Alumni portraits
Our former students
Many of our alumni are still in contact with us after their school years, - either through the ASV or directly. In the Salem Magazin alumni report about their school days at Schule Schloss Salem and about their career afterwards. We have compiled some of these alumni portraits for you here:
Stella Poelzig
Business Developer in the field of renewable energies at the energy company Uniper
Salem Magazin No. 90
Knut Bergmann
Head of Communications and Capital Office at Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft
Salem Magazin No. 89
Charlotte Mohn
Project Officer at IOM - UN Migration
Salem Magazin No. 88
Dr. Ran Huo
Employee Strategic Communication in the Office of the President
Salem Magazin No. 86
Clemens Maier
Chairman of the Board at Ravensburger
Salem Magazin No. 85
Benedikt Ibing
Managing Partner at the Pegasus Group
Salem Magazin No. 84
Alumni visit Salem
It is a highlight for our students every time alumni visit our school, give lectures and hold discussions with them.
Alumni in the press
We are always happy to read about our alumni. That's why we've compiled the latest reports about and from our alumni here.
Have fun browsing.
Juila Kolb, daughter of the hotelier family Kolb, which among other things runs the Riva Hotel in Constance, and graduate of the Schule Schloss Salem, in an interview with Bernhard Steinmann: "Interview mit Julia Kolb", in: Gourmet unterwegs-Blog, 19.06.2023
First a pandemic, then war: A fasting and burnout clinic prepares for it. When Leonard Wilhelmi took over the management of the Buchinger Private Clinic in 2019 - he graduated from the Salem Castle School in 2006 - he could not have imagined that he would soon only be called upon as a crisis manager: "Im Kloster am Bodensee", in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23.3.2022, No., 68, p. 16
The head of the Buchinger-Wilhelmi fasting clinic, Leonhard Wilhelmi, graduate of the Schule Schloss Salem, in an interview: „The walk after the meal must be“, in: FAS Magazin, 10.4.2021, Nr. 4, S. 86
Rüdiger Fritsch, a graduate of Schule Schloss Salem, was German ambassador to Moscow until 2019. He knows the heartbeat of the huge country - and the idiosyncrasy of its president:
„How Putin ticks“, in: Eßliner Zeitung, von Robin Szuttor, 12./13.3.2022
The Spanish conductor Pedro Halffter, graduate of the Schule Schloss Salem, in conversation with the news agency Keystone-SDA about the Corona pandemic, unknown operas and the challenges of the opera "Florencia en el Amazonas":
"Conductor Pedro Halffter promises exotic sound experience" on: blue News, 6.5.2021
Military pastor Hans Wirkner, who graduated from Salem with a high school diploma, is leaving for a mission in Afghanistan in the second half of the year:
"Need for pastoral care "gigantically large"", in: Südkurier, 7.4.2021, Nr. 79, S. 19
Christian Kracht, he attended the Schloss Salem school, tells of a writer named Christian Kracht in his new novel "Eurotrash:
„It can't go on like this“, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 3.3.2021, Nr. 51, S. 9
Marc Fielmann, a graduate of Schule Schloss Salem, inherited his father's position at the helm of the eyewear group just over a year ago - then came the crisis. A conversation about his parents' expectations and his daring plans for the future:
„I was afraid that someone would say I was just putting myself in the feadered nest", in: DIE ZEIT, 14.1.2021, Nr. 3, S. 22
Roman Gorovoy, Managing Director of ELECTROSTAR GmbH and graduate of Schule Schloss Salem (Abitur 2002) in an interview with Wirtschaftsforum online:
„It sucks and blows...the starmix“, in: Wirtschaftsforum online, 15.11.2020
Schule Schloss Salem celebrates its hundredth birthday this year. Bettina Ehrhardt, Altsalemerin - Abitur 1975, remembers the years she spent there at the boarding school in this audio clip:
„Salem Boarding School - Memories of a student“, in: SWR 2 Leben, 6.11.2020
ASV Whitsun Meeting 2023
On Whitsun weekend 2023, more than 1,200 alumni and alumnae met for the traditional ASV Whitsun Reunion. In addition to great weather, the alumni could look forward to many reunions with old classmates and a varied program.