In February 2025, a new life awaits the children of “Tatort” star Maria Furtwängler: Then Elisabeth Burda Furtwängler and Dr. Jacob Burda took over the publishing business of her father Hubert Burda.
A major generational change is imminent in the family of “Tatort” star Maria Furtwängler, 58: Immediately before his 85th birthday, ex-husband Hubert Burda is retiring and handing over the publishing business to “Hubert Burda Media”, which includes, among others magazines “Focus” and “Bunte”, to their children Elisabeth Burda Furtwängler, 32, and Dr. Jacob Burda, 34. The publishing group announced this on Wednesday, December 18, 2024.
Maria Furtwängler’s children take over their father’s publishing company
It was a change that had been prepared for a long time. Maria Furtwängler’s children have been members of the board of directors since 2017. In the summer it was announced that Elisabeth and Jacob Burda would fill these roles more actively. From February 2025, the entrepreneurial and publishing responsibility for “Hubert Burda Media” will be entirely in your hands.
The fourth generation of the Burda family is taking over the publishing house, which has been publishing since 1903. Hubert Burda is particularly proud of this and explains: “The really unique thing about a family business is that you never own it alone, but you are responsible for it for the next generation. I am grateful that my parents gave me a healthy publishing house around 40 years ago was able to take over and can now hand over a diverse media company to my children.”
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His daughter, who makes music under the stage name “Kerfor,” also welcomes the decision and is looking forward to her new job. “We have consciously decided to take on this entrepreneurial task now in politically and economically challenging times in order to continue the transformation of our family business – with knowledge of tradition and open to new things,” says Elisabeth Burda Furtwängler.
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For Maria Furtwängler’s son Jacob, a digital entrepreneur, it is “a great honor and responsibility to continue our father’s legacy in the fourth generation,” he emphasizes in a first statement. It continues: “Burda is in a crucial phase in which it is important to set the right course for our almost 10,000 employees and society. I am very happy to be a part of it in the future.”
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In August 2022, Maria Furtwängler and Hubert Burda announced their separation after more than 30 years of marriage. For the actress it was the first marriage to break up and for Burda it was the second. The publisher was previously married to art historian Christa Maar, †83. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1972.
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