Friedrich Dönhoff

Friedrich Dönhoff 2013 in Marburg

Friedrich Graf von Dönhoff (* 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German writer .

Life

Dönhoff grew up in Kenya , but returned to Germany with his mother in 1976 after his parents divorced, initially to Bonn. Like his two siblings Philip and Julinka Dönhoff, he attended the Odenwaldschule boarding school until he finished high school. He then studied history and politics in Hamburg and worked during the semester break, among others, for filmmaker Alexander Kluge and for Zeit-TV . During his community service he lived with his great-aunt Marion Countess Dönhoff in her Blankenese house and thus laid the foundation for his friendship with the well-known journalist and ZEIT editor . After training as a screenwriter , he made a name for himself as a writer of biographies; his best-known work is the book about Marion Countess Dönhoff.

Works

• “The English Dancer, A Case for Sebastian Fink”, novel, Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-257-24018-4 .
• “I was definitely not a hero”. Biography of the former Hamburg port worker and communist Tönnies Hellmann .
• "The world is as you see it: memories of Marion Dönhoff".
• "Savoy Blues: A Case for Sebastian Fink" novel, Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-257-23747-4 .
• "Mister Helmut's School: The Second Life of Manager Helmut Bleks in Namibia", Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3499619922 .
• “Sea Air: A Case for Sebastian Fink”, Roman, Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2013.
• “A good life is the best answer. The story of Jerry Rosenstein ”, Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-257-06902-0 .
• "Secret rulers: A case for Sebastian Fink", novel, Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-257-30037-6 .

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Dönhoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Friedrich Dönhoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biographical profile at Diogenes-Verlag
• Interview in the Hamburger Abendblatt on April 12, 2008