New management of the NZZ Feuilleton and Zurich departments
Martin Meyer is retiring and handing over leadership of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung’s arts and culture section to René Scheu. Luzi Bernet will become the new head of the Zurich bureau. The previous bureau chief, Thomas Ribi, is moving to the arts and culture section.
On reaching retirement age, Martin Meyer (1951) will hand over the reins of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung's feature section to publicist and philosopher René Scheu at the turn of 2016. Martin Meyer will remain closely associated with the NZZ - as an author, but also as head of the discussion forum NZZ-Podium, which he has built up since 2007 and which has attracted a great deal of attention from the public.
Meyer's successor René Scheu (1974) completed his doctorate in contemporary philosophy at the University of Zurich. He has been publisher and editor-in-chief of Schweizer Monatshefte since 2007 and was responsible for its successful relaunch under the title Schweizer Monat in 2011. Since 2013, he has also been following current affairs as a columnist for NZZ am Sonntag. Scheu has published and translated various books in the fields of media policy, philosophical anthropology and psychoanalysis.
Eric Gujer, Editor-in-Chief of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung: "In René Scheu, we have been able to recruit a trenchant writer with entrepreneurial esprit and in-depth knowledge of society and culture to head up the features section. He is the right person to continue the tradition of the political feuilleton founded by Martin Meyer."
Luzi Bernet becomes Head of Zurich
On August 1, 2015, Luzi Bernet will take over from Thomas Ribi as Head of the Zurich section. He will also remain Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Luzi Bernet (1963) has been working for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as Head of News and member of the Editorial Board since 2010. In 2002, he was part of the founding team of NZZ am Sonntag, where he was appointed Head of the Switzerland section in 2004 and Deputy Editor-in-Chief in 2006. Prior to that, he was editor-in-chief of the Zürichsee-Zeitung and Brussels-based European correspondent for various Swiss regional newspapers.
Thomas Ribi (1965), who has already made a name for himself in the feature section with articles on antiquity in the past, is moving to the feature section at his own request. Ribi has been an editor at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung since 1995. From 2000 to 2004, he was responsible for cantonal politics in the Zurich and region section, after which he spent two years writing articles on cultural policy and other topics in the Zurich city section. In 2006, he took over as head of the Zurich section.
