Ulf J. Froitzheim's International Page
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As you will have noticed, this is a german-language website targeted mainly at a german-speaking audience. Though I've always maintained strong ties towards the United States, my business is almost completely local.
For my international visitors, most of whom I consider being located in the U.S., here is a short summary of the information given on www .ujf.biz.
My name is Ulf Jochen Froitzheim (= ujf), and I'm a freelance journalist covering the IT and telecoms industries for business and trade publications. Corporate Magazines for B-2-B customers are also an area I'm pretty familiar with, as an author as well as in the editor's role.
My office is located in Kaufering, a nice little town 30 miles west of Munich at the river Lech.
You might be interested in my CV, so here are some milestones:
2007, on-going:
Freelance
Reporter and Editor for Major Publishing Companies as well as Corporate Publishing Agencies.
2002-2006:
Freelance Reporter and Executive Editor of BJVreport, the BJV's bimonthly members' magazine.
2002:
Freelance Reporter and Media Trainer.
2000-2002:
Special Correspondent, BIZZ magazine
BIZZ was a german business monthly for the target group of „young decision makers“. It was published by Gruner+Jahr Wirtschaftspresse in Cologne, a unit of Bertelsmann AG. The magazine had a paid circulation of more than 120000 copies. Unfortunately, Bizz was discontinued due to the current slump in advertising in the german print market.
1992-2000:
Freelance Reporter for leading business weekly „Wirtschaftswoche“
1996:
Developer – with Dieter Eckbauer and Max Schulze-Vorberg – of „Global Online“, one of the world's first trade publications specialized on E-Commerce; this monthly magazine was published by Computerwoche Verlag AG, a subsidiary of IDG Group of the U.S. GO was sold in 1998 and discontinued by the new owner.
1995:
Co-Developer of „Computer Partner“, a trade publication for IT salespeople (also with Computerwoche Verlag)
1989-1991:
Staff Writer, highTech Magazine, Munich
1987-1989:
Senior Editor, News & Business Bureau, Computerwoche
1986:
Staff Writer, Computerwoche
1984-1985:
Staff Writer, Computer Business (early predecessor of Computer Partner at IDG Germany)
Education:
I hold a Diploma in Journalism from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet and received professional training at the German Journalist School (Deutsche Journalistenschule, DJS), both located in Munich, Bavaria.
Professional:
Held various honorary posts within Bayerischer Journalistenverband (Journalists' Guild of Bavaria, BJV), one of which was Chairman of the 4,000-member Freelance Group. Currently: member of a council representing german journalists at VG Wort, the official organization collecting and distributing royalties on copyrighted material.
Personal:
Born in Aachen, Germany, Nov. 1958. Married, two children.