Brenda Strohmaier

Brenda Strohmaier (* 1971 in Munich ) is a German book author and journalist .

Strohmaier grew up in Saarland and Hesse and graduated from high school in 1990. She then studied journalism , economics and politics at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Sussex . She completed her studies in 1997 with the title Magistra Artium. In 1992 she started working as a reporter for Fritz and Deutschland Radio . From 1997 she was assistant to the music manager Thomas M. Stein . From 1999 she was a permanent freelancer at Radio Eins in the morning broadcast . Between 2000 and 2002 she completed a traineeship at the Berliner Zeitung . From 2002 she works for the Berliner Zeitung and Die Zeit . In 2004 she became a local editor for the Berliner Zeitung . In 2006 she switched to Spiegel online and then to Welt Online . In the same year, the book, which she co-edited, was published, Eine Weltreise durch Berlin . From 2008 she worked on the editorial board of Welt Online . In 2011 she switched to the style editor. From 2010 to 2014 she did a PhD in urban sociology at the Technical University of Darmstadt . Her doctoral thesis was entitled How to learn to be a Berliner ; the results of the work flowed into the book The Berlin Code: A Berlin Guide in Eleven Commandments , written together with Alexander Wolf. In 2015 she married her long-time partner, the film critic Volker Gunske , who died in 2016 of the rare disease of the bile ducts PSC . She wrote the book Nur über seine Corpse about her life as a widow .

Web links

• Literature by and about Brenda Strohmaier in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WORLD: Brenda Strohmaier . November 26, 2012 ( welt.de [accessed June 28, 2019]).
2. ↑ Brenda Strohmaier: CV, books and reviews at LovelyBooks. Retrieved June 28, 2019 .