Christian Bommarius
Christian Bommarius (born August 4, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German lawyer , journalist and book author .
Life
Bommarius studied German and law and was a trainee at dpa before he became a correspondent for the German Press Agency from 1987 to 1997 , including at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe . In 1998 and 1999 he was head of politics at the Badische Zeitung , from 1999 employee of the Berliner Zeitung , among other things as chief editor. Since 2010 he has been the chief commentator of the DuMont editorial community . Christian Bommarius primarily writes comments, leading articles and opinion pieces on legal and socio-political topics for the Berliner Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau , and since 2018 also for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Since 2004 he has published several non-fiction books on political and historical topics.
Publications
- The new censorship. Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3411717736 .
- 1949: the long German year. Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-27761-4 .
- The prince's trust. Emperors, nobility, speculators. Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-946334-14-9 .
- The good German. The murder of Manga Bell in Cameroon in 1914. Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-937834-77-1 .
- Constitution. A biography. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-87134-563-0 .
- We criminal Germans. Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-88680-806-8 .
Awards
- 2005: Press award from the German Lawyers' Association
- 2008: Otto Brenner Prize as an overall recognition of his journalistic work.
- 2018: Heinrich Mann Prize
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Bommarius in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Christian Bommarius at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Brenner Prize “Special” - Christian Bommarius. From the appraisal of the jury ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Bommarius, Christian |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, journalist and book author |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1958 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |