Georg Brunold

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Georg Brunold (born January 15, 1953 in Arosa ) is a Swiss journalist and writer .

Life

Georg Brunold studied philosophy , sociology and psychology at the University of Zurich from 1973 to 1979 ; In 1982 he received his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on the theory of science . He then worked as a freelance journalist in Cairo and in Tangier , Morocco . From 1987 he was part of the international editorial team of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , and from 1991 to 1995 he was the correspondent of the same newspaper in Nairobi ( Kenya ). He then worked until 2003 as deputy editor-in-chief of the Swiss cultural magazine " du ". After a further nine years of freelance work based in Nairobi, Brunold has been living in Arosa again since 2013, with his Kenyan wife Ann Muia and their two children Stacy and Christian.

Georg Brunold is the author of reports and essays as well as the author, editor and translator of books on Africa , the Arab world and the history of journalism . In recent years he has increasingly turned to philosophical topics.

Georg Brunold is a member of the German-speaking Swiss PEN Center and the association « Imprint - Die Schweizer Journalistinnen ». In 2003 he received a work grant from the Pro Helvetia Foundation .

Works

  • Explanation, prognostics & scientific fiction , Königstein / Taunus 1983
  • Sand roses. Oriental reports , Reinbek near Hamburg 1987
  • Africa doesn't exist. Correspondence from three dozen countries , Frankfurt am Main 1994
  • African reporter track , Zurich 1995
  • with Klaus Hart and R. Kyle Hörst: Fernstenliebe, marriages between the continents, three reports (translations from the English by Manfred Allié), Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-8218-4172-4 (= the other library , Volume 172).
  • To build a house. Visits to five continents , Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-8218-4570-8 (= The Other Library , Volume 257).
  • Fortuna. On the Necessity of Chance , Galiani, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86971-044-0 .
  • Dream job. Story of journalist life , real time, Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-905800-58-6 .

Editing

  • Nile fever. The race to the sources , The Other Library, Frankfurt am Main 1993
  • Rwanda. 10 years later , Cologne 2004
  • Nothing but the world - reports and eyewitness accounts from 2500 years. Translated by Franz Blei, Heinrich Conrad, Fritz Schalk, Werner Tabarelli, Hans Stilett and others. Illustrated by Kat Menschik. Galiani, Berlin, 2009. 608 pages. ISBN 978-3-86971-001-3 (This text collection contains 164 shorter texts called "reports" from 2500 years by various authors and 12 photo reports from the last decade.)
  • Nothing but humans - observations and speculations from 2500 years. Galiani, Berlin, 2013. 789 pages. ISBN 978-3-86971-074-7 (This anthology offers articles from more than 300 authors to questions such as: What is man What is his position in the world is he inherently good or bad???)
  • Handbook of Human Knowledge: Conjectures from 2,500 years. Galinani, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86971-164-5 ; WDR 5 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) The philosophical radio from October 5, 2018: What makes a connoisseur of people for you?

Translations

  • Mohamed Choukri : The naked bread (Original title: الخبز الحافي, Tanger, 1982). Franz Greno, Nördlingen 1987, ISBN 3-891-90223-9 , (= The Other Library , Volume 23); Paperback: Piper, Munich / Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-492-21419-3 .
  • Winston S. Churchill , Georg Brunold (ed.): Crusade against the Empire of the Mahdi (original title: The River War. A Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan . London 1899, translated by Georg Brunold). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-8218-6204-0 , (= The Other Library , Volume 282).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Switzerland on Sunday, February 22, 2015, p. 46.
  2. ↑ Aroser Zeitung of March 7, 2014, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Brunold, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Arosa