Wolf Lotter

Wolf Lotter, 2016

Wolf Lotter (born August 4, 1962 in Mürzzuschlag , Austria ) is a German-Austrian journalist and author.

Life

After completing a commercial apprenticeship as a bookseller in Vienna, Lotter studied cultural management from 1983 to 1986 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , then from 1986 to 1990 history and communication studies at the University of Vienna .

Since 1979 he has published regularly, initially prose in literary magazines (including in Waspennest ) with a focus on literature in the world of work . From 1980 to 1982 he received working grants from the Austrian Ministry of Education for Literature.

Since 1984 there has been an increasing number of articles dealing with the new working conditions and technologies, especially the personal computer and the communication technologies based on them that are emerging. From 1986 to 1989 he wrote columns on this subject for the Viennese city magazine Falter . Since 1988 he has been a regular employee of the business magazine Trend-Profil-Extra , in 1989 he became a member of the editorial team of the business magazine Cash Flow in Vienna.

In 1992 Lotter was a member of the founding editorial team of Illustrierte News in Vienna, but one year later he switched to the well-known news magazine Profil , where he worked in various functions as a reporter, editor, consultant and author until 1998.

In 1998 he became a member of the editorial team of the Hamburg business magazine Econy . In autumn 1999 he was one of the co-founders of the business magazine brand eins . Since then, he has been writing detailed monthly essays for this magazine on the respective main topics of the issue, in which economic processes are classified in an overall social and political context. His work addresses the transformation of the old industrial society towards the new knowledge society .

He published in other newspapers and magazines as well as on radio and television, u. a. in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Die Welt , at WDR , Bayerischer Rundfunk and Südwestfunk .

In the radio play Stripped by Stefan Weigl , the author played himself and presented his theory of a society which is under-aged in economic issues and which doggedly defends itself against independence and self-determination. In 2005 Stripped received the highest German-language award for radio plays, the war blind radio play award .

In 2007 Lotter was involved in a conflict about climate policy with the climatologist Stefan Rahmstorf , which was carried out through the press . Lotter was part of a group that Rahmstorf and the commenting press assigned to the climate skeptics . This classification was also used on other occasions and by other media, for example in Cicero magazine 2011.

In the film The Silent Revolution by Kristian Gründling (based on a vision by Bodo Janssen) Lotter argues that the dawn of the knowledge society is comparable to the industrial revolution , especially when it comes to the intensity of the social upheavals associated with it. The silent revolution received gold at the Deauville Green Awards and was the winner of the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Award 2017.

Lotter lives and works with his wife in Köngen / Baden-Württemberg.

Works

• as editor with Ralf Herms : + rosebud no.8 - The surprise . Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2019, ISBN 978-3-903320-42-0
• Innovation. Polemic pamphlet for accessible thinking . Edition Körber, 2018, ISBN 978-3-89684-262-6
• Civil capitalism. We can do it differently . Pantheon, 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-55231-5
• The creative revolution: what comes after industrial capitalism? Murmann, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86774-062-3
• Waste. Economy needs abundance - the good side of waste . Hanser, 2006, ISBN 3-446-40035-4
• with Dagmar Deckstein , Michael Gleich and Peter Felixberger : We are quitting! And redefine the country. Hanser, 2005, ISBN 3-446-40048-6
• The flight of the phoenix. In: Patient Germany. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt DVA, 2002, ISBN 3-421-05667-6
• as editor: Kursbuch Neue Wirtschaft . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, DVA, 2000, ISBN 3-421-05435-5
• with Klemens Polatschek: The Computer Jungle Book . Falter Verlag, Vienna, 1990

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolf Lotter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolf Lotter's website
• The self-determiners , by Wolf Lotter, Brand eins, issue 1/2015
• Resubmission , by Wolf Lotter, next, the magazine for forward thinkers, Price Waterhouse Cooper, undated

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Climate change: German media operate disinformation. On: faz.net of August 31, 2007 The "climate skeptics" answer: We have to put primal fears into perspective. On: faz.net from September 5th, 2007 , Global Warming: The holy war of the climate skeptics. On: welt.de from September 5, 2007
2. ↑ Climate change: "Less Al Gore and a little more science".
3. Jump up ↑ The Quiet Revolution - The Film. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 29, 2017 ; accessed on September 29, 2017 .