Dieter Breuers

Dieter Breuers (born August 5, 1935 in Haan ; † September 16, 2015 in Cologne ) was a German journalist and writer.

Dieter Breuer, who comes from Düsseldorf, studied history , German and American studies in Cologne and Berlin . In 1992 he succeeded Jürgen C. Jagla as editor-in-chief of the Kölnische Rundschau / Bonner Rundschau .

Breuers was best known for his novels and non-fiction books on historical topics, especially the Middle Ages . According to the motto that he mainly writes these books for those who actually find history boring and that history consists primarily of stories, he created exciting and entertaining works that are nevertheless not lacking in competence. His first two books in particular, Ritter, Mönch und Bauernleut and Die für Jerusalem , received a lot of attention, received very good reviews and became bestsellers.

Works

• Knights, monks and farmers. An entertaining story of the Middle Ages (1994, 1997, 2004, 2006)
• Die for Jerusalem - Knights, Monks, Muslims and the First Crusade (1997, 2000, 2006)
• Windows, pillars and vaults. The history of Cologne Cathedral (1998, 1999)
• The glowing crown. The Staufers and their time (2002, 2005)
• The Cologne and their cathedral. Stories and history about Cologne Cathedral (2004)
• Enslaved and betrayed. The peasant uprising at the beginning of the 16th century (2005, 2007)
• In three devil's names: the slightly different story of witches and their persecution (2007, 2009)
• I do not believe this! German idioms in entertaining stories (2008)
• Colonia in the Middle Ages. About life in the city , Lübbe Verlag, Cologne 2011 ISBN 978-3-7857-2424-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Breuer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Book review Die for Jerusalem

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.wirtrauern.de/Trauerbeispiel/Dieter-Breuers
2. ↑ Chronicle of the Kölnische Rundschau  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.