Giuseppe Gracia
Giuseppe Gracia (born 1967 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss writer , journalist and communications consultant .
Life
Gracia is the son of a Sicilian and a Spanish woman . He processed his experiences as a secondo in the books Riss (1995), Kippbedingungen (2002) and Santinis Frau (2006). He worked as a PR consultant and held mandates for several companies in the Principality of Liechtenstein . In 2007 he started studying theology . In 2008 he became head of communications for the diocese of Basel . In 2011 he moved to the diocese of Chur as a representative for media and communication . There he became a member of the Bishops' Council and was spokesman for Bishop Vitus Huonder until March 2019 . Since 2019 he has been the spokesman for Bishop Peter Bürcher, Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Chur. Since 2016 he has been a guest author for the Axis of the Good , since 2017 also for Focus Online and since 2018 a columnist for Blick .
In 2017 Gracia published the novel Farewell , the plot of which deals with Islamist terror, Christianity and the values of the Western world . In 2018 his non-fiction book The Therapeutic Caliphate , which deals with the state of freedom of expression in Western Europe, was published. In 2020 the novel The Last Enemy , which is about an international conspiracy around the Vatican, was published, set in the field of tension between Christianity and postmodernism.
Gracia is married and has two children. He is a Catholic and lives in St. Gallen.
Books
- Crack. Novel. Saiten, St. Gallen 1995.
- Tilted state. Narrative. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-312-00307-5 .
- Santini's wife. Novel. Ammann, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-250-60087-3 .
- The good bye. Bucher, Hohenems 2017, ISBN 978-3-99018-400-4 .
- The Therapeutic Caliphate: Opinion Dictatorship in the Name of Progress , Fontis, 2018, ISBN 978-3-03848-159-1 .
- The last enemy. Roman , Fontis, Kreuzlingen, 2020, ISBN 978-3-03848-196-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Giuseppe Gracia in the catalog of the German National Library
- Giuseppe Gracia's website
- Short biography and reviews of works by Giuseppe Gracia at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jörg Krummenacher: Giuseppe Gracia - Information Commissioner of the Diocese of Chur: In Search of the Deeper Meaning , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 10, 2011, accessed on July 8, 2017.
- ↑ Brief profile and contributions by Giuseppe Gracia at the Axis of the Good, accessed on July 8, 2017.
- ↑ Guest contributions by Giuseppe Gracia at Focus Online .
- ↑ Articles by and about Giuseppe Gracia ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at look .
- ↑ Pascal Hollenstein: The massacre of the bishop's spokesman ( Memento of the original of July 17, 2017 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. , Luzerner Zeitung , May 20, 2017, accessed on July 8, 2017.
- ↑ Petra Baum: “The Farewell” by Giuseppe Gracia , Axis of the Good , July 5, 2017, accessed on July 8, 2017.
- ↑ Regula Stämpfli : “It is a competition between the moral apostles” , interview with Giuseppe Gracia, Basler Zeitung, October 9, 2018.
- ↑ A look at the feature pages, with Giuseppe Gracia, writer and media officer, Chur diocese , SRF, May 12, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gracia, Giuseppe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer, journalist and communications consultant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Gallen |