Erich Wiedemann (born

1942 The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was th ...

) is a German journalist and editor (at the

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desk) for the weekly news magazine ''

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'', where he began as a reporter in 1988. For the FDP, he was also a member of the city council of Jesteburg and a representative for the Harburg district. Wiedemann has written on German minorities in other European countries and on socio-economic developments in post-World War II Germany. A ''Spiegel'' article on the Netherlands from 1994, in which Wiedemann argued that the country had lost its reputation for tolerance and suffered an identity crisis, caused a stir among the Dutch: Wiedemann reiterated a number of cliches about the Dutch, leading to a backlash from Dutch newspaper writers and critics. The accompanying image by Sebastian Krüger depicted

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, a Dutch character used to promote cheese and other export articles, with a joint in her mouth, heroin syringes in her arm, and a case of Heineken, in a landscape of dirty tulips and polluting smokestacks. His articles have also appeared in translation in ''

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'', through an arrangement with ''Der Spiegel''.

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"Frau Antje in den Wechseljahren"
from ''

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