Andreas Hock

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Andreas Hock (born October 29, 1974 in Nuremberg ) is a German journalist and author . From 2007 to 2012 he was editor-in-chief of the Nürnberger Abendzeitung and has since published several bestsellers.

Life

After graduating from high school, Hock studied law at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen and began writing for the Nürnberger Zeitung while studying . In 1999 he broke off his studies in order to do a traineeship at the Abendzeitung in Munich and Nuremberg. In 2001 he was employed as an editor at the Nuremberg AZ, where he was made deputy local manager in 2002. In the same year he moved to the Nuremberg CSU as a public relations officer and in 2004 went to the press department of the CSU state management in Munich. In 2007 he returned to Nuremberg AZ, where he became one of the youngest editors-in-chief in Germany.

He has been working as an author since AZ was discontinued in 2012. His first publication was the official biography of Robert and Carmen Geiss , which appeared in spring 2013 and reached number 2 on the Spiegel paperback bestseller list. A few more books followed, including the companion book to the TV series " The Big Bang Theory ". In the fall of 2014 he wrote the polemic “Am I the only one here who can speak German?”, Which dealt critically with the development of the German language. The book was placed on Spiegel's paperback bestseller list for over half a year .

Hock is also press spokesman for Comödie Fürth .

He lives with his family in Nuremberg.

controversy

When in 2011 a son of the Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann worked as a rapper a . a. Positively addressed drug abuse and an AZ editor wanted to publish an article about it, the publishing director prevented this, citing the close friendship of the Herrmann family with that of the new AZ owner Gunther Oschmann , although Hock fiercely resisted. The incident weighed on the relationship between the editorial team and the publishing house management until the Nuremberg AZ was discontinued the following year.

Publications

Books
  • 2013: Nothing comes from nothing - on the road to success with the Geissens , Heyne 2013, ISBN 3-453-68010-3
  • 2013: The book of legendary Panini pictures , Riva 2013, ISBN 3-86883-336-6
  • 2014: Like my ass - how our society becomes lonely and stupid through smartphones, computer games and social networks , Riva 2013, ISBN 3-86883-330-7
  • 2014: The Big Bang University: The book for the TV series "The Big Bang Theory" , Riva 2014,
  • 2014: Am I the only one here who can speak German? - On the decline of our language , Riva 2014, ISBN 3-86883-443-5
  • 2015: Hatschi! - From the cold life of a brave allergy sufferer , Plassen, 2015, ISBN 3-86470-242-9
  • 2015: I forbid this tone, you asshole! - On the decline of our manners , Riva 2015, ISBN 3-86883-706-X
  • 2016: a beer. A book , Fischer 2016, ISBN 3-59603-343-8
  • 2016: Günther took a picture of his cheese sandwich. 342 friends like this: On the social decline caused by smartphones and digital culture , Riva 2016, ISBN 3-74230-048-2
  • 2016: Ms. Neumann hits the wall - Why we work all our lives and still get poor , published on February 1, 2017, Bastei Lübbe , ISBN 978-3-7857-2584-9 (co-author)
  • 2017: If you ask me, that doesn't make any sense - News from the German language in its decline , Riva 2017, ISBN 3-74230-251-5
  • 2018: Generation Kohl: When retirement was still secure, World Savings Day was still important and our greatest concern was the dying forest, Riva 2018, ISBN 3-74230-453-4
  • 2018: A game lasts 90 million: How commerce steals the soul of our football , Riva 2018, ISBN 3-74230-011-3
  • 2018: The Book of Legendary Panini Pictures , Riva 2018, ISBN 978-3-7423-0549-7
  • 2019: My life after death: How it all began , Lübbe 2019, ISBN 3-43104-133-7
  • 2019: I Think I Spider: From the sense and nonsense of English in German , DUDEN 2019, ISBN 3-41174-889-3
Audio books
  • 2015: Am I the only one here who can speak German? - On the decline of our language , Riva 2015, ISBN 3-86883-690-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Andreas Hock at kressreport
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from August 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://comoedie.de/pressecf.html
  5. ↑ Did the porn rapper just copy everything? . Munich evening newspaper. January 20, 2011. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  6. ↑ Olaf Przybilla : Rapping Ministersohn Herrmann - friendship relationships , Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 9, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Hock, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg