Bertram job

Bertram Job (* 1959 ) is a German journalist and book author.

Professional background

Bertram Job studied German, literature and journalism at the Ruhr University in Bochum. He has been writing his articles, with a focus on football and boxing, as a freelance journalist for Stern , Sports , Merian , Transatlantik , Geo , Financial Times , Die Zeit , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung and FAZ since 1990 .

In addition, Job wrote a number of specialist books on football and boxing, in which he deals with the social environment of athletes and provides insights "behind the scenes" of the respective sports. He wrote a biography for Henry Maske and the band Die Toten Hosen and was responsible for the press work for Maske and Axel Schulz for many years .

His book The Survivors , a collaboration with journalists Max Annas and Claudia Biehahn , which reports on, among other things, threatened Indian tribes in South America, was published in October 2008.

In 2012, he wrote the book SOKO in action in collaboration with Chief Detective Ingo Thiel : The Mirco case and other explosive crime stories and in 2013 the millionaire was published - an insurance investigator investigates according to the records of the damage investigator Wolfgang Unterfeld. The television film A Child is Wanted , which was first broadcast on Arte on December 15, 2017, is based on one of the stories from the book SOKO in Action . The film won the audience award at the German Crime Festival 2018 .

In October 2014 the book Tournaments, Titles and Triumphs was published by Droste-Verlag . Sport in Düsseldorf and in November 2015 in Piper-Verlag the book Instructions for Boxing . In 2016 the publishing house published Die Werkstatt Ali - Tribute to a legend. The book Gangsterblues, written together with Joe Bausch , was published by Ullstein-Verlag in October 2018 .

Literature (selection)

• 1995 Henry Mask: My Boxing Lexicon . Eichborn, Frankfurt, ISBN 3-8218-0475-0 .
• 1996 Until the bitter end ... Die Toten Hosen tell their story . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, ISBN 3-462-02532-5 .
• 1996 Keirin . Opus Verlag, Limburg.
• 2003 boxing . Feierabend Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-936761-03-5 .
• 2003 The Silk Road / La Route de la Soie . ISBN 978-3-89985-326-1 .
• 2006 365 football days . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen, ISBN 3-89533-512-6 .
• 2006 home game . ISBN 3-939181-00-5 .
• 2006 Heavily drawn . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen, ISBN 3-89533-548-7 .
• 2007 Mystical Iceland . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-7822-0951-9 .
• 2008 Hidden China - On the trail of old traditions . HF Ullmann, Königswinter, ISBN 978-3-8331-4621-3 .
• 2012 Soko in action - The Mirco case and other explosive crime stories . Ullstein extra, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86493-012-6 .
• 2013 The Millionaire Hunter - An insurance investigator investigates . Rowohlt, Reinbek, ISBN 978-3-644-49891-4 .
• 2014 tournaments, titles and triumphs. Sport in Düsseldorf . Droste, Düsseldorf, ISBN 978-3-7700-1518-4 .
• 2015 instructions for boxing. Piper, Munich, ISBN 978-3-492-27668-9
• 2016 Ali - Tribute to a Legend. Verlag Die Werkstatt, ISBN 978-3-7307-0311-3
• 2018 gangster blues. Ullsteinbuchverlag, ISBN 978-3-86493-056-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Bertram Job in the catalog of the German National Library
• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boxing Literature & Co. Bertram Job - Heavily drawn. Boxing stories. Planet Wissen , June 1, 2012, archived from the original on December 20, 2016 ; accessed on March 3, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Christoph Seidler, Jens Lubbadeh: Newly discovered Indian tribe. Spiegel Online , May 30, 2008, accessed January 8, 2016 . 
3. ↑ A child is wanted. Arte , December 15, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Festival 2018. German Television Crime Award , March 2018, accessed on March 26, 2018 .