Erich Wiedemann

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Erich Wiedemann (born 1942) is a German journalist and editor (at the Hamburg desk) for the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel , [1] where he began as a reporter in 1988. [2] For the FDP, he was also a member of the city council of Jesteburg and a representative for the Harburg district. [1]

Wiedemann has written on German minorities in other European countries [3] and on socio-economic developments in post-World War II Germany. [4] A Spiegel article on the Netherlands from 1994, in which Wiedemann argued that the country had lost its reputation for tolerance and suffered an identity crisis, caused a stir among the Dutch: Wiedemann reiterated a number of cliches about the Dutch, leading to a backlash from Dutch newspaper writers and critics. [5] [6] [7] The accompanying image by Sebastian Krüger depicted Frau Antje, a Dutch character used to promote cheese and other export articles, with a joint in her mouth, heroin syringes in her arm, and a case of Heineken, in a landscape of dirty tulips and polluting smokestacks. [8]

His articles have also appeared in translation in Salon , through an arrangement with Der Spiegel. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Bis über den Tod hinaus". Spiegel Online (in German). 1 January 1999. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  2. ↑ Wiedemann, Erich (1 January 1998). "Wat soll dä Zoff?". Spiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  3. ↑ Röger, Maren (2009). "News Media and Historical Remembrance: Reporting on the Expulsion of Germans in Polish and German Magazines". In Errl, Astrid; Rigney, Ann (eds.). Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 187–204. ISBN   9783110204445 . Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  4. ↑ Poore, Carol (2000). The Bonds of Labor: German Journeys to the Working World, 1890-1990. Wayne State UP. pp. 281 n.119. ISBN   9780814328972.
  5. ↑ Elpers, Sophie (2006). "Frau Antje--Die (Käse-)Botschafterin? Inhalte und Funktionen der Kunstfigur". Grenzen und Differenzen (in German). Leipziger Universitätsverlag. pp. 333–48. ISBN   9783865830883.
  6. ↑ Ephimenco, Sylvain (2 May 2009). "Geef me mijn fiets terug!". Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  7. ↑ Krumm, Christian (2010). Johan Huizinga, Deutschland und die Deutschen (in German). Waxmann. p. 14. ISBN   9783830974468.
  8. ↑ Elpers, Sophie (2009). Hollandser dan Kaas: De geschiedenis van Frau Antje (in Dutch). Amsterdam UP. pp. 54–56. ISBN   9789089640994.
  9. ↑ Zand, Bernhard; Georg Mascolo; Erich Wiedemann (19 October 2005). "Judgment day for Saddam". Salon . Retrieved 15 July 2014.
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