Dirk Kurbjuweit

Dirk Kurbjuweit (2011)

Dirk Kurbjuweit (born November 3, 1962 in Wiesbaden ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Kurbjuweit grew up as the son of a commercial employee and a housewife in Berlin and Essen. After graduating from high school, he studied economics and attended the Cologne journalism school for politics and economics. In 1988 he received a three-month foreign scholarship in Zambia from the Heinz Kühn Foundation. From 1990 to 1999 he was an editor at Die Zeit , from 1999 at Spiegel . From 2002 he was deputy head of the capital city office, then an author. From July 2007 he was head of the capital city office together with Georg Mascolo. After Georg Mascolo was appointed editor-in-chief in January 2008, Kurbjuweit was sole head of the capital city office until March 2012. From February 2015 to December 2018 Kurbjuweit was one of three deputy editors-in-chief and since January 2019 he has been head of the capital city office again.

He has also emerged as the author of narrative works, non-fiction books and screenplays (realized together with the director Jobst Oetzmann and the film music composer Dieter Schleip). Kurbjuweit is the founder of the Seminyak research grant.

Kurbjuweit now lives in Berlin with his wife and two children.

reception

Two of his reports were awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize (1st prize in 1998 and 2002). In 2011 he was awarded the Roman Herzog Media Prize. In 2012 he received the German Reporter Award in the Best Essay category for his report Die Halbbe Chanzlerin . In 2013, an article that was published in Spiegel was awarded the Ernst Schneider Prize ; Kurbjuweit was one of the six authors.

In a Spiegel article from October 11, 2010, Kurbjuweit coined the term “ angry citizens ” in the context of the debates about Thilo Sarrazin and the Stuttgart 21 station project . He defined him as a wealthy conservative man who was “no longer young”, formerly relaxed and “supporting the state”, but now “deeply indignant about the politicians”. He breaks “with the bourgeois tradition that the political center also includes an inner center”, such as serenity. The behavior of the angry citizen is a defense against change, he should not be a world citizen . The term was voted Word of the Year 2010 and was included in the Duden.

Kurbjuweit's novella Zweier ohne from 2001 has been compulsory reading in the final year of secondary schools in Baden-Württemberg since 2011. The sex scene between young people described in it - described by literary critics as "rather delicate and certainly not pornographic" - aroused criticism, which was mainly presented by Christian and Christian-oriented private schools. An earlier designation as required reading was withdrawn due to the criticism. In the 2013/14 school year, after renewed protests and a debate in which Kurbjuweit publicly addressed the criticism, each school was given the choice between two without and Andorra by Max Frisch .

Works

• The loneliness of the crocodiles (novel). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 978-3-596-22381-7 .
• Gunshot fear (novel). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-10-041505-9 .
• Two without (novella) . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2001, ISBN 978-3-312-00289-4 .
• Our efficient life. The dictatorship of the economy and its consequences (non-fiction book). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-498-03510-5 .
• Aftershocks (novel). Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2004, ISBN 978-3-312-00346-4 .
• with Cordt Schnibben and Matthias Geyer: Operation Red-Green - History of a Political Adventure (non-fiction book). DVA, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-421-05782-2 .
• Not the whole truth (novel). Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-312-00410-2 .
• Angela Merkel : The Chancellor for Everyone? (Non-fiction book). Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-20743-1 .
• War Bride (novel). Rowohlt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-871-34661-3 .
• Fear (novel). Rowohlt, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-87134-729-0 .
• Travel to the heart of the crisis areas , published by Meranier-Gymnasium, Lichtenfels 2013 (= reading booklet of the Meranier-Gymnasium Lichtenfels for author reading , booklet 24).
• There is no alternative - Merkel, the Germans and the end of politics. (Non-fiction book). Hanser, Munich, 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24620-1 .
• The freedom of Emma Herwegh . (Novel). Hanser, Munich [2017]. ISBN 978-3-446-25464-0 .
• Hair man. A detective novel (novel), Penguin, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-328-60084-8 .

Secondary literature

• Klaus Will: Text analysis and interpretation of Dirk Kurbjuweit, two without, a novella , Bange, Hollfeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8044-3097-6 (= King's Explanations Special , information on the analysis of the full text - secondary school leaving certificate Baden-Württemberg).

Film adaptations

• 2001 The loneliness of the crocodiles (written and directed by Jobst Oetzmann )
• 2002 Gunshot (Book: Dirk Kurbjuweit and Dito Tsintsadze; Director: Dito Tsintsadze )
• 2008 2 series without (script and director: Jobst Oetzmann )
• 2017 Fear - The Enemy in My House (Script: Dirk Kurbjuweit; Director: Thomas Berger )

Radio play adaptations

• 2011 Kriegsbraut (radio play adaptation and direction: Annette Kurth, production: SWR )
• 2013 Angst (radio play adaptation and direction: Walter Adler , production: WDR ). With Sylvester Groth , Dörte Lyssewski , Mark Oliver Bögel , Bettina Engelhardt , Florian Lukas .

Web links

Commons : Dirk Kurbjuweit  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Dirk Kurbjuweit in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dirk Kurbjuweit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Personal description at the Erlanger Poetenfest
• Peter Voß asks Dirk Kurbjuweit: Is democracy wobbling? 3sat .de - broadcast on April 20, 2009 (VoD)
• journalistenpreise.de - Spiegel editor announces scholarship
• Deutschlandfunk (DLF) nuances. Music and questions about the person , broadcast on July 7, 2013: Journalist and writer Dirk Kurbjuweit in conversation with Sabine Küchler

Individual evidence

1. ^ Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg: Dirk Kurbjuweit - Munzinger biography. Retrieved November 27, 2017 . 
2. ^ Biography Kurbjuweits perlentaucher.de, accessed on March 23, 2016
3. ↑ Renovation in the Spiegel capital office: With these people, editor-in-chief Klusmann wants to promote the editorial merger meedia.de, October 22, 2018
4. ↑ These texts were awarded: Dirk Kurbjuweit: The torture was clean and tidy, in: Die Zeit from October 10, 1997 ( here online); Dirk Kurbjuweit and Dietmar Hawranek: Die Drei-Welten-AG, in: Der Spiegel No. 9 of February 24, 2001, p. 96 to 109 (digitized here ).
5. ↑ Dirk Kurbjuweit (Der Spiegel) is awarded the "Roman Herzog Media Prize 2010/2011" . ( Memento of the original from January 9, 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. presseportal.de  
6. ↑ Dirk Kurbjuweit: The Half Chancellor, in: Spiegel No. 48 of November 28, 2011, pp. 32 to 39 (digitized here ).
7. ↑ The prize was awarded to two essays in 2012: in addition to Kurbjuweit's text, an essay by Sabine Rennefanz , which had appeared in the Berliner Zeitung: Uwe Mundlos und ich, in: Berliner Zeitung of December 31, 2011 (copy of the text here ), was awarded .
8. ↑ Dirk Kurbjuweit, Christoph Pauly , Jan Puhl , Mathieu von Rohr , Christoph Scheuermann and Christoph Schult : Die Kuhhandler, in: Der Spiegel No. 52 of December 22, 2012, pp. 57 to 65 (digitized here ).
9. ↑ The angry citizen. Retrieved August 20, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Duden | Angry Citizen | Spelling, meaning, definition, origin. Retrieved August 20, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Joachim Güntner: Pious versus school reading: Even tender sex goes too far for some . The paperback edition has already seen fourteen editions, and in Baden-Württemberg it is currently required reading for the final exams of grade 10 at secondary schools. In: NZZ , February 15, 2014
12. ↑ Dirk Kurbjuweit's stalking novel "Fear" brilliantly filmed . New Osnabrück newspaper
13. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Angst By Dirk Kurbjuweit, WDR