Tissy Bruns
Christiane "Tissy" Bruns (born January 1, 1951 in Zeitz ; † February 20, 2013 ) was a German journalist . From 1999 to 2003 she was chairwoman of the federal press conference .
Life
At the age of 6, she and her family moved from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany . She completed a teaching degree for elementary and secondary schools with the subjects history and mathematics and was a member of the leadership of the Marxist Student Union Spartakus (MSB) during her studies in the 1970s . From 1975 to 1977 she was a consultant to the board of the United German Student Unions (VDS); After completing her legal clerkship , she was the first woman to be a member of the VDS board in 1979. After she left there, from 1981 she worked for the party executive of the DKP and a member of the Marxist student union Spartakus . In 1989 she left the party. Since then she has distanced herself from communism and the DKP.
Since 1984 she has worked as a journalist, first for the Deutsche Volkszeitung . From 1991 until Parliament moved to Berlin in the summer of 1999, she was a parliamentary correspondent in Bonn, initially writing for the daily newspaper , later for the Stern and the Wochenpost .
From 1997 she was a correspondent for the Berliner Tagesspiegel . From April 2001 to April 2003 she headed the Berlin correspondent office of the daily newspaper Die Welt , after which she switched back to Tagesspiegel.
A detailed interview of her with Franz Müntefering was published in his 2008 book Macht Politik! printed.
Tissy Bruns was married and had a son. She lived in Berlin since 1999 and died of cancer in 2013.
Publications
- Tissy Bruns: Republic of the busy people . A report from Berlin. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-28715-2 .
literature
- Irmela Hannover , Cordt Schnibben : I can't get no. A couple of 68ers meet again and do their accounts . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03905-4 - pp. 29, 362 a. a.
Web links
- Literature by and about Tissy Bruns in the catalog of the German National Library
- What's left today? (one of the last articles by Tissy Bruns)
- Obituaries:
Individual evidence
- ^ Tissy Bruns journalist in conversation with Susanne Frank. In: br-online.de , January 3, 2008 ( PDF ; 53 kB).
- ^ Nico Fried: Sensible chronicler. In: Süddeutsche.de , February 21, 2013, accessed on February 21, 2013.
- ↑ Candidate for the DKP in the 1980 federal election in 9th place on the NRW state list
- ↑ Tissy Bruns: The lying innocence of the do-gooders. In: Die Zeit , January 8, 2011.
- ^ Franz Müntefering with Tissy Bruns: Make politics! Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2008.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bruns, Tissy |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bruns, Christiane |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Time |
DATE OF DEATH | 20th February 2013 |