Hannes Stein
Hannes Stein (born February 15, 1965 in Munich ) is a German-American journalist , blogger and book author . He has been the world's cultural correspondent in the USA since 2007 , as well as the author of the Jüdische Allgemeine , as well as the community blog by former “ Axis of the Good ” authors called “ Salon Columnists ”, which was launched in 2017 . In addition, he published several books.
Life
Growing up in Salzburg , he began to study English , American and philosophy in Hamburg in 1984 . After graduating with an MA in 1989, he first lived for a year as a German teacher in Scotland and then began his career as a journalist at the FAZ ; later he worked for Der Spiegel , Zürcher Weltwoche and Merkur . From 1997 to 1999 he lived in Jerusalem , learned Hebrew and wrote his book Moses and the Revelation of Democracy there . He also worked as a cultural correspondent for the Berliner Zeitung . After that Stein was literary editor of the Rheinische Merkur in Bonn and moved to Hamburg in 2000 to the world . He was the editor of the associated Literary World in Berlin and writes - often satirical - articles on politics and the feature pages . From November 8, 2006 to April 7, 2013 he was the author of the community blog The Axis of the Good . In 2007 he became the world's cultural correspondent in the USA. The green card winner and - since autumn 2012 - US citizen, now lives in Riverdale , a well-off district of the North Bronx in New York City . He registered as a Republican supporter in the 2012 US primaries , but announced that he would elect Barack Obama . In protest against the election of Donald Trump as 45th US President, he left the Republican Party on January 20, 2017 and was put on the Democratic electoral roll . He published a detailed explanation in Die Welt am Sonntag on January 22, 2017.
In 2013 Stein published the novel The Comet , an alternate world story in which there is no First World War and world history develops completely differently. His friend Wolf Biermann praised the book in the time as a "great intelligent fun".
Works
- with Richard Herzinger : End-time prophets or the anti-Western offensive. Fundamentalism, Anti-Americanism, and New Rights. Rowohlt, 1995, ISBN 3-499-13561-2 .
- Moses and the revelation of democracy. Rowohlt, 1998, ISBN 3-87134-325-0 .
- Finally non-thinkers! A manual for the overwhelmed intellectual. Eichborn, 2004, ISBN 3-8218-0750-4 .
- Encyclopedia of Everyday Torments. A comfort book for the troubled contemporary. Eichborn, 2006, ISBN 3-8218-5769-2 .
- Always be right! Eichborn, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8218-0963-2 .
- Goodbye Germany! Notes from an emigrant. Galiani, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86971-026-6 .
- with Norman Manea : Conversations in exile. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88221-608-0 .
- The comet. Galiani, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86971-067-9 .
- After us the penguins - a world-end thriller , Galiani, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86971-156-0
His book Finally Non-Thoughts! has been published in abbreviated form as an audio book at Litra read by Uwe Friedrichsen , ISBN 3-89469-743-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hannes Stein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sarcasm relaxes. Review of Stein's “Encyclopedia of Everyday Torments”. In: Weltwoche . February 2006.
- www.welt.de/autor/hannes-stein (list of his articles on welt.de)
supporting documents
- ↑ Hannes Stein. to: juedische-allgemeine.de
- ↑ https://www.salonkolumnisten.com/autor/hannesstein/
- ↑ Hannes Stein: Germany is afraid of jumping jacks. In: Welt Online , August 29, 2008.
- ↑ Hannes Stein's texts from November 8, 2006 to April 7, 2013 on the axis of the good .
- ↑ Hannes Stein: Why I vote for Barack Obama as a Republican. In: Die Welt , November 4, 2012.
- ↑ Wolf Biermann: Happy Habsburg. Review of Stein's “The Comet”. In: Die Zeit 20/2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stein, Hannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American political journalist and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |