Jürgen Schmieder (Author)

Jürgen Schmieder (* 1979 in Tirschenreuth ) is a German journalist, columnist and writer. He writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and has written books on self- experiments. His book You shall not lie! became a bestseller .

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Jürgen Schmieder comes from Tirschenreuth in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria. After high school he began studying German literature , economics and media studies in Regensburg , where a study which film studies in Michigan , USA and the cultural journalism at the film school in Munich joined.

He works as a columnist as well as editor and online editor for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , and has been a reporter in the United States since 2013 . His most successful column is My Belly Is Mine . He also writes regularly about sports.

Schmieder is married and has one son.

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Schmieder became known to a wider audience through his books, Thou Shalt Not Lie! became a bestseller. In his books he describes self-experiments and thus investigates the extent to which reality and fiction are interwoven in everyday life. Whether self-experiments through dieting and losing weight, the attempt not to lie, the attempt to want to comply with all (virtuous) and social laws and rules or to test almost all religions in the world, funny situations always arise in which blacksmiths of society Holding up mirror. The book You Shall Not Lie! has also been translated into Turkish , Brazilian Portuguese, and Korean . The book I want to go to Heaven was a bestseller in South Korea and led to a documentary about the book and author in South Korea.

Fonts

• My belly is mine. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86615-615-9 .
• You shouldn't lie! One who set out to be honest. Bertelsmann, Munich 2010; Goldmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-15682-5 .
• I want to be reborn in heaven or a happy cow. From the humble attempt to become a religious person. Bertelsmann, Munich 2011; btb, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-74451-0 .
• With one leg in jail. Trying to live lawfully for a year. Bertelsmann, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-10144-5 .
• Sport - Das Buch (together with Johannes Aumüller ). Bertelsmann, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-101742 .
• The understanding of women. Bertelsmann, Munich 2016.

Web links

• Brief introduction to Random House