The splendid new publisher from East Berlin

Holger & Silke. The name rustled in the last few weeks through Berlin as the title of a new hip TV Soap. Before the couple Friedrich bought in September, the "Berliner Zeitung", she knew no one. After that, they were the talk of the town.

, dazzling, self-aware. As one of the few East Berlin, he brought it, after 1989, to success, wealth and a Villa on the Wannsee. His first software company he sold to SAP, he consulted for McKinsey, his new IT company, he is company, but Thinktank.

, 47, also from the East, hard, cool, self-confident, bought a international school when the family from London came back to Berlin and their children nothing useful found. They built it to the largest English-language private school in Germany, with more than 1000 students.

"What we want"

All asked: What? this Pair with the "Berliner Zeitung" How will this respected, but the previous owners broke saved and many readers have abandoned sheet save? The curiosity was huge. But the more Interviews the famous was Few about his "civic commitment", the more perplexed it was. From the word slugs was with a bit of benevolence, that the newspaper should be somehow digital, kind of political, at least with the East in the centre.

125 pages thick Frederick's acts, more than 20 soldiers he is supposed to have denounced.

The perplexity gave way Konsternation, as the Couple under the title "What we want," wrote two sides of the "Berliner Zeitung" with a Manifesto full. The Text was apparently unredigiert to the sheet, and read as: verquast, in part, simply incomprehensible, it application addictive and arrogant. Somehow you understood that Vladimir Putin is supposed to be good and the last GDR-have been Governor of Egon Krenz, a Hero, and that of Frederick despised otherwise, real politics and real politicians more. As the Hyper-billionaires from the Silicon Valley smart stop.

Informal informer of the Stasi

From Konsternation was horror, as last weekend was that Holger Friedrich in 1988 had gespitzelt for the Stasi as an informal employee. 125 pages thick his file, more than 20 soldiers he is supposed to have denounced. The publisher apologized, and that he had been blackmailed by the Stasi in an emergency situation. However, he had harmed anyone. For the East, the"Berliner Zeitung", the leaders after 1989 only of the wrecked socialist power and, later, in a painful process of the Stasi employees in the editorial Department had to free, it was a disaster.

at the same time it became known that the new publisher had heaved a cheering text on a successful East German biotech company on the front page, without telling the editors that Holger Friedrich was involved in this, and even in its Supervisory Board, sass, Berlin had enough for the First. The long-awaited departure of the "Berliner Zeitung" appears to be over anyway, before he has even started. If Holger and Silke Friedrich also notice myself? Probably not.

Created: 19.11.2019, 17:52 PM