Frank A. Meyer

Frank André Meyer ( born January 6, 1944 in Biel), often abbreviated as FAM and in their own appearance usually as Frank A. Meyer, is a Swiss journalist and journalistic consultant Ringier.

Life

Growing up in the bilingual Biel as the son of a watchmaker, Meyer did an apprenticeship as a typesetter. From 1968 to 1980 he was involved as a partner of Mario Cortesi at the media company in his home town of Biel and " as an alternative, Free Citizen ' in local politics involved " ( 1976 to 1980 as a member of the city council ).

In 1972, he began his journalistic work for the media company Ringier, first as a White House correspondent for the Swiss Federal Illustrated. In 1978 he was co-founder of the bilingual weekly newspaper Biel -Bienne. In 1980 he was co- editor of the week - its circulation broke then, within a year from 44,000 to 14,000 copies, and it was discontinued - and started his work as a columnist for the Sunday gaze. Later he became a journalistic advisor publisher Michael Ringier.

Since 1985 he is a member of the Executive Board of Ringier AG and since 1989 lecturer in media economics at the University of St. Gallen ( HSG). Meyer is also the presenter of the program vis -à-vis with 3sat and writes or has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, among other things, for the Zurich week, the Basler Zeitung and the Ringier magazine Cicero. He is considered the inspirer of the left-liberal course of view and is " chief columnist " from Sunday view and (formerly ) Swiss Illustrated.

Frank A. Meyer lives with his wife, the German cultural journalist Lilith Frey, in Berlin.

In the Federal elections of 1999 (on the occasion of the re-election Pascal Couchepin ) Meyer received 19 of 245 votes.

Publications

  • Notes from China. A Swiss Reading book on the People's Republic of China since the Cultural Revolution ( with Mario Cortesi ). Gloor, Zurich 1972
  • " Vis -à- vis". Conversations with contemporaries. Foreword by Nicolas Hayek. Ammann, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-250-10033-1
  • The long goodbye to the middle class. Joachim Fest and Wolf Jobst Siedler in conversation with Frank A. Meyer. wjs, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937989-10-2
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