Alex Raack
Alex Raack (* 1983 in Celle ) is a German author and journalist . In his texts and books, the former editor of the soccer magazine 11 Freunde mainly deals with the topic of soccer culture .
Life
Raack grew up in Bostel near Celle, and in 2001 he wrote reports on local sport for the Cellesche Zeitung . After graduating from the Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium in Celle in 2003, Raack studied history, sports and politics in Göttingen and Marburg . In 2009 he began a traineeship at the soccer magazine 11 Freunde and worked there as an editor until 2016. Among other things, he was part of the 11FREUNDE live ticker team, which received the Grimme Online Award in the category of humor in 2013 .
Raack works as a freelance journalist and book author, his texts have been published in Die Zeit and in Tagesspiegel , on Spiegel Online , Vice and in the sports magazines Kicker and Socrates .
Together with the former professional soccer player Uli Borowka , Raack published his biography Volle Pulle - My double life as soccer professional and alcoholic in 2014 at Edel Books , which reached the Spiegel bestseller list . Raack's second book He has to do it! , which appeared in 2015, covers soccer clichés and phrases.
At the beginning of 2018 the book was published by Klett-Cotta Verlag , Wool: A Fan Between East and West , a biography about Wolfgang Großmann, who lived as a fan of Borussia Mönchengladbach in the GDR and became an "enemy of the state" there. Another book about curious stories from soccer fans from different clubs was published in May 2018.
In September 2019 the book I'm actually a great guy , the biography of Mario Basler , was published by Edel Books Verlag.
Works
- Volle Pulle - My double life as a professional footballer and alcoholic (with Uli Borowka ). Edel Books, Hamburg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8419-0333-4
- He has to do it! Phrases, poses, platitudes - the wonderful world of football clichés . Edel Books, Hamburg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8419-0361-7
- Wool: A fan between East and West . Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart, 2018, ISBN 978-3-608-10887-3
- Everything for love: a trip to the heart of football . Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart, 2018, ISBN 978-3-608-50383-8
- Actually, I'm a great guy (with Mario Basler ). Edel Books, Hamburg, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8419-0675-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Alex Raack in the catalog of the German National Library
- official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heiko Hartung: Material for "lawn junkies": Celler Alex Raack with a new football book ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article in the Cellesche Zeitung on November 17, 2015, accessed on February 28, 2018
- ↑ Lukas Brandl: ... then nobody needs to buy 11FREUNDE anymore. Interview with Alex Raack on transferkritiker.de
- ↑ Short biography in the imprint of Spiegel Online
- ↑ Brief description on evangelisch.de
- ↑ Alex Raack: Alles aus Liebe - How an ardent Gladbach fan became an enemy of the state Article in 11Freunde Spezial: DDR (# 10), accessed on February 28, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raack, Alex |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Celle |