Alexandros Stefanidis

Alexandros Stefanidis (* 1975 in Karlsruhe ) is a German-Greek author and journalist.

Life

Alexandros Stefanidis studied German , political science and sociology in Heidelberg , Thessaloniki and Toronto and then attended the German School of Journalism in Munich . In addition to his work as a freelance author for DIE ZEIT , Stern , NZZ and Geo , he worked as an editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin from 2006 to 2014 , where he was responsible for the weekly column Don't say anything . From August 2014 to October 2015, Stefanidis headed the reporting department at FOCUS . Since January 2017, his weekly interview column Mein geliebtes Ich (together with photographer Frank Lübke) has been published in Stern .

In his autobiographical story, Beim Greeks ( Fischer Verlag ), published in 2010, he describes the story of his parents who immigrated from Greece in 1963 and opened the first Greek restaurant in Karlsruhe in 1970. In 2014 his second story was published How are the boys from the church? ( Rowohlt ).

Awards

In 2007 he was the medium magazine as Journalist of the Year Award
2008 CNN Journalist Award in the Print category
2008 Richard von Weizsäcker Journalist Prize , for a life after death
2011 Nominated for the German Reporter Award, Category Best Political Reportage
2012 Nominated for the German Reporter Award , Best Interview category
2013 German Reporter Award, Special Award (for Don't say anything, Peer Steinbrück )

Works

Don't say anything now. Interviews without words . Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition, 2008
With the Greeks. How my father wrote history in our tavern . Fischer Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18758-4 .
How are the boys from the churchyard? . Rowohlt, Munich, 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-61708-9 .
We, knights of the lap of honor. Koesel Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-466-31058-6

Web links

Literature by and about Alexandros Stefanidis in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Author's website at Fischer Verlag, accessed on July 9, 2014
↑ Reporter Forum: 2011. In: www.reporter-forum.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .
↑ Reporter Forum: 2012. In: www.reporter-forum.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .
↑ Reporter Forum: 2013. In: www.reporter-forum.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .
^ Alexandros Stefanidis - Rowohlt. In: rowohlt. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .
↑ Dominik Wichmann, Alexandros Stefanidis, Tobias Haberl: Don't say anything now: interviews without words . 1., edition Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86615-657-9 ( amazon.de [accessed on July 14, 2016]).

personal data
SURNAME	Stefanidis, Alexandros
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Karlsruhe

[1] Author's website at Fischer Verlag, accessed on July 9, 2014

[2] Reporter Forum: 2011. In: www.reporter-forum.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .

[3] Reporter Forum: 2012. In: www.reporter-forum.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .

[4] Reporter Forum: 2013. In: www.reporter-forum.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .

[5] Alexandros Stefanidis - Rowohlt. In: rowohlt. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .

[6] Dominik Wichmann, Alexandros Stefanidis, Tobias Haberl: Don't say anything now: interviews without words . 1., edition Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86615-657-9 ( amazon.de [accessed on July 14, 2016]).