Jürgen Kalwa

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Jürgen Kalwa (born December 13, 1952 in Kierspe ) is a German journalist and book author.

Life

After graduating from high school, Jürgen Kalwa began working as a local editor in South Westphalia and has lived - after working in Berlin and Munich - as a freelance journalist in New York and West Cornwall / Connecticut since 1989. His articles and radio broadcasts, with a focus on sports and culture, appear regularly in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Schweizer Illustrierte and are broadcast by Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

In addition, Kalwa wrote a number of non-fiction books in which, among other things, the peculiarities of American sport are described. They include comprehensive presentations of the sports of baseball , basketball and football and biographies of professional golfer Tiger Woods (1998) and former NBA player Dirk Nowitzki (2019).

The focus of his work concerns the critical examination of topics that were previously underrepresented in sports journalism, such as the commercial structures of sport, fraud activities such as doping , corruption, betting fraud and the socio-political dimensions that become visible through the sexual abuse of athletes and the political statements of dark-skinned athletes, as well the criminal and civil law issues raised in litigation. The result of this occupation was, among other things, the book "Nothing but the truth - the Lance Armstrong case and the coming to terms with one of the biggest fraud scandals in sport" (2019).

Since 2015 Kalwa, who in the same year played Friedrich Rosen in the film “Letters from Baghdad” as an actor in front of the camera, has also been working as a speaker for audio books.

Literature (selection)

  • 1991: "New Cork Cops", U. Bär, Zurich, ISBN 3905137313
  • 1994: "American Sports", Goldmann, Munich, ISBN 3442137586
  • 1995: “Fascination American Football”, Cypress, Munich, ISBN 3767904624
  • 1998: "Tiger Woods - Charisma for Millions", Sportverlag, Berlin, ISBN 3328008276
  • 1999: "New York", Bruckmann, Munich, ISBN 3765434566
  • 1999: "San Francisco", GeraNova Bruckmann, Munich, ISBN 3765428213
  • 2019: “Nothing but the Truth: The Lance Armstrong Case and the Coming to terms with one of the greatest fraud scandals in the history of sport”, Sonixstories, West Cornwall, ISBN 3748167407
  • 2019: "Dirk Nowitzki - So far, so good: From Würzburg to a world star - a slightly different biography", Arete, Hildesheim, ISBN 3964230111

Feature (selection)

  • 2010: "Museums, medals, myths - America's fame halls of sport" (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Nachspiel) [1]
  • 2011: "In the fast lane - women in the American IndyCar series" (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Nachspiel) [2]
  • 2011: "An Eskimo knows no pain - the indigenous people of Alaska have their own Olympic Games" (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Nachspiel) [3]
  • 2013: "The trend board - why snowboarding has to reinvent itself again and again" (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Nachspiel) [4]
  • 2013: "The American dream - German athletes make a career in the typical US sports basketball, baseball or football" (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Nachspiel) [5]

Filmography

  • 2016: Letters from Baghdad

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Nowitzki-Biograph:" He is established as a legend "" https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.az-interview-nowitzki-biograph-er-ist-als-legende-etabliert.521fd0fc-e433- 476b-89e6-f11b27468710.html
  2. ↑ "No child should ever think that it has to do doping" https://www.zeit.de/sport/2019-03/lance-armstrong-radprofi-dopingskandal-buchauszug
  3. ↑ "The Armstrong case: How could it go so well for so long?" Https://www.merkur.de/sport/mehr-sport/fall-lance-armstrong-11839917.html
personal data
SURNAME Kalwa, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kierspe