Gerd Kröncke

Gerd Kröncke (born January 8, 1943 in Hanover ) is a German journalist .

Life

Gerd Kröncke was born in Hanover in 1943 and grew up there. After an apprenticeship in the photo trade, military service and various trips followed. He worked on the assembly line at the Volkswagen engine plant in Hanover, and also tried his hand at photography.

After completing an internship at the Hanover Press , he became the state correspondent for Spiegel in Hanover in 1967 and in Düsseldorf in 1975. In 1981 he moved to Süddeutsche as a state correspondent for North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1986 to 1998 he was in London as a correspondent for the SZ , then as a France correspondent in Paris until his retirement. These two stations are also reflected in his books, which are mostly collections of reports, travel impressions and his own photographs.

Awards

• In 1985 he was awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for his work The Maestro from Schildergasse in the SZ .
• In 1988 he received the German-British Journalism Prize .
• In 1998 he received the Theodor Wolff Prize for his report The Man Diana Endures , published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Works

• London - a city portrait, together with Peter Mertz . Munich, Bruckmann 1997, ISBN 3-7654-2981-3
• Nobility obliges nothing at all - reports. Vienna, Picus 1998, ISBN 978-3-85452-704-6
• The Prince of Hearts and Other Eccentrics - British Portraits. Vienna, Picus 1999, ISBN 978-3-85452-713-8
• In the safe shadow of the plane trees - French moods. Vienna, Picus 2001, ISBN 978-3-85452-747-3
• Greetings from Paris: A photo diary by Gerd Kröncke , Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86615-728-6

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Award-winning work for Theodor Wolff Prize 1997 and short bio on BDZV , online at Archivlink ( Memento of the original dated November 23, 2007 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. 
2. ↑ Egon Erwin Kisch Prize: An overview of all winners , online at http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/buecher/509895.html

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerd Kröncke in the catalog of the German National Library