The writer Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre does not want to be on the Springer board Mathias Döpfner to Berghain. That shares that manager magazine in a correction to a large portrait of the Springer boss (“The imperial plan of Mathias Döpfner” ). The text describes Döpfner’s lofty ambitions in the US market, but also the mixed track record. It originally also said that informs manager magazinethat Stuckrad-Barre and Döpfner “celebrated together, including in Döpfner’s favorite Berlin techno club, Berghain”. Now the business magazine corrected: “In fact, Mr. von Stuckrad-Barre was never in Berghain with Mr. Döpfner” and “by the way, according to his own statement, he does not intend to do so either”.
Stuckrad-Barre’s new book, which will appear in mid-April, is said to be a roman à clef from the media industry; a figure in it is said to have been modeled after Döpfner. One through the New York Times In autumn 2021, a private text message from Döpfner to Stuckrad-Barre that became public, in which he Federal Republic because of the Corona measures as a “new GDR authoritarian state” referred to, had the by the Reichelt affair battered Springer boss further distressed.