Alexander Smoltczyk
Alexander Smoltczyk (* 1958 in Berlin ) is a German journalist .
Life
Alexander Smoltczyk was born in Berlin in 1958 and graduated from the Goldberg Gymnasium in Sindelfingen in 1978 . After his community service, with the Action Reconciliation in France, he studied economics, political science and agricultural economics (diploma, License ès Sc. Eco.) In Berlin and Montpellier as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . Smoltczyk has written for taz , merian , GEO , weekly mail and mare , among others . He has been a reporter for SPIEGEL since 1997 .
Smoltczyk lived as a correspondent in Paris , Rome , Abu Dhabi and Lisbon . His column Oops! Was published on Spiegel Online . Et orbi , followed in June 2010 by golf for beginners .
Works
- James Bond, Berlin - Hollywood - the worlds of Ken Adam . Biography, with a foreword by Volker Schlöndorff . Nicolai, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-87584-069-0 .
- The forest without shade - in search of the last places in the world. Links , Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86153-116-X .
- From the end of the night - pictures from the east, together with Hans Madej. Bucher, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7658-0789-3 .
- In search of the lost revolution - Parisian walks with Mogniss Abdallah, Félix Guattari u. a., together with Fritz von Klinggräff, Rotbuch, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88022-740-3 .
- Vaticanistan . A journey of discovery through the smallest country in the world. Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-453-15434-7 (Why is there a registry office in the Vatican, and why is the crime rate higher there than in São Paulo?).
- Popes don't fart - two girls, an enigmatic apparition and an old city. Dressler Verlag Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-7915-1928-9
- Who was filming the time? A pretty unbelievable story from 6b and about a country nobody has been to before. Well, almost nobody. Dressler Verlag Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-7915-1967-8
- Bataclan terminus - from bus driver to assassin . 85-minute documentary, ARTE 2016
Awards
- For his work Das Loch in Mitte in the Wochenpost he was awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in 1995.
- In 2007 he received the Henri Nannen Prize in the “Particularly Understandable Reporting” category for his Spiegel contribution The Fallible on Pope Benedict XVI.
- In 2012 he received a Henri Nannen Prize in the “Best Documentation” category, in a team with Ferry Batzoglou , Manfred Ertel , Ullrich Fichtner , Hauke Goos , Ralf Hoppe , Thomas Hüetlin , Guido Mingels , Christian Reiermann , Cordt Schnibben , Christoph Schult and Thomas Schulz , for a bomb idea , appeared in the mirror .
- In 2004, together with Matthias Geyer, the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism ("Operation Dosenpfand - With German Thoroughness Into Chaos", "The Nuremberg Laboratory", both published in Spiegel).
- 2017: Robert Geisendörfer Prize (author, television: Bataclan terminus. From bus driver to assassin )
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexander Smoltczyk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Alexander Smoltczyk at perlentaucher.de
- Column oops! Et orbi at SPIEGEL ONLINE
- Column golf for beginners at SPIEGEL ONLINE
Individual evidence
- ^ School letter Goldberg-Gymnasium Sindelfingen, Issue 3 of July 15, 2009, p. 6.
- ↑ Egon Erwin Kisch Prize: An overview of all winners , online at http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/buecher/509895.html
- ↑ Stern: Henri Nannen Prize 2007 , May 14, 2007, online ( Memento of November 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Alexander Smoltczyk: The Fallible , published in 2007 in Der Spiegel, online ( Memento from July 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ A bomb idea, Der Spiegel, H. 39/2011, September 26, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smoltczyk, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |