Ben Redelings

Ben Redelings at one of his readings, 2008

Ben Redelings (born November 21, 1975 in Bochum ) is a German author and filmmaker .

Life

After graduating from the Hildegardis School in Bochum in 1995, he studied German, social sciences and Dutch in Bochum and Amsterdam to become a teacher.

Redelings has been organizing football cultural evenings since 2001. Initially under the name of "Torepunkte Championships" and since 2003 under the umbrella term "Scudetto". In this context, he has already welcomed guests such as Peter Neururer , Frank Goosen , Fritz Eckenga , Stefan Kuntz , Bernard Dietz , Hermann Gerland , Michael Lameck and Willi Lippens .

In the spring of 2004 Redelings released his first film, a documentary about VfL Bochum . Since then he has devoted himself exclusively to football as an author and filmmaker. He writes for the magazines 11 Freunde , Reviersport and Spiegel Online. He also shoots the video column Scudetto-TV, which was already running on Spiegel Online . The radio station 1 Live once described Redelings as the first “full-time professional in football culture”.

In 2014 he started a new series of books at Die Werkstatt , his Bundesliga albums. In 2014 alone, he released ten albums about clubs in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga.

Ben Redelings lives with his family in Bochum. He is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture .

Works

Books

• A goal would be good for the game. The Ultimate Book of Football Truths (2006), ISBN 3895335150
• The ball is a sphere. The big book of football books (2007), ISBN 3936261636
• Football isn't the most important thing in life - it's the only thing , Roman (2008), ISBN 3895336173
• Home to football. Pöhlen, Pils and Pokale along the B1 (2009), ISBN 9783895336720
• Halftime Break - The Football Club Reading (2010), ISBN 9783895337451
• Friends of the South Seas: My Playing Time (2011), ISBN 9783895337932
• Swap Sister for Final Game Card : The Ultimate Book of Football Truths - Volume 2 (2012), ISBN 9783895338434
• 50 Years of the Bundesliga: The Anniversary Album (2012), ISBN 9783895338892
• Ben Redelings' World Cup album. Unforgettable sayings, photos, anecdotes (2013), ISBN 9783730700402
• Bavaria album. Unforgettable sayings, photos, anecdotes (2014), ISBN 9783730701102
• BVB album. Unforgettable sayings, photos, anecdotes (2014), ISBN 9783730701119
• Schalke album. Unforgettable sayings, photos, anecdotes (2014), ISBN 9783730701089
• Werder album. Unforgettable sayings, photos, anecdotes (2014), ISBN 9783730701058
• HSV album. Unforgettable sayings, photos, anecdotes (2014), ISBN 9783730701065
• Eintracht album. Unforgettable sayings, photos, anecdotes about Eintracht Frankfurt (2014), ISBN 9783730701041
• FC album. Unforgettable sayings, photos, anecdotes about 1. FC Köln (2014), ISBN 9783730701096
• Borussia album. Unforgettable sayings, photos, anecdotes about Borussia Mönchengladbach (2014), ISBN 9783730701072
• FCK album. Unforgettable sayings, photos, anecdotes about 1. FC Kaiserslautern (2014), ISBN 9783730701027
• VfL Bochum album. Unforgettable sayings, photos, anecdotes (2014), ISBN 9783730701010

Movies

• Who needs a champagne breakfast at Real Madrid? A film about fans of VfL Bochum (2004)
• Who owns the game? About FIFA, VIPs, and Football Fans (2006)
• The 11 of VfL. A film about players at VfL Bochum (2007)

Audio book

• Home to football. The audio book. Ben Redelings live from the »Freibeuter« (2010)

Others

• Who needs a champagne breakfast at Real Madrid [Soundtrack], Tommy Finke (2004)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ben Redelings in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ben Redelings website
• Ben Redeling's German Academy for Football Culture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.werkstatt-verlag.de/?q=node/418
2. ↑ https://www.fussball-kultur.org/adresse/address/ben-redelings