Gerhard Waldherr (Author)

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Gerhard Waldherr

Gerhard Michael Waldherr (born September 6, 1960 in Bad Tölz ) is a German author , reporter and publicist .

education and profession

After studying business administration, Gerhard Waldherr began a traineeship at a local edition of Münchner Merkur , which he finished in 1987 in the sports department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . After six years as SZ editor and generalist, in which he repeatedly won the 1st prize of the Association of German Sports Journalists , he moved to Stern in 1993.

In 1996 Waldherr went to New York as a freelance correspondent and book author. The print publications he supplied from the USA included a. Die Zeit, Geo, Spiegel special, Stern, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Merian, Die Welt, Vogue, Brigitte, GQ, Playboy, brand eins and Greenpeace Magazin. A selection of the texts from this period appeared in 2002 in the book Elvis is dead .

After his return to Germany, Waldherr worked for two years as a freelance reporter on all continents, mainly in Asia.

In 2006 he became chief reporter for the business magazine brand eins , for which he was initially mostly abroad, later mainly in Germany. Reports from this period appeared in the report books Bruttoglobaltournee (2011) and Deutschkunde (2017).

Waldherr's brand eins texts were nominated for the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize and the German Reporter Prize and were awarded first prize by the Association of German Sports Journalists.

In 2012 he received this award for a text in Die Welt for the fifth time.

Since 2015 Gerhard Waldherr has been working mainly as an author and consultant in the corporate publishing sector and writes books.

Sports

From 1980 to 1985 Gerhard Waldherr played in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey for the clubs EC Bad Tölz and TuS Geretsried. In 148 games he scored 25 goals.

Publications

  • The country needs 1,000 mills. 9 + 1 basic rules for sustainable economic activity (with Volker Krause) Murmann / Haufe, 2020, ISBN 978-3-648-13848-9
  • The Sinupret story: Michael Popp - From someone who set out to revolutionize medicinal plant medicine. Murmann / Haufe, 2019, ISBN 978-3-648-13567-9
  • German Studies: Inside Views of a Nation. Sven Murmann Verlagsgesellschaft, 2017, ISBN 978-3-946514-55-8 .
  • Gross global tour: In 26 reports around the globalized world. Salis Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-905801-45-3 .
  • Elvis is dead: on the dark side of the American dream. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2002, ISBN 978-3-462-03109-6 .
  • Island pride: Between a beach chair and a storm surge - 25 lives in the North Sea. Ankerherz Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-940138-47-7 .
  • America, you're better off: Lessons from the land of opportunity. Dtv, 2001, ISBN 978-3-423-20404-0 .
  • A DRUG FREE LAND (with Thomas Kern). Edition Frey, 2010, ISBN 978-3-905509-90-8 .
  • South Tyrol: In the most beautiful mountains in the world (with Bernd Römmelt). NG Buchverlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86690-417-0 .
  • Drive-by Shootings: Photographs by a New York Taxi Driver (with David Bradford). Könemann, 2000, ISBN 978-3-8290-2891-2 .
  • Ms. Hirschkuss and her men: a Bavarian success story. Hirschkuss-Genussmanufaktur, 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817949-0-8 .

Other publications (selection) :

  • To get up again and again with pride . In: Egon Erwin Kisch Prize 2002: Write that down! The best German-language reports . Structure, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3351026950
  • How much longer does the earth turn? . In: Bettina Stiekel (Ed.): Children ask, Nobel laureates answer . Heyne, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3453197022
  • Old, loud and strong . In: Die Zeit: Der Fischer Weltalmanach USA . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-72301-9
  • Discover what makes school . In: Let learning: Adventure education . brand eins, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86850-657-0
  • Ulan Bator . In: Manfred Bissinger (ed.): The great MERIAN book . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3455500714
  • Everything that goes into the saucepan . In: Alice Grünstelder (Ed.): Vietnam for hand luggage : Stories and reports - A cultural compass. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3293205741
  • Uli Hoeness - The Merchant . In: Sven Reinecke (Ed.) Et al .: Marketeers: Macher, Manager und Magnaten . Thexis, St. Gallen 2012, ISBN 978-3-905819-19-9
  • The king of cocktails . In: Melanie Jonas, Jürgen Kaffer, Margitta Schulze-Lohoff (eds.): It's Gin Time . Delius, Klasing, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3768837804
  • German studies . In: Peter Felixberger , Armin Nassehi (ed.): Course book 189: Lauter Lügen . Course book, Hamburg 2017. ISBN 978-3946514459

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Everyone has a story , May 20, 2011 In: ViSdP - Magazin für Medienmacher # 205 ( Memento from February 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (pp. 14-19)
  2. ↑ Sven Prange: The Globalization Declarer , June 13, 2011. In: Handelsblatt
  3. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Global everyday life , July 8, 2011. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  4. ↑ Johannes Munzinger: Germany, the foreign home , August 11, 2017. In: Passauer Neue Presse
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Sporer: On the trail of us , March 4, 2017. In: Münchner Merkur
  6. ↑ What is German? May 30, 2017. In: ARTE Magazin - Gerhard Waldherr column: What is German?
  7. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Formsache - With red wine through the Antarctic , January 30, 2019. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung
  8. ^ DOSB journalist award to Gerhard Waldherr, Friedhard Teuffel and Ralf Mittmann, March 24, 2009. In: Website of the German Olympic Sports Confederation
  9. ↑ Journalist Prize goes to Gerhard Waldherr, March 26, 2012. In: Website of the German Olympic Sports Confederation
  10. ↑ eurohockey.com - player profile
personal data
SURNAME Waldherr, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldherr, Gerhard Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book author, reporter and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Tölz