Education
08/2003 – 12/2004
Master of Arts, New York University, USA
Magazine journalism concentration, Austrian Fulbright grantee
10/1994 – 06/2001
Magister der Handelswissenschaften, (MBA level), Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria.
Specialization in development economics and management of small and medium enterprises, CEMS exchange student at Stockholm School of Economics (Jan. – June 1998)
1994
High School degree, BG 13 Fichtnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Professional Experience
manager magazin, Der SPIEGEL publishing group, Hamburg, Germany – since 04/2011
online editor for manager-magazin.de, Germany’s second biggest business news portal and the online extension of Germany’s foremost business monthy (online: 10 mio visits/month, print: 230,000 readers)
- reporter and editor for the companies and markets section
- reporting focus: Germany’s automotive industry, electric vehicles and new business models around mobility services
- creator of several novel content formats, e.g. development of new forms of online live reporting and event-based reporting
- video specialist: developer of three video formats exclusively produced for our online edition: “Kernkompetent”, a bimontly business comedy; “Autoklassiker”, a video series focused on younger classic cars; “Mitlenker”, a video explainer of how car assistance technologies work
- analysis of current events, background stories on all aspects of the German car industry, frequent exclusive news
WirtschaftsWoche, Handelsblatt publishing group, Düsseldorf, Germany – 07/2006 – 03/2011
online editor for wiwo.de, the online portal of Germany’s best-selling business weekly WirtschaftsWoche (online: 220,000 unique users/month, print: 850,000 readers)
- in charge of the online equivalent of the “companies and markets”section
- reporting focus on Germany’s automotive industry. As an online reporter, I managed to publish several multipage pieces in the printed edition of WirtschaftsWoche.
- in-house video specialist: creator and producer of the weekly video series “Tichys Totale“, a video editorial of WirtschaftsWoche’s editor-in-chief; creator and producer of “Gadget-Inspector”, wiwo.de’s tech video explainer.
- audio: creator and producer of wiwo hör-bar, a weekly “making of”-podcast providing background on this week’s major WirtschaftsWoche story.
- multimedia: creator of several audio slideshows, e.g. for the online special “20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall”, planning, research and briefings for several interactive graphics
- dozens of background interviews and stories, e.g. for wiwo.de’s US election 2008 special, special on the global financial crisis, the planned and retracted sale of GM’s Opel division, …
Austria Press Agency, Vienna, Austria – the national newswire service – 01/2006 – 06/2006
reporter for the business news desk, 2 days/week
- news story editing
- press conferences coverage
- breaking news coverage
Industriemagazin, Vienna, Austria – monthly service magazine for industry leaders (circ.: 27,000) – 11/2005 – 06/2006
freelance journalist for the magazine’s career and science sections
GEWINN, Vienna, Austria – Austria’s best-selling monthly business magazine (circulation: 95,000) –01/2005 – 06/2006
staff writer/reporter for the personal finance and career sections
Time Inc., New York – magazine division of US media conglomerate Time Warner
Fortune Small Business magazine: best-selling US business magazine (circ.: 1 mio.) – 09/2004 – 12/2004
editorial intern and subsequent freelance work
- part-time while studying for my M.A. at NYU
- several articles for FSB’s “Giving Back“ series, regular freelancer after the internship ended
- contributor for FSB’s May 2005 cover story on companies helping people with disabilities
Fortune Magazine: the leading US business magazine (circulation: 919,000) 06/2004 – 08/2004
editorial intern
- planned, researched and wrote a nine-page booklet on the history of Fortune’s 100 fastest-growing companies
- analyzed the marketing challenges of energy drink giant Red Bull in the US market
- wrote a column on investing in the US gaming industry
GEWINN, Vienna, Austria – 04/2002 – 07/2003
staff writer/reporter for the IT and career sections
Die ZEIT, Hamburg, Germany – Germany’s reputed weekly newspaper – 09/2001 – 12/2001
internship in the online editorial department
- developed, recorded and edited an acoustic advent calendar that featured Christmas stories narrated by ZEIT writers
- supervised online debates and forums as an editorial moderator
- wrote features on German writers and the woes of the travel industry after 9/11
- planned and conducted a comparison of publishing media web sites, presented the results at a meeting with the business manager
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt/Main – Germany’s best-known quality newspaper – 07/2001 – 08/2001
internship, online editorial department, business section
- researched and wrote over 50 articles in 6 weeks
- scope: from features on car makers who produce less than 100 cars per years to an opinion piece on strategies how to make people pay for online content
- freelance writer until Oct. 2002