Interview by
Verena Mayer
When the East German tech entrepreneur Holger Friedrich bought the crisis-ridden Berliner Zeitung in 2019, there was great hope. People were hired, the technology revamped, and a new weekend edition launched. But there was also resentment about Friedrich’s unconventional style. Editors-in-chief quit, veteran members of the editorial team left. What about two years later? The publisher Holger Friedrich and the editor-in-chief of the weekend edition, Tomasz Kurianowicz, talk about social debates, upheavals in the media world and why the publisher likes to take up pens himself.