Sven Lange

Sven Lange is the editor of the newspaper "Eure Tages" in Zurich. He is one of the characters in "The Dada Killer".

Physical appearance
Sven Lange is a man in his forties to fifties with dark eyes and dark short hair and beard that are slightly greying. He is wearing a white-striped shirt with willowed sleeves, a dark purple vest and a burgundy necktie with a golden tiepin. He is almost always seen with a cigar in hand.

Personality
Sven is the tough, orderly and sophisticated editor of the newspaper “Eure Tages” in Zurich. He oversees all aspects of the paper and takes his job very serious. He is always aware of the papers prestige – wanting it to be the centre of attention through articles and good journalism but keeping it save from potential legal cases. He is described as a person that would “sell his own mother for ten new readers” at one point.

He is used to coordinate the work of the journalists and keep them on track with the deadlines. Even though he seems to know what the readers want he often has no personal relation or understanding or even a judging attitude towards the topic at hand.

He can be an unreasonable boss. If he demands an article he wants to have it up until deadline and doesn’t hesitate to start a fight about sources, work progress or even personal issues in the office. His bad mood is so normal that employees know they have to stand up for themselves and that, if the fight turns worse, there could be furniture flying. He still is open to productive disagreements and arrangements as long as they do well for the paper.

It is implied that Sven is a bit of a misogyny person. He likes to give the special assignments to Matt Schwenke more than to his female journalists, doesn’t help them with handy work or is even capable of employing new female journalists depending on their attractiveness.

Abilities
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Anna Myers
Sven is constantly critical towards Anna and her work as much as not offering her special assignments that much, criticising her writing style and work attitude or even her ability to care for her car. He also ignores her decisions on her articles which leads to constant fights between them, but he respects her self-esteem and good work.

Matt Schwenke
They seem to have a good, professional working relationship. Sven always speaks well of Matt and gives him the special assignments more often than not.

Hilda Landau
It is implied that Sven employed Hilda because of her looks and is once even catched ogling at her while she searches files for him. Nonetheless he doesn’t respect her as a journalist until she steps up for herself and is way more lenient with her not being able to fulfil every request of an article as he does from Anna.

Trivia
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