Anja Rützel
Anja Rützel (born March 12, 1973 in Würzburg ) is a German journalist and author .
Life
Rützel studied rhetoric and cultural studies in Tübingen . Shortly before completing her master's thesis on "Visual Rhetoric: Sex in Advertising", she discarded it and wrote instead about "The Power of Speech in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ".
Rützel worked as an editor and columnist for the Financial Times Deutschland until the newspaper was discontinued at the end of 2012. She is co-founder of the business magazine Business Punk and also worked there as an editor. Later she wrote for the culture department of Spiegel Online , first in the field of music, then she switched to television, where she is still active today. In particular, her sometimes biting comments on television programs such as the jungle camp or The Bachelor increased her popularity. In addition to Spiegel Online , she also wrote for SZ-Magazin , Wired , Spex , RP Online , Impulse and Geo, among others .
In April 2019, Rützel briefly hit the headlines after criticizing comedian Enissa Amani . After an angry appeal by Amani on Instagram , numerous users covered Rützel with insults on social networks and described her as a racist, among other things. Rützel had jokingly requested that Amani would emigrate to Nicaragua after she threatened in a speech that she should continue to be called a comedian. The trigger for the following escalation was allegedly that, among other things, the AfD politician Andreas Winhart , with whom Amani is in a legal dispute over insult, shared the Rützel's article.
Since June 2020 she has been moderating the Audible podcast Kützel und Röppen together with Jan Köppen .
Rützel published several books on the topics of television ( Trash TV ), animals ( Saturday Night Biber ) and loneliness ( Better to be alone than no friends at all ). She lives in Berlin .
Works
- Trash TV . Reclam , Stuttgart, 2017. ISBN 978-3-15-020433-7
- Saturday night beaver . Fischer Taschenbuch , Frankfurt am Main, 2017. ISBN 978-3-596-29605-7
- Better alone than no friends at all . Fischer Taschenbuch , Frankfurt am Main, 2018. ISBN 978-3-596-29777-1
- Anja Rützel on Take That . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne, 2019. ISBN 978-3-462-05324-1
- Sleeping Dogs: Famous People and Their Pets - Ten Love Stories . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne, 2020, ISBN 978-3-462-05232-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Anja Rützel in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile on econforum.de
- ↑ Julia Brummert: Anja Rützel on trash television in intro from January 12, 2018
- ↑ spiegel.de
- ↑ Journalist makes fun of Enissa Amani - her fans start an insta hunt. In: Watson . April 24, 2019, accessed April 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Profile on powerline-agency.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rützel, Anja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |