Birgit Schönau

Birgit Schönau (* 1966 in Hamm ) is a German journalist and publicist .

Life

Schönau attended the Aldegrever high school in Soest . She then studied in Dortmund journalism and history . She completed a traineeship at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and then worked as a reporter for Westdeutscher Rundfunk ( WDR ). In 1990 she went to Rome to complete her studies and worked in the dpa correspondent office . She has been the author of the Süddeutsche Zeitung since 1998 , mainly for the sports editorial team. From 2005 to 2014 Schönau was also Italy correspondent for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . She published several books on Italian politics and sports, mainly football. Schönau is an appointed member of the German Academy for Football Culture and was a juror and laudator several times for the award of the German Football Culture Prize .

Fonts (selection)

• with Eva Kallinger: Rome . Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7742-0159-5 .
• The oldest navel in the world. Discoveries in Naples and Campania . Picus Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85452-735-7 .
• Calcio. The Italians and their football . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-462-03640-8 .
• Circus Italia. From inside the entertainment democracy . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8270-0985-2 .
• Instructions for use for Rome . New edition, Piper, Munich et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-492-27677-1 .
• La Fidanzata. Juventus, Turin and Italy . Berenberg Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946334-34-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Birgit Schönau in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Birgit Schönau  in the German Digital Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Birgit Schönau at perlentaucher.de
• Article by Birgit Schönau (Die Zeit)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Italy correspondent for "Zeit" . BR, August 31, 2011.
2. ↑ Birgit Schönau , German Academy for Football Culture