Andreas English

Andreas Englisch at a lecture in Ibbenbüren in 2016

Andreas Englisch (born June 6, 1963 in Werl ) is a German journalist who has specialized in reporting from the Vatican .

Life

After graduating from Marien-Gymnasium Werl in 1983, studied English literature and journalism in Hamburg .

He moved to Rome in 1987 , only planned for half a year to learn Italian there. He lives there to this day. Englisch headed the Roman correspondent office of Axel Springer Verlag for ten years . Until the end of March 2010 he was a permanent correspondent for Italy and the Vatican exclusively for Bild und Bild am Sonntag . Then he was recalled by Bild's editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann and assigned to another position in the publishing house. English had spoken a few weeks earlier on the show Hart but fair on the subject of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church .

Since 1995 he has sometimes accompanied the Popes on their journeys by plane. In 2004 he wrote a biography of his experiences during his travels with Pope John Paul II . English is also the author of two novels .

During his travels with John Paul II he changed from the original papal critic to the papal admirer, which he traced in his papal biography John Paul II. The Secret of Karol Wojtyla (2004). In the years that followed, his books God's Traces (2006) and The Miracle Pope (2011) were published, in which he characterized John Paul II as the “miracle pope”, while at the same time exposing the Polish belief in miracles as an error based on the deceptions of those around him.

English later received public attention through his prediction, based on earlier statements by Ratzinger, that Pope Benedict XVI. will resign from office, which turned out to be correct in February 2013.

English presented the story behind the Giuseppe Gulotta case to the public .

He sharply describes the pontificate of Pope Francis as a merciless struggle behind the scenes in which the Pope confronts a hostile and deeply networked curial apparatus.

Observers, who judge English's publications very critically and accuse him of excessive enrichment of his descriptions with invented or deliberately exaggerated embellishments, agree that he was very close to the curial events under Pope John Paul II. On the other hand, it is unclear what sources and accesses he still has today.

Andreas Englisch is married and has one son.

Publications

The silent god of wolves. (Roman), Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 978-3-522-71900-1
The Act of Peter. (Roman), Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-550-08266-5
John Paul II - The Secret of Karol Wojtyla. (Biography), 2004, 2nd edition 2005, Ullstein Verlag, published as hardcover, paperback and audio book (4 CDs),
John Paul II. A life in pictures. Augsburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-89897-213-0
Habemus papam. From John Paul II to Benedict XVI. Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-570-00858-4
God's footsteps, The miracles of the Catholic Church. Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-570-00855-3
When God Speaks: The Prophecies of the Catholic Church. Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-01133-1
The miracle pope: John Paul II Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-570-10066-0
Benedict XVI. The German Pope. Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-570-10019-6
Francis - sign of hope. Benedict XVI's legacy and the choice of fate for the new Pope. Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-10186-5
The fighter in the Vatican - Pope Francis and his courageous path. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-10279-4 ( 1st place on the Spiegel bestseller list from October 31 to November 6 and from November 14 to November 20, 2015 )
My Rome: The Secrets of the Eternal City . C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-570-10359-3 .

Web links

Commons : Andreas Englisch - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Andreas Englisch in the catalog of the German National Library
Website by Andreas Englisch
AVA author section Andreas English
Critical portrait of Ulrich Waschki: The storyteller (in: Day of the Lord ) ( Memento from August 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ The bizarre race of the pope augurs ( memento of January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Meedia magazine, accessed on February 12, 2013.

personal data
SURNAME	English, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Werl

[ruecktritt-1] The bizarre race of the pope augurs ( memento of January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Meedia magazine, accessed on February 12, 2013.