Second Bertelsmann Management Report, this time in Munich: an update for our Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe colleagues on Bertelsmann’s development and performance. The next Management Report is scheduled in Heideloh.

Last Bertelsmann management report of the year in Heideloh – an update for the colleagues from Arvato on Bertelsmann’s development and performance – with Frank Schirrmeister (CEO Arvato) and Günter Göbel (Chairman of the Corporate Works Council, Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA)

Bertelsmann is networking with top students from all over Europe - The 15th edition of Talent Meets Bertelsmann. Our panel of judges and I look forward to welcoming many young people. This year, the focus is on AI-based business models - I'm excited to see the innovative concepts

Communicating the half-year figures for 2023 with Karin Schlautmann and Rolf Hellermann. We look back on a good first half of 2023 and are happy with Bertelsmann’s business performance!

RTL and Bertelsmann boss Thomas Rabe is not happy about Cem Özdemir's proposed curb on junk food advertising aimed at children, describing it as an example of the "overregulation” that he says is weighing down the German economy: ft.com/content/6c3d2c…

Summerfest at Bertelsmann's Corporate Center in Gütersloh! Besides the many colleagues, the Mohn family and the Executive Board also attended, of course.

Christopher Clark is one of the most distinguished historians of our time and one of our most successful authors. His new book and his appearance on the Blue Sofa in Luxembourg are dedicated to the year 1848, which were of formative significance for the whole of Europe

Artificial intelligence will be formative for our future. Bertelsmann wants to seize this opportunity – see our “Am I AI-ready?” campaign promoting the 50,000 online scholarships we are giving away: bertelsmann.com/news-and-media…: bertelsmann.com/news-and-media…

At the Bertelsmann Group Management Committee dinner, we bid farewell to BMG’s longtime CEO, Hartwig Masuch, a great music entrepreneur -- and an extremely valued colleague. His successor, our new BMG CEO Thomas Coesfeld, was also present.

“Prout at Work Conference 2023” takes place at Bertelsmann,  and we had the pleasure of welcoming the participants together with our Chief HR Officer Immanuel Hermreck. Also present were Albrecht Kehrer from the PaW Foundation and Michael Lauck, from our employee network be.queer

Visiting the set of our popular RTL daily “Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten” – It's been in our program lineup since 1992! A tremendous success!

Stephan Schmitter will be taking over the leadership of RTL Deutschland as CEO. An entrepreneur who lives and embodies RTL, he has an extraordinary flair for content and a collaborative management style. I very much look forward to continuing to work with Stephan Schmitter.

Bertelsmann has struck a nerve with its global campaign on artificial intelligence. I am very pleased about the enormous response – we scored nearly 240 million contacts worldwide. With our scholarship program, we seek to make people fit for a digital future

Bertelsmann has supported ‘Der Weg nach Hause’ with an annual Christmas donation since 2006. We have great admiration for the fantastic work done by the entire team at Bethel, whose mission is to look after terminally ill children in their homes rather than in hospitals

Together with my wife and our foundation, I have for years supported Straßenkinder e.V. - an association that takes children and young people off the streets and supports them on their way back into society. My interview on the Butze street children's home youtu.be/KbNUpAX8GVw?si…

The Bertelsmann Executive Board visits our company Afya – a provider of medical education and training – in Brazil. Afya and our colleagues there are part of the Bertelsmann Education Group.

Hosting the Annual Press Conference with Karin Schlautmann and Rolf Hellermann - We look back on a good financial year 2023, in which we grew Group profit by more than 25 percent to 1.3 billion euros - exceeding one billion euros for the ninth consecutive year.

At the building site of the "Butze,” a center for homeless youngsters in Berlin. My wife and I are supporting its construction through our foundation. The first floor is finished! With Eckhard Baumann, Chairman of Straßenkinder e.V.

This year, the Bertelsmann Management Report tour ends at Arvato in Hanover -- with Günther Göbel, Chairman of the Corporate Works Council and Frank Schirrmeister, Chief Executive Officer of Arvato

Breakout session: in Weimar with fellow Bertelsmann Corporate Center Board members -- on a tour starring Goethe, Schiller and Bauhaus.