Anja Reich

Anja Reich (born September 22, 1967 in Berlin ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Anja Reich grew up in Berlin-Lichtenberg and graduated from high school in 1986. Before studying journalism in Leipzig (1987 to 1991) she did an internship at the Berliner Zeitung . From 1993 to 1996 she was the local editor of the newspaper Die Welt , since then she has been employed by the Berliner Zeitung , from 2001 as a New York correspondent, from 2008 to 2011 as the head of the magazine, now as the chief reporter.

In 1999 she went to New York for seven years with her husband, Spiegel reporter Alexander Osang , and their two children . In 2011 she and her husband published the book Where were you? A September day in New York , in which they describe what happened on September 11, 2001 from their personal perspectives.

In 2014 her book Der Fall Scholl was published. The fatal end of a marriage to Heinrich Scholl , the former mayor of Ludwigsfelde, who killed his wife after 47 years of marriage. The book was translated into English in 2016.

She has lived with her husband in Tel Aviv since March 2018 , where she works as the Israel correspondent for the Berliner Zeitung .

Publications

• Where have you been? A day in September in New York . Piper, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-492-05436-2 . (in cooperation with Alexander Osang)
• The Scholl case. The fatal end to a marriage . Ullstein, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-86493-023-2 .
  • English: The Scholl Case . Translated by Imogen Tyler. Text publishing 2016
• Swap home. A year between Berlin and Tel Aviv . Structure, Berlin 2019. ISBN 978-3-351-03797-0 . (with Yael Nachshon Levin)

Prices

• 2012 German Reporter Award Category Local Reportage for the text Der goldene Stein (about laying a stumbling block in Berlin)
• 2017 Theodor Wolff Prize in the Local category for the text Die Deutschmacherin (a portrait of an official at the Neukölln naturalization consultation)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chief reporter | Berliner Zeitung In: berliner-zeitung.de , accessed on May 29, 2018.
2. ↑ Anja Reich: Column Berlin - Israel: I will live there - and have no idea what that means. In: berliner-zeitung.de. March 24, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2018 .