Birk Meinhardt
Birk Meinhardt (* 1959 in East Berlin ) is a German journalist and writer .
Life
Meinhardt was born in Berlin-Pankow and studied journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . As a sports editor he worked for the weekly post , the Junge Welt , the Tagesspiegel and the Süddeutsche Zeitung . From 1996 he was a reporter for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and wrote current reports for Seite Drei as well as numerous Streiflicht columns. Since 2012 he has devoted himself entirely to literature. We are all there for his work , except for Erich Honecka in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , he was awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in 1999. In 2001, he received the award again, this time for the report Vom Glück zu sein . His 2013 novel Brothers and Sisters. The years 1973–1989 , a family saga set in the Thuringian province, was nominated for the 2013 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. The sequel brothers and sisters. The years 1989–2001 appeared in 2017. Since the Süddeutsche has repeatedly refused to print some of his texts since 2004 that allegedly did not fit the basic attitude of the newspaper, Meinhardt left it. About this separation he published the book How I lost my newspaper: A year book . In it, he criticizes the journalism that he sees as being of the same opinion. The Süddeutsche described his allegations against the portal Übermedien as misleading, the BR -Kulturbühne calls the work "a clever little book".
Works
- Boxing in Germany . Rotbuch Verlag , 1996, ISBN 3-8802-2404-8 .
- The strange ways to happiness. Collection of reports from the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8615-3258-1 .
- The blue crystal , novel. Eichborn Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-8218-5742-0 .
- In the Diva's Shadow , a novel about Marlene Dietrich. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-8218-5802-8 .
- Brothers and sisters. The years 1973–1989 . Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24119-0 .
- Brothers and sisters. The years 1989–2001 . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25279-0 .
- How I lost my newspaper: a year book . The New Berlin , Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-336-001-362-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Birk Meinhardt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Eulenspiegel publishing group
Individual evidence
- ↑ Egon Erwin Kisch Prize: An overview of all winners , online at http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/buecher/509895.html
- ↑ Knut Cordsen: How I lost my newspaper by Birk Meinhardt - What goes wrong in journalism. In: br.de. June 28, 2020, accessed June 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Stefan Niggemeier: Attitude instead of reality? A former editor breaks with the SZ. In: Übermedien. July 21, 2020, accessed July 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk Knut Cordsen: "How I lost my newspaper" by Birk Meinhardt: What goes wrong in journalism . June 28, 2020 ( br.de [accessed on August 12, 2020]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meinhardt, Birk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Pankow |