Brigitte Fehrle
Brigitte Fehrle | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 December 1954 |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Britte Fehrle is a German journalist.
Career
[edit]Fehrle is from Stuttgart. She first trained as a bookseller and then studied political science at the Free University of Berlin.
Fehrle began her journalistic career while studying politics as a freelance journalist for Süddeutscher Rundfunk public broadcaster and die tageszeitung, where she subsequently worked as a domestic affairs editor. After six years, she moved to the Berliner Zeitung, initially as a regional political correspondent, and from 1996 as head of the domestic affairs department. She rose to senior editor and deputy editor-in-chief, and in 2006, she took on the same position at the Frankfurter Rundschau. Both newspapers were owned by DuMont Schauberg at that time. In 2007, she joined Die Zeit, where she headed the Berlin editorial office until February 2009.
She then returned to the Berliner Zeitung as deputy editor-in-chief.[1] In 2010, the media company DuMont Schauberg, created an editorial team of 24 editors. They worked for a total of four newspapers, with her as editor-in-chief.[2] Fehrle was editor in chief of Berliner Zeitung till 2016. Since that she is working as a freelancer for RBB and other media outlets in Berlin. She is part of the swabian community of Berlin.[3]
Real estate speculation and subsidized ownership
[edit]On 13 January 2023, Der Spiegel published an article about a house in Berlin-Kreuzberg that Fehrle and five co-owners had purchased in 1991. According to the article, the community of owners, including Fehrle's partner and journalist Matthias Geis, purchased the building at Oranienstraße 169, with approximately 1,800 square meters of residential and commercial space, for 1.2 million German marks in order to renovate it. Before the renovation, two owners left the group, and journalists Petra Bornhöft and Annette Ramelsberger, as well as the mother of Fehrle's partner, joined. In order to receive special funding from the state of Berlin as a so-called self-help group, the owners committed, among other things, to living in the house themselves and to reporting vacant apartments to the district. According to Der Spiegel's research, this did not happen in all cases; with the exception of three (Fehrle, her partner, and Bornhöft), they did not live in the building themselves. Tenants were asked not to disclose that the owner did not live in the apartment. The Senate granted a total of more than 3.4 million marks in construction cost subsidies for the renovation, and the last associated conditions ended in 2017.[4]
In 2022, the tenants were informed that the property was to be sold. The owners did not respond to Canan Bayram's suggestion of a profitable sale of the property to a cooperative or other public interest organization – instead, the building was to be sold to a real estate investor in 2023.[4][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Fehrle, Brigitte: stellvertretende Chefredakteurin der Berliner Zeitung". Gut Gödelitz (in German). 4 January 1999. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- ^ kress.de. ""In einem halben Jahr kennt uns jeder"". kress (in German). Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- ^ a b Joswig, Gareth (3 November 2022). "Verdrängung in Berlin-Kreuzberg: Linke Vermieter". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- ^ a b Hunfeld, Frauke (13 January 2023). "(S+) Berlin-Kreuzberg: Wie linke Journalisten den großen Deal mit einer Immobilie machte". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 17 July 2025.