editorial staff

Christian Wagener

Studied German and Romance languages in Berlin and Paris. In 2001, he was a founding partner of HMR Produktion GmbH, where he has worked since then in production management and project development, as an editor, assistant director and co-author. Head of the media database mediadb.eu since 2019.

Levi Paetzold

Born in Bonn in 2003. She is currently studying German as a Second and Foreign Language and German Studies at the University of Bonn. Since August 2022, she has been supporting the IfM in project planning and in the editorial department of mediadb.eu.

conception and consulting

Prof. Dr. Gisela Schmalz

Gisela Schmalz teaches strategic management and business ethics. She previously worked as a freelance television writer, film critic and programmer for the Hamburg Film Festival and the Cologne Film Festival. She is a co-founder of the political platform Respublica eV, conducted research as part of the “Google Collaboratory” and Ethical-Ecological Rating projects and was responsible for the concept and development of the corporate database mediadb.eu. She writes non-fiction books, including “My foreign will - How we voluntarily submit and the tech elite cash in” (Campus Verlag, 2020). (www.giselaschmalz.com).