Christian Jostmann

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Christian Jostmann (born July 7, 1971 in Bielefeld ) is a German historian and author of non-fiction books.

Life

After graduating from high school in Bielefeld and doing community service at the Medical Mission Clinic in Würzburg , Jostmann studied history , sociology , psychology and Hispanic studies in Würzburg, Bielefeld and Madrid. In 2004 he received his doctorate from Bielefeld University with a dissertation on the sibylline literature of the late Middle Ages. Neithard Bulst and Klaus Schreiner acted as reviewers . From 2002 to 2011 Jostmann was the author of the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Since 2006 he has been writing for the Austrian weekly newspaper Die Furche . In 2005, together with the photographer Bernd Ctortecka, he initiated the exhibition “After Schengen. On the aesthetics of the border ”. Jostmann has lived in Weinviertel in Lower Austria since 2005 .

Writings (monographs)

  • Magellan or The First Circumnavigation of the Earth , CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73443-4 .
  • The ice and death. Scott, Amundsen and the Drama at the South Pole , CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62094-2 .
  • Brünner Strasse. A history of the traffic route from Vienna to Brno in pictures , with the collaboration of Lukáš Fasora (text) and Ulrich Winkler-Hermaden (picture), Edition Winkler-Hermaden, Schleinbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-9502688-6-7 .
  • To Rome on foot. History of a pilgrimage , CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55739-2 .
  • Sibilla Erithea Babilonica. Papacy and prophecy in the 13th century (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Schriften Bd. 54), Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2006, ISBN 978-3775257541 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.baunetz.de/meldung/Mommunikations_Fotoausstellung_in_Stuttgart_zur_Architektur_der_Grenze_23082.html
  2. ↑ http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ugbi/foerderung/Preise2005.html
  3. ↑ https://www.landkreis-goeppingen.de/,Lde/start/Landratsamt/Stauferstiftung.html
personal data
SURNAME Jostmann, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 7th July 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld