Johannes Ehrmann

Johannes Ehrmann (* 1983 in Saarbrücken ) is a German journalist and writer.

Live and act

Ehrmann completed his studies of history and North American studies in Berlin and Philadelphia in 2007 with a Master of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania . Since then he has been working as a freelance journalist and author in Berlin. Ehrmann received the Grimme Online Award in 2013 for his authorship in the 11-Freunde- Liveticker . In 2014 he received the Theodor Wolff Prize of the German newspapers for his report essay "Wilder, weiter, Wedding", published in the Tagesspiegel .

In 2016, Ehrmann's debut novel Großer Bruder Zorn about the Berlin district of Wedding was published by Eichborn Verlag . Jens Bisky compared the novel in the Süddeutsche Zeitung with Jörg Fauser's Das Schlangenmaul and praised the “spoken language that develops its own suction, that has power”. David Nathan read in the audio book for the novel . The book Die Tinzigkeit des Glücks , a letter from the author to his twin daughters , was published in July 2017 .

Johannes Ehrmann is an active member of the national team of authors ( Autonama ).

Work (selection)

• Big brother anger. Novel. Eichborn, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8479-0601-8
• The tinyness of happiness: letter to my daughters . Eichborn, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8479-0034-4
• Turbo - My race against the football business (with Andreas Buck ). Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-608-50469-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Ehrmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• ZDF aspects about "Big Brother Anger"
• Author page at Tagesspiegel with contribution archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 11 Friends Live Ticker . ( grimme-online-award.de [accessed on May 13, 2017]).
2. ^ BDZV: Johannes Ehrmann . In: Theodor Wolff Prize . ( bdzv.de [accessed on May 13, 2017]). Johannes Ehrmann ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ BDZV: Johannes Ehrmann . In: Theodor Wolff Prize . ( bdzv.de [accessed on May 13, 2017]). Johannes Ehrmann ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Big Brother Wrath. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 5, 2017 ; accessed on May 13, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Jens Bisky: Keep your fists ready . In: sueddeutsche.de . May 17, 2016, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed May 13, 2017]).
6. ↑ Big Brother Wrath. Retrieved May 13, 2017 . 
7. ↑ The tinyness of happiness. Retrieved May 13, 2017 .