Vanja Kadic and Marie Hettich take over as Co-Head of Digital at Annabelle

Vanja Kadic and Marie Hettich are responsible for the website, all social media channels and the newsletters of Annabelle. New formats and channels are being planned. 32-year-old Vanja Kadic worked as a people editor for the Blick Group from 2015 to 2020. For Blick.ch she was stationed in Los Angeles as a news editor, co-hosted and produced the pop culture podcast "Popcast" and wrote a weekly streaming column that appeared in the Evening view was published. Kadic graduated from the Ringier School of Journalism in 2015, having previously worked for titles such as 20 Minutes Friday, Gala or Faces. She has a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Documentary Film. At Annabelle she focuses primarily on social and cultural topics.

Marie Hettich, 35, was born in Baden-Württemberg and studied German and sociology. After several journalistic internships and many years of freelance work for various titles in Germany, she worked in Zurich from 2014 to 2020 at 20 Minutes Fridaywhere she helped launch the website as an editor and later as an online journalist. In 2017, she took part in the first feminist course at the Feminist Faculty; in 2019, she developed the YouTube format "Hoi". She is the mother of a two-year-old child. Both Marie Hettich and Vanja Kadic live in Zurich.

"We are delighted that editor-in-chief Barbara Loop and the Medienart publishing house responded to our proposal, Annabelle Digital together. We are convinced that co-leadership makes an important contribution to the compatibility of work and family, work-life balance and the mental health of employees," say the journalists. "Together we want to Annabelle Digital and drive it forward with new ideas and formats."

"Following the successful relaunch of the magazine and the website, we now need to sharpen our digital publishing strategy, develop new digital products and Annabelle even more comprehensively for our readers. I look forward to tackling this task with my expert colleagues Vanja Kadic and Marie Hettich," says Editor-in-Chief Barbara Loop.

The digital team, still consisting of editor Sandra Huwiler and editor-at-large Jacqueline Krause-Blouin, was also joined in July 2023 by social media editor and video producer Vanessa Vodermayer.