Erich Wiedemann

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]

References
  1. "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. 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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