German newspaper question
January 28, 2021 2:02 AM   Subscribe

I don't have the words for this (in German or English), which makes the question awkward, but: Is there a thing in German newspapers or magazines where they give you a run down of which people changed jobs / got promoted to important positions this week?

I've seen this in other countries but I'm not sure this is a thing in Germany. It's a section, usually with a couple of headshots of the people mentioned and a short note of who's switched to what company or who has taken over what management position or whatnot.
Not just in industry magazines, in the popular newspapers, too.

Is there a word for this?

Online searches are not giving me anything remotely similar.
posted by Omnomnom to Media & Arts (6 answers total)
 
I worked for several years for a software company that was trying to develop as one of its main products an information mining program that would crawl the German online press and automatically extract precisely any news of important persons changing jobs. I worked on the German language side of the operation and never encountered any regular columns devoted to this sort of target information, so I am inclined to believe they don't exist in German.

However, because this company wasn't the super most competent operation, I cannot completely rule out that such columns exist and we just completely and comically missed them. So I will watch this thread and not be 100% surprised if some other mefites show us that there are such. and tell us what they are called.
posted by bertran at 2:31 AM on January 28, 2021 [1 favorite]


Lived in Germany for decades, never seen this sort of thing. In company towns like eg Wolfsburg (VW) new board members, union officials etc make the local paper.
What there is though in the regional papers is obituaries from the deceased person's company, which usually mention their job title and long service, friendliness, will be much missed, signed, the CEO and executive or something.
(Also in Prussia it was common to put someone's elevated work title on the TOMBSTONE, i.e. State Senior Sewer Inspector First Class for Brandenburg. Mind you these often coincided with a title as landed gentry...
posted by runincircles at 3:31 AM on January 28, 2021


No, this is not a thing in Germany. I've lived here all my life and have never heard of nor seen such a thing. I don't think there is a (German) word for it.
posted by amf at 3:35 AM on January 28, 2021


I never saw this while I lived in Germany, but if you're looking for phrases to search try "movers and shakers" in English - this is often the name given to the type of column you're looking for - or "personelle Veränderungen" in German. For example.
posted by guessthis at 3:58 AM on January 28, 2021


Another potential search term might be "Ein-, Um- und Aufsteiger der Woche"; at least that's how that section is titled in DerStandard, an Austrian newspaper. Maybe there's something similiar in Germany?
posted by sohalt at 4:31 AM on January 28, 2021 [3 favorites]


When I was a newsroom intern back in the day, we called these "hire and fire stories." This was at Bloomberg in the 90s, not sure that's at all helpful.
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 6:33 AM on January 28, 2021


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