Werner Funk

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Werner Funk (born May 23, 1937 in Hanover ) is a German journalist . He was editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel magazine and publisher of Stern magazine .

Life

Funk is the son of a businessman. After graduating from the Stormarn School in Ahrensburg he studied at the Technical University of Berlin with a degree in engineering and has been at the University of Bochum Dr. rer. pole. PhD on the subject of wealth creation for employees . He was originally supposed to take over his father's company, but it went bankrupt beforehand . Funk began his professional career in 1965 in the energy department of the Federal Ministry of Economics . In 1968 he moved to the Hamburg news magazine Der Spiegel , where he worked in various functions until 1991: Correspondent in the Bonn Spiegel office, head of the political department Germany I and the economic department. In 1979 Funk became head of the New York office.

In 1980 he took the helm of manager magazin, which belongs to Spiegel-Verlag . In 1986 he returned to Spiegel as the third editor-in-chief with equal rights alongside Erich Böhme and Johannes K. Engel . In 1991 Funk and Spiegel publisher Augstein separated .

Augstein dismissed Funk in 1991 without notice. He had commissioned editors-in-chief Werner Funk and Adolf Theobald to convert the limited partnership (KG), which was Spiegel at the time, into a foundation. However, Augstein unexpectedly rejected the completed plans and dismissed Funk and Theobald without notice.

From November 1992 Funk worked as editor-in-chief of the reportage magazine Geo at Verlag Gruner und Jahr (G&J). In February 1994 he also became the managing director of the G&J magazine group “Saison” and “Sports”. In May 1994 he moved to Stern magazine as editor-in-chief . After a drop in circulation and sales, Funk's management style was criticized. In November 1998 he announced his resignation as editor-in-chief.

In July 1999, he returned to the helm of the star as editor . He was placed at the side of the new editors-in-chief Thomas Osterkorn and Andreas Petzold with a consultancy contract. He also advised the publisher's business press. Funk's contract with Gruner + Jahr expired at the end of 2000. He continued to work as a consultant for the publisher and, for an interim period from September 2001, was the active publisher of the fortnightly business magazine Capital .

Publications

  • Werner Funk (Ed.): The whales . Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1993.
  • Body art . In: Werner Funk (Ed.): Portfolio . Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1997.
  • Annie Leibovitz . In: Werner Funk (Ed.):Portfolio. Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1997.
  • The image of man . In: Werner Funk (Ed.): Portfolio . Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1998 (210 pages).
  • Werner Funk (Ed.): 50 years - the best from the star . Umschau / Braus, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 978-3-8295-6807-4 (1,216 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Long-time SPIEGEL editor-in-chief: Johannes K. Engel is dead . In: Spiegel Online . January 8, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 16, 2018]).
  2. ↑ In- house communication on: SPIEGEL , Der Spiegel , July 15, 1991.
  3. ↑ "I find the mirror in particular surprisingly mediocre ..." . In: meedia , August 1, 2017
  4. ↑ d-nb.info
  5. ↑ GRUNER + JAHR "Belebte Zeiten" , Focus , May 21, 1994.
  6. ↑ Kress News February 3, 2110 Kress News , January 3, 2001.
  7. ↑ Dr. Werner Funk advises Gruner + Jahr business press Press release G + J
personal data
SURNAME Funk, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, editor-in-chief of Spiegel and publisher of Stern
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover