Alexander Osang

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Alexander Osang, March 2007

Alexander Osang (born April 30, 1962 in East Berlin ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Alexander Osang grew up in the GDR and completed vocational training with a high school diploma as a maintenance mechanic. He broke off the study of environmental technology that he had subsequently taken up. This was followed by a traineeship at the (Ost) - Berliner Zeitung and a degree in journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . During his studies, Osang ran for membership in the SED . After graduating, he worked as a business editor for the Berliner Zeitung .

After the fall of the Wall in 1989, Osang worked again for the Berliner Zeitung , from 1990 onwards as a local manager in Berlin. In the following years he became a reporter on the situation in East Germany after reunification . In 1999 he left the editorial office of the Berliner Zeitung and went to New York as a reporter for Spiegel magazine . In 2000 he published his first novel Die Nachrichten , which was later filmed under the direction of Matti Geschonneck ( Die Nachrichten , 2005).

Alexander Osang had been living in Berlin in the Bötzowviertel since November 2006 . He is married to the journalist Anja Reich and has three children. From March 2018 to 2020 he lived in Tel Aviv with his wife, who worked as the Israel correspondent for the Berliner Zeitung . Among other things, he writes for Spiegel and the magazine of the Berliner Zeitung .

Alexander Osang is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Awards

Alexander Osang received the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in 1993, 1999 and 2001 and was so regularly nominated for it that journalists mocked the "Osang Prize". In 1995 Osang was honored with the Theodor Wolff Prize and in 2009 as Reporter of the Year by Medium Magazin . In 2006, his book on Die Nachrichten was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize .

Single track

  • Promoted - relegated . 18 case studies. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-86153-040-6 .
  • The year one . Reports. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-353-00898-5 .
  • The obtuse corner . 25 portraits and one interview. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-86153-067-8 .
  • The book of temptations . 20 portraits and one self-accusation. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86153-107-0 .
  • Tamara Danz . Biography. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86153-124-0 .
  • Hannelore on a coffee trip . Reports and portraits. Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1998, ISBN 3-596-13886-8 .
  • Arrival in the new center . Reports and portraits. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86153-175-5 .
  • The news . Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2000, ISBN 3-10-057610-1 .
  • Brave new world . 50 columns from Berlin and New York. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86153-250-6 .
  • Eighty-nine . Hero stories. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86153-267-0 .
  • Lunkeberg's festival . Stories. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2003, ISBN 3-10-057612-8 .
  • Berlin – New York . Columns from the correspondent's time in the USA. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86153-339-1 .
  • Lennon is dead . Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, ISBN 3-10-057611-X .
  • In the next life . Reports and portraits. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-571-3 .
  • Kingstork Children . Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2010, ISBN 3-10-057613-6 .
  • Where have you been? A September day in New York (with Anja Reich). Piper Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-05436-2 .
  • Comeback . Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002278-3 .
  • Winter swimmer . Christmas stories. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 2017, ISBN 978-3351036881 .
  • The Lives of Elena Silver . Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-10-397423-2 .

Radio play and radio

  • 1999: On the brink - original notes at the turn of 1989/90. Moderation: Monika Künzel, Rainer Burchardt; Studio guests: Alexander Osang, Jürgen Leinemann .

literature

  • Theo Breuer : Twenty Days - Twenty Novels: A Book Game . In: Matrix . Journal for literature and art , 58th edition, Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2019, pp. 7–167.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Osang: The book of temptations: 20 portraits and a self-accusation . Ch. Links Verlag, 1996. ISBN 3-86153-107-0 , p. 20
  2. ↑ Portrait of the author at Ch. Links Verlag
  3. ↑ Anja Reich: Column Berlin - Israel: I will live there - and have no idea what that means. In: berliner-zeitung.de. March 24, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2018 .
  4. ↑ The editors . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 19, 2010, magazine
  5. ^ Members list. PEN Center Germany
  6. ↑ Julia Amalia Heyer: Review.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung "Alexander Osang, it was said maliciously a few months ago, for once did not receive the 'Osang Prize'".@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / sz-shop.sueddeutsche.de  
  7. ↑ There used to be more whiskey . ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2012 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. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , May 9, 2010, No. 18, p. 33: "This year, the Alexander Osang Prize did not go to Henri Nannen, as always, but ..." @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seiten.faz-archiv.de
  8. ↑ The Journalists of 2009 . In: Medium Magazin online, December 21, 2009; Retrieved January 14, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Osang, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin