Speakers at the Rechts­kommuni­ka­tions­gipfel 2018

Yashar Azad is a press officer at SIEMENS AG and is responsible for the company's global external communications in the areas of industry and digitalization. He previously worked as a journalist, including for WELT, Bayerischer Rundfunk and the dapd news agency. Azad teaches “Online Communication” at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

Nadine Ehrentraut is head of press and public relations at the commercial law firm CMS Hasche Sigle. She was trained as a journalist at the Axel Springer Academy in Berlin and worked as a political editor and office manager for the editor-in-chief at the BILD newspaper.

Prof. Christoph Knauer is a name partner in the law firm Ufer Knauer and an honorary professor of commercial criminal law and criminal law appeals at LMU Munich. He has defended numerous large companies and their directors in commercial criminal proceedings and appeals.

Dr. Kim Manuel Künstner studied law at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg and the University of Barcelona. After the first state examination, he completed his doctorate in Heidelberg on an antitrust law topic. After completing his legal clerkship, he began his legal career in March 2013 in the antitrust law department of the Frankfurt commercial law firm SCHULTE RIESENKAMPFF. Since January 2018, Kim Manuel Künstner has been a partner at the firm and is responsible for the marketing department.

Gernot Lehr is a lawyer specializing in press and media law. As a partner at the law firm Redeker Sellner Dahs, he and his team advise and represent individuals, companies and institutions in matters of defamation and press law. An important part of his legal work is the preventive preparation for critical media reporting, in particular from a press law perspective.

Pia Lorenz is editor-in-chief of LTO, Germany's largest online magazine for lawyers. She is admitted to the bar and previously worked, among other things, as a specialist editor at the legal information service provider Wolters Kluwer Germany, where she headed the corporate communications department and is co-founder of LTO.

Christoph Minhoff is managing director of the umbrella organization of the German food industry BLL and the umbrella organization of the German food industry BVE. Prior to that, he was program director of the event and documentary channel PHOENIX.

Reinhard Müller is an editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, where he covers legal affairs and domestic policy. Since January 2008, he has been responsible for the newly created page “State and Law”, the main contributions of which appeared in a book of the same name in 2011. Since July 2012, he has also been the editor responsible for “Current Affairs”. Since November 2017, he has also been responsible for F.A.Z. Einspruch, a newly created digital product for lawyers and anyone interested in the world of law.

Jörn Poppelbaum is one of three editors-in-chief at JUVE Verlag. He has been operationally managing the monthly magazine JUVE Steuermarkt since 2017. His main areas of expertise are taxes and succession/wealth.

He studied law and industrial science in Hamburg, Dresden, Cologne and Bochum.

Uwe Ritzer is an investigative reporter at the Süddeutsche Zeitung. His work has been honored with the Henri Nannen Award for his reporting on the bribery scandal at SIEMENS. His research into the Mollath case is also well known. In 2014, Ritzer was awarded the “Leuchtturm Prize for Special Journalistic Achievements” for his research into the abuses at ADAC.

Andrea Titz was the spokeswoman for the Munich Higher Regional Court for many years and is now the director of the Wolfratshausen District Court. She received a lot of media attention, among other things, through her coverage of the criminal proceedings against Uli Honess and Bernie Ecclestone. She has been chairwoman of the Bavarian Judges Association since 2016.

Martin Wohlrabe is the managing director of CONSILIUM Rechtskommunikation. He worked as a journalist for the BILD newspaper for many years. Wohlrabe also worked as a consultant to Wolfgang Schäuble in the Bundestag. The lawyer teaches “Strategic Legal Communication” at the University of Freiburg.