Christoph Driessen

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Christoph Driessen at a reading in the Mayersche Buchhandlung Cologne in November 2015

Christoph Driessen (* 1967 in Oberhausen ) is a German-Dutch journalist and historian .

life and work

Driessen was born in Oberhausen to a Dutch father and a German mother and grew up in Germany. He studied journalism and history in Dortmund and received his doctorate in 1994 with a thesis on the United East India Compagnie. From 1993 he worked 14 years as a foreign correspondent in The Hague, London and New York. Since 2006 he has headed the Cologne office of the German press agency dpa.

Driessen attracted particular attention with his book The History of the Netherlands - From Sea Power to Trend Land , which has been updated several times since 2009. In it he deals with the history of the Netherlands from the uprising against the Spaniards in the 16th century through the Golden Age to the German occupation in World War II and today's EU state with free hashish sales and integration debate. With his book Rembrandt und die Frauen , Driessen presented the biographies of the three women with whom the painter Rembrandt was together for the first time. In doing so, he reconstructed in detail how the painter expelled his former lover Geertje Dircx and had her put in prison. In 2018 he published the first complete account of Belgian history in German, according to the publisher.

Works

Individual evidence

  1. From sea power to trend land
  2. https://www.verlag-pustet.de/shop/item/9783791721736/geschichte-der-niederlande-von-christoph-driessen-gebundenes-buch
  3. "As exciting as an adventure novel, as entertaining as scientific cabaret". (Peter Sauer in the Münsterschen Zeitung, November 5, 2009).
  4. "Rich in anecdotes and with a great sense of humor" Geo Epoche
  5. ^ NRC Handelsblad
  6. https://brf.be/kultur/buch/1233685/