Burkhard Müller-Ullrich

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Burkhard Müller-Ullrich (born November 19, 1956 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German and Swiss journalist and writer. He writes for the axis of good . Müller-Ullrich lived in Frankfurt am Main, Munich and on the island of Reichenau . In 1982 he moved to Geneva and in 1994 to Freiburg im Breisgau. Today he lives with his family in Cologne and Switzerland.

His work focuses on media criticism and international cultural reporting. After sparking heated controversy in the 1990s with articles (including about the dying forests , the writer Taslima Nasrin and the civil rights activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of murdering police officers in a very controversial court case in the USA ), he now accompanies daily events mainly in a satirical way . His glosses are broadcast by several radio stations and appear among others. a. in the Viennese standard . In 2005 he received the 2nd radio award from the RIAS Berlin Commission for his election diary from Florida , which he wrote in November 2004 .

job

Müller-Ullrich grew up in Frankfurt am Main, studied philosophy, sociology and history in Munich and left the university after a few semesters without a degree, while he worked for the Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Müller-Ullrich has been working as a journalist since 1978. At first he worked as a freelancer for various German broadcasters, the joint venture of Protestant journalism (at medium magazine and the church and radio industry service ) and the Frankfurter Rundschau . 1985–1988 he was an editor at the Swiss radio DRS and the Swiss book magazine Bücherpick . In 1987/88 he was also in charge of the twice-weekly trade journal for Swiss booksellers' range . From 1988 to 1994 Burkhard Müller-Ullrich worked as a freelance cultural correspondent with a focus on Switzerland, France and Great Britain for many broadcasters and newspapers. Including the Basler Zeitung , the Berner Zeitung , the St. Galler Tagblatt , Die Zeit , Die Welt and Der Standard . He was also active as a translator for the German-language service of the scientific news agency CEDOS (Center de documentation scientifique) in Geneva.

From 1994 to 1996 he was the founder and head of the international cultural news agency ink-a , based in Freiburg / Brsg. In addition, from 1994 to 1996 he worked as an author for Schweizer Weltwoche , Focus and the Süddeutsche Zeitung . From 1997 to 2000 he was editor-in-chief of the Kultur heute editorial team at Deutschlandfunk . Since then he has been working as a freelance writer for several ARD broadcasters , newspapers and magazines again. He can be heard regularly as a moderator on Südwestrundfunk ( SWR2 Forum) .

Since 2020 Müller-Ullrich has published the podcast "indubio" on the Axis of the Good , in which he discusses the political and social events of the day with his guests.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Specialist journals: Crisis among the Protestants . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1995 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Ullrich, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and freelance publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main