{{Short description|German magazine editor (born 1966)}} {{use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Steffen Klusmann | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|03|15|df=y}} | birth_place = Karlsruhe, West Germany | occupation = Journalist }} '''Steffen Klusmann''' (born 15 March 1966) is a German journalist. From 2019 to 2023 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine {{Lang|de|Der Spiegel}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.m-vg.de/finanzbuchverlag/shop/author/813/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521150546/https://www.m-vg.de/finanzbuchverlag/shop/author/813/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-05-21|title=Klusmann, Steffen (Hrsg.) - FinanzBuch Verlag|date=2014-05-21|access-date=2019-11-13}}</ref> Previously, Klusmann was deputy editor-in-chief at magazines such as ''Stern'', ''Financial Times Deutschland'', ''Capital'' and ''Business Punk''.
== Life == Klusmann studied economics in Mainz, Glasgow and Hamburg. After his training at the Georg von Holtzbrinck School for Business Journalists in Düsseldorf, he worked for several years as an editor in the Department of Economics and Politics for the journal ''WirtschaftsWoche''. From 1996, he reported for {{Lang|de|Manager Magazin}} on trends in economic policy and technology. In 1999 he moved to the editorial department of the new newspaper ''Financial Times Deutschland'' (FTD), which appeared in February 2000. He was initially responsible for background reports and comments, later becoming chief on duty. In 2003, Klusmann briefly returned to {{Lang|de|Manager Magazin}}, where he held the position of deputy editor-in-chief. In August 2004 he went back to the FTD, where he received the editor-in-chief position as successor to Christoph Keese. On 1 April 2009 he was also assigned the same position at ''Capital''.{{Citation needed|date=March 2020}}
He was also spokesman for the editors-in-chief of the Gruner + Jahr business media. After hiring the FTD, he moved in March 2013 as deputy editor-in-chief of the star. From November 2013 to August 2018 Steffen Klusmann was editor-in-chief of {{Lang|de|Manager Magazin}}.
On 22 August 2018 it was announced that Klusmann would succeed Klaus Brinkbäumer as chairman of the editorship of {{Lang|de|Der Spiegel}}, responsible for both the printed magazine as well as for the news portal "Spiegel Online".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://meedia.de/2018/08/22/chefredakteurswechsel-beim-spiegel-steffen-klusmann-ersetzt-klaus-brinkbaeumer-ullrich-fichtner-steigt-auf/ |title=Führungs-Umbau beim Spiegel: neues Chefredakteurs-Trio mit Steffen Klusmann als Vorsitzendem |language=de|date=2018-08-22|website=meedia.de|access-date=2019-11-13}}</ref>
== Other activities == Klusmann is an honorary jury member at "Top 100", an award for the most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.top100.de/jury.html|title=Wahl der drei Besten: durch die TOP 100-Jury|website=TOP 100|language=de|access-date=2019-11-13}}</ref>
== Publications == Klusmann is editor of several books:
* ''Green minds. The German pioneers of the Greentech era''. FinanzBuch-Verlag, Munich 2010. * ''Daughters of the German economy''. FinanzBuch-Verlag, Munich 2008. * ''101 warriors of the German economy.'' FinanzBuch-Verlag, Munich 2006.
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== External links == * [https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=138697787 Literature by and about Steffen Klusmann] in the catalog of the German national library
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