At the very bottom and at the top (Swiss Press Text 2024, by Carmen Schirm)

At the very bottom and at the top

Handelszeitung

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2024

Carmen Schirm

This article explores the luxurious lifestyle and crooked dealings of a German investment banker who made it to the top of the financial industry, Wall Street. It also demonstrates how easy it can be to fall back into the spotlight, due to a single mistake that cost the protagonist his livelihood.

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Carmen Schirm / Swiss Press Award

Carmen Schirm

Journalistin, Horgen, 1971

Studium der Betriebswirtschaft. Einstieg in den Journalismus 2002. Seither tätig bei der Bilanz, dem Sonntagblick Magazin, der Handelszeitung (unter dessen auch selbständige Autorin mit Verfassen von eigenen Büchern und Drehbüchern).

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