Christoph Biermann

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Christoph Biermann (born December 23, 1960 in Krefeld ) is a German sports journalist and book author. He writes primarily in the field of football , both in current sports coverage and commentary as well as on broader topics such as fan culture and football tactics .

Life

Christoph Biermann grew up with his three years younger brother in Herne. Since 1971, he and his father have attended Westfalia Herne football matches . After graduating from high school in 1979, he studied German and history at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In Bochum he attended every home game of VfL Bochum for 15 years - until he moved to Cologne in 1992 .

During his studies, he was a freelancer for the taz sports website and music editor for the Bochum magazine Marabo . After graduating in 1987, he worked as a freelancer for various print and radio media (including Stern , Die Zeit ). In 1990 he sang a single with the songs Deutscher Meister wird nie der VfL (A-side) and German champions only become the VfL (B-side). From 1996 to 1999 he was the editor-in-chief of Hattrick football magazine . From 1999 to 2006 he was a sports correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Then he switched to the news magazine Der Spiegel / Spiegel Online . He has been a columnist for the monthly magazine 11 Freunde since 2004 and is now a member of the editor-in-chief there. On Mondays between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. on the radio, Biermann comments on the Bundesliga matchday in the broadcast 1 Live Elfer .

Since the late 1990s he has been publishing books on the subject of football in loose succession. He is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture . Christoph Biermann lives in Berlin .

Works

  • If you are buried on the day of the match, unfortunately I cannot come: the world of football fans . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-462-02464-7 .
  • Football is a game for 22 people, and in the end Germany always wins: except sometimes; a World Cup diary . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-89533-238-0 .
  • The ball is round so that the game can change direction: how modern football works , with Ulrich Fuchs . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-462-02857-X . (2nd, revised and expanded edition 2002, ISBN 3-462-03124-4 .)
  • My days as a front runner: Final truths about football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-447-2 .
  • Almost everything about football . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-462-03639-4 .
  • How I once forgot to hate Schalke: true football stories . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-462-03792-7 .
  • The football matrix: in search of the perfect game , Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04144-6 .
  • When we dream of football: A journey home , Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-462-04627-4 .
  • Match plan. The new soccer matrix. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-462-05100-1 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth on KStA.de ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ksta.de
  2. ↑ C. Biermann, When We Dream of Football. Cologne 2014. p. 12.
  3. ↑ C. Biermann, When We Dream of Football. Cologne 2014. p. 10f.
  4. ↑ C. Biermann, When We Dream of Football. Cologne 2014. p. 106.
  5. ↑ C. Biermann, When We Dream of Football. Cologne 2014. p. 13.
  6. ↑ Brief curriculum vitae on Fußballkultur.org ( memento of the original from August 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fussball-kultur.org
  7. ↑ C. Biermann, When We Dream of Football. Cologne 2014. pp. 136f.
  8. ↑ 1LIVE Elfer: the football show , on einslive.de , accessed on September 6, 2014
  9. ↑ Short interview with Christoph Biermann on einslive.de , accessed on June 12, 2012
  10. ↑ Winner Football Book of the Year https://www.fussball-kultur.org/fussball-kulturpreis/hall-of-fame/fussballbuch-des-jahres/?L=A%3D0
personal data
SURNAME Biermann, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld