Erich Wiedemann

Erich Wiedemann (born 1942) is a German journalist and editor (at the Hamburg desk) for the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, where he began as a reporter in 1988.{{cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/spiegelspecial/d-7810848.html|title=Wat soll dä Zoff?|last=Wiedemann|first=Erich|date=1 January 1998|work=Spiegel Online|language=German|accessdate=15 July 2014}} For the FDP, he was also a member of the city council of Jesteburg and a representative for the Harburg district.{{cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/spiegelspecial/d-8462937.html|title=Bis über den Tod hinaus|date=1 January 1999|work=Spiegel Online|language=German|accessdate=15 July 2014}}

Wiedemann has written on German minorities in other European countries{{cite book|last=Röger|first=Maren|editor1-last=Errl|editor1-first=Astrid|editor2-last=Rigney|editor2-first=Ann|title=Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9OGsGKuOqG8C&pg=PA197|accessdate=15 July 2014|year=2009|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110204445|pages=187–204|chapter=News Media and Historical Remembrance: Reporting on the Expulsion of Germans in Polish and German Magazines}} and on socio-economic developments in post-World War II Germany.{{cite book|last=Poore|first=Carol|title=The Bonds of Labor: German Journeys to the Working World, 1890-1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xqheBwNCSqYC&pg=PA281|year=2000|publisher=Wayne State UP|isbn=9780814328972|pages=281 n.119}} A Spiegel article on the Netherlands from 1994, in which Wiedemann argued that the country had lost its reputation for tolerance and suffered an identity crisis, caused a stir among the Dutch: Wiedemann reiterated a number of cliches about the Dutch, leading to a backlash from Dutch newspaper writers and critics.{{cite book|last=Elpers|first=Sophie|title=Grenzen und Differenzen|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fENLRUTiTlQC&pg=PA340|year=2006|publisher=Leipziger Universitätsverlag|language=German|isbn=9783865830883|pages=333–48|chapter=Frau Antje--Die (Käse-)Botschafterin? Inhalte und Funktionen der Kunstfigur}}{{cite news|url=http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4324/Nieuws/article/detail/1148829/2009/05/02/Geef-me-mijn-fiets-terug.dhtml|title=Geef me mijn fiets terug!|last=Ephimenco|first=Sylvain|date=2 May 2009|work=Trouw|language=Dutch|accessdate=15 July 2014}}{{cite book|last=Krumm|first=Christian|title=Johan Huizinga, Deutschland und die Deutschen|year=2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xjtOeqktIecC&pg=PA14|publisher=Waxmann|language=German|isbn=9783830974468|page=14}} The accompanying image by Sebastian Krüger depicted Frau Antje, a Dutch character used to promote cheese and other export articles, with a joint in her mouth, heroin syringes in her arm, and a case of Heineken, in a landscape of dirty tulips and polluting smokestacks.{{cite book|last=Elpers|first=Sophie|title=Hollandser dan Kaas: De geschiedenis van Frau Antje|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fWKNRZaWasgC&pg=PA54|year=2009|publisher=Amsterdam UP|language=Dutch|isbn=9789089640994|pages=54–56}}

His articles have also appeared in translation in Salon, through an arrangement with Der Spiegel.{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/2005/10/19/hussein_4/|title=Judgment day for Saddam|last=Zand|first=Bernhard |author2=Georg Mascolo |author3=Erich Wiedemann|date=19 October 2005|work=Salon|accessdate=15 July 2014}}