Alex Rühle

Alex Rühle (2015)

Alex Rühle (* 1969 in Munich ) is a German journalist and author . He has been editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung since 2001 .

Life

Alex Rühle studied general and comparative literature as well as French , theology and philosophy in Munich, Berlin and Paris.

Rühle gained fame as a book author through his self- experiment to live and work for six months without the internet and smartphone . He documented his experiences in 2010 in the book Ohne Netz .

In summer 2012 he initiated the “Goldgrund Immobilien Organization”, a fictitious international premium property developer in Munich, together with Christian Ganzer and Till Hofmann . The alleged luxury building project “L'Arche de Munich” on Münchner Freiheit and a “broker's office” in the “Truk Chekhtarow” gallery in Schwabing also attracted attention. In 2018 the residential and cultural center "Bellevue di Monaco" was created from this campaign.

In 2018 Rühle published his first children's book Zippel, the truly true castle ghost, and in 2020 his second children's book Gigaguhl und das Riesen-Glück.

Positions

In 2015 he criticized the criminalization of people smugglers and smugglers by the German judiciary and politics. In his opinion, most traffickers are not criminals. Today's smuggling work can be compared to the work of GDR escape helpers like Burkhart Veigel .

Books

Non-fiction

• Without a network - my six months offline. Klett-Cotta , 2010, ISBN 978-3-608-94617-8 .
• Sonja Zekri , Alex Rühle (Hrsg.): Germany extreme - travel to an unknown republic. CH Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-50976-2 .
• as publisher: Megacitys - The future of cities. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56806-0 .

Children's books

• Zippel, the really true ghost of the castle . Illustrated by Axel Scheffler , dtv, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-76234-2 .
• Gigaguhl and the great luck . Illustrated by Barbara Yelin , dtv junior, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3423762861 .

Journalistic texts

• Men versus snowflakes. "Talk to rights" . Interview. Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 249, 28./29. October 2017
• “It'll be okay” - on foot from Munich to Berlin. In: SZ-Magazin. Issue 49/2012.
• “In free fall” - a trip through the disaster area of ​​Greece. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 21, 2012.
• "Pictures of an attitude" - the man who travels faster than his jetlag: With the publisher Gerhard Steidl at Karl Lagerfeld's haute couture show and in the Canadian loneliness of Robert Frank. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 17, 2010.
• “Hydroponic marijuana”: American writer David Foster Wallace hanged himself a year ago. Now his great novel “Infinite Fun” is published in German. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. August 22, 2009.
• "I think people would quickly be ready to go to each other's throats." In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 20, 2017

Prices

• German-French Journalism Award 2009
• Leipzig reading compass 2019 for Zippel, the real ghost of the castle

Web links

• Literature by and about Alex Rühle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website about the book Ohne Netz
• Review of megacities - the future of cities
• dtv blog: A visit ... to Alex Rühle

Individual references, footnotes

1. ↑ Alex Rühle - SZ editor on the weekend. In: SZ.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH, accessed on November 25, 2019 . 
2. ↑ registration of the domain goldgrund.org 8 March 2012, according who.is
3. ↑ www.goldgrund.org
4. ↑ Oliver Hochkeppel: Goldgrund campaign against real estate sharks in Munich. In: SZ.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH, October 20, 2013, accessed on November 25, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Jasmin Menrad: Bellevue di Monaco wants to build a sports field on the roof of Müllerstrasse. In: Munich evening newspaper. Retrieved June 4, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Alex Rühle: The Refugee Crime, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 49, February 28/1. March 2015, p. 17.
7. ↑ Alex Rühle: The Refugee Crime, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 49, February 28/1. March 2015, p. 17.
8. ↑ Leipzig Reading Compass 2019: These books get children to read. In: Reading Foundation. March 21, 2019, accessed November 25, 2019 .