Christoph Driessen
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
- The critical observers of the East India Company . Brockmeyer, Bochum 1997, ISBN 3819604154
- People in Cologne Cathedral . Greven, Cologne 2009, ISBN 3774304254
- History of the Netherlands - from sea power to trend country . Pustet, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 3791721739 ; last revised, updated edition: Pustet, Regensburg 2020, ISBN 3791721739
- Little history of Amsterdam . Regensburg 2010, ISBN 3791722727
- Rembrandt and the women . Regensburg 2011, ISBN 3791723596
- Rembrandts vrouwen . Bert Bakker. Amsterdam 2012, ISBN 978-9035136908
- Cologne. A city in biographies. Travel House Media, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8342-1730-1 . (20 portraits from Iulia Agrippina to Charlotte Roche )
- with Barbara Driessen: Cologne. A story. From jungle to metropolis . Greven, Cologne 2015, ISBN 3774306532
- History of Belgium - The divided nation . Pustet, Regensburg 2018, ISBN 3791729756
- The nutmeg princess . Historical novel. Maximum, Langwedel 2020, ISBN 9783948346164
Individual evidence
- ↑ From sea power to trend land
- ↑ https://www.verlag-pustet.de/shop/item/9783791721736/geschichte-der-niederlande-von-christoph-driessen-gebundenes-buch
- ↑ "As exciting as an adventure novel, as entertaining as scientific cabaret". (Peter Sauer in the Münsterschen Zeitung, November 5, 2009).
- ↑ "Rich in anecdotes and with a great sense of humor" Geo Epoche
- ^ NRC Handelsblad
- ↑ https://brf.be/kultur/buch/1233685/
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SURNAME | Driessen, Christoph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberhausen , Germany |