Helmut Kuhn (journalist)

Helmut Kuhn (* 1962 in Munich ) is a German journalist and author .

The son of the surgeon of the same name studied history and journalism in Berlin and Paris . In New York City he volunteered for the German-Jewish magazine Aufbau and wrote from there for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Zeit and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . As of 2019, he lives in Berlin and works as a freelance journalist and currently also teaches at the University of Applied Sciences in Kufstein. Reports from him also appeared in the magazine mare .

Publications

• North star . Novel. Marebuch, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-936384-75-4 . (The novel deals with the unexplained death of his father while crossing the Atlantic on a sailing ship.)
• Rain every 5/4 . Stories. Satyr, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-938625-24-4 .
• Poor, rich - and nothing in between? Forays into a changed society . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-7857-2311-1 .
• with Murat Kurnaz : Five years of my life. A report from Guantanamo . Rowohlt, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-87134-589-0 .
• with Cem Gülay: Türken-Sam: A German gangster career , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3423247672
• Sidewalk damage . Novel. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-627-00180-3
• with Igal Avidan: Mod Helmy . How an Arab doctor in Berlin saved Jews from the Gestapo. dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-28146-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Kuhn in the catalog of the German National Library
• The soul of the port , excerpt from a report for mare