Alexander Gorkow
Alexander Gorkow (born August 22, 1966 in Düsseldorf ) is a German writer and journalist .
Life
Alexander Gorkow studied mediaeval studies , German and philosophy . He has been with the Süddeutsche Zeitung since 1993 . From 1995 to 1998 he was state parliament correspondent for the SZ. In 2002 he took over the newly launched Saturday supplement "SZ am Sonntag", and since 2009 he has been the head of page three of the SZ.
In 2003 he published the novel Kalbs Schweigen . His critically acclaimed novel Mona followed in 2007 . He tells of a specialist in cold chain systems by the name of Blum, who ends up in chaos in Bucharest and falls madly in love with the Romanian beauty Mona.
In 2012, together with photographer Andreas Mühe , he received the German Reporter Award in the Grand Prix category, which was awarded for the first time , for Reportage USA, which appeared in SZ-Magazin at 8:56 p.m.
In 2017 his novel Hotel Laguna: My Family on the Beach was published . He portrays his family in a cheerful, self-deprecating way and draws a portrait of the customs of traveling, from the early 1970s to the present age of digital travel portals. In 2018 he was awarded the German Reporter Prize for the best interview of the year .
Alexander Gorkow is married to Julie Gruenwald for the second time and has three children.
Works
- Calf's silence . Heyne , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-453-86891-9
- Together with Rebecca Casati : Why are you asking that? . Verlag Moderne Industrie, Landsberg 2004, ISBN 3-636-06119-4
- Mona . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-462-03915-6
- Outside, the sun is shining: Interviews with ... . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 3-462-04063-4
- Hotel Laguna: My family on the beach , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-462-05116-4
- editor
- Till Lindemann: In Silent Nights , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2013
Awards
- 2012: Theodor Wolff Prize in the “General” category for his text Another Life .
- 2018: German Reporter Award for an interview conducted with Roger Waters and published under the title The Activist .
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexander Gorkow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Alexander Gorkow at perlentaucher.de
- Review of Mona in the world by Elmar Krekeler
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Gorkow. In: Pearl Divers. Retrieved February 6, 2016 .
- ↑ https://kress.de/koepfe/kresskoepfe-detail/profil/4244-alexander-gorkow.html
- ↑ A novel like three months of vacation. femundo.de, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Reporter Award 2018: From Ronan Farrow to SPIEGEL - these are the winners - DER SPIEGEL - Kultur. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Theodor Wolff Prize Winner 2012 . at: www.theodor-wolff-preis.de, accessed on February 18, 2013.
- ↑ From Ronan Farrow to SPIEGEL - these are the winners. Spiegel Online, December 4, 2018, accessed on the same day.
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SURNAME | Gorkow, Alexander |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 22nd August 1966 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |