Heinrich Wefing (journalist)

Heinrich Wefing (* 1965 in Darmstadt ) is a German political journalist , architecture critic and book author .

Life

Wefing grew up in Hamburg . He studied law and art history in Bonn and Freiburg and was established in 1994 with a thesis on Parliament Architecture to Dr. iur. PhD.

In 1995 he sat in on the political editorship of the Hamburg weekly newspaper Die Zeit , then in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). In 1996 he joined the feature section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1997 to 2001 he was their cultural correspondent in Berlin . From 2002 to 2004 he reported from the American West Coast for the FAZ in San Francisco ; He published his experiences in 2005 in the "Instructions for Use" series from Piper Verlag . From 2004 to 2007 Wefing headed the features office of the FAZ in Berlin. In 2008 he returned to Hamburg and is currently a member of the political editorial team of Die Zeit. He is one of the initiators of the Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

Wefing is married and has two children.

Awards (selection)

• 1998: Critics' Prize from the Federal Chamber of Architects
• 2000: Helmut Sontag Prize of the German Library Association (together with Thomas Steinfeld )
• 2005: Journalism Prize for Politics and Culture from the German Cultural Council
• 2006: BDA Prize for Architectural Criticism (together with Dieter Bartetzko )
• 2007: Journalist Prize from the German National Committee for Monument Protection
• 2016: Theodor Wolff Prize in the "Opinion" category

Publications (selection)

• Parliament architecture. For the self-representation of democracy in its buildings. An investigation using the example of the Bundestag building in Bonn. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-428-08380-6 .
• with Andreas Muhs (photographs): Der Neue Potsdamer Platz. A city feat. be.bra-Verlag, Berlin-Brandenburg 1998, ISBN 3-930863-42-1
• Backdrop of power. The Berlin Chancellery. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Munich 2001, ISBN 3-421-05420-7 .
• Peichl / Achatz / Schumer: Münchner Kammerspiele, New House. Edition Menges, Stuttgart / London 2002, ISBN 3-930698-43-9
• Instructions for use for California. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2008, ISBN 3-492-27538-9 .
• with Bettina Hintze: The best single-family houses in town. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Callwey, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7667-1786-3 .
• The Demjanjuk case. The last major Nazi trial. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-60583-3 .
• with Marc Brost : It all doesn't work. Why we cannot combine children, love and a career . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2015. ISBN 978-3-498-00415-6 .

editor

• "The German people". The Bundestag in the Berlin Reichstag building. Bouvier, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-416-02839-2 .
• Thomas van den Valentyn : architecture. König, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-88375-375-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Wefing in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article by Heinrich Wefing for Die Zeit

Footnotes

1. ^ Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG: Personnel changes in the political department of ZEIT . October 31, 2007.
2. ↑ German Cultural Council: Cultural policy as a topic for the features section - puk journalist prize was awarded in Berlin ( memento of October 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). February 25, 2006.