Heike Borufka

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Heike Borufka (2019)

Heike Borufka (* 1965 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German journalist and author .

Career

Borufka studied English , American and theater, film and television studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main . She then completed an internship at the Frankfurter Neue Presse (FNP) in 1991/92 . From 1992 to 1998 Borufka wrote for the Hesse editorial staff of the FNP and was also responsible for its women's page . Since October 1998 she has been working as a court reporter for the Hessischer Rundfunk .

Borufka cites the 1997 trial of Jürgen Schneider as a key experience in which she discovered her predilection for legal issues. Since then she has reported on many trials such as the one against the cannibals of Rothenburg , the child murderer Magnus Gäfgen , the Johanna Bohnacker murder case and the NSU trial in Munich. Another focus is on legal political issues such as dealing with terror .

Together with Basti Red, Borufka discusses exemplary court cases of the German legal system every two weeks in the podcast “Verfassungs”. The contradictions of some judgments to an individual's sense of justice are discussed and explained. Since October 2019, the podcast episodes have also been broadcast on the Hessischer Rundfunk television program.

In 2019, Borufka was a member of the jury for the German Television Crime Award .

In her private life, Borufka is a passionate runner and cook. She is married with a daughter and two dogs.

Awards

Books

  • Heike Borufka, Udo Scheu: crime scene Frankfurt! What really happened where . Societäts-Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2014 ISBN 978-3-95542-075-8 .
  • Susanne Broos, Heike Borufka: Which school for our child? A guide for secondary schools . Rowohlt Reinbek near Hamburg 1997 ISBN 978-3-499-60324-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Media day in the Hessian radio . In: Hessischer Rundfunk . 5th December 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Victims without a Voice - The Authors . In: hr-iNFO . May 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Heike Borufka . In: Societäts-Verlag .
  4. ↑ Heike Borufka, Basti Red: Condemned! . In: hr-iNFO .
  5. ↑ Condemned | hr-fernsehen.de , accessed on December 9, 2019.
  6. ↑ Jury 2019 . ( Memento from March 31, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) In: Deutscher Fernsehkrimipreis .
  7. ^ State and family - the German reluctance to use violence against children . In: hr-iNFO -Worth knowing . Spring 2018.
  8. ↑ Prize winners 2019 radio category: Petra Boberg and Heike Borufka . In: BAGFW .
  9. ↑ Petra Boberg, Sabine Mieder, Christina Sianides, Stefan Ehlert, Heike Borufka, Daniela Klein, Christine Rütten, Dominik Nourney, Frederik von Castell, Klaudija Schnödewind and Bettina Emmerich: Victims without a voice - how we protect our children from violence . In: Hessischer Rundfunk . 2018.
  10. ↑ From Ronan Farrow to SPIEGEL - these are the winners . In: Spiegel Online . 4th December 2018.
  11. ↑ Hessischer Rundfunk receives Childhood Award 2019 In: World Childhood Foundation . 29th August 2019.
  12. ↑ Regino Prize honors reporting on the judiciary . In: presse.beck.de . December 10, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Borufka, Heike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main