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Jürg Roger Koeppel (born 21 March 1965 in Zurich) is a Swiss journalist and media entrepreneur. He is editor-in-chief and publisher of the weekly magazine Die Weltwoche. Previously, he worked for two and a half years editor of the German daily Die Welt.

Early life
Roger Koeppel is the son of a contractor, and grew up in Zurich, Kloten, and Bulach. He is married, has two sons and lives in the Zurich canton of Küsnacht.

Education
Roger Koeppel studied economics and social history, and he graduated in 1995 with a degree in political philosophy. Koeppel wrote his master's thesis - entitled Authority and Myth: Carl Schmitt and the re-enchantment of state violence (1916-1938) - under the direction of philosopher Georg Kohler.

Early career
Roger Koeppel began working at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) in 1988, where he worked for seven years in various departments, including the sports and film editors.

In 1994, he was cultural editor for Tages-Anzeiger. Three years later, he was appointed chief editor of the Tages-Anzeiger magazine, where he led the weekend supplement from October 1997 to July 2001. In spring 2000, Koeppel became deputy editor of the Tages-Anzeiger.

In spring 2001, he was at Harvard University for postgraduate work in economy and culture while a New York foreign correspondent.

Die Weltwoche
In June 2001, Koppel became the chief editor of Die Weltwoche, which for years had been suffering from decline. Shortly after he accepted the post, Die Weltwoche was sold to investors affiliated with financier Tito Tettamanti of Ticino. Under the new investors, the traditional newspaper was transformed into a magazine format and the editorial team was largely replaced as some editors and journalists left in protest.

Koppel turned the left liberal Die Weltwoche to the right, which he denied at first. The magazine now contained politically provocative, belligerent, even polemical articles and comments that defied the "left-liberal mainstream journalism" (Koeppel). Journalists at Die Weltwoche said Koppel would cause the sheet to a neoliberal and for targeted old editors replaced by related persons. Koppel accused the other Swiss media, the SVP politician Christoph Blocher fundamentally opposed to face. Prior to the 2003 parliamentary elections Koeppel pleaded expressly that Blocher belong to the Federal Council. He also praised the Swiss People's Party (SVP) than those Swiss party that most closely promise a successful bourgeois politics. The criticisms voiced in much of Europe and at Blocher's SVP criticism critics judged the EU Koeppel to be wrong. Blocher was not Le Pen or Haider, but "a fusion of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Franz-Josef Strauss".

Economically successful in the world week after several years of losses, a win for the first time (2003). Circulation rose at first and then fell still during Koppels office again. In Koppels office in 2001, the world experienced a week circulation of 78,000, 91,000, and by the end of 2003 end of 2011, 77,800 copies.

Die Welt
In spring 2004, Koppel left Die Weltwoche because he had received an offer from Axel Springer publishing to become chief editor of the German daily Die Welt. There he worked under the guidance of the former executive editor and publisher Jan-Eric Peters.

Return to Die Weltwoche
November 2006, Koeppel returned to Die Weltwoche. As a publisher and editor in chief, he took over the majority of shares. By the end of the year, he announced the acquisition of all shares of Die Weltwoche publishing company. Since then, the rest of Die Weltwoche commuting to the previous brands: 82,000 copies (2006) to 77,800 copies (2011).

In addition to his duties at Die Weltwoche, he serves on various boards, among others at the Koeppel Holding AG, Die Weltwoche Verlags AG and the AG Radio Basilisk operation.

Awards and public recognition
In 2006, Koeppel was elected by the Swiss industry magazine Schweizer Journalist for "Journalist of the Year." And 2007 he was the editor of the Weekly World awarded the Swiss-Russian Journalist Award. [10]

In 2007 it was announced that he had rewritten his own Wikipedia article in his favor. [11]

Koeppel occurs frequently in German talk shows. In tough but fair on 2 December 2009 he defended the outcome of the Swiss referendum to ban minarets and declared to have voted for himself the minaret ban. Carried out referendum called Koppel as "a shining example of democracy in Europe". [12] [13]

To Koeppel expressed to purchase the data CDs with the data of suspected tax evaders in Switzerland to the effect that this "equivalent installation of a cross-border block warden system" of, and advised of Switzerland, the German government to sue for incitement to industrial espionage and German ministers who go to Switzerland to arrest. [14] The latter statement he repeated on 2 February 2010 in Munich broadcast round the Bayerischer Rundfunk. He represented selbige position also on 3 February 2010 a discussion in hard but fair, even if he repeated without the sharp formulations. [15]

In 2010, Koppel was awarded the Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic journalism.

On the Swiss Radio 1 he has a weekly column, which is broadcast every Thursday morning. In addition, he discussed with radio boss Roger Schawinski every Monday in the format against Roger Roger current issues. Web Links

Marc Hujer: The Unschweizer. In Der Spiegel, 15 March 2010, No. 11/2010, pp. 104-108 (PDF) Cigdem Akyol: Biedermann and the Arsonists. In: the daily newspaper, 27 November 2010 Beat Kuert and Michael Lang: Mountain and Spirit: A Portrait of Roger Koeppel. 11th May 2010, video portrait for 3sat (Video not available) Behind Hannes Meier Roger Köppel mission. Separate the chaff from the Swiss. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 8 July 2010, Portrait Philip Plickert: brushed on attack. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 19 January 2012, Portrait