austrian newspapers. In the years 2000–2005 Uwe Knüpfer was editor-in-chief of the WAZ. In 2006 he founded the LOZ Verlag, initially in Essen , then in Düsseldorf and published the local online newspaper onruhr from 2006 to 2007. onruhr was a daily newspaper for the Ruhr area, designed in PDF format and distributed solely via the Internet . On October 1, 2010, he took up his new position as editor-in-chief at the Berliner Vorwärts- Verlag, succeeding Uwe-Karsten Heye .

In the summer of 2012, he applied against Michelle Müntefering and Anke Hildenbrand to stand as a candidate for the 2013 federal election in the constituency of Herne / Bochum II. At the sub-district party conference in Herne on September 11, 2012, 18 of the delegates voted for Knüpfer, 85 for Müntefering and 53 for Hildenbrand. At the end of 2012 he was replaced by Karin Nink as editor-in-chief . He wrote several political books. Since 2015 he has been the editor-in-chief of Schnecke , the trade journal of the German Cochlear Implant Society . Furthermore, so far (2019) he has written two Tenerife crime novels under the pseudonym Armand Amapolas.

Knüpfer is married and has two grown sons.

Fonts

  • We in the west. How we became what we are - A historical guide to North Rhine-Westphalia Essen, Klartext-Verlag 2010
  • You are the people. Instructions for being a politician in twelve encouragements , Mari-Media-Verlag 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Forward : Uwe Knüpfer becomes the new editor-in-chief of "vorwärts" ( memento of the original from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated August 17, 2010; Last accessed: July 18, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorwaerts.de
  2. ↑ DerWesten : Headwind for Uwe Knüpfer from August 22, 2012; Last accessed: July 18, 2014
  3. ↑ Rheinische Post August 30, 2012, p. A4: Müntefering's wife is fighting for a mandate
  4. ↑ BILD : Bundestag candidacy: SPD in Herne elects Michelle Müntefering from September 11, 2012; Last accessed: July 31, 2015
  5. ↑ RP Online : Personal: Uwe Knüpfer… leaves the SPD "Vorwärts" from November 7, 2012; Last accessed: July 18, 2014
  6. ↑ Armand Amapolas
  7. ↑ DerWesten : Uwe Knüpfer from Herne gives instructions on how to be a politician from July 20, 2015; Last accessed: July 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Knüpfer, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Herne