Anja Maier

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Anja Meier (2020)

Anja Maier (* 1965 in East Berlin ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Anja Maier grew up in East Berlin. She trained as a typesetter and worked for a publishing house, but she dropped out of studies at the Berlin School of Advertising and Design . After the fall of the Berlin Wall , she went to taz and became a journalist there. Among other things, she was a news editor , reporter and "sonntaz" department head . She experienced the turning point in 1989/1990 in the Oranienburger Vorstadt in a corner house on Strelitzer Strasse just a few meters from the Berlin Wall , freshly divorced from the father of her first daughter. Maier lived in Prenzlauer Berg until the turn of the millennium and then moved to Oranienburg in the Berlin area . She has been parliamentary correspondent for the taz since 2012. From 2012 to 2018 Maier was a member of the board of the Federal Press Conference .

Maier is often a guest of television programs such as the press club , Maybrit Illner , the ZDF morning magazine , on Deutschlandfunk , at Fakt ist! as well as roundtables at Phoenix .

2010 Maier published her first book "The Pubertistin" them in the first-person form of a mother of a pubescent daughter in Berlin commuter belt says. She had previously worked on the topic every two to four weeks since 2008 in her column “Speckgürtel” in the taz . In 2011 she started a debate with her book “Let me through, I am mother”, which she turned into “ Sarrazin vom Prenzlauer Berg ” according to the Frankfurter Rundschau . She wrote her third book, “As a grandma, you're really nice” together with the older of her two daughters, Hanna Maier, who was born in 1988 and who also became a journalist.

Reviews

The puberty

For Uwe Badouin ( Oberhessische Presse ) Maier's book was “not a guide, but a kind of description of the situation . Everyone who is in the middle of the puberty flu knows after reading: We are not alone. That’s something. "

For Silke Teschner ( Ärztezeitung ) the book was “fun reading material for mothers and daughters” and “wonderfully ironic and apt”.

Nicola Bardola ( Börsenblatt ) recommended the book as an “ideal introduction to the problem area” of puberty : Maier has “a funny and cheeky language that adequately captures the problem, for example by speaking of an 'emotional diet' or describing a role reversal to whom the daughter successfully takes on maternal tasks. "" As if reading a humorous, touching novel, the essential recommendations that are important in dealing with rebellious offspring are given here while describing many areas of conflict. "

Let me through, I'm mom

For Reinhard Jellen , Maier described “the transformation of the Prenzlauer Berg into a huge playground for noble parents who enjoy brunch, latte macchiato and shop in organic shops, who want to arm their children for future life in the constant competition from an early age, and a generation of Attract merciless egoists. "

Anna-Maria Kunath ( Potsdam's Latest News ) found Maier's descriptions of the “modern motherhood in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district ” drawn as “ruthless and satirical ”. Maier describes “unrestrained self-gentrification ” as “a generation in trendy city districts where only media fuzzies and macchiato-drinking mothers have the say” and where “anti-authoritarian upbringing [...] makes children dependent and self-centered people”.

According to Caroline Bock ( Kölnische Rundschau ), the “cliché of the latte macchiato mother with an expensive stroller [...] as described by Maier belongs to Berlin like Harald Juhnke did earlier .” “In the child-rich 'Pregnancy Hill'”, “the little ones would be at four Years to go to yoga, learn to play the piano ”and would have“ their parents firmly under control - if they weren't doing something with the media or tyrannizing the teacher that organic sausages are put on the grill at the school festival. ”

Tom Riens ( Berliner Morgenpost ) saw Maier's “sometimes meticulous, sometimes polemical, sometimes grieving” in a book written down in 43 scenes as a description of “how the ex-home has changed”. Maier polarizes with her description of the Prenzlauer Berg parents sometimes as “post-bourgeois conquerors”, sometimes as “ hedonists ”, the mothers as “sex moms” or “cattle”, the fathers as “late boys” or “innocent part-time fathers”.

Tanja Dückers felt that Maier had “drawn an image of 'real' parenthood” and mocked everyone who deviated from it. “Even if some things are justified”, “the tone of voice in which an 'experienced mother' holds up a mirror to other - as she means: more stupid - mothers disturbs."

Publications

Anja Meier at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2014)

Web links

Commons : Anja Maier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Full meatball . In: Oranienburger Stadtmagazin . June / July / August 2012, p. 8.
  2. ↑ a b c Anja Maier . In: Press Club . November 8, 2019.
  3. ↑ Anja Maier: The playground in the restricted area . In: taz . December 27, 2011.
  4. ↑ Anja Maier: We were already further . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 7th November 2019.
  5. ↑ Anja Maier . In: Emma .
  6. ↑ Board of Directors . ( Memento from August 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Federal press conference .
  7. ↑ Thomas Hummel: Longing for fresh heads . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 1st November 2019.
  8. ^ Press review with Anja Maier . In: ZDF morning magazine . 19th July 2019.
  9. ↑ Christine Heuer: Is the dissatisfaction justified? In: Deutschlandfunk . 26th August 2019.
  10. ↑ Phoenix asked . In: Phoenix . January 30, 2019.
  11. ↑ Phoenix asked . In: Phoenix . May 7, 2019.
  12. ↑ phoenix election round . In: Phoenix . August 31, 2019.
  13. ↑ phoenix round: SPD to the left, CDU to the right - coalition in crisis? . In: Phoenix . 5th June 2018.
  14. ↑ phoenix round: Seehofer's quota - turning point in refugee policy? . In: Phoenix . 16th September 2019.
  15. ↑ Anja Maier , at Bastei-Lübbe
  16. ↑ Anja Maier: Colume Speckgürtel . In: taz .
  17. ↑ From child to terrorist . In: Main-Echo . March 10, 2011.
  18. ↑ Anja Maier . In: The time .
  19. ↑ Carmen Böker: Milk foam everywhere . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 8, 2011.
  20. ↑ Ursula März : And you're grandma . In: The time . No. 17/2014, April 16, 2014.
  21. ↑ Uwe Badouin: Mom unpacks about “Pubertist” . In: Upper Hessian Press . August 25, 2017.
  22. ↑ Silke Teschner: “You don't want that for free!” In: Ärzte Zeitung . December 16, 2011.
  23. ↑ Nicola Bardola: war of nerves with the offspring . In: Börsenblatt . September 28, 2011.
  24. ↑ Reinhard Jellen : "Let me through, I'm mother" . In: telepolis . April 26, 2012.
  25. ↑ Anna-Maria Kunath: "Let me through, I'm mother!" Anja Maier presents her book in the cafe "11-line" . In: Potsdam's latest news . March 7, 2012.
  26. ↑ Caroline Bock: From noble parents and determined children . In: Kölnische Rundschau . November 14, 2011.
  27. ↑ Tom Riens: "Too much Gütersloh, too little Berlin" . In: Berliner Morgenpost . November 2, 2011.
  28. ↑ Tanja Dückers : What's so bad about Café Latte? In: The world . December 14, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin