Christian Nürnberger

Christian Nürnberger, 2010

Christian Nürnberger (born April 1, 1951 in the city of Lauf an der Pegnitz ) is a German publicist .

Life

Christian Nürnberger, who comes from a smallholder family, completed an apprenticeship as a physics laboratory assistant. He spent four years in the Bundeswehr ( lieutenant in the reserve ), studied Protestant theology, philosophy and pedagogy for four semesters, graduated from the Hamburg Henri Nannen School and began his journalistic practice as a local reporter for the Frankfurter Rundschau . Later he was an editor at the business magazine Capital and head of text at highTech .

Nürnberger lives in Mainz with his wife, the television journalist Petra Gerster , and two children . Since 1990, after the birth of his first child, he has worked as a freelance writer - for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit , among others - and as a publicist. In the television program Menschen bei Maischberger , he self-ironically said that for a year he had "done the whole program as a househusband - cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing, shopping, changing diapers -" and had aged ten years and had gray hair. His political views were based on a social democratic-Christian foundation, which is why he has become an advocate of any aspirations for emancipation, especially among women.

For brave people: Resistance in the Third Reich , Nürnberger was awarded the German Youth Literature Prize 2010 . In the jury's justification it was said that Nürnberger succeeded in “building up a tension through a skilfully simple, almost oral narrative style that captivates from the first to the last sentence”. "The outstanding literary quality of the biographical story" was also highlighted.

For The Rebel Monk, the Runaway Nun and the greatest bestseller of all time, Martin Luther , the Emys Non-Fiction Prize went to Gabriel Verlag in January 2017. The jury described the book as "an impressive, entertaining and instructive reading about Luther and his time, which stands out from the multitude of titles already published for the anniversary year and does not argue for a moment with a raised index finger".

Guest appearance in politics

In November 2012, Christian Nürnberger was nominated in his home country as a Bundestag candidate of the SPD for the constituency of Roth and Nürnberger Land . With position 33 on the list assigned to him by the party, however, a move into the Bundestag was excluded from the outset, because the direct mandates in Bavaria go almost exclusively to the CSU. Nevertheless, Nürnberger resolutely carried out his election campaign for a year and then achieved the fifth-best result among Bavaria's SPD candidates with 46,200 votes. Nürnberger describes this year-long foray into politics as his “voluntary social year”. He now lives again in Mainz, where he continues his previous journalistic activities.

Works

Books

• My first lady. Love by listing and the consequences. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-10474-2 . (New edition under the title Fortunately there are advertisements. How I found the woman for life. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-499-61348-4 )
• The power economy. Can Democracy Still Be Saved? German Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-24162-4 .
• Church where are you German Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-423-24232-9 .
• with Petra Gerster: The educational emergency. How we save the future of our children. Rowohlt, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-87134-433-8 .
• with Petra Gerster: Strong for life. Ways out of the educational emergency. Rowohlt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-87134-464-8 .
• Women - why we love them anyway. Rowohlt, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-87134-465-6 . (New edition under the title If Men Were Pregnant. An Offer of Peace. Rowohlt, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-61498-9 )
• The Bible - What You Really Need To Know. Rowohlt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-87134-534-2 .
• Jesus for doubters. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 978-3-579-06967-8 .
• Christianity. What you really need to know. Rowohlt, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-87134-570-8 .
• Courageous people: For peace, freedom and human rights. Thienemann / Gabriel, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-522-30158-9 .
• Courageous people: resistance in the Third Reich. Thienemann / Gabriel, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-522-30166-4 .
• with Christoph Lohfert: Doesn't the patient matter? Photographs from the medical apparatus of Christoph Lohfert. edel: momenti, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941378-35-3 .
• with Petra Gerster: Character. What is really important in education. Rowohlt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-87134-679-8 .
• The sold democracy. How our country is being sacrificed for money. Ludwig, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-453-28070-0 .
• with Petra Gerster: The rebellious monk, the runaway nun and the greatest bestseller of all time, Martin Luther. Thienemann / Gabriel, Stuttgart 2016
• with Petra Gerster: The opinion machine. How information is made - and who we can still believe . Randomhouse, Munich 2017
• with Stephan Kaußen : Nelson Mandela . Gabriel Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-522-30500-6

Sound carrier

• Falk Rockstroh reads Christian Nürnberger, The Bible. What you really need to know . Director: Heike Tauch. - Authorized reading version. Argon-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86610-087-6 . (Argon audio book, 6 CDs + booklet)
• The sons of Mannheim read Christian Nürnberger, Courageous People: For Peace, Freedom and Human Rights. Lübbe Audio, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7857-4019-4 . (4 CDs)

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Nürnberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Youth literature prize 2010
• Christian Nürnberger website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article by Christian Nürnberger in "Die Zeit"
2. ^ Prize winner 2010 - non-fiction book. Jury statement. In: "German Youth Literature Prize". Working group for youth literature e. V., accessed on October 25, 2010 (dynamically generated web page, so the publication date could not be determined.): “What is a brave person? Christian Nürnberger pursues this question in twelve portraits of people in the resistance, each paired opposite one another. In each of these biographical essays, the author takes a stand in a very personal and committed tone, which also encourages and guides the reader to make their own judgment. With a skillfully simple, almost oral narrative style, Nürnberger succeeds in building up a tension that captivates from the first to the last sentence. [...] If it is true that every generation needs its own narrator, who knows how to report historical events from a suitable perspective and to ask current questions, then today's young generation has found its author in Christian Nürnberger: He tells exactly, committed and very personal in a way that not only stimulates the reader's judgment, but also demands it. The outstanding literary quality of the biographical narrative is also convincing, which is evident in the individual cut of the individual portraits and in a very precise and delicately formulated literary language. [...] Courageous people convincingly combine well-founded historical information with political commitment at a high linguistic level. " 
3. ↑ Christian Nürnberger, Petra Gerster: The rebellious monk, the runaway nun and the greatest bestseller of all time - Martin Luther. Retrieved January 4, 2017 . 
4. ↑ The rebellious monk, the runaway nun and the greatest bestseller of all time - Martin Luther. In: wis-potsdam.de. Retrieved January 4, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Press release of the SPD sub-district Nürnberger Land on the candidacy of Christian Nürnberger ( memento of the original from October 20, 2014 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.