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Jessica Keller
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SonntagsBlick knows: Jürg Marquard had blood poisoning, also called sepsis. He had to have an operation on his heart, but the operation went well.
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Swiss publisher and entrepreneur Jürg Marquard presented Radio Zurich’s hit parade in November 1972.
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Andrea Camen
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Marquard was on TV24’s “Die Höhle der Löwen” with four other investors.
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The Swiss publisher and entrepreneur Jürg Marquard shows at a press conference on October 11, 1993 in Zurich the first edition of the youth magazine “Pop”, which he launched in 1965.
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Jürg Marquard has been with her the longest: Raquel and Jürg Marquard at the Zurich Opera Ball 2011.
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He loves the Swiss mountain air. From his tower – or as he affectionately calls it Romanesque «la tuor» – he can look out over the frozen Lake St. Moritz and enjoy the view. The publisher Jürg Marquard (74) has owned a three-story penthouse in the Hotel Badrutt’s Palace in the Engadine for over 25 years. In addition to a house in the Caribbean, a yacht in the Mediterranean and the Villa Bella Vista on Lake Zurich. He has several at home, says the Zurich native. They are all beautiful.
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But at the moment, Jürg Marquard is not in a nice place. The 74-year-old is in the intensive care unit in the Hirslanden clinic in Zurich, as SonntagsBlick knows. He had sepsis. Sepsis – also called blood poisoning – is an inflammatory reaction to an infection. This spreads over the whole body and attacks the organs.
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At Marquard even the heart valves. Their function was restricted, the multimillionaire had to undergo open heart surgery at the end of February. The procedure was very delicate, but luckily the operation went well.
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Confident that everything will be fine
The family does not currently want to comment. Your world has been upside down in the past few weeks. His loved ones – Ms. Raquel, his children, his friends and Bijan Khezri, the CEO of Marquard Media, who visit him every day – are confident that everything will go well.
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Marquard’s health has been affecting the family for a long time. In the past three years, the multimillionaire has had severe sepsis several times.
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One morning in late January, he, who is often described as a bon vivant, has another low. His wife Raquel notes that her husband is lying unconscious in his bed in the apartment in St. Moritz GR. Marquard is immediately taken to the hospital in nearby Samedan GR and then flown to Zurich by helicopter. The big heart surgery follows.
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Eight months ago, Marquard answered the bluewin.ch portal when asked what he was afraid of: “Illness and infirmity.” He says that he once felt fear of death and thought he was going to die. Marquard was swimming in the sea when he suddenly lost his breath and slowly sank. Marquard suffered from chronic bronchitis. If you swallow seawater in this state, it can happen that you no longer get air and drown. His ship crew reacted immediately and saved him. Marquard made it. Marquard is a fighter.
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Jürg Marquard is a lion
His family knows that – and that’s how Switzerland knows the successful entrepreneur. In May of last year, Marquard fought as a lion and struggled with young entrepreneurs. In the casting show “Die Löwen den Löwen” on TV24, five potential investors, so-called Löwen, evaluate business ideas. Marquard and Co. can participate in the start-ups. Marquard as a role model for young entrepreneurs.
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Marquard’s career began 54 years ago. He also gets help. Friends lend him CHF 2,000 for his dream. There is no support from home. Because the son of a dentist, born two months after the end of the Second World War in Urdorf ZH, doesn’t want to study, despite his strict father.
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He would rather start with the “Limmattaler Tagblatt” as a local editor. At 18, he wrote about tearing women open in Zurich’s Bahnhofstrasse. “I have always enjoyed and loved life and women very much,” says the multimillionaire to the “Tages-Anzeiger”. He has been married for three years to ex-model Raquel Lehmann. «I have the longest relationship of my life with Raquel, and I hope it is the last. It makes me incredibly happy, »the publisher told BLICK last year.
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Founded at the age of 20 pop magazine
In 1965 his heart beats primarily for pop music. Pop and rock were still marginal phenomena, their followers according to «NZZ» «long-haired monkeys with guitars that spoil the youth». But Marquard – who is said to have published instinct today – recognizes more in it and founded the youth magazine “Pop” with 20 years and a pumped 2,000 francs. With the magazine, Marquard moves a lot in Switzerland, for him it is the start of his publishing empire. He founds women’s magazines such as “Cosmopolitan”, “Joy” and “Mädchen”. In the mid-1990s, Marquard had an annual turnover of CHF 200 million with over 30 titles. A pop fan becomes a media millionaire.
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Marquard raves about his villas, which have names like Bella Vista, sits in Rolls-Royce, shows up on his yacht “Azzurra II”. «Why should I hide what I have? It’s my life, ”replies Marquard when accused of boasting. The “balance sheet” lists him with an estimated net worth of up to CHF 400 million among the 300 richest Swiss. And yet Marquard knows that success and luxury are not everything. His most valuable possession, Marquard says, is the love of his wife Raquel and his children.
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Jürg Marquard is not someone who rests
Marquard is an old 68er. In his living room in Herrliberg ZH there is a picture of the young Marquard and the legend Jimi Hendrix, the father sometimes accused him of being a communist. Marquard himself says that his former self could hardly do anything with today’s Marquard – vice versa. But he always emphasizes that he works hard and not only makes money, but also loses. Marquard hates losing. He wants to win.
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Marquard will recover from his illness in the next few weeks. Therefore, the 74-year-old will not participate in the second season of the show “The Lion’s Den”. In his company Marquard Media, which according to Marquard is undergoing a promising renovation, CEO Bijan Khezri, with 20 percent co-owner of the publisher, currently holds the position. “For me, Jürg is a strong fighter, and I am very confident that he will soon be back in the company with more strength,” says Bijan Khezri.
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Marquard Media is currently driving the digitization of the company. Jürg Marquard is not someone who rests. Instead of enjoying his retirement, in recent months he has been working on the iPad from his beautiful home with the redesign of his company. The former journalist, who himself chopped texts about pop music into a typewriter for his first magazine, has always been fascinated by his environment and his fighting spirit.
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