Mercedes Bunz

Mercedes Bunz (2011)

Mercedes Bunz (born November 16, 1971 in Magdeburg) is a German art historian, philosopher and journalist.

Life

After passing her final exams at the Celtis-Gymnasium secondary school in the German town of Schweinfurt in 1991, Bunz studied philosophy and history of art at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1997 together with Sascha Kösch, Riley Reinhold, and Benjamin Weiss she founded the Berlin music monthly De:Bug, becoming its co-editor and editor-in-chief from 1999 till 2001.^[1]

Hence, she was awarded a scholarship by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, enabling her to graduate at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with Joseph Vogl,^[2] writing about the history of the internet between the 1950s and the 1980s. Her dissertation thesis was published as a non-fiction book in 2008.

Having worked as a freelance journalist for a while, Bunz became a lecturer at Universität Bielefeld. In that same year she also began working for Berlin city magazine zitty^[3] before running the on-line business of the German daily Tagesspiegel.^[4]

In 2009, she joined the London-based newspaper The Guardian, becoming there a media and technology reporter. Bunz stayed with the Guardian until the beginning of 2011, most notably following events in on-line journalism and the booming Social networking websites.^[5][6]

In 2010 Bunz was awarded the Fachjournalisten-Preis by the German association of specialist editors, or Deutscher Fachjournalisten-Verband.^[7]

Bunz writes for the German internet magazines Telepolis^[8] and Carta.^[2]

Writings

• Mercedes Bunz: Vom Speicher zum Verteiler – Die Geschichte des Internet. Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86599-025-9.
• Mercedes Bunz: Digitale Wahrheiten. In: edition unseld. 43, Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-26043-2.
• Mercedes Bunz: Logik der Technik. Das Denken und die Digitalisierung. In: FAZ.NET. 24 January 2011, retrieved 11 June 2011.

External links

• Literature by and about Mercedes Bunz in the German National Library catalogue
• Mercedes Bunz – Homepage and blog
• Mercedes Bunz über das Internet als Waldspaziergang. In: Video podcast Elektrischer Reporter. No. 27. 23 April 2007. Retrieved 11 June 2011 (an interview in which Bunz unfolds part of her thinking on the electronic media; in German).
• Her intervention at RSLN: "Algorithms will never replace journalists".

References

1. ^ Stephan Weichert, Christian Zabel: Mercedes Bunz – Das Tornado-Mädchen. 2010. Retrieved on 11 June 2011 (German).
2. ^ ^{a b} Profil von Mercedes Bunz. In: Carta. Retrieved 11 June 2011 (German).
3. ^ Anna Reimann: ‚Zitty‘-Chefredakteurin Bunz. Die Ausgepennte. Spiegel Online. 30 August 2006. Retrieved 11 June 2011 (German).
4. ^ Sascha Kösch: Mercedes geht zu Tagesspiegel-Online. Von einem Chefredakteursposten zum nächsten. In: De:Bug. 15 February 2007. Retrieved 11 June 2011 (German).
5. ^ Mercedes Bunz. Profile. In: The Guardian. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
6. ^ Jochen Voß: Private Gründe Chefredakteurin Bunz verlässt ‚tagesspiegel.de‘. In: DWDL.de. 7 August 2009. Retrieved 11 June 2011 (German).
7. ^ Deutscher Fachjournalisten-Verband: Deutscher Fachjournalisten-Kongress in Berlin: Dr. Mercedes Bunz erhält Fachjournalisten-Preis 2010. 4 November 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
8. ^ Artikel von Mercedes Bunz. Telepolis. Retrieved 11 June 2011.

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Name	Bunz, Mercedes
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Short description	German art historian and journalist
Date of birth	November 16, 1971
Place of birth	Magdeburg
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