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Melanie Amann

Melanie Amann

German journalist, author and lawyer

Melanie Amann (born 1978) is a journalist and lawyer. She is co-editor-in-chief of leading Germany weekly Der Spiegel and heads the publication's Berlin office.[1]

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Melanie Amann was born in Bonn and raised in Siegburg. She studied law at the University of Trier, Aix-Marseille III and at Humboldt University of Berlin. After graduating in law (Erstes juristisches Staatsexamen), Amann studied journalism at Deutsche Journalistenschule in Munich.[2] She worked for Bonner General-Anzeiger and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Amann wrote as editor for Financial Times Deutschland mainly about issues in the middle east. In 2006, she joined Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung and wrote mainly on issues concerning employment law.

In 2011, she received a Ph.D. in law from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München for a dissertation on the law of union elections.[1]

She joined Der Spiegel in 2013, covering center-right party CDU/CSU and the then-rising right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD).[3] In 2019, she became head of the Berlin office.[1] In May 2021, the magazine announced that Amann and Thorsten Dörting would join then-current editor-in-chief Clemens Höges to form an editorial triumvirate.[4]

Amann is a regular guest on political talkshows such as Markus Lanz[5] or Anne Will,[6] and appears in English-language shows such as NPR's All Things Considered in the United States.[7]

Published books

  • Die Belegschaftsabstimmung. Schriften zum Arbeitsrecht und Wirtschaftsrecht, Band 73. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-63279-6.
  • Angst für Deutschland. Die Wahrheit über die AfD: Wo sie herkommt, wer sie führt, wohin sie steuert. (Fear for Germany. The truth about the AfD: where they come from, who leads it, where it heads.) Droemer, München 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-27763-8.

References

  1. [1]
    "Melanie Amann". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Melanie Amann". www1.wdr.de (in German). 1 November 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  3. [3]
    Amann, Melanie; Bartsch, Matthias; Becker, Sven; Clauß, Anna; Dahlkamp, Jürgen; Dettmer, Markus; Eberle, Lukas; Gathmann, Florian; Glum, Luise (15 March 2021). "Fall from Grace: Merkel's Conservatives Mired in Scandal and Incompetence". Der Spiegel. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Steffen Klusmann beruft Melanie Amann und Thorsten Dörting zu Mitgliedern der SPIEGEL-Chefredaktion". Der Spiegel (in German). 5 May 2021. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Reichelt-Skandal und die Folgen erschüttern Lanz-Runde: "Einige Frauen haben die Stadt verlassen"". Merkur (in German). 24 October 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  6. [6]
    "Lindner kritisiert bei Anne Will Merkel-Plan: "Sensibler Eingriff in die Grundrechte der Menschen"". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 19 April 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  7. [7]
    "Germany Is Expected To Centralize Its COVID-19 Response. Some Fear It May Be Too Late". NPR.org. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
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