Esther von Krosigk

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Esther Katharina von Krosigk (born  May 14, 1964 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist , writer and editor .

Life

Origin, career, center of life

Esther von Krosigk comes from the ancient noble family Krosigk , was born in Hamburg and grew up in Cologne . After studying Japanese Studies , Modern History and Art History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , she went to Japan as part of a journalist exchange organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . She then lived in Berlin and Munich and worked until 2002 as an editor at Bayerischer Rundfunk , Bild-Zeitung and Bunte magazine, among others . Already in 2006 she was commuting between Berlin and Mauritius , where she was staying with her then partner. Since 2015 she has lived permanently in Mauritius on the Indian Ocean . Afterwards she worked as a freelance journalist for KNA and Die Tagespost (with her own column “Esther's Reisen”).

Author and publisher

From 2002 Esther von Krosigk worked as a freelance writer and wrote novels that were published by Marion von Schröder Verlag ( Ullstein ) and Random House . Her first novel Das Haus derzeichen was published in 2004, her second and so far last novel Der Ring des Bischofs followed in 2006. This was followed by other book publications by Verlag Droste in Düsseldorf. She also published nonfiction books and book chapters in the Walter de Gruyter publishing house and in the highly controversial VDM Publishing (today: OmniScriptum ). Together with publisher Philipp Mueller, she published the esoteric guide title You are not alone on earth at VDM in 2005 . How we all find our cosmic companion who, according to the publisher, is said to have been energetically charged with the help of a medium . Although she was still a Protestant at the time , she wrote several books about Pope John Paul II and felt closer to Catholicism . She later converted to the Roman Catholic Church . In the blurb of her booklet Von Engeln und Teufeln, published in 2011 by Doyen-Verlag (an imprint of OmniScriptum founded in 2010 ) , it says that the author has been dealing with supernatural influences and miracles for many years , but is far from esotericism and “newfangled spirituality ”. She admires Père Laval , a French slave missionary who worked in Mauritius from the 1840s and is still highly revered there today.

Since 2006, Krosigk has also worked as an editor for VDM, where she was responsible for the “Edition Classic” with over 900 reprints and coordinated the press work. The publisher, which is also based in Mauritius, is known for not undertaking any editorial work on the majority of its publications. The series, consisting almost exclusively of taken over Wikipedia content, have repeatedly been criticized by various media and consumer advocates for their lack of transparency and massively inflated prices. In the same context, systematic consumer deception was repeatedly discussed. Krosigk himself published a compilation of anecdotes from the European nobility at VDM in 2006.

On August 1, 2009, Esther von Krosigk was appointed to the board of directors for “Global Communication” at VDM. She founded and ran Imprints Fromm Verlag (Christian books) and Hadassa Word Press (Jewish books). In 2012 she and Maximilian Graf von Dürckheim published a small volume with anecdotes about Pope Benedict XVI. in the VDM successor label AV Akademikerverlag . As of June 1, 2017, Esther von Krosigk no longer belongs to the publishing group.

Media presence

Krosigk was a studio guest and commentator on various TV formats (including ZDF Royal : Royal Affaires - Juan Carlos and the Spaniards on May 31, 2011; Sundays - TV for Life , ZDF on June 26, 2011). Her main subjects are the nobility, the Roman Catholic Church and travel topics.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Esther von Krosigk writes anecdotes about the Pope. In: Berliner Morgenpost , April 1, 2006, accessed on October 28, 2019.
  2. ^ A b c Claudia Kaminski : Mauritius: A plastic chair for confession on the beach. In: Vatican News , August 18, 2019, accessed October 27, 2019.
  3. ^ A b Kai Schlieter: Publishing 2.0: Cupping on demand. In: taz , July 18, 2011, accessed October 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ Book cover of Angels and Devils , Saarbrücken 2011.
  5. ↑ Esther von Krosigk: Prinzen, bankruptcies, cheerfulnesses. Surprising and amusing from European royalty. Saarbrücken 2006, ISBN 978-3-86550-188-2 .
  6. ^ Maximilian Graf von Dürckheim, Esther von Krosigk: What the Pope laughs about . Saarbrücken 2012, ISBN 978-3-639-45976-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Krosigk, Esther von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krosigk, Esther Katharina von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg