Wellen schlagen

The report read excitingly. What it achieved, however, is usually not known. For the first time, twenty well-known reporters tell what consequences a publication had for those affected and also for themselves. Sometimes a portrait triggered a shitstorm, sometimes a report changed a life, improved it or destroyed it. These are bizarre, amusing and also tragic experiences that provide a glimpse behind the scenes of the media business and prove it: The power of the printed word is unbroken. With contributions by Michael Bahnerth ("Weltwoche"), Sacha Batthyany ("NZZ am Sonntag"), Wolfgang Bauer ("Zeit"), Hannes Grassegger ("SZ-Magazin," "Guardian," "Reportagen"), Florian Klenk (Vienna weekly "Falter"), Florian Leu (his original article appeared in "NZZ Folio"), Bascha Mika ("Frankfurter Rundschau"), Anna Prizkau ("Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung"), Daniel Puntas Bernet ("Reportagen"), Anja Reich ("Berliner Zeitung"), Claas Relotius ("Spiegel"), Petra Reski (the reportage appeared in "Stern"), Marina Rumjanzewa (the original text appeared in "Weltwoche"), Cordt Schnibben ("Spiegel"), Alexander Smoltczyk (the original article appeared in "GEO"), Margrit Sprecher ("NZZ Folio", "Zeit", "Reportagen"), Kai Strittmatter ("Süddeutsche Zeitung"), Barbara Supp ("Spiegel"), Peter Teuwsen ("NZZ") and Lucas Vogelsang ("Welt", "Welt am Sonntag").