Günther Wessel
Günther Wessel (born July 28, 1959 ) is a German journalist and writer .
Life
Wessel grew up in Krefeld, studied German and philosophy in Aachen and Düsseldorf and completed a traineeship in a non-fiction publisher. He has been working as a freelance journalist and non-fiction book editor since the early 1990s. He wrote several travel guides (including about Argentina, Chile and Ecuador) and biographies, as well as numerous radio features for all major German broadcasters and regularly works as a non-fiction reviewer for Deutschlandradio Kultur . From 1998 to 2001 he lived in Washington DC and reported on American culture and politics, from January 2002 in Brussels and since September 2007 in Berlin.
In 1994 he received the Heinz Kühn grant for journalists, in 2000 the Media Prize of the City of Cologne for a report in the folio of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and in March 2014 the series of country portraits he was responsible for in the Ch. Links Verlag received the “ITB Book Award ". In 2018, Günther Wessel, together with Petra Pinzler and his two children, received the UmweltMedienpreis in the print media category for the book "Four for the Climate : How Our Family Tries To Live Carbon Neutral".
Works
- Argentina with Uruguay and Paraguay. From the Igazú Falls to Tierra del Fuego . Reiseverlag Därr, Hohenthann 1996, ISBN 3-921497-51-5 .
- Uruguay. Travel guide with regional studies . Mai, Dreieich 1996, ISBN 3-87936-229-7 (Mai's Weltführer, Nr. 5)
- Ecuador with Galápagos Islands . DuMont Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7701-3571-7
- Chile & Easter Island . Reise-Know-How-Verl. Därr, Hohenthann 1998: ISBN 3-440-08482-5
- with Petra Pinzler : George W. Bush . Turn in America . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-499-22857-2 .
- The Allendes . With burning patience for a better world . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-593-36775-0 .
- From someone who stayed at home to discover the world. The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster or how one imagined the world 500 years ago . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37198-7 ., New edition: Leinpfad Verlag., Ingelheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-945782-30-9
- Once to the end of the world. Legendary explorers and their adventurous stories . Arena, Würzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-401-06653-0 . As an audio book at audiolino, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-867-37277-0
- The dirty business of antiquity. The global trade in illegal cultural goods . Ch.-Links Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86153-841-7 .
- with Petra Pinzler : Four for the climate. How our family tries to be carbon neutral. Droemer, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-27732-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Günther Wessel in the catalog of the German National Library
- https://www.journalistenbuero-berlin.de/guenther-wessel/
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Umwelthilfe eV: The winners. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wessel, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1959 |